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Black History Month For Black History month, we're looking at the impact of the Black Lives Matter protests on the games industry, and following up on pledges made by publishers and developers. Following the death of George Floyd and worldwide protests in solidarity with Black people last year, the games industry's lack of diversity came under increased scrutiny. The industry is still predominantly white—Ukie, the UK's primary video games industry body, conducted a member survey in 2020 that revealed that of the 10 percent of industry workers that identify as BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic), only 2 percent are black. A self-reported survey conducted by the International Game Developers Association in 2019 revealed the same figure. In the summer of 2020, several companies in the games industry raised money for charities fighting racial injustice and released statements in support of Black Americans or Black people in general. Over 1,000 developers donated their … [Read more...] about Has the games industry lived up to its Black Lives Matter promises?

Right now, you can still download and play Halo Online mod ElDewrito. The updater is still available on the mod website and player-hosted servers are still online. But you wouldn't know it from the mood among the Halo community, where confusion and anger have been swirling since Halo developer 343 Industries posted a statement that Microsoft was looking into legal action to protect its intellectual property. Since that statement landed on Tuesday, things have escalated quickly. Microsoft has begun DMCAing Twitch streams and Youtube videos depicting Halo Online, which apparently even surprised 343. This caught us off guard. We're working to better understand the intent here and have reached out to MSFT and Twitch directly. The goal seems to be to prevent streaming of Halo Online but we don't want to see people getting banned - please avoid streaming Halo Online content. April 25, 2018 Update: Microsoft responded to our request for comment about streamers being … [Read more...] about Halo community in turmoil as Microsoft DMCAs Halo Online Twitch streamers (Updated)

Do not adjust your sets. The WandaVision ending has been and gone and, in its wake, we have more questions than answers. But we’ll get to that shortly. While you’ve been watching WandaVision episode 9 , we’ve been busy preparing a complete guide to every possible question you might have had about the finale and what it all means for Marvel’s future. Spoilers: there’s a lot to take in. We pressed our expert team for the biggest headscratchers that remain after the dust has settled in Westview. Then, we set to work. Scroll down and you’ll find a comprehensive breakdown of the events of the WandaVision ending. Everyone and everything from Agatha Harkness, White Vision, and Pietro are covered in detail. And if you want more on the extra scenes after the credits then check out our guide to the WandaVision post-credits scenes . WandaVision ending explained: your biggest questions answered Where happened to White Vision and where is he now? There were two Visions, and now … [Read more...] about WandaVision ending explained: your biggest questions answered

The long-awaited custom game browser feature hits Halo: The Master Chief Collection as early as next week, developer 343 has announced. This is the "new way to play with each other in MCC" 343 teased last week . In a post on Halo Waypoint , 343 said it plans to roll out its next public flight as early as Thursday, 18th February, and a custom game browser is on the list of included features. Here's how it looks in-game: Another interesting feature on the list is a new map for Halo 3 from Halo Online. Halo Online was the free-to-play PC Halo game based on Halo 3 multiplayer and developed by Saber Interactive that Microsoft pulled offline before it got a full release . The game was released as an experiment and was only ever launched in Russia in an alpha test phase. Here's how it looked: Microsoft subsequently moved against the popular Halo Online mod ElDewrito , working to scrub any Halo Online assets required to play the game from the internet and insisting the … [Read more...] about Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets a custom game browser as early as next week

Update: Shortly after 343 Industries posted its statement about ElDewrito, Xbox boss Phil Spencer tweeted something very interesting about one specific point the studio made. This point is important "As we look ahead, we’re very excited about the prospects of an official classic Halo experience making its way to PC and we hope to be able to partner with the ElDewrito team and broader mod and content creation community" https://t.co/KVJbH5PfJI April 25, 2018 The only official Halo releases on PC we've had since Halo 2 in 2004 (aside from the Spartan twin-stick shooters) have been Halo 5: Forge , which was more of a level editor than a proper game, and the RTS Halo Wars 2 . Microsoft all but confirmed a couple of years ago that Halo 6 (or whatever it ends up being called) will be released for Windows 10 as well as Xbox, but we haven't heard anything about it since. Could that be the "classic Halo experience" Spencer is hinting at? Or is Microsoft finally getting around … [Read more...] about Microsoft blocks Halo Online mod ElDewrito, hints at ‘official’ Halo coming to PC (Updated)