Warhammer Takedowns, EB Games Closures & Ubisoft Embarrassment: All The News From January 22-27

Welcome to Recap, our twice-weekly feature on Aftermath where we round up what’s been going on around video games, the internet and beyond.

Things are so bad at Ubisoft right now that even the people who still have jobs there are "fed up".

Ubisoft Is Adrift And Some Developers Are Fed Up

Some Ubisoft developers feel like they’ve been here before and they’re tired of it

KotakuEthan Gach

The 'Stop Killing Games' petition has finished with 1,294,188 verified signatures, meaning that for better or worse it has to be discussed by European Union lawmakers.

Stop Killing Games EU petition hits 1.3m verified signatures

The campaign group’s organisers will be meeting with lawmakers in the EU

GamesIndustry.bizAlex Forbes-Calvin

EB Games (owned by Gamestop) will be closing all their stores in New Zealand and withdrawing from the local market. There are fears the Australian branch won't be far behind.

All EB Games stores in NZ to close at end of month

It is uncertain how many jobs would be lost, and the letter to NZ employees did not mention anything about the future of the Australian stores.

RNZRNZ News

Runescape has made over $3 billion in its lifetime. Which is a lot longer than most video games, sure, but that's also a lot of money.

RuneScape tops $3 billion in lifetime revenue

The milestone coincides with the game’s 25th anniversary.

Game DeveloperDiego Argüello

An AI-generated banner image on shopfront GOG has not gone down well with the community, or the people who work there.

5,000+ GOG patrons and an AI Banner, page 5 - Forum - GOG.com

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Void War, a game that's very 40Kish, has been pulled from Steam after what's claimed "may have been...a nuisance DMCA takedown from a troll claiming to be Games Workshop".

‘FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 Skin’ Game Pulled From Steam After What May Be a Nuisance DMCA Takedown From a Troll Claiming to Be Games Workshop - IGN

A strategy game dubbed ‘FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 skin’ was recently pulled from Steam, with its developer suggesting it may have been on the receiving end of a nuisance DMCA takedown from a troll claiming to be Games Workshop.

IGNWesley Yin-Poole

51 Minutes of WCW video from a 1999 CD-ROM--thought to have been lost forever behind some long-forgotten DRM--has been saved after a fan "reverse-engineered the encryption binary from the disc, identified the cipher, and developed a mathematical attack that recovers the keys without needing the server".

Capcom is experimenting with AI in ways that make me question if management understands why anyone has ever loved anything the company has ever made.

Capcom Experimenting With Generative AI to Create ‘Hundreds of Thousands of Unique Ideas’ Needed to Build In-Game Environments - IGN

Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to create the “hundreds of thousands of unique ideas” needed to build in-game environments.

IGNSayem Ahmed