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A majority of Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble developers have formed a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The newly-organised unit will become members of CWA Local 9510 in Irvine, California. Activision Blizzard parent company Microsoft has recognized the union, which includes over 100 workers including software engineers, artists, quality assurance testers and producers. Thousands of Microsoft employees, including …

EA and Battlefield Studios have done a major U-turn on a drastic Battlefield 6 change made earlier this week, following community feedback. This change, which saw initial spawn ticket figures decrease across the board for the Conquest game mode, has been removed entirely. In addition, the timer limit has been reverted back to its original 45-minutes. Conquest, a series staple …

On October 16, Tomonobu Itagaki’s Facebook account revealed that the video game developer had passed away at age 58. Tributes to the Dead or Alive creator have been pouring in from fans and fellow game developers alike, especially in his home country of Japan. The following post was made in Japanese on Itagaki’s Facebook. “My Last Words: The flame of …

News Summary: NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers DGX Spark to Elon Musk at SpaceX. This week, NVIDIA and its partners are shipping DGX Spark, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, delivering NVIDIA’s AI stack in a compact desktop form factor. Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HPI, Lenovo and MSI debut DGX Spark systems, expanding access to …

Borderlands 4 chief Randy Pitchford has said that if other developers better understood why gamers love making decisions about loot, Gearbox would have “good competitors.” Pitchford was speaking in an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss the release of Borderlands 4 and Gearbox’s journey alongside the series’ success. The outspoken developer said that even though the Borderlands franchise …

With the release of macOS 26 Tahoe last month, users began noticing a major GPU slowdown issue in popular Electron apps, due to their usage of a particular private API. Now, the Electron team has fixed the issue, and said fix is beginning to roll out in popular third party apps that utilize the framework. In short, Electron is a …

Developers on the ill-fated action game MindsEye have signed an open letter to developer Build A Rocket Boy’s executive leadership, citing “longstanding disrespect and mistreatment” of staff. The letter has been signed by 93 current and former employees of Build A Rocket Boy, along with the Game Workers Branch of the Independent Workers of Great Britain union. Following its disastrous …

For gamers of a certain age, gibberish character sequences like idkfa, torg, ABACABB, and UUDDLRLRBA are akin to long-lost magical incantations. They evoke an era where game developers frequently and routinely let players use cheat codes to customize their gameplay experience with everything from infinite health and instant level selection to full debug menus or gigantic anime-style giant-headed avatars. There …

Mina the Hollower, the next game from Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club Games, has been delayed but is “so close to being done”. The Zelda-like adventure was intended for release on 31st October, but has been pushed back without a new release date, though the developer has stated it “isn’t a major delay” but just “a stretch of time to …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm’s Dev Day event.   “AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production. It is everything you need to build, deploy, and optimize agent workflows with way less …