According to Mark Kern, the former Blizzard developer known as Grummz on X, Ghost of Yotei, the highly anticipated sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, still hasn’t caught up to its predecessor. In fact, the gap between the two is getting worse. And Kern has been right before.
Less than a year after Embracer Group shut down Saints Row developer, Volition, the company sold off Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive. In a press release, Embracer Group announced, "Embracer Group has today entered into an agreement...
Elon Musk reacted to Xbox's Global Product Marketing Manager Kelly Lombardi asking for non white males to raise their hands if they buy video games. Lombardi posted to X on March 27th, "Raise your hand if you're not a white man and you buy video games." She added,...
A new rumor claims that Compulsion Games, a subsidiary of Xbox Game Studios, reportedly race-swapped their main character for their upcoming game South of Midnight after Sweet Baby Inc. was brought on board to consult. This rumor comes from former World of Warcraft...
Microsoft, the parent company of Xbox Game Studios, is recommending that game developers question if female characters are wearing proper clothes and if their games are "reinforcing any negative gender stereotypes." Microsoft's recommendations come as part of its...
Phil Spencer, the CEO of Gaming at Microsoft, claimed the company's mass layoffs are the result of a lack of growth in the industry. Back in January Microsoft announced it was laying off around 1,900 employees following the company's acquisition of Activision...
Video game consultancy organization, Black Girl Gamers, threatened to take legal action against That Park Place following a report that it appears the company discriminates in their hiring practices. In an article titled "Forspoken Consultant Black Girl Gamers Appears...
Children's BBC host Jules Hardy called for a "final purge" of video game players after a boycott list was created for video game consultancy group Black Girl Gamers, who worked on the Square Enix failure Forspoken. X user Becky8903740521 shared a screenshot to the...
Unleashed Games Founder and CEO Irena Pereira bragged about excluding white male characters from the company's upcoming game Haven. In a now deleted post to X, Pereira wrote , "Just wait until they notice that none of our starting characters in our alpha build are...
PlayStation announced a launch date for a demo for developer Shift Up's upcoming action adventure game Stellar Blade. In a post to social media, PlayStation shared that the Stellar Blade demo will arrive on PlayStation 5 on March 29th and that save data from the demo...
Sam Winkler, the Narrative Director at Gearbox and the lead writer on Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina's Wonderlands chose to parrot Sweet Baby Inc.'s narrative about gamers. Winkler posted to X a screenshot that reads, "A GOOD narrative writer of ANY skin color...
Xbox's Head of Gaming For Everyone & Sustainability Katy Jo Wright announced the company will follow in Marvel Studios' footsteps by embracing inclusion. Wright revealed the company will be copying what Marvel Studios has been doing to the Marvel Cinematic...
Former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern issued a warning that Kotaku and its parent company G/O Media are opening themselves up to lawsuits as they unleash editor Alyssa Mercante to dig up dirt on YouTuber Melonie Mac and others. Kern's comments came as part of a...