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Ubisoft Pulls Licenses for The Crew, Makes the Game Completely Inaccessible to Buyers

From the same company trying to sell you a $130 version of Star Wars Outlaws.

From announcing a $130 edition of Star Wars Outlaws to pulling game licenses from those that bought The Crew, Ubisoft sure is on a roll this week.

The Crew was Ubisoft's open-world racing game that was pulled from sale back in December 2023. As of March 31, 2024, Ubisoft shut down the online servers for The Crew. This effectively made the game unplayable across all platforms, including: PC,...
 

Tim Sweeney Called Valve 'Assholes' in Email to Gabe Newell, Valve COO Says 'You Mad Bro?'

Tim Sweeney is always mad.

The antitrust lawsuit against Valve from Wolfire Games got a little spicy this week. To quickly get you up to speed: Wolfire claims that Valve uses its position with Steam to control game prices and muscle out competition. Though the initial lawsuit against Valve was dismissed, Wolfire amended their suit in May 2022 and the legal battle was back on.

It may have taken almost two years, but we are now starting to see some of the documents that...
 

900 People Laid Off Across Multiple PlayStation Studios

Multiple studios across all SIE regions impacted.

Sony just laid off about 900 people across multiple PlayStation studios around the world. These 900 or so laid off employees account for roughly 8% of the total workforce for Sony Interactive Entertainment.

President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan, announced the layoffs to the public today. The public statement came after an email was sent to all employees informing them of the layoffs. From Ryan's...
 

Xbox Confirms PlayStation 5 Releases, Diablo 4 on Game Pass, and Future Hardware Plans

No, Starfield and Indiana Jones are not going multi-platform any time soon.

The heads of Xbox stayed true to their word and were indeed a part of a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast. During today's pre-recorded podcast and subsequent blog post, head of Xbox Phil Spencer stated that four Xbox exclusives are going to be multi-platform releases. Is it Starfield? Indiana Jones? Gears of War? Halo?! No, no, no, and no. Though Spencer did not specify what those four titles ...
 

Embracer Lays Off 97 Employees from Eidos; Cancels New Deus Ex

Embracer's rampage continues.

Eidos-Montreal, a development studio currently under the Embracer umbrella, made the sad announcement that employees at the studio were being laid off. Eidos took to social media to confirm that 97 people have been let go "from development teams, administration, and support services".

The studio says that "global economic context, the challenges of our industry, and the comprehensive restructuring announced by Embracer have...
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  • Heroes of the Storm Releasing on June 2, Open Beta Begins May 19

    Heroes of the Storm Releasing on June 2, Open Beta Begins May 19

    An open beta for Heroes of the Storm will begin on May 19. The non-beta release will be on June 2 for the Blizzard developed MOBA style game.

    Rally your fellow heroes and get ready for battle, because the portal to the Nexus is about to bust wide open! Blizzard Entertainment announced today that Heroes of the Storm will officially launch on June 2, following an open beta testing period beginning May 19. The free-to-play online team brawler brings together a diverse
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  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China Launch Trailer

    Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China Launch Trailer

    Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is coming out tomorrow on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.

    In 16th-century China the recently appointed Jiajing Emperor instigated a sudden and ruthless purge of all he felt were a danger to his newly acquired throne, including the Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins. A young Assassin, Shao Jun, fled to the West to complete her training under the legendary Assassin Ezio Auditore in the animated short Assassin’s Creed: Embers and
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  • Star Wars Battlefront - Developer Diary Episode 1

    Star Wars Battlefront - Developer Diary Episode 1

    The team at DICE and EA have kicked off their developer diary series earlier this evening for Star Wars Battlefront Developer Series Episode 1 The Phantom Menace.

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  • Own the Underworld in New Triad Wars Trailer

    Own the Underworld in New Triad Wars Trailer

    A new trailer for Triad Wars came out today entitled "Own the Underworld."

    United Front Games today released a new trailer – “Own The Underworld” – for Triad Wars, showcasing the open-world, online action/adventure found within the game’s brutal Hong Kong underworld. Currently in Closed Beta for Windows PC, Triad Wars brings fans back to the vibrant city of Hong Kong and Sleeping Dogs universe, with the goal of rising up from the streets to become the most po
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  • Original Chip's Challenge Games Coming to Steam in May

    Original Chip's Challenge Games Coming to Steam in May

    It's been about 25 years since the original Chip's Challenge came out on Windows 3.1, so it's probably due for a bit of a revival. In May, both Chip's Challenge and the never before released Chip's Challenge 2 will be released on Steam.
    Chuck (Sommerville) created Chip's Challenge 1 in just ten weeks, he then spent two years designing Chip's Challenge 2. However disaster struck, on finishing the development, Chuck found the trademark had been sold and the new owners wanted him to
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  • Mass Effect 4 Details Potentially Leaked via Survey

    Mass Effect 4 Details Potentially Leaked via Survey

    It seems as though some people out there were sent a survey pertaining to the Mass Effect franchise. Included in the survey were a number of juicy tidbits that may paint a picture on what fans can possibly see in Mass Effect 4.

