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Epic & Fortnite Players Raise $US36 ($50) Million For Ukraine In Just 24 Hours
Yesterday, Epic launched the next season of Fortnite, and announced that for the following two weeks all the money it makes from in-game purchases in the popular battle royale will be donated to charities supporting humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. Now, just 24 hours later, and with 13 days remaining, Epic has revealed that it has…
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PlayStation Allows Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Cross-Play After Blocking It On Borderlands 3
Upcoming co-op shooter Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will get cross-play across all platforms, Gearbox announced yesterday. That might have seemed like a forgone conclusion in the year 2022, but it marks the first time Borderlands users from PlayStation and Xbox will get to play together.
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John Romero’s New Doom 2 Map Raises Over $40K For Ukraine Aid
If you’ve been longing for more DOOM content from John Romero, this is going to be right up your alley. And it’s for a good cause! In case you missed it: Last week, DOOM co-creator John Romero has released a new level for DOOM 2 to raise money for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. Pretty neat, considering this…
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Epic Games Turning Hundreds Of Contract-Based Workers Into Full-Timers
Epic Games is offering full-time employment to “a few hundred” of its contract workers, a needed win for its short-term staff. Workers in the video games industry have had it pretty rough recently. Efforts to unionise and fight for better working conditions in the face of entrenched corporate bureaucracy have been growing in ever larger…