‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children
Criminals are trying to glean login details to harvest players’ in-game currency and personal data. Source: The Guardian
Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract That Could Set A New Standard For Game Developers
One of the big wins for the Blizzard union is artificial intelligence guardrails, as the contract stipulates that Microsoft cannot use AI to automate or replace jobs without first talking to the union. Source: Yahoo Finance
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival – a game so grotesque it scares its own director
With oversight from Clive Barker himself, and a role reprisal as Pinhead from actor Doug Bradley, Revival aims to introduce new audiences to the discomfort of Hellraiser. Source: The Guardian UK
The video game industry’s new cheat code: AI prompts
Many creators say they prompted Claude Opus 5 or DeepSeek to build these games, which often have tongue-in-cheek titles like “Modern Claudefare” or “Claude of Duty.” Source: Axios
Former Ubisoft Barcelona workers launch Dark Ritual Studios, an indie developer focused on “craftsmanship over scale”
By launching an independent studio, the team aims to remain “small enough that ideas can move quickly from discussion to implementation.” Source: Games Industry
Monkey Island Creator’s Next Game Is Funded By A Rich Guy Because He Was Tired Of Bad Publisher Deals
As explained in a new interview with Bloomberg, Gilbert, who has been making games for around 40 years, said that while he hasn’t always had bad experiences with publishers, the terms of most of the deals haven’t been great, and … Continued