Stellar Blade developer Shift Up officially went public and raised $320 million in its IPO. However, it was also revealed that the company is hiring an employee to publish ESG reports now. Games Industry reports the IPO is the largest one in South Korea in over 2...
A Japanese pop song titled "Why Yasuke" mocks Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed Shadows for feature Yasuke as one of the game's main protagonists as well as taking liberties with Japanese history. The song, which was released on July 6th has already obtained over 912,000...
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland recently shared her explanation for why the head witch in the show, Mother Aniseya, turning into an ashy dementor was actually her becoming one with the Force. In the show's most recent episode the Jedi confront the witch coven...
The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland confirmed again that a second season of The Acolyte has not been greenlit by Lucasfilm. In an interview with Nerdist, Headland was asked, "Do you know if you’re definitely getting a season two?" She responded, "No! [big laugh]"...
Japanese politician Satoshi Hamada recently signaled he might bring up Ubisoft and their upcoming game Assassin's Creed Shadows before the Japanese Diet, the country's legislative body, for altering the country's history, architecture, and more as well as potentially...
YouTube personality Grace Randolph has finally turned on The Walt Disney Company and Lucasfilm and described the most recent episode as "awful." Randolph shared her initial thoughts on X simply writing, "#TheAcolyte aw man, that was awful." READ: Leslye Headland...
Potential moviegoers did not hold back their disgust after the first trailer for Gladiator II dropped. Many called the trailer out for its tone-deaf inclusion of a Jay-Z and Kanye west rap song. About two-thirds of the way through the trailer, the rap song "No Church...
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy posited that the film evolves the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an interview with Variety alongside Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, Reynolds was asked, "Ryan, you are the creative driving force of these films. How is it...
Microsoft and Xbox announced significant price increases for Game Pass that went into effect today. In a post on Xbox's website, the company shared that in the United States the price for Game Pass Ultimate increased from $16.99 to $19.99 per month. That's a 17% price...
Former Washington Post reporter Mikhail Kimentov reports that Riot Games scrapped a Smash Bros. style game set in the League of Legends world. Kimentov's report at ReaderGrev claims the game was codenamed Pool Party and had 70-80 employees working on it before it was...
Tose, a Japanese developer that has worked with Nintendo, Square Enix, and Bandai Namco, reports its profits have significantly plummeted due to its partners cancelling a number of in-development games. Automaton reports that Tose, a Japanese developer who worked on...
Robert Kuntz, one of the founders of Dungeons & Dragons, blasted Wizards of the Coast for attacking him and his fellow original creators in the preface to the recently released book, Dungeons & Dragons - the Making of Original D&D: 1970-1977. In the...