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Nearly 40 employees have left DICE this year, Swedish tech site Di Digital has confirmed. This corresponds to 10% of the Battlefield developer’s workforce of 400 people. Sources told Di that the reason for the exodus was due to the failure of Star Wars: Battlefront II last year, as well as increased competition from other…
Two properties in Melborne, Australia have been raided in connection with the distributing of the Infamous cheat tool for GTA: Online. It’s alleged that the software, which retails for $40, allowed players to generate virtual currency and enable a “god mode” which makes them invulnerable among other things. A court order has also frozen the assets…
An article came out earlier this week claiming that Rockstar developers were putting in 100 hour weeks to finish up Red Dead Redemption 2. Once again it’s opened up a can of worms over the practice of “crunch time” in the games industry, and whether it’s exploitative. In order to get a game finished by…