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GDQ’s Organizers Plan To Keep Growing The Event, But They Don’t Want It To Become Just Another Video Game Convention

Compared to the PAXes or even MAGFests of the world, Awesome Games Done Quick is itsy bitsy. Around 2,000 speedrunners and fans mill about in Pittsburgh’s Wyndham Grand hotel, with a theater where ...
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An Exhaustive Collection Of Football Shirts Featuring Video Game Sponsorships

There are two things I love more than anything else in this world: football and video games. Sadly, I do not love football video games as much as I used to, but that does not mean that I don't get to ...
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There Are More Video Games Coming Out Than We Can Ever Hope To See Or Play

Take last week (and this is data from ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux, as reported by GI.biz) for example, when 720 games were ...
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Hater Week

'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance' ...
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Unions File Unfair Labor Complaints Against Microsoft Over Decision To ‘Unlawfully’ Fire Xbox Workers

Last week, Communications Workers of America, the union that helped organize thousands of workers across numerous Microsoft-owned video game studios, promised that it would “take all necessary legal ...
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Layoffs Hit GameSpot Again

Layoffs once again hit games outlet GameSpot on Thursday. Owner Fandom cut the site’s entire commerce team, as well as vice president of games and entertainment Chris Grant. Also laid off today was ...
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After Years Of Company Stalling, Blizzard Workers Win Mega-Contract That Applies To All Unionized Teams

Share to X Share to Bluesky Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share by email “We really started mobilizing as one Blizzard unit in [the] last couple of months, and I think that really helped put the ...
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This Is Hopefully The Last Time I'm Writing About 1666: Amsterdam

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...
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Players Are Already Beating Big Walk Without All The Big Walking

While my group meandered and lost each other in Big Walk, we talked about how excited we were to see what speedrunners would get up to with the game. I’ve been keeping my eye on the leaderboards since ...
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Xbox Gamer Suing Microsoft For Tariff Refunds As Nintendo Says They're Too Hard To Do

Both Sony Interactive Entertainment and Nintendo are being sued over consumer tariff refunds. Now, Microsoft will join them in court. Trevor Hastings, from California, purchased an Xbox console from a ...
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The Samurai And The Prisoner Sees Kiyoshi Kurosawa At The Height Of His Powers

When The Samurai And The Prisoner was first revealed, I was tentatively sold when writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s name popped up in its official trailer, with all the pageantry of Moses descending ...
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AI Company That Made Robots For Children Went Bust And Now The Robots Are Dying

Moxie is a small blue robot with a big expressive face straight out of a Pixar movie. The robot used large language models in the cloud to answer questions, talk, and function. With Embodied out of ...