The business of making video games can sometimes be very ugly. For proof, one only has to read the report published by USgamer earlier today, which details a culture of crunch and the mistreatment of temporary employees at Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios.
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Star Citizen is offering a free week of flying to highlight the new additions that arrived with the recent 3.5 Update. Everyone can download the client and take to the skies between now and May 8.
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Sony has announced its May lineup of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers, and said lineup is pretty darn good. According to Sony, What Remains of Edith Finch will go free for those with PlayStation Plus this month, as will Overcooked!
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Mortal Kombat 11 came out last month, but that doesn't mean director Ed Boon is done making waves when it comes to the game's roster. In a Twitter post yesterday, Boon retweeted an image of a Shaggy cosplayer, again raising the possibility that the Scooby-Doo character could make his way into MK11.
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Fortnite has unveiled a new Inferno Outfit and Challenges Pack. Priced at $19.99, players who purchase the pack will unlock Inferno's Outfit and a series of 6 Inferno-flavored Daily Challenges.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands has announced Operation Oracle, two brand-new missions launching on May 2. "You will be called by Bowman to extract a Skell Tech engineer who has been arrested by Unidad," describes the official website.
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If you've ever wanted a deep dive into game design, Bungie's Ride Along series is a good place to start. In the latest Ride Along, developers at the studio played through and discussed what it was like to build Destiny 2's Shattered Throne activity. And it's highly interesting.
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Moving Halo: The Master Chief Collection over to PC is proving more difficult than it first seemed, according to Microsoft. PC Gamer is reporting that the company has delayed public testing of the Master Chief Collection's PC port, missing the April window Microsoft was hoping to hit.
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Want to see the new live-action Sonic in, well, action? Now's your chance. A trailer for the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie is now live over on YouTube, and offers a nearly three-minute-long look at the film that's slated to arrive this November.
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Gearbox and 2K have unveiled the new Borderlands 3 ECHOcast Twitch extension. The extension will debut as part of the Borderlands 3 Gameplay Reveal. Featuring hundreds of big streamers, the multi-channel extravaganza is scheduled for May 1.
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Treyarch has released a new Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 trailer for its upcoming Operation Spectre Rising. The Operation will introduce a new Specialist alongside a host of other content and items.
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Bethesda has announced the Necromancer, an all-new class coming to The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr. The latest trailer provides a glimpse of the Necromancer's capabilities.
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The Twitter account for Xbox Game Pass is known for its riddles. And wow, is the Xbox community ever good at solving them.
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Here's a rather interesting bit of news. PlayStation Now started out as a cloud streaming service -- a way for Sony to address its lack of PS3 backward compatibility on the PS4. It turns out, however, the service is far more popular for playing downloadable titles.
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If you're in the market for a PlayStation 4 Pro, there may be no better time to buy than right now -- especially if you love the original PlayStation.
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Will they never learn? There has yet to be a successful emote lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games, but that isn't stopping saxophonist Leo Pellegrino, who is taking some issue with Fortnite's Phone It In emote.
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Peaky Blinders fans will soon be able to join their favorite gang in a new virtual reality game arriving next spring.
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Bethesda has shared a preview of Fallout 76's upcoming "Ever Upwards" Wild Appalachia update. The update focuses on the Pioneer Scouts, a Boy Scout-inspired organization devoted to self-improvement and community betterment.
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There's nothing like sitting down with a nice cup of coffee and browsing some video game deals. Thanks to the PlayStation Network's Golden Week Sale, you'll get to do that for a week and a half starting today. No coffee included.
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Get ready to watch the rumors fly. According to Push Square, Sony remarked during its annual financial briefing that the next PlayStation console won't be launching this fiscal year, which ends in April 2020. And you can probably guess where some people took it next.
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Nintendo Switch Online is more popular than you might think. Variety is reporting that, in a company financial briefing, Nintendo revealed just how many customers are signed up for the service. Spoilers: it's a lot of people.
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Destiny 2 players who love their hand cannons just got a big shock to their systems. Bungie announced via its blog that two of the game's best hand cannons are getting nerfed, and thus far, the competitive community is not taking it well.
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Today, Bloober Team announced the release date for Layers of Fear 2, the sequel to their 2016 psychological horror game. Launching May 28 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, Layers of Fear 2 will feature a chilling new story and exploration-centered narrative.
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Starting today, Grand Theft Auto Online players can take on new Premium Deluxe Repo Work missions from Simeon Yetarian. "The certificates hanging on the walls of his dealership may contain a suspicious number of typos, but Simeon Yetarian is the real deal," says the Rockstar announcement.
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Bad news for Titanfall fans: Respawn has pushed back work on all future Titanfall games, including the project currently in the pipeline. Originally planned for release later this year, Apex Legends executive producer Drew McCoy announced the delay of Respawn's Titanfall plans.
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Ubisoft has announced that the Crimson Moon update for Starlink: Battle for Atlas will arrive on April 30 alongside the PC version of the game. Free on the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Windows, the Crimson Moon update focuses on the sudden appearance of the Crimson Moon in the Atlas system.
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There's been a lot of controversy surrounding the Epic Games Store and its recent string of exclusive deals. But according to Epic's Tim Sweeney, there's a path toward Epic not having any exclusives at all. It just requires Steam to make a very big change.
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