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Apex Legends Dev Fired Over Past Sexist, Racist Comments
Daniel Klein, a lead game designer on Apex Legends, was recently fired from his job at Respawn Entertainment after screenshots of old blog posts and public conversations surfaced showing the developer making both sexist and racist comments.
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Activision Blizzard Employees Plan Walkout Wednesday To Protest Working Conditions
Following days of informal protests and denouncements of their company’s response to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit, Activision Blizzard employees are holding a formal walkout Wednesday, July 28, calling on leadership to improve conditions for women, particularly women of colour, transgender women, nonbinary people, and other marginalised groups.
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Tencent’s Buying Spree Continues With Majority Stake In Battlerite Developer Stunlock Studios
Yesterday, Kotaku reported that Tencent wants to buy British game maker Sumo Group for an eye-watering $US1.3 ($2) billion. Today, we’re reporting that the Chinese conglomerate acquired a majority stake in Stunlock Studios. Based in Sweden, Stunlock Studios is best known for free-to-play Battlerite, which climbed atop Steam’s sales chart and which Kotaku called a…
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Tencent Now Owns Majority Of Spec Ops: The Line Studio
Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Yager, a German-based game studio best known for the third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line. Yager announced the news in a press release this morning.