Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/13/17230874/ea-star-wars-battlefront-2-loot-box-patrick-soderlund-interview Electronic Arts has promised to learn lessons and not repeat mistakes after the Star Wars Battlefront II fiasco. If that sounds familiar, it’s because EA promises this after EVERY fiasco.
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds isn’t endearing itself much to the community in its response to imitation. Far from flattered, the PUBG team have gone from threatening Epic to filing against mobile games who chomp their flavor. Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/06/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-creators-sue-mobile-games-for-copyright-infringement-and-frying-pan-use/
After months and months and months on the market, Monolith Productions claims it’s just started to realize the loot boxes MIGHT be undermining the gameplay. Of course, loads of people were saying this even before launch. I said it often, loudly, repetitively. I’m shocked less about the removal of the…
In its latest attempt to at least look like it’s combating Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s “skin gambling economy,” Valve has stopped newly traded items from being retraded for a week. The 7-day wait period effectively stops skins being flipped, and makes it harder for skin gambling websites to ply their cottage…
Nine News, not content to have its snide tactics exposed on The Jimquisition, is back with yet another falsified controversy. This time, the tabloid rag claims Fortnite is coming to ruin the lives of your children. As Nine News does.
The Nintendo Switch is becoming the indie platform of choice while Steam Direct has turned Valve’s storefront into a choked mess where games go to fail. Source article: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2018/03/16/blossom-tales-developers-avoid-closing-thanks-to-switch-sales-after-poor-steam-showing.aspx Source image for Steam releases: https://u.cubeupload.com/0TCFhm.jpg
EA DICE has announced that paid loot boxes are being relegated to in-game rewards while more traditional microtransactions replace them. This is in spite of EA claiming they couldn’t do it this way because of Star Wars canon.
Grim pickup artist game Super Seducer has been given the axe on PS4, presumably after somebody at Sony sobered up and saw what they were about to be associated with.
Source: https://www.clickerheroes2.com/patent_trolls.php Patent trolls are especially despicable, to the point where I’d probably celebrate even Activision Blizzard putting one down. Targeting smaller developers and offering them glorified blackmail options is their stock and trade though, and here we see GTX Corp trying to give Playsaurus some classic shakedown treatment.
An unbelievable editorial published this week joins in on resurrecting long-discredited claims that violent videogames can train you as an effective killer. And when your only “documented” proof is the direct claim of a bonkers gunman himself… it makes me think you’re a massive fool.
Source article: https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/27/17057978/esrb-loot-crate-box-in-game-purchases-label The ESRB, paying lip service to the controversy surrounding loot boxes, is going to apply an incredibly broad “in-game purchases” label to games that offer additional content for cash. So… that’ll be most of them, right?
Super Seducer creator and creepy man Richard La Ruina has a very fragile sense of masculinity, issuing fraudulent DMCA takedowns in order to prove his manhood. Oh yes… this is an amazing little tale.
