Image: Game Workers Australia Game Workers Unite Australia, a body that had previously been an advisory and support organisation, announced today that early next year it will be transitioning to becoming a full-blown union. In its previous guise GWUA had been “supporting and empowering workers to build a better games industry” by providing information and …
Image: Futurama Twitch is about to roll out a new tool called Suspicious User Detection, which aims to do exactly what it says on the box: try and detect users who are being suspicious. More specifically, those trying to evade existing bans. In an announcement blog, Twitch says: When you ban someone from your channel, …
Pointing out that Coke has been quick to act publicly in other “controversial public policy issues”, like speaking out against Georgia’s bullshit Election Integrity Act, the director of the NLPC’s Corporate Integrity Project Paul Chesser says it’s time for action in this instance as well. “Sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable”, Chesser writes. “There …
Thursday was Thanksgiving, but Japan doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving. That hasn’t stopped Japanese retail from rolling out Black Friday sales. While Japan isn’t the only country to recently latch onto the American sales bonanza, the day started to become more noticeable. Back in 2014, Toys “R” Us Japan began Black Friday sales, and the Gap followed …
Screenshot: Heart of Vegas A woman has plead guilty to fraud charges after using her position as the accounts manager at a veterinary hospital to steal around $680,000, which she spent entirely on a mobile gambling game that did not and could not ever pay out with real cash. As the ABC reports Rachel Naomi …
Gif: Ziva Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they’ve still been a long way from what you’d call realistic, as while we’ve got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial animations remain are still stuck in the depths of the uncanny valley. This isn’t to heap shit on …
Image: Activision Blizzard Faced with internal unrest, plummeting share prices and a growing public relations disaster, the men and women at the very top of Activision Blizzard—the senior executives and board of directors—should all be resigning. Instead, they’ve put out a desperate press release in the middle of the night announcing the formation of a …
Image: Citadel / Kotaku Here are some words I never thought I’d type: the hedge fund CEO that bailed out GameStop short sellers earlier this year just secretly outbid a hyped-up bunch of crypto lords for an ultra rare copy of the original U.S. Constitution. Earlier this year, billionaire Kenneth Griffin became public enemy number …
Image: Bored Ape Yacht Club / Geoffrey Huntley Hours ago, a website appeared online with the express purpose of hosting a nearly 20TB torrent (that’s terabytes, folks, the big boys of digital data measurement) containing every NFT available through the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. The NFT Bay, whose name and overall design riff on iconic …
The park I’ve been cultivating in Springloaded Games’ Let’s Build a Zoo currently houses two lions. One is actually someone’s lost dog that we dressed as a lion. The other is a robot made out of dead animals that saves me money by not having to eat or drink. One could argue that my zoo …