    The following list was compiled by "EatChildren" on the NeoGAF forums.

    NARRATIVE
    • Premise: Set in the Helius Cluster of the Andromeda Galaxy, removed by time and space from the Mass Effect "Commander Shepard" trilogy and its ending.
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  • Halo 5 Pre-Orders at GameStop Feature Exclusive Spartan Locke Armor Set

    Halo 5 Pre-Orders at GameStop Feature Exclusive Spartan Locke Armor Set

    One of the perks to pre-ordering Halo 5: Guardians from GameStop now includes the ability to use the Spartan Locke armor set for multiplayer.


    The pre-order bonus includes the following two items:
    • Hunter-Class Armor: Sophisticated and lethal, Hunter-class armor incorporates Watershed Division's latest warfighting technology. • Hunter-Class Helmet: Though still considered a prototype implementation, the Hunter's sensor suite enhances situational and threa
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  • Mortal Kombat X - 15 GB Patch Released on PC

    Mortal Kombat X - 15 GB Patch Released on PC

    A 15GB update was released this evening for Mortal Kombat X on the PC. The number of changes in the update? Two.
    • Optimized shaders to improve graphics performance
    • Fixed an issue to prevent replays from using up too much hard drive storage space

    As a bit of compensation for this somewhat broken PC release, they are including 10,000 Krypt Koins as a bonus the next time you start the game. This may give you like one unlock, maybe two if they're small.
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  • Grand Theft Auto V PC Receives Its First Patch (1.01) Addresses Windows Username Issues and More

    The first post-release patch for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V has come out. Patch 1.01 includes a fix for those Windows users that had non-alphanumeric characters in their usernames among other early fixes.

    Changelog for Grand Theft Auto V PC version 1.01

    • Fixed an issue where the GTAV Launcher would use an abnormally high percentage of CPU and sometimes crash
    • Fixed an issue where frame rate would drop when left-clicking the mouse while driving
    • Added a grid to the Golf
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  • Anita Sarkeesian Makes Time's 100 Most Influential People

    Anita Sarkeesian Makes Time's 100 Most Influential People

    This week, Time revealed their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Anita Sarkeesian, the founder of Feminist Frequency and the creator of Tropes vs. Women in Video Games web series, made the list this year. Actor Wil Wheaton provided the writeup for her inclusion on the list.
    Gaming’s feminist advocate Anita Sarkeesian has played video games her whole life. In 2012, after observing that women represent about 40% of the gaming audience, she launched a crowdfunding campa
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  • Star Wars Battlefront Reveal Trailer - Watch Now

    Star Wars Battlefront Reveal Trailer - Watch Now


    That's right, it's the first ever trailer for Star Wars Battlefront from EA and DICE! It uh, well it's a trailer that uses the game engine at least.
    Star Wars Battlefront will allow fans to live out a wide range of heroic moments and intense battle fantasies of their own - firing blasters, riding speeder bikes and snow speeders, commanding AT-ATs and piloting TIE fighters and the Millennium Falcon. These battles will take place on some of the most iconic planets in the Star
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  • Battlefield Hardline, Bloodborne, and the PS4 Top the NPD Figures for March 2015

    The March 2015 NPD sales figures are in and, as noted in the title, Battlefield Hardline and Bloodborne top the software sales for the month.
    1.) Battlefield: Hardline (Xbox One, PlayStation 4, 360, PS3, PC) 2.) Bloodborne (PS4) 3.) Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3) 4.) Mario Party 10 (Wii U) 5.) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC) 6.) MLB 15: The Show (PS4, PS3) 7.) Minecraft (360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4) 8.) NBA 2K15 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3
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  • Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - New Trailer, Screens, and Song

    Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - New Trailer, Screens, and Song

    The Chinese Room has released a trifecta of fresh media today for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. This includes a bunch of new screenshots, a new trailer, and even a new song. Let's start with the new trailer, move onto the screens and wrap things up with some new information and the song by Jessica Curry. Sound good? Great!


    Everyone’s time is split between chewing through bugs and carving out time for as much polish and finesse as we can. There’s
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  • Hylek Tribes Coming to Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

    Hylek Tribes Coming to Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

    ArenaNet released some new details on the new tribes and their role in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. Here is the first look at the frog-like creatures that make up the Hylek tribes.



    The latest developer blog post by Narrative Designer, Scott McGough, details the three new tribes of Itzel, Nuhoch, and Zintl. Tomorrow (April 17) at 12PM (PT) you can tune into the Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel to see more of these tribes and some additional details from...
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  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is Gold

    The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is Gold

    CD Projekt RED has passed along word that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has officially gone gold.
    “We worked so damn hard over the past three years to bring you this game,” said Adam Badowski, Head of Studio, CD PROJEKT RED. “From the corrupt nobles in Novigrad to ancient monsters lurking in deep forests, to the bustling cities, colorful ports and breathtaking vistas; all the people, all the places -- we literally spent tens of thousands of hours to turn all that into an adventure that will
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