Pokemon developer Game Freak hit with big hack, leaking source code news about MMO-like game Synapse with ILCA, and more.
New York attorney general Letitia James called loot boxes 'quintessential gambling.'
The League of Legends maker has eliminated around 12 roles across three publishing teams.
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
This is the first time a hack has me feeling happy. These pompous fools deserve to get hit with something to drop them down off their high horse pedestal. They had a hit formula decades ago, and they've just been riding off that for all of their careers. Bringing nothing but minimal effort enhancements for every full-priced game.
Up until just after Diamond/Pearl, I adored this franchise. After those, I realized we were just repeating the same thing over and over again. They can't even put in the effort to make a 3D game run at PS2 quality these days for their main franchise. That's honestly sad to see for a once great developer.
oh no, now we'll know about their next half assed crappy pokemon game
It blows my mind that such an awful, technically embarrassing company still has access to one of Nintendo's biggest IP while they drop yearly garbage 15fps slop - and while every other first party Nintendo release has been knocking it out of the park with banger after banger. I'm not much of a Switch gamer but it's hard not to notice how impressive their output's been this gen, minus the Pokemon games.
That being said, the number of hacks this year is becoming a bit concerning.
Not even just in the gaming world, but government, infrastructure, news sites, the entire internet archive, etc. We probably shouldn't be cheering this on, unless it somehow results in [pretty much any] other devs getting the Pokemon license.
Good? I mean I’ve fell in love with Palworld at this point.
Some people only see the company getting impacted by this and forget that all their employees personal data was tied up in this leak and trolls are going to go after them because they didn't get the game they wanted or something equally as dumb like it's their personal fault.
These hacks and leaks are often purely a distraction for a established company they might be fined by a governing body at worst but the reality is no other publisher would buy their data and use it as that's highly illegal.
So hackers who aim at these companies and try to sell game source code are more often than not incapable of doing so like the Rockstar hack or EA hack.
So I'm not sure what's to gain here outside of blackmail that won't get paid.