Riot's Two-Step Plan To Success: 1. Fire Staff. 2. Add Gacha!
Riot just laid off the most impactful artists on the League of Legends team. Less than 24 hours later they dropped some of the most egregious gacha mechanics into LoL yet.

Riot just laid off the most impactful artists on the League of Legends team. Less than 24 hours later they dropped some of the most egregious gacha mechanics into LoL yet.
As Xbox leadership's words continued to ring hollow against the barrage of cuts raining down from on high at Microsoft, the rank and file across XBS made a decision. They weren't going to sit around and wait to be the next line in a spreadsheet that Satya, CFO Amy Hood and others callously delete!
One of gaming's most insidious MTX systems is being pulled from Fortnite, months after the EU banned it.
Somehow, EA are building a game that won't need DLSS, will run at 60fps on five-year-old hardware, and might even run below the minimum specs. What is going on?!
Generative AI adoption, layoffs, studio closures. Under Microsoft, Xbox is being changed. Staff aren't going to take it.