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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Major Esports Event DreamHack Will Be Hitting Australia In 2022
For the first time ever, DreamHack Festival is coming to Australia in 2022. According to a leak from ESL Australia, DreamHack, the immersive gaming lifestyle experience that began in 1994, will be touching down in Melbourne for three days from September 2nd to 4th in 2022. The event, named DreamHack Melbourne, will feature the biggest range…
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Discord Server Gets Over 1,000,000 Members For The First Time Ever
For the first time ever, a Discord server has attracted over one million members, with the platform’s official Snowsgiving 2021 hitting the milestone earlier today.
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Ubisoft’s NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company know their feelings.
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Sexually Harassed Activision Blizzard Employee Holds Press Conference To Demand Apologies, Money
Today, a woman named Christine who works at major game publisher Activision Blizzard held a press conference with her lawyer Lisa Bloom to describe the sexual harassment she experienced at the company. This is the latest in the ongoing battle between Activision Blizzard and its employees surrounding sexual harassment and labour practices at the Call…