According to a new global report by Exasol, 85% of consumers have changed their minds about purchasing from a company because they felt it did not do enough to properly address climate change. Fifty-four percent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) decision-makers share a similar mentality, believing companies that fail to act on “going green” and […]
Krafton, The Company Behind PUBG, Acquires Subnautica Developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Krafton, Inc., has announced that it is going to acquire Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the developer behind Subnautica. This news comes by way of a press release on Krafton’s site, which reveals that it decided today that it is going to acquire Unknown Worlds. Krafton says this acquisition continues the company’s strategy of expanding and securing […]
Knockout City Gets Free New-Gen Enhancements Next Week
Knockout City, EA’s wacky multiplayer dodgeball game, ranks among 2021’s most pleasant surprises. The game is a riot and will join November’s batch of PlayStation Plus games after already appearing on Xbox Game Pass. If you’ve enjoyed lobbing exploding balls into the faces of friends or strangers on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S, your […]
Facebook stops just short of rebranding to ‘The Web’
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta today. Facebook.com is still Facebook.com, though. This is a move to embrace the metaverse, which is a concept that many tech-industry executives and investors view as the future of the […]
Ubisoft embraces blockchain games & NFTs amid harassment scandals
In a move that seems to be popular only with investors, Ubisoft wants to start making play-to-earn video games. It was only a matter of time until blockchain technology and NFTs began encroaching on video games. While the likes of Valve have thoroughly denounced them, others such as Epic Games have been more welcoming, despite […]
Call Of Duty: Warzone replacing Verdansk with new Caldera map for Vanguard
In conjunction with the release of Call Of Duty: Vanguard, Activision is getting rid of Warzone’s Verdansk map. Verdansk has undergone several changes ever since Call Of Duty: Warzone launched in March 2020, but now Activision intends to get rid of the map completely as it prepares for the release of Call Of Duty: Vanguard. […]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is coming to VR
A classic from the PlayStation 2 era, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be released in virtual reality for the Oculus Quest 2, Facebook announced at Connect 2021 on Thursday. The “built-for-VR version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” does not have a release date, but the project is “many years in the making,” and […]
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas In Development For Oculus Quest 2
Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, has revealed that it is currently working on bringing the classic Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to its Quest 2 device. This news comes by way of Facebook’s identity-changing livestream today, where the company is expected to announce its new name. During the stream, it was revealed […]
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Is Already Ubisoft’s Second Biggest Game Of All Time
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has made Ubisoft a lot of money. That’s because it’s the publisher’s “[second] largest profit-generating game” in its entire history, and it achieved that title in less than 12 months. Curious as to what Ubisoft’s biggest game of all time is? So are we, but Ubisoft doesn’t mention who wears that crown […]
Facebook envisions future VR/AR hardware with Cambria and Azeray projects
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on futurist virtual reality and augmented reality projects, dubbed respectively Project Cambria and Project Azeray. Cambria is a VR headset that is still a ways from shipping, […]