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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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Xbox Knows E3 Isn’t Happening, Will Hold A Showcase Anyway
Just as we’ve all gotten done pouring one out for E3 2022 and its perhaps entirely predictable demise, Xbox has announced it is moving ahead with its planned mid-year showcase all the same. The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase (are we going to add a name for every publisher it acquires?) is set for 3:00…
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Gaming Awards Show Host Gets On Stage, Says ‘Fuck Bobby Kotick’
So the DICE Awards, the video game industry’s Oscar equivalent, was held last night. A bunch of games took home trophies, including Hazelight Studios’ It Takes Two, which won its second Game of the Year award–but arguably, that wasn’t the night’s biggest news. No, what folks were waiting for was to find out what kind…
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The Five Most Expensive Video Game Developer Acquisitions Of All Time
The video game industry has been on a buying spree in recent years, and the price of each acquisition only seems to climb. With Microsoft announcing it will acquire Activision-Blizzard for an industry-record amount, we thought we’d take a look back at the five most expensive acquisitions in gaming history. As we look down the…