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Double Fine is Unionizing After Change in Xbox Leadership
It seems lots of studios under Microsoft and Xbox are unionizing these days.
Overwatch 2 is Dead! Long Live Overwatch (I Guess)
Okay, so this isn’t exactly breaking news, but I wanted to talk about it a little bit anyway. In case you haven’t heard, Activision-Blizzard recently rebranded Overwatch 2. It’s new name? Overwatch. Yep, four years after forcing Overwatch 2 onto fans and taking down the original, the publisher has decided that that “2” in the…
Activision Adds Ads to Black Ops 6, Warzone Loadout Menus
For a long time now, many have justified in-game cash shops with the phrase “it’s just cosmetic.” It’s a sentiment that makes sense on the surface, but I think it becomes harder to justify as games become more and more bent towards pushing those cash shop items. At what point is it too much? For…
Looks Like Activision Got Caught Using Al Content Again
Having never been a real fan of Call of Duty, I cannot personally speak to how recent entries in the series stack up to their predecessors. If the feedback from actual players is any indication, however, then it would seem that modern CoD games are no substitute for those of console generations past. Quality appears…
‘Pay-To-Win’ Bundles Cause Trouble in CoD: Black Ops 6
Well,here we are at the end of the year with one last bit of industry news. It’s kind of a shame to be ending things with a negative story, but that’s just how these things go I suppose. The story: Activision’s latest bundle for CoD: Black Ops 6 is causing more than a few players…
The Duck’s Top 5 Events of the Decade: From Sketchy Practices to Movies and Beyond
For the Duck’s own list of the top 5 most important gaming events of the last decade, I’ve got a mix of good and bad. On one hand, certain companies have gotten greedier than ever. In the middle, we have well-intentioned developers who attempted to deliver a good product, failed, then tried their best to…
Listmas 2023: Games for Mythology Fans
Mythology was always one of the most interesting topics I got to learn about in high school and college. It was on these occasions that school didn’t feel like a chore, and these were the few lessons that stuck in my head even into adulthood. Important dates and events in American history? Nope, I forgot…
The Era of Full-Price DLC Arrives with Modern Warfare 3
PC Gamer has confirmed the worst fears of Call of Duty fans and non-fans alike: the game is basically just glorified DLC. It is now confirmed that you must indeed launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The game has its own menus and such, but it must…
Xbox, PlayStation Sign a Call of Duty Deal
It looks like the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft will indeed be happening at some point. The deal took a major step forward this week thanks to a new deal between PlayStation and Xbox regarding Call of Duty. The long and short of it is this: Call of Duty will (for at least a while)…
VIRTUAL BASTION 