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Activision Blizzard Sued Over Alleged ‘Frat Boy’ Culture, Harassment

Activision Blizzard is currently being sued by the Calif. Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) over allegations of a "frat boy workplace." / Activision BlizzardThe California Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued Activision Blizzard Tuesday over allegations of a "pervasive frat boy workplace culture," the result of a two-year investigation.The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the Superior Court of Calif. as well as Los Angeles County court.It alleges the company is at fault for several workplace fairness violations including unequal pay, unequal opportunities, and harassment against female employees.

Ubisoft awarded default judgement in lawsuit against Rainbow Six Siege DDoS marketplace operators

One of the world’s largest game publishers won a crucial lawsuit earlier this month aimed at a loosely defined ring of hackers who sold programs that negatively impacted players of its game.  A California federal court ruled in favor of Rainbow Six Siege developer Ubisoft on July 9 in a case it brought against three men who allegedly ran an enterprise that sold both denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) software to players online. The U.S. Central District Court of California judge decided on the case as a default judgement

EA Officially Reveals Newest Apex Legends Character, Seer

[embedded content] EA has revealed the latest hero to join Apex Legends. This new character is called Seer, and we’re not yet sure what abilities he’s going to have, except that it’ll probably have something to do with his eyes. He was revealed in an animated short film that explores his origins, and we’ll allegedly hear more about him during the EA Play Live event later this week. We’ll also be hearing more about the upcoming season of Apex at the same event. Seer (real name: Obi) seems to have

HBO’s The Last of Us Allegedly Has a $10 Million Budget Per Episode

[embedded content] The HBO adaptation of The Last of Us is currently filming in Canada, and we’re getting details here and there about how the production is going. A new report has revealed some new info about the show’s production, namely how much money HBO is reportedly sinking into each episode, which allegedly is at least $10 million. In a report on Calgary’s CTV News — part of the show is being filmed in Alberta — Damian Petti, the president of the Albertan chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical

New Tom Clancy Game Announcement Coming Tomorrow

With Rainbow Six Extraction and The Division Heartland currently in the works, and the likes of Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Rainbow Six Siege continuing to receive support, Ubisoft’s certainly utilizing its Tom Clancy license to the fullest- but there’s plenty more to come. The company has announced on Twitter that a new Tom Clancy game is going to be announced tomorrow. The reveal will be streamed worldwide at 11 AM PT, with the title being described as “a brand-new game in the Tom Clancy’s universe.” “Things are going to get wild,” Ubisoft writes, following it up with

Filipino Wild Rift team Amihan Esports banned for forging a player’s documents

Filipino esports organization Amihan Esports has been banned from all esports events by Riot Games for a year. The organization allegedly forged its player, Karl “AMI Karlll” Ken Bautista’s documents to qualify him for the Wild Rift SEA Icon Series, which has a minimum age requirement of 17 years. Riot has said that several members of the organization, including the owner, were involved in this scam. Thus, it has decided to ban the entire org for a year, effective immediately. Riot is also handing individual bans to Karlll, team manager

Steam Decks Might Not Get to Buyers Before 2022

Credit: Valve So you managed to nab yourself a reservation for the Steam Deck, the newly announced handheld PC gaming device that Valve announced earlier this week, which will allegedly run AAA PC titles on a device that can be taken on the go (in theory — there’s no way that chunky boi is fitting into any of my purses). Well, not-so-great news: There’s a chance you won’t get the console when it starts to ship out in December. Reservations for the Steam Deck opened this morning, and users who

War Thunder Devs Remove Classified Military Docs Allegedly Leaked on Forum

[embedded content] In this Friday’s edition of “strange gaming news,” a War Thunder fan allegedly leaked classified military documents on the developer’s forum in an attempt to win some kind of an argument. The documents were swiftly removed by developers Gaijin, but it’s still a funny story of what lengths gamers will go to in order to triumph in a war of digital words. According to the Kotaku report, the user in question (who has the handle Fear_Naught)took issue with the design of the in-game Challenger 2, which they said