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FCCG Annual Report Reveals Striking Impacts of COVID-19 on Those…

The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling, Inc. 888-ADMIT-IT HelpLine contacts received during the final quarter of the fiscal year were markedly more severe due to compounding financial and mental health impacts, likely worsened by the pandemic. SANFORD, Fla. (PRWEB) October 26, 2020 Today, the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling (FCCG) released its FY 2019-2020 Annual Report of its statewide 24-hour Problem Gambling Confidential and Multilingual HelpLine (888-ADMIT-IT), which revealed important findings, some of which present significant implications. During this past fiscal year (July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020), the

DouYu Wins Lawsuit Against Royal Never Give-Up Parent Leyou Network 

Chinese live streaming company DouYu has won a lawsuit against Leyou Network Technology, the parent company of Chinese esports organization Royal Never Give-Up (RNG) and has been awarded ¥30M RMB ($4.5M USD) by a Chinese court, according to a report in 21 Finance.  The lawsuit filed in the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court in September of 2019 revolved around a breach of contract dispute between the two companies related to streaming and content creation. Leyou and DouYu signed a one-year exclusive streaming deal for esports organization RNG in September of 2018

TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Otherworld Legends’

TouchArcade Rating:No doubt many of you out there are familiar with developer ChillyRoom by way of their awesome shooter-centric roguelike dungeon crawler Soul Knight. It arrived on mobile several years back and, despite not really breaking into the mainstream spotlight, Soul Knight has amassed a strong and passionate fanbase over the years. This is likely due to ChillyRoom’s frequent content updates to the game, on a near-monthly basis in fact, which have added all sorts of fun new stuff to keep Soul Knight feeling fresh for all this time. Well

Activision Blizzard Defends Bobby Kotick’s Salary As Shareholder Calls For Changes To His Pay

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is one of the highest-paid executives not only in video games, but across the entire entertainment media industry. He made more than $30 million in 2019. One of the company's shareholders, The CtW Investment Group, is now calling on other stakeholders to vote against a measure that gives the company freedom to pay Kotick high rates. [Update: Activision Blizzard has responded with a statement, which you can see below] In a filing with the United States government, The CtW Investment Groups' director Dieter Waizenegger called

Hackers may be responsible for The Last of Us 2 leaks

New rumors going around allege that hackers may have discovered vulnerability in Naughty Dog servers from an older game to access and leak Last of Us 2. As players and developers alike deal with the recent leaks of The Last of Us Part 2, the question remains as to how such a major leak of such a high-profile game could have happened like this. Though Sony and Naughty Dog are apparently taking action on the matter, one new rumor going around is that hackers may have accessed the Naughty Dog

Disney Execs Are Unhappy With COVID-19 Pay Cut Terms – Report

Disney is asking its VPs, senior VPs, and executive VPs to take paycuts as the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis grinds production to a halt--some of them are not happy about it, according to The Hollywood Reporter sources.The pay cuts range from 20 to 30 percent and are effective immediately. Some of those affected have complained that, while the contracts refer to the cuts as "temporary", they have been given no firm end date. Employees were also given only two days to sign them. The cuts are voluntary in name, but refusing