Tag: Mark Kern
What’s Behind the Bungie Layoffs?
The slew of layoffs throughout the video game industry has reached Bungie, the former developer of Halo. The studio is letting go of 220 employees, which is about 17% of its workforce, while 155 others are moving to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which owns Bungie. (Bungie used to be owned by Micro...
Read MoreUbisoft Issues Apology to Japanese Gamers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows
The pressure over Assassin’s Creed Shadows has gotten to Ubisoft. Since the game’s trailer debuted, Ubisoft has been inundated with complaints from gamers, mostly those in Japan, over its disrespect for Japanese history and culture. The highest-profile issue is the use of Yasuke, a historical b...
Read MoreMore Celebrity and Entertainment Industry Reactions to Trump Assassination Attempt
Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D were the big story, but they’re not the only celebrities and entertainment industry representatives with awful takes on the attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump that resulted in a bystander being killed. The first will come as no surprise, which suc...
Read MoreTenacious D Aftermath: Jack Black Apologizes and Maybe Breaks Up the Band
Jack Black got smart about the controversy he got himself embroiled in really quickly… although maybe not quickly enough. The comedian, actor, and musician is half of the two-man band Tenacious D with friend Kyle Gass. On Sunday, the day after an attempted assassination of President Donald Trump t...
Read MoreAssassin’s Creed Shadows Steals More Artifacts While Yasuke’s False History is Exposed
It keeps getting worse for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next entry in Ubisoft’s video game series, which is set in feudal Japan. After they used Chinese architecture instead of Japanese and used the flag of a reenactment group without permission – not to mention the problems with Yasuke – r...
Read MoreStellar Blade Developer Shift Up Goes Public, Institutes ESG Reports
Shift Up’s tenure as a video game studio that catered to its fans may be over. The South Korean company that made this year’s hit game Stellar Blade has just become a publicly traded company, and so far, it’s quite successful, getting $320 million in its initial public offering, according to B...
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