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Activision Blizzard board start new committee to stop harassment and discrimination

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 06:19 AM PST

Activision Blizzard still haven't addressed many of the glaring problems with their company culture, but now they've started a "Workplace Responsibility Committee" so they can hear more about it instead. The company's board of directors have formed this committee to oversee new policies and procedures "to improve workplace culture and eliminate all forms of harassment and discrimination". And amidst calls for CEO Bobby Kotick to be removed, he'll be one of the people in charge of bringing the committee progress reports.

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Exo One review: a gorgeous sci-fi marble run that lacks pace or friction

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 05:00 AM PST

Perhaps I don't like sci-fi vistas as much as I thought I did. Exo One offers up a series of grand, desolate planetary landscapes to plunge, roll and glide across, yet its dramatic environments and unusual traversal both left me cold.

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Black Friday Gaming Keyboard & Mouse Deals

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 04:09 AM PST

The number of Black Friday gaming mouse and keyboard deals is ramping up, now that the main event is only a few days away. You can expect more offers on Black Friday itself, as well as some continuing on the following Cyber Monday, but already there are some good discounts available on some of our highest-rated mice and keyboards.

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This Battlefield Portal mode is a wingsuit time trial

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

Most of Battlefield 2042's classic Conquests and Hazard Zones aren't my jam, but there's one thing I'm keeping an eye on, and that's Portal. The custom mode editor isn't exactly swimming in creativity just yet, but interesting things are slowly beginning to emerge as time goes by. Like Andy's Wingsuit Trainer, a course set among the clouds where you wing it through floating hoops as quickly as you can. Bravo Andy. Bravo.

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How Empire Of Sin's new updates are adding more strategy, more drama, and truth that's stranger than fiction

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

I doubt I’d be much cop at counting cards in Vegas, but I have just counted every single item on the patch notes for Precinct, the latest update for Romero Games’ prohibition-era kingpin sim Empire Of Sin. There are over 350 of them, from making gangsters less flirty to giving Al Capone his cigar back on the character select screen. It’s no act of Capone-worthy self-mythologising, then, when game director Brenda Romero describes the patch list to me as “monstrous”.

“Once we put out the immediate flames, we prioritised feedback,” says Romero “Chris [King, senior systems designer]'s hair was fully black when we launched this game. It’s all gone fully grey. I think we were awesome on launch. Incredibly responsive. The team worked their asses off.”

Thankfully, the launch of the Make It Count DLC - and the accompanying free Precinct update - has been a lot smoother.

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Cyberpunk 2077 is 50% off in GOG's pre-Black Friday sale

Posted: 23 Nov 2021 03:17 AM PST

This Friday is dubbed Black Friday in the USA because it's a dark time, when people will literally be maimed or killed in the crush to buy cheap televisions. The lowest ebb of the year before Cyber Monday brings to the light of redemption to the world when kewl d00dz hackers hack the planet. But it does bring cheap video games. GOG have already started a small "Pre-Black Friday sale", with good discounts including 50% off Disco Elysium and 50% off Cyberpunk 2077. Hmm. I might recommend it at that price?

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Riot show off League Of Legends fighting game Project L

Posted: 22 Nov 2021 10:03 AM PST

The latest in Riot Games' numerous departures from MOBAs is a fighting game they're calling Project L. Over the weekend, Riot Games posted a video giving a new look at the game and explaining how they plan to make it accessible to a wider audience by simplifying controls. They still haven't announced a release date, but it looks promising.

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