It’s been a long and eventful road for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but despite its troubled development, which has included the removal of its original developer Hardsuit Labs, Paradox Interactive has popped up to assure fans that work continues on the project, although it won’t be shown at the publisher’s upcoming PDXCon. Vampire:…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
The UK government is leaving it up to the gaming industry to sort out the loot boxes controversy, but ‘won’t hesitate’ to take action them if the efforts come up short. The in-game purchase items, which offer various character upgrades or bonuses, have courted controversy because of the perceived similarity to gambling of platforms like…
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The FCC is working on certifying a ZTE phone, the ZTE9047, and in the process it has published photos of the phone and even a fairly complete disassembly of the test unit, along with the user manual. ZTE Axon 40 SE or Blade V40S (ZTE9047), photographed by the FCC lab This phone will reportedly be…
Buzz Lightyear in Lightyear. | Image: Disney / Pixar Lightyear, Disney and Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear-focused movie that hit theaters in June, will be available to stream on Disney Plus beginning August 3rd. Get ready to blast off with Disney and Pixar’s #Lightyear, streaming August 3 only on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/K75UdXQQrg — Disney+ (@disneyplus) July 19, 2022…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is launching a new built-in fundraising tool called Twitch Charity to make it easier for streamers to run charity streams. Many streamers and organizations put on charity streams to help raise funds for causes they support. Right now, streamers often pledge donations, subscriptions, and Bits (Twitch’s virtual…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The QA department at Blizzard Albany, the studio formerly known as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2’s Vicarious Visions, has become the second QA department within Activision Blizzard to organize a union. Today, we announce a new union at Activision Blizzard. QA is currently an undervalued discipline…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, there were a few concerns that the company was planning to dominate the nascent metaverse — but there’s one aggrieved party that’s only now going public. An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) announced Tuesday that it will be…
If you had your keyboard repaired, you may be eligible for some money back. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has agreed to pay out $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit that said the company knew about flaws with the butterfly keyboard switches it built into several MacBook models (via…
Enlarge / The official Z Fold 4 render. (credit: Evan Blass / 91Mobiles) Samsung’s next big product launch event is officially August 10. After an earlier leak from Evan Blass, aka Evleaks, nailing down this date, Samsung’s Twitter account more or less confirmed the report with a puzzle with “081022” as the answer. Expected at…