Company Culture

Astralis Responds to Promisq Telling People to Get Cancer

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Time Stamp: April 16, 2021 1:40 PM - Modified On: April 16, 2021 - Published By:
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by Jason Parker in League of Legends | Apr, 16th 2021 Astralis’ Promisq has been threatening to throw games and telling people to get cancer, and his org has responded. A player with a reportedly long-standing history of being incredibly toxic, it’s really unfortunate to see that trend continuing. A Reddit thread revealed several threads of screenshots where Astralis’ own Hampus “Promisq” Abrahamsson telling people to get cancer, among other awful, repulsive things to his teammates. As of today, Astralis have responded to these allegations, and they don’t seem to

Hyper-Casual Games: Trends and How to Reach Scale

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Time Stamp: April 16, 2021 4:11 AM - Modified On: April 16, 2021 - Published By:
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This article originally appeared on Hackernoon and is reproduced with permission. Hyper-casual games have captured the mobile games industry’s interest ever since the incredible meteoric rise (and fall) of Flappy Bird in 2014. In 2018, the total mobile games market stood at $50 billion, of which $10 billion came from in-game advertising and the rest from in-app purchases. In that same year, AppAnnie reported that hyper-casual games made up 53.4% of the top 30 game installs in the US and over 27% in Japan and Korea, respectively. Fast forward to

Comcast NBCUniversal picks 10 sports and esports startups for SportsTech Accelerator

Source Node: https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/22/comcast-nbcuniversal-picks-10-sports-and-esports-startups-for-sportstech-accelerator/
Time Stamp: February 22, 2021 9:00 AM - Modified On: February 22, 2021 - Published By:
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GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Comcast NBCUniversal today announced it has picked 10 sports tech and esports startups for the first annual Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech Accelerator. Comcast NBCUniversal is investing $50,000 in each startup and training them for 12 weeks, in partnership with Boomtown Accelerators. Two of the winners are esports companies. It chose the winners from over 1,000 applicants in 70 countries. The companies will work with Comcast NBCUniversal and the SportsTech partner

Climbing the Mountain: Introducing Liquid Kelazhur

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Time Stamp: October 30, 2020 8:29 AM - Modified On: October 30, 2020 - Published By:
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Humble, kind, brilliant, and one of the best Terran's on the planet — we're proud to announce that Diego "Kelazhur" Schwimer is the newest member of Team Liquid's StarCraft 2 team. Kelazhur has been working part time at Team Liquid as an intern as part of his school curriculum and we have gotten to know him a lot better over the recent months. During this time we've come to realize he's a perfect fit for TL. We can't wait to see how he handles his dual role as both player

Cards Against Humanity Workers Are Unionizing Amidst Allegations Of A Toxic Workplace

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As a number of former Cards Against Humanity employees have come out with stories of a toxic work culture at the company, current workers have decided to unionize. The union, called the Cards Against Humanity Workers United Union, announced their intentions over Twitter this week, as reported by Polygon.We, the workers, want to change Cards Against Humanity for the better. That’s why we’ve joined @CMRJB. Today we sent this letter to the owners of @CAH demanding voluntary recognition of our union. We’re optimistic they’ll do the right thing. #1u pic.twitter.com/idBXUKLIKk

International Game Developers Association Releases A Statement On Abuse In The Games Industry

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Time Stamp: June 30, 2020 9:47 PM - Modified On: June 30, 2020 - Published By:
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Recently, many people within the games industry have come forward and spoken, openly and bravely, about their experience with abusers. The sharing of these experiences, which have often involved high-level game producers and developers, as well as streamers and journalists, has brought to light how the industry has sheltered many abusers, and has led to some action.Two Ubisoft executives have been suspended over abuse allegations, and the developer is reworking how it deals with employee complaints as it becomes clear that employees were not being adequately protected. Companies that were

Ubisoft Is Reworking How It Deals With Employee Complaints After Multiple Allegations

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot sent a memo to employees detailing how the company plans to rework its "solutions and tools [that] detect, report, and resolve any incident or serious problem" after numerous allegations against Ubisoft workers have come to light."I have gathered all of my direct reports to address this subject and your feedback," Guillemot wrote in a memo originally reported on by Business Insider. "I would like us to thoroughly review all of our systems so that these types of situations cannot happen again."Guillemot didn't specifically mention sexual harassment