Former senior Blizzard employee Jeff Strain, co-founder of ArenaNet and founder of Undead Labs, has written a letter advocating for unionization in the games industry and encouraging his own employees to unionize. As reported by IGN, Strait shared the letter with employees at his company and in the wake of the lawsuit against Activision Blizzard.
Strain joined Blizzard in 1996 as a game programmer, eventually working on StarCraft, Diablo, and as a lead on World of Warcraft. In his letter Strain recalled an incident at Blizzard in 1998 that ultimately caused him and his wife to leave the company.
“In 1998, after a cataclysmic meeting with one of the founders over our objections to dismembered and impaled female body parts in the beta version of Diablo, my …
Read moreThe Nintendo Switch eShop has a wide assortment of excellent deals that are only available for a few more days. There are some seriously steep discounts on great games such as Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Immortals Fenyx Rising, and a treasure trove of others that offer a lot of bang for your buck.
Though we see Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle on sale quite often, it’s rare to see it for less than $15. Ubisoft’s Spring sale marks the base game down to $10, and the Gold edition is only $13.59. The Gold edition is notable because it comes with Donkey Kong Adventure, the sizable expansion starring everyone’s favorite gorilla. A pair of Ubisoft games that released last fall are 50% off, with Just Dance 2021 down to $25 and Immortals Fenyx Rising up for grabs for $30. Ubisoft’s sale …
Read moreStar Wars Day means a lot of things to a lot of people, and for PC gamers, it means adding to a backlog of games that will never be completed. For this year’s celebration, Fanatical is holding a Star Wars sale with big discounts on dozens of games from multiple generations. Ranging from ye olde classic MS-DOS era to PS2 ports, CD-ROM hits to more modern entries in the franchise, there’s bound to be a Star Wars game on Fanatical that either hits you right in the nostalgia bones or reminds you that you haven’t played that game yet.
For example, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is still a brilliant game more than a decade later and has everything that you could want from a Star Wars experience. A charismatic lead, plenty of action, and a story that cha…
Read moreFans of video game packaging can prepare to get their hands on a new Nintendo-branded box soon, as the Switch will soon be sold in a cardboard container that shrinks the packaging size down by roughly 20%.
According to Nikkei, the box redesign for the original Switch model will help move consoles around the world more efficiently and improve the company’s bottom line by using fewer materials. In comparison, the Switch OLED Model happens to ship in a box that’s already 14% smaller than the regular version’s box, so Nintendo has likely taken a few design cues from it.
The OLED Model also switches the general orientation of the Switch packaging to a more vertical format, as opposed to the horizontal design of the regular Switch box Come from Read more