Tag: gaming industry

Brazil’s president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law

Brazil’s president has signed…

In March, videogames will no longer be able to sell lootboxes to users under the age of 18 in…
Worst people alive hack nursery chain and start posting pictures and personal info of literal toddlers on the dark web

Worst people alive hack…

A hacking group calling itself Radiant has compromised a UK nursery chain called Kido, and is threatening to release…
End of an era as Bowser (no not that one) retires from Nintendo

End of an era…

Doug Bowser, the president and CEO of Nintendo of America, has announced he will retire at the end of…
End of an era as Bowser (no not that one) retires from Nintendo

End of an era…

Doug Bowser, the president and CEO of Nintendo of America, has announced he will retire at the end of…
9 months after cancelling Transformers: Reactivate, Splash Damage splits from Tencent and is now owned by private equity investors

9 months after cancelling…

Splash Damage, the studio known for its work on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Brink, Gears Tactics, and the cancelled Transformers:…
Hideo Kojima presents a Hideo Kojima credit card, fans immediately dub it ‘debt stranding’

Hideo Kojima presents a…

An event called Beyond the Strand celebrated the 10th anniversary of Kojima Productions, and has served up new looks…
Ready or Not studio fires community manager for saying ‘nothing of value was lost’ following Charlie Kirk’s shooting

Ready or Not studio…

Void Interactive, developer of the controversial SWAT simulator Ready or Not, has confirmed that it has terminated its community…
UK politician says Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams ‘is being pushed to financial ruin’ by Meta after publishing her exposé

UK politician says Facebook…

As reported by The Guardian, author, lawyer, and former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams is “on the verge of bankruptcy”…
Japan’s space agency officially ends decade-plus mission that carried Hatsune Miku into space one year after losing probe somewhere above Venus

Japan’s space agency officially…

Hatsune Miku’s voyage through space has finally come to an end after 15 long years. The Japanese space probe…
Remember Boaty McBoatface the polar research vessel? Now we have Ctrl Alt Deleaf the leaf cleaning train

Remember Boaty McBoatface the…

As reported by Metro, the British public has voted to name the savior of their railways: Ctrl Alt Deleaf,…