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Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections: ‘These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run’

Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections in response to tech giant workforce cuts over the past few months. According to The Guardian, the union-led petition calls for guaranteed severance, buyouts before mandatory layoffs, and the option to take severance as extended paid leave. Employees reportedly chanted “Google, Google, you […]

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No, Doom maker id Software hasn’t been “nerfed into the ground and gutted” by the Xbox cuts, insists director Hugo Martin

Legal documents suggested id Software lost nearly three quarters of its 185-person staff in the layoffs, reducing the workforce to 49 people – a move people who worked there referred to as “a bloodbath”. This prompted the suggestion id Software would become a support studio for Xbox rather than one capable of making full-scale games

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Castlevania Belmont’s Curse could just be a gaming classic whipped back into shape

Likewise, Castlevania Belmont’s Curse’s visual stylings struck me immediately. The game is rich with colour. Each major region – of which there were three in the demo I played – was distinct and gorgeous. The game would play with dark wine reds and earthy tones to present a Paris overrun one hour, then vivid greens

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“It has to make sense for the game” – EA sees a “huge opportunity” for in-game advertising “but it has to be done properly”

Sports games can be "so much more authentic". Last month, EA announced a new advertising platform allowing brands to hawk their wares to potential customers from directly inside its games – as in, directly during gameplay. This has naturally led to concerns about what this will mean. Will the next Mass Effect game try to

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The company that makes all the West’s chipmaking machines says it’s selling more than it expected thanks to ‘very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic’

ASML, the company that makes the semiconductor machines that every big Western chipmaker uses to make their chips, has “raised its guidance”—i.e., increased its predictions over how well it’s going to do—for the year. It says this is thanks to being able to keep up with customer demand coming from both memory and processor/accelerator chipmakers.

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“It’s not that we don’t care about PC” – Former Rockstar developer suggests why GTA 6 is only coming to consoles at launch

Better to start with consoles' "constraints". Speaking in a lengthy, all-encompassing chat with YouTuber KiwiTalkz (thanks IGN), Ricchio explained that while many developers have traditionally favoured a PC-first approach and then scaled down to consoles, “It just causes so [many] problems down at the end”. Instead, as is seemingly Rockstar’s approach, it’s better to start

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Ubisoft is working on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced New Game Plus

"It's just such a natural thing." Knight’s nearly hour-long interview with YouTuber JorRaptor (via GamesRadar+) touched on a number of different topics, including New Game Plus. According to Knight, New Game Plus was one of the first things the developer started working on after finishing the main game. “Well, this is the one thing I

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Redditor fashions a ‘game cartridge’ system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs

One Redditor has created a physical media project that not only laser-targets my cartridge-based obsession but also scoffs at the raging memory supply crisis. User Jibril-sama scored a bunch of second-hand 2.5-inch SSDs “for cheap” and has leveraged them to create a game cartridge system for their Steam library. The Redditor explains that the games

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Here are our PS Plus Premium and Extra games for July

Avatar! Rise of the Ronin! Firefighting Simulator! More! Sony has revealed nine games coming to its subscription service across PlayStation Plus premium and extra tiers in July, including an under-loved action game, an odd but beloved narrative thriller, and a firefighting sim to match the heat. Here’s everything coming to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium

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