In Real Life: The News From The Intersection Of Games & The Real World
Everything that affects the lives of gamers and things gamers care about is right here. If it’s a brush with the law, new legislation affecting gaming, or just the many cool things happening in gaming culture, IRL’s the place to be.
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Popular Twitch Software Changing Name Following Plagiarism Accusations
Yesterday, the Twitter account for the livestreaming software Lightstream accused rival streaming software maker Streamlabs of stealing marketing copy from its website. After Lightstream tweeted about how Streamlabs’ website text was modelled on its own, other companies began to corroborate with their own negative experiences with Streamlabs. Among those were the makers of OBS, a…
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Elden Ring Players Discover Terrifying Bear Monster Beyond Demo’s Bounds
Not satisfied with the copious Elden Ring content provided by last weekend’s brief, intermittent network tests, players figured out a way to escape the bounds of the demo’s map and explore the lands beyond its limited scope, discovering new aspects of the highly anticipated game along the way.
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The Game Awards Nominees Have Been Announced And Deathloop Is Killing It
The Game Awards nominations for 2021 are in. Every year, The Game Awards are an exciting moment to celebrate the best releases of the past year. Host and creator Geoff Keighley will be broadcasting live from Los Angeles for the annual event in December. Game Awards nomination day is usually a source of much discourse…
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Bobby Kotick Actually Wrote Fran Townsend’s Deranged, Company-Wide Email
Earlier this year, an email was sent to all employees of Activision Blizzard from the email account of Chief Compliance Officer, former Executive Sponsor of the ABV Employee Women’s Network and former Torture Apologist Fran Townsend. Sent in the midst of historic allegations of harassment against the company, it was so bad that it was…