Rod Fergusson’s move to Blizzard was not particularly well-timed. He left The Coalition in order to head up Diablo 4 in March, just ahead of the COVID-19 outbreak that forced the entire company to start working from home.”I had a full eight days in office....
Security researchers at Microsoft say they have seen a “steady increase” in unsolicited email attachments containing malicious Excel 4.0 macros. It is part of a “massive campaign” to infect PCs with malware under the guise of providing current...
Paris Games Week isn’t the most well-known videogame event in North America, but it’s a big one: It attracted 317,000 visitors over five days in 2019. That’s not going to happen this year, however, as organizers announced today that, due to the...
I rarely have latency problems in games, but lately I’ve noticed 100-plus pings and red Discord bars more often. I can’t prove the exact cause—Comcast just sucks sometimes—but an obvious hypothesis is that increased internet usage caused by COVID-19...
Bethesda Softworks says it will donate $1 million to local and international “front-line organizations” working to support the effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and will offer fans of its games opportunities to kick in to the cause too.The big cheque...
