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Kojima Productions Wants ‘Best-in-Class’ Game Dev Talent
At the time of writing, we know that Kojima Productions is working on at least one yet undisclosed gaming title. While many are hoping that this will be a long-overdue return to horror for Hideo Kojima, it is also entirely possible that it could be a sequel to the excellent…
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League of Legends Staff Said to be Preparing Mass Walkout
League of Legends Staff I must admit that I have not played a lot of League of Legends, but I have played enough to know I’m not very good at the game. This is a fact that was made abundantly clear within about 3 minutes of my first ever game…
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GOG Lays Off 10% Of Their Staff In ‘Restructuring’
GOG Lays Off 10% Of Staff When it comes to discount gaming, particularly that of a non-DRM nature, GOG is one of the best retail websites around. Having recently celebrated their 10th Birthday, many would have considered that the company was doing well and the future, at least, looked reasonably…
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Blizzard Offers 100 Staff Voluntary Redundancy
Blizzard Offers 100 Staff Voluntary Redundancy There are more than a few growing rumours that there may be a few cash-flow issues currently at Blizzard/Activision. For example, it’s been well known that Destiny 2 has not proven to be a particularly huge success. Additionally, while the latest World of Warcraft…
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US Google Employees Reportedly Raise $200,000 Strike Fund
US Google Employees Prepare To Strike! Since it was revealed that Google was working on a search engine catered towards the Chinese market, many of its employees have been very unhappy. Throughout the world, there have been a number of ‘walk-outs’ in protest including several resignations of senior staff members.…
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Google Staff Stage Worldwide Walkout Over Sexual Misconduct
Google Staff Stage Worldwide Walkout Over Sexual Misconduct Workers at Google haven’t exactly been happy with how the company has been run in recent months. We have, for example, seen many senior members resign or officially protest over the companies insistence in pursuing a Chinese version of their search engine.…
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Google Employees Resigning Over China Search Engine
Google Employees Resigning Over China Search Engine Earlier this year, it was revealed that Google was looking to re-design their search engine. The re-design was to make it entirely compatible with China’s exceptionally strict (and heavily censored) internet. It was a move, however, that did not go down well with…
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Cyberpunk 2077 May Not Arrive Until Mid-2019
If you’re a fan of the Witcher 3, you’re likely also a fan of the talented developers at CD Projekt Red. Having won many awards around the world for their incredible RPGs, we’ve all been waiting patiently for what comes next, Cyberpunk 2077. The team got a large funding grant…
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Evolution Studios Staff Join Codemasters
Driveclub, created by Evolution Studios is unquestionably one of the most visually stunning titles on the PlayStation 4. Sadly, the game’s development didn’t go as planned which eventually culminated in the PlayStation Plus version being cancelled. Despite being a visual showpiece, Driveclub’s reception on launch was fairly mixed due to the inconsistent…
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Yahoo Lost One-Third of Its Staff in 2015
Ailing multinational company Yahoo has lost over a third of its workforce over the last twelve months, in a shocking show of no-confidence in current CEO Marissa Mayer, according to a report in the New York Times. “Basically, it shows employees losing faith in Marissa Mayer and Yahoo,” Scott Dobroski,…
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Ambri’s Quest For a New Grid Battery Hits Problems
Rechargeable battery-based technology has steadily improved over recent years as demand has risen for lithium-ion based implementations, which include storing energy from intermittent renewable sources. The problem lies with the fore mentioned lithium based tech which are as yet both too expensive to run and also provide a shorter life…
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Union Says Amazon ‘Regime’ Making UK Staff Physically and Mentally Ill
Amazon – dismissive of recent criticism of the manner in which it treats its staff – is making its UK staff members physically and mentally ill, warns trade union GMB. British workers at Amazon’s factories are under pressure to be an “above-average Amazon robot”, according to Elly Baker, Lead Officer…
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Battlefield 4 Final Stand Revealed to Come with an Exploit to Catch Cheaters
DICE has recently revealed that the latest DLC for Battlefield 4, Final Stand, has an exploit intentionally left in the game by the development team. The company explained that they inserted the exploit in order to catch cheaters and proceed in banning them from the game. “With Final Stand, we…
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Deuce Stated to be “Tennis Crossed with Street Fighter” Prototype Game
If you know and like Rust, the survival video game by Facepunch Studios, then you should know that its developer have just revealed a new game prototype by the name of Deuce, which is stated to have a tennis crossed with Street Fighter gameplay. “Deuce is an arcade style tennis…
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American eTeknix News Writers Wanted
eTeknix are expanding at an even faster rate than before, and are having to increase our team even further due to the larger amounts of traffic, and the rate of content that we need to produce. We are looking for writers to keep our established site and readers up to date…
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