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Blizzard Developer Quits in Protest For Being Asked to Downgrade Staff Reviews!
Putting all the stuff regarding Microsoft’s (now very shaky) proposed takeover of Activision/Blizzard to one side, for Blizzard specifically it’s impossible to ignore the fact that the last couple of years have been pretty rough. And not just in terms of gaming titles, but also their public relations. – You…
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Amazon and Google to Both Cut Jobs as Tech Crunch Bites!
With a general global recession and consumers showing more than a little apathy to making new purchases at the moment, it’s hardly surprising that many tech firms haven’t just confirmed relatively poor Q3 financial results, but are also looking to either scale down or find other means of boosting profitability.…
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Intel Confirm Staff Redundancies and Tech Cancellations After Q3 Profit Dive!
Coming a little ahead of the usual schedule, earlier this month Intel formally confirmed their Q3 financial results, and, overall, the numbers were not good. – And just to clarify, when a company reveals its quarter figures early, this is typically a sign that things haven’t gone too well. Showing…
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Facebook Expected to Cut Staff by 10%
Facebook (or Meta as they seem to prefer being called these days) has clearly been through a difficult transitional period over the last few years. Putting data sharing scandals to one side, it’s hard to deny that the social media platform has, overall, been stagnating quite significantly. More so, it…
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FromSoftware Recruiting for New Gaming Title (While Hinting Another Imminent Release)
Released earlier this year to critical acclaim from both fans and critics, FromSoftware is undoubtedly riding high on the wave of success from Elden Ring. – The fact that it has consistently remained at or around the top spot of the gaming sales charts for the last 4 months makes…
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Amazon is Worried it Might Run out of Workers by 2024!
Love them or hate them, it’s hard to deny that Amazon is practically an integral part of our lives now. – While some accuse them of being the direct cause of the (near) death of the high-street retailer, the convenience and range of products they offer clearly make them a…
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Nvidia Expects Q3 GPU Sales to Slump (And They’re Probably Right!)
As part of its latest financial call to investors, Nvidia has reported that they have had an excellent first half of 2022 with its latest figures showing a 46% increase in revenue during the last quarter when compared to Q2 2021. In other words, business is booming! While this might…
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AMD is Already Hiring for PS6 & Xbox ‘Insert Name Here’ Chipset Development!
One of the biggest success stories seen in recent years for AMD has undoubtedly been in their development of CPU/APU chipsets for many of the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox consoles. – It’s no exaggeration to say that in this specific regard, Intel and Nvidia barely get a look in!…
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Intel UK is Hiring – But You Will Require a Very Particular Set of Skills!
Would you like to work for Intel? While I’m sure the answer for many of you would probably be yes, I daresay that the only real problem would be that the skills required for any such prospective role at the company would more than likely be pretty technical to the…
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Ubisoft Staff Dub Mass Resignations as “The Great Exodus”
Generally speaking, and strictly speaking among the gaming community, Ubisoft is not a well-loved developer. A factor that certainly wasn’t helped when, as recently as last October, the developer basically decided to blame everyone (except themselves) as to why their games were often so poorly optimised for PC. – Over…
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MGM Resorts to Use VR to Help Them Find Better Suited Employees
Finding a job you love, or at least can tolerate, can be a very difficult task. I mean, how many of you reading this once accepted a position and very quickly discovered that it simply wasn’t for you? I know I did as (no joke) I once quit a job…
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Japan Uses Remote Control Robots to Address Labor Shortage
If there is a problem that could potentially be fixed with robots, then it’s not exactly surprising that Japan would be one of the first countries to try it out! – As you may or may not be aware, however, ironically Japan’s biggest issue at the moment in terms of…
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Game Company Suggests To Put Achievements on Your Resumé
If you’re anything like me, then whenever you have applied for a job your enjoyment of ‘video games‘ has been a subject you’ve preferred to keep a little quiet. You don’t, after all, want an employer to think that you use your spare time for such frivolous purposes right?… Well,…
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UK Games Industry Forms Official Union
UK Games Industry Forms Union For many, the prospect of being a video game developer sounds like a great job. I mean, you get to make games for a living! How awesome does that sound! The reality is, however, very far removed from the fact. Well, if you go to…
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US Amazon Workers Reportedly Preparing To Unionise
US Amazon Workers To Unionise Throughout the year, we have reported on multiple occasions stories of the somewhat harsh conditions many at least feel they face at the many Amazon warehouses throughout the world. Long hours, strict deadlines and time monitoring on everything seems to be the common factor in…
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