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Bloomberg is reporting that Sony, fresh off the failure of the PlayStation Portal and having had eight years to survey the success of the Nintendo Switch, is maybe planning on
What a time it is to be an irredeemably awful rich dude. Aside from, you know, the obvious stuff, dudes who should be mocked, derided, and generally excluded from polite
Word on the street is that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa, which you might know as the main shareholder of Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware, but
Today Blizzard announced remasters of its classic fantasy real-time strategy hits Warcraft I and II, the games that put it on the map in the distant, functional past of the
This week, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two – whose CEO, Strauss Zelnick, six months ago denied closing two studios for what could best be described as no apparent reason – confirmed that
The New York Times Tech Guild went on strike last night, after months of bargaining for a new contract and as election day in America looms. As part of that,
It’s yet another grim day in games media, and Fandom – the wiki network that owns GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Metacritic, and GameFAQs, among others – is once again to blame. Today’
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