Less than 24 hours after Halo: Campaign Evolved sparked discussion for being labeled an LGBTQ+ game on Steam, the controversial user-defined tag has disappeared entirely. When players first noticed the designation shortly after the game's launch, LGBTQ+ was displayed...
John Garvin, the Director and Writer for Bend Studio's Days Gone, expressed his dissatisfaction with how the game's main protagonist Deacon Lee Saint John aka Deek is portrayed in an ad for the newly released Astro Bot. Garvin responded to a post promoting Astro Bot...
Greg Street, the former World of Warcraft Lead System Designer, recently shared his opinion that streamlining the MMO leveling experience is a mistake. The current Studio Head and Game Director of Fantastic Pixel Castle, who is working on an upcoming MMO titled Ghost,...
Ubisoft, the company behind Star Wars Outlaws, XDefiant, Assassin's Creed, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, saw its stock price drop 7% in a single day as it faces pressure from investors to take the company private as well as reports of soft sales for Star Wars Outlaws....
Firewalk Studios Senior Concept Artist Amanda Kiefer allegedly revealed that employees at the company are "terrified of the future" after the company's first game Concord was shut down less than two weeks after it released. As initially reported by Smash JT, Kiefer...
A new rumor claims that Rockstar Games and its parent company Take Two Interactive have delayed the release of Grand Theft Auto VI to the middle of 2026. X user Billsyliamgta states, "EXCLUSIVE: GTA VI has been internally delayed by Rockstar Games and they’re already...
Black Girl Gamers, the video game consultancy outfit run by Jay-Ann Lopez, issued a copyright strike against YouTuber and critic Smash JT. In a post to his website, Smash JT shared, "Black Girl Gamers (BGG) has decided to abuse YouTube's flawed copyright system to...
Martyn Ware, the front man for English electropop band Heaven 17, revealed he rejected an offer from Rockstar Games to purchase the band's song "Temptation" for $7500 without the possibility of royalties. Ware posted to X, "I was recently contacted by my publishers on...
Chelsea Rebecca, a voice actress for Genshin Impact and Fire Emblem Heroes as well as the co-host of the YouTube channel Dead Meat, melted down after YouTube rejected the apparent organized cancel campaign against Gary Buechler aka Nerdrotic, Jeremy Griggs aka Geeks +...
Revenue for HoYoverse's Genshin Impact increased over 8% in August compared to July in spite of the active boycott against the game and developer. A boycott of Genshin Impact and HoYoverse was launched back in July with a petition titled "Stop Cultural Appropriation...
Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels recently revealed that one of the company's "biggest priorities" is a Hogwarts Legacy successor. During an appearance at Bank of America's 2024 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Variety reported that...
Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair continued to trot out the victim card while also attempting to deny that her company's end goal is to change the video game industry. In an interview with Black Girl Gamers on YouTube, Belair said, "I think of us almost as patient zero...
Humberly González, the actress who portrays Kay Vess in Star Wars Outlaws, says the video game industry has "a lot of misogyny" while also praising Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment for ensuring the only character in the game is female. In an interview with CGM in the...