Loading Screen: Outsourcing's Darker Side
A harrowing report today of abuse, harassment and more at one of the outsourcing studios that's powered gaming's biggest hits of recent years, while the AAA companies that profit turn a blind eye.
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Microsoft Just Jeopardised WoW’s Future
Microsoft’s blind culling of stuff has just killed one of WoW’s finest assets: its growing reputation.
Loading Screen: Toxicity Was Almost Solved*
Alt title: How Putin Stopped One Team From Saving Multiplayer Games Forever. I'm not kidding!
Loading Screen: Itch.io Was Next On Their List
First, they targeted Steam, and now the payment processors have been directed at Itch.io. A whole generation of independent games and media has just been censored.
The War Within Is Over
What happened to the war within? Not the expansion - the war. We're almost off on a sidequest to a war on another planet! The War Without doesn't have the same ring to it.