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Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick blasts "fake lawsuits against us and Riot Games", claiming union workers used harassment claims to drum up members

"I mean, think about it. I dated Sheryl Sandberg."

Feb. 12, 2025 Nic Reuben

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Star Wars Outlaws screenshot of Gorak at his Pyke syndicate office in Mirogana.

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Ubisoft lay off another 185 people and shutter one of the studios behind Star Wars: Outlaws and The Division 2

More restructuring for the restructuring gods

Jan. 27, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A team in Overwatch gathers to pose for the camera, with Roadhog and Dva in the centre.

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Overwatch 2 is getting a "Classic" mode that restores the shooter to how it was in 2016

Mei be worth a look

Nov. 12, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

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A human stares eye to eye with an orc in Warcraft: Orcs And Humans.

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StarCraft 2 production director pitched WarCraft 4 and a Call Of Duty RTS before leaving Blizzard, claims report

Two of many proposed RTS concepts, apparently

Sept. 30, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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The Ghostbusters skins in Destiny 2: a Slimer Ghost, demonic Sparrow and Echo-1 hoverboard

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We should redefine live service games as the living dead

But which kinds of living dead?

Sept. 17, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Destiny 2 Frontiers art, showing Guardians looking out over a mountain top.

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Bungie says Destiny 2's future lies in "unusual formats", like "roguelikes or survival shooters"

They also promise sweeping changes to make rewards better and the UI more approachable

Sept. 10, 2024 Ed Thorn

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Crash Bandicoot grinding along a branch in a Crash Bandicoot 4 screenshot.

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Activision cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 to make room for more online live service games, claims report

Binned-off sequel might have featured a Spyro team-up

Aug. 27, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A screenshot from Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2's Shipment map trailer showing a soldier pointing two revolvers while an explosion goes off behind them

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Activision shut down Modern Warfare multiplayer mod H2M to stop it "interfering" with Black Ops 6 sales, says mod maker

Players start petition to bring it back

Aug. 19, 2024 Nic Reuben

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A lady reads a book in Eugène Grasset's Poster for the Librairie Romantique

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What's on your bookshelf?: Destiny 2 and Dishonored narrative designer Hazel Monforton

read-only

Aug. 11, 2024 Nic Reuben

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Staring at a huge pink triangle in Destiny 2: The Final Shape.

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Destiny 3 may yet happen, but Destiny's unannounced "Payback" spin-off won't, according to reports

Senior Destiny 2 devs behind mystery project leave as part of massive reductions

Aug. 2, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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The new Dread enemies coming in Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion

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Bungie layoffs “couldn't be avoided” even if Destiny 2 The Final Shape had "blockbuster performance”, says report

The lauded expansion has apparently sold worse than the panned Lightfall

Aug. 2, 2024 Nic Reuben

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A view from above of a building in Caldera, rendered in greyscale in a 3D model-viewing tool.

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Activision revive Warzone's Caldera map as open source (yay!) but say it's to help train AI (booo)

For Pacific purposes

Aug. 1, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

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Artwork for Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape showing three helmeted folks in front of floating triangles

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Destiny creators Bungie lay off 220 people and form new studio within Sony to stave off financial ruin

"We were overly ambitious," says CEO

July 31, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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An Overwatch match ending screen with six players, including two playing as the same character

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Overwatch 2 may get 6v6 again as Blizzard try to bring back the "chaotic, over-the-top" variety of the first game

But headcounts are only part of the picture

July 29, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Art for World of Warcraft expansion The War Within, showing a human and an elf posing with weapons

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Over 500 World of Warcraft developers at Blizzard have voted to form Microsoft’s biggest wall-to-wall union

If this is a competition let’s keep it going please

July 25, 2024 Nic Reuben

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The heroes of Deus Ex, Dishonored, Prey, and Deathloop are arranged on an orange background.

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The 10 best immersive sims on PC

We found this list in the ladies restroom

July 25, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

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Supporters only | Destiny 2: The Final Shape is a bizarre DLC, and all the better for it

If you read this, that means you've been Final Shaped

July 3, 2024 Ed Thorn

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A military man in a Fallout vault dweller skin holds a gun next to Captain Price in Call of Duty

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Call of Duty follows Fortnite in adding Fallout skins, out this week

Who wore it better?

June 19, 2024 Matt Jarvis

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Cayde-6 and Ikora look at a giant pink triangle looming over valley in Destiny 2: The Final Shape's CG trailer.

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Bungie reveal fixes for Destiny 2 The Final Shape DLC connection bugs, as players battle weirdly scented error codes

Rolling server restart puts paid to rogue Currants

June 5, 2024 Ed Thorn

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A Gundam strikes a pose (vogue) in Call of Duty's DLC

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Call of Duty is getting in the (Gundam) robot

Gun damn

May 22, 2024 Matt Jarvis

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Grown fat from strength in Destiny 2's Duality dungeon.

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Supporters only | Destiny 2 is mighty lucky it has good shooting because it's impenetrable otherwise

We still love it, though

May 22, 2024 Ed Thorn

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A soldier runs across a battlefield in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

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Captain Price seems to die in a cut ending from Modern Warfare 3, uncovered 13 years later

Price cut

May 20, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

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A screenshot of Captain Price smirking from Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2019

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The next Call Of Duty will launch on Game Pass on day one, reports say

No one would be surprised

May 18, 2024 Graham Smith

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A segmented image that shows guardians from Destiny 2's Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, and The Witch Queen.

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Destiny 2 gives all players access to three expansions as The Final Shape draws closer

Like tokens and orbs? You can get loads of them for free now

May 8, 2024 Ed Thorn

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A dragon with its chest glowing orange looms out of smoke in art for World of Warcraft Classic's Cataclysm Classic expansion

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World of Warcraft Classic revisits 14-year-old expansion Cataclysm next month

Pre-launch patch lands on April 30th ahead of next expansion.

April 10, 2024 Matt Jarvis

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