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Xbox Game Pass October Perks Listed

Top GamesXbox Game Pass subscribers can get some Back 4 Blood skins as a perk this month. / Photo courtesy of Turtle Rock Studios/XboxXbox Game Pass' October perks offer more than just the free games associated with the service. This month, subscribers can enjoy in-game content for Apex Legends, Back 4 Blood, and Fallout 76, plus a few months of free Discord Nitro and a movie rental. Here's everything you get access to as an Xbox Game Pass subscriber in October.wow what a coincidence i'm giving away 3 free months

Jeff Strain Founds Possibility Space with Legion of Gaming Veterans

Top GamesJeff Strain, Jane Ng and Austin Walker are three of the founding members of Possibility Space. / Photo courtesy of Possibility SpaceArenaNet co-founder and Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain has founded a new studio, Possibility Space, featuring plenty of industry veterans.Although the studio will be based in New Orleans, its staff will be physically distributed, making it easier to incorporate the many luminaries on staff. They include visual director Jane Ng, formerly of Campo Santo and Valve; IP Director Austin Walker of the Friends at the Table and formerly

Bungie Removes Controversial Employee Contract Clause, Promising to Improve Workplace Diversity

Top GamesImage courtesy of BungieBungie have announced that they plan to end a controversial clause in employee contracts. In a recent blog post, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons revealed the steps that the company is looking to take in order to improve its diversity and inclusion culture. One step involves removing the company's controversial mandatory arbitration clause in all employee contracts. The mandatory arbitration clause meant that in order to accept or keep a job, employees must agree to arbitrate all legal disputes with their employer rather than take them to

SEC, EEOC Investigating Activision Blizzard Over Sexual Harassment Allegations, CEO Subpoenaed

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been subpoenaed by the SEC. / Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesBoth the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have opened investigations into Activision Blizzard over its handling of allegations of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination, the company confirmed Monday.The SEC investigation has opened with a subpoena of the company and several current and former employees, including CEO Bobby Kotick.The SEC is investigating Activision Blizzard over sexual misconduct allegations and improper disclosures, the WSJ reports. It has subpoenaed Activision Blizzard CEO

WoW devs to make Shadowlands’ introduction skippable, adding other quality-of-life changes in Patch 9.1.5

After several months of silence in regard to updates coming to World of Warcraft, the game’s development team revealed a laundry list of changes coming to WoW in the near future. The WoW team communicated its plans for the fall season in a statement made to the game’s community earlier today.  “Shadowlands Update 9.1.5 will be going on the PTR next week, and a lot of what you’ll find in it is the direct result of your collective feedback,” the WoW dev team said in today’s statement. “It includes long-asked-for

Custom Servers Coming to Fallout 76 With Fallout Worlds Update

Top GamesFallout Worlds, a new custom server mode coming to Fallout 76, is set to launch Sept. 8, 2021. / Photo courtesy of Bethesda Game StudiosFallout Worlds is set to be the ninth major update for Fallout 76, bringing with it a custom server system for the action RPG first released in November 2018.Following up the Steel Reign update from July, which was a continuation of Bethesda Studio's Brotherhood of Steel story arc, Fallout Worlds is designed to bring players their own tailor-made experiences in the wasteland.ICYMI - Mark Tucker

2,600 Activision Blizzard Employees Condemn Company’s Response to Allegations of Sexism

The fallout around a lawsuit accusing Activision Blizzard of harboring a sexist work culture continues to expand. / Photo courtesy of Activision BlizzardMore than 2,600 current and former Activision Blizzard employees have signed a letter condemning the company's response to a lawsuit accusing the company of having a widespread culture of sexual harassment and discrimination, calling the response, "abhorrent and insulting to all that we believe our company should stand for.""To put it clearly and unequivocally, our values as employees are not accurately reflected in the words and actions of

Bethesda Teases New Fallout 76 Feature For Public Test Server this Month

Bethesda has just pushed out the new Steel Reign update for Fallout 76, but it looks like the developers are already looking ahead to the next new bit of content they have planned for the game. Announced via the Fallout 76 blog, Bethesda has stated that they’re looking to reopen the Public Test Server for the game some time this month to showcase a brand new feature. “We haven’t yet discussed what’s in store with the September update, but it will include a significant new feature that will give players

Xbox Donates to Humane Society In Honor of Real-Life Dogmeat

In the wake of sad news comes a rather heartwarming update: Xbox has recently announced that both it and Bethesda were donating $10,000 to the Humane Society in Bethesda’s home county in honor of the canine actress who portrayed Dogmeat in Fallout 4. Don’t look now, I have something in my eye. We recently got the sad news about the death of River, the dog who inspired the Fallout 4 version of Dogmeat. Owned by Fallout 4’s lead level designer Joel Burgess, River was the model for both Dogmeat’s looks

Is Konami Gearing up for a Comeback?

The road to redemption is typically a hard one to walk, and few companies in the video game industry should know this as intimately as Konami. For those of us who have been around a while, the word Konami still has a certain air to it that invokes a sense of excellence and timeless acumen. Arcade classics like Frogger, Gradius, and Contra were stupendous games that live on today. They even transitioned into the console space with tour de force games like Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, and Silent Hill that