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Several amazing game industry writers and editors are now without a job.

Gaming news site Polygon was just sold off to one of the so-called cesspools of the Internet, Valnet. Before the sale was even announced, now former Editor-in-Chief at Polygon, Chris Plante, made the announcement of the layoffs on his personal social media. Valnet is one of those companies that pulls in bits of information and materials from a large pool of sources. Often the sites owned by Valnet are lab...

Copies of Borderlands 3 given to only a select few review sites ahead of launch.

Review copies of Borderlands 3 have only been provided to a select few media outlets ahead of the game's launch on Friday, September 13. The game's publisher, 2K, says that this is all due in part to some unspecified "security concerns" over the game.

As Kotaku points out, most review copies are provided to outlets roughly a week or two ahead of the public launch. These review copies...

The full list of nominees for The Game Awards 2018 was passed along to us today. You can check all of that out below.

You should know that The Game Awards will be held on Thursday, December 6 at the Microsoft Theater in LA at 9PM (ET). You can vote for your favorites right now at TheGameAwards.com, via Twitter Direct Message, Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and the official Game Awards Discord server.

All of that seems really odd and they did not specify how to do any of that, but there you are. I even tried to ask my Google Home "how do I vote for The Game Awards" and it had no idea.

You will be able to watch The Game Awards live on December 6 through YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Mixer, Steam TV, PlayStation 4, Xbox Live, IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, MLG, and Caffeine.tv. Believe it or not, there are actually even more places still not yet announced where you can watch it, especially if you live in China....

The recent and very sudden closure of Telltale left many in the gaming industry saddened. Fans were sad because it their favorite franchises may never be finished or given a sequel. More importantly though, hundreds of employees were let go without advance warning and without severance pay.

This is a big "no-no" when it comes to little things like "laws."

A former employee of Telltale is now suing the company in a class-action lawsuit. Polygon reports that the lawsuit was filed in a federal court in San Francisco on Monday. It was submitted by Vernie Roberts on behalf of himself and the other workers that were laid off this past Friday. The suit says that Telltale did not give "cause" and did not give them "advance written notice as required by the WARN Act." ...

If you haven't yet heard, IGN recently fired their Nintendo editor, Filip Miucin, after it came to light that he very, very closely copied a review for Dead Cells. Miucin's video review was for IGN while the review he very apparently copied was from a YouTube channel called Boomstick Gaming. Since then, most of Miucin's work at IGN has been pulled as the investigation uncovers more examples of plagiarism.

Boomstick Gaming was the first to notice the apparent plagiarism and put up a video showing off the obvious similarities....

According to a report that went up today from Polygon, Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII will not feature a "traditional" single-player campaign. It will instead focus more on the multiplayer and Zombie modes.

Sources close to Polygon said that development by Treyarch on Black Ops IIII has been going rather poorly. As a result, it seems as though the single-player campaign wasn't going to be completed in time for the game's release date, which is still set for October 12, 2018....

According to a report that went up today from Polygon, Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII will not feature a "traditional" single-player campaign....

The System Shock reboot, remake, reimagining, or whatever you would like to call it is taking a break. According to sources speaking with Polygon, the team at Nightdive have already burned through the $1.35 million that were raised during their 2016 Kickstarter campaign.

The last major update came in March 2017 when the team decided to switch from Unity to Unreal Engine. The confirmation on this "break" came directly from Nightdive Studios in a statement released to ...

The System Shock reboot, remake, reimagining, or whatever you would like to call it is taking a break. According to sources speaking with Poly...

According to sources close to Polygon, there will indeed be Marvel vs. Capcom 4 and it will be coming in 2017 to consoles. The catch here is that it will supposedly feature less of an emphasis on the X-Men and more of a focus on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
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According to sources close to Polygon, there will indeed be Marvel vs. Capcom 4 and it will be coming in 2017 to consoles. The catch here is that...

Another minute, another leak. This time it was for Injustice 2. Adorned with the tagline of "Every battle defines you," the poster shows Batman facing off against The Flash.

The poster seems to originally come from some GameStop employee that sent it along to Polygon. According to a letter sent to GameStop managers, these posters will be given out to those who pre-order the game. As of right now, not much is known about the game except that it seems to be coming for the Xbo...

Another minute, another leak. This time it was for Injustice 2. Adorned with the tagline of "Every battle defines you," the poster shows...

A few different website have voiced their concern over a growing trend in publishers issuing embargo dates and times that are after the game being reviewed is already released. The latest offender is Assassin's Creed Unity which had an embargo time of noon (EST), a solid 12 hours after the game was released in North America.

Some of the sites bringing attention to this issue are Polygon, Giant Bomb, and Kotaku to name a few. Kotaku is going the extra mile with their disa...

A few different website have voiced their concern over a growing trend in publishers issuing embargo dates and times that are after the game being...