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Tensions Rise At Bethesda As Employees Pressure Company On Abortion Measures
2In the wake of Roe v. Wade being struck down last week, many employees at Skyrim maker Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company ZeniMax Media have grown increasingly frustrated by what they see as their employer’s unwillingness to clearly support employees’ access to reproductive healthcare. This is an especially pressing issue for the many…
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The Human Toll Of Fallout 76’s Disastrous Launch
“No one wanted to be on that project because it ate people. It destroyed people,” one former developer on Fallout 76 told Kotaku. “The amount of people who would go to that project, and then they would quit [Bethesda] was quite high.”
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A Very Long Look At A Cancelled Half-Life Game
From 2005 to 2008, French studio Arkane — who we now know as the team behind Dishonored and Deathloop — were working on a Half-Life game. We knew this, and have even seen the game before, but today we got a real good look at it.
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Jeremy Winslow’s Top Ten Games Of 2021
2021 was a year, wasn’t it? The pandemic is still causing unnecessary disruptions despite the widespread availability of vaccines. The semiconductor shortage is whipping the economy’s arse. Black and queer people are still dying. It was hard playing games this year, especially when I didn’t have a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S until just a…