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The World of Warcraft team has found itself at the centre of controversy after recently-added housing cosmetics appeared to go against previous pledges not to sell decorations tied to the visual identity of the game’s races and factions.
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The intro cinematic of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, this year’s Activision mil-shooter, has reportedly caused controversy in South Korea due to the use of some real world news footage from a 2022 crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon district which killed around 150 people.
EasySMX is using Elizabeth Holmes levels of pedantry with this faceplate situation.
‘It’s like stealing pure gold bars.’
Since the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s DMZ mode, players have been mainly arguing about two topics: whether there’s a need for a PvE-only mode, and whether Possum - an in-game trait - has a place in an extraction experience.
Xbox leader Asha Sharma has claimed there’s “more demand than consoles available” when it comes to Xbox, and that console sales “remain constrained by supply”.
Activision has come under fire due to the inclusion of real-world footage of the tragic Itaewon Disaster in Modern Warfare 4. The bereaved families association and the Citizens Countermeasure Meeting are asking for the footage to be removed.
So we know that GTA 6 has a marketing deal with Sony and the PlayStation 5, and that Rockstar has been engaging with real-world locations to get the word about its latest sandbox game out into the world ahead of its 19th November launch.
Phantom Blade Zero has been officially released, and just as everyone expected, it’s popular. The wuxia action game from S-Game debuted to a massive 431,541 concurrent players on Steam (via SteamDB) at its peak just hours ago.
To no one’s surprise, Epic Games has now confirmed that it’s tripling down on its gen-AI push and will use the controversial tech on everything from Fortnite to the next iteration of its widely-used game development engine, Unreal Engine 6.
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