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I’m going independent!
After a career of covering video games for MTV News, Kotaku and Axios, I’m launching Game File, a reader-supported site and newsletter for my reporting about video games.
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- SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit
- NEW: In response to a lawsuit over whether Sony sufficiently discloses that digitally purchased games are not technically owned, Sony's lawyers offered counterarguments Among them: you and I can't both plausibly believe we each own the same digital game
- UPDATE: Ebrand (and/or Take Two) got the message about their false GTA-related copyright claim and backed off The DMCA complaint against my X/Twitter account has been retracted, and the images of the court orders I posted to X a week ago have been restored.NEW: Yesterday, I was locked out of my X account because of an absurd DMCA notice filed by an agency working for Take Two "protecting" the GTA brand My post showed publicly available court orders, no leaks They went after GameSpot and Grok, too My story gamefile.news/p/take-two-gta…
- Rounded up some GTA VI details and realized that the series, as increasingly realistic as it looks, is approaching an uncanny valley of sorts by presenting a world without kids in it Given the chaos possible in a GTA, understandable why they're excluded
