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Kongregate Has Put A Freeze On Game Submissions And Is Closing Forums Amid Layoffs

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Time Stamp: July 1, 2020 10:39 PM - Modified On: July 1, 2020 - Published By:
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Kongregate, the online flash game portal and game publisher, has been hit with layoffs amid a restructure that will bring major changes to the site. This news, announced via the Kongregate forums and picked up on by Gamesindustry.biz, indicates that the site will no longer take new game submissions going forward, and that the site's forums will close."We will be rolling out several changes to the website over the coming days and months, the first of which is that we will no longer be accepting new titles on Kongregate.com as

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

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Time Stamp: June 4, 2020 1:16 AM - Modified On: June 4, 2020 - Published By:
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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

Otherside Entertainment working on ‘new concept,’ no word on System Shock 3

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Time Stamp: April 20, 2020 5:08 PM - Modified On: April 20, 2020 - Published By:
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There's still no official word on the fate of System Shock 3 development as different sectors of Otherside move on to new projects. It’s been a little bit since we heard rumbles that System Shock 3’s development was in serious trouble. Rumor from some of the developers were that the project had been caught up in a bout of layoffs, including the game’s design director. While we wait for any official word on the fate of System Shock 3 from Otherside themselves, it seems that one sector of the developer