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No Games For Genocide, Tomb Raider Faux Pas & Permabanned Trophy Hunters: All The News From March 9-15

Also: Warner Bros. layoffs

No Games For Genocide, Tomb Raider Faux Pas & Permabanned Trophy Hunters: All The News From March 9-15

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The developers of All Will Rise haven't just announced they're joining the No Games For Genocide boycott, but that they're planning on handing back every cent of funding they've received from Microsoft as well.

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise’s dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft
“We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand.”

There have been layoffs at Warner Bros. Montreal, the developers of Gotham Knights and Arkham Origins.

Warner Bros. Montréal devs report layoffs
Several Warner Bros. Montréal developers are reporting that they have been laid off.

Clair Obscur won Game Of The Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards last week, along with Best Debut, Best Visual Art, Best Narrative and Best Audio.

Clair Obscur secures top honors at the GDCAs
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 walked away with five total wins at the 26th annual peer-voted award show held at GDC 2026.

The good news: the remastered Tomb Raider games got a patch recently. The bad news: they also got some weird new outfits and a range of new bugs.

The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: ‘Lara deserves better than this’
Players have taken to social media to share their disappointment.

David Tremblay, who at one point held the record for earning the most PlayStation Trophies in the world, has been permanently banned from the PlayStation Network. The former top trophy hunter blames a hacker and Sony’s “incompetent” support and security teams.

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Top PlayStation Trophy Hunter In The World Has Been Permabanned And Blames A Hacker - Kotaku
The hacker reportedly bypassed various security measures just by providing some basic information to PSN’s support chat

While their boss is blowing public funds on his make-a-wish dreams, actual FBI agents are finding the time to investigate a bunch of Steam games suspected of being crypto scams.

FBI launches investigation of Steam games suspected of crypto scams
At least one game was accused of stealing $150,000 in crypto from a user on Valve’s PC platform
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