raven software
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A Game So Good It Could Have Been Hexen III
1In the mood for a retro-style FPS, I dug around the new releases on Steam, and poked at a few, not really clicking. Until, that is, I found Hands Of Necromancy, and then played it all weekend. This is a Hexen-like FPS, with enormous, sprawling maps, a whole bunch of weapons, an array of enemy…
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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 Boss Says He Will Recognise Raven Software’s Union After Acquisition Closes
In today’s internal all-hands meeting with Xbox Game Studios employees, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said that he would recognise Raven Software’s union. This came after the QA testers at Raven voted to form the first labour union at a major studio.
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Activision Shareholders Approve Xbox Deal, But Wall Street Has Doubts
Shareholders at Call of Duty and Overwatch 2 publisher Activision Blizzard voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a $US69 ($96) billion sale to tech giant Microsoft. The deal gives golden parachutes to top execs at Activision, including embattled CEO Bobby Kotick. But despite gaming’s biggest acquisition ever moving one step closer to completion, the company’s…