Emulators seem to now be allowed on the Apple App Store but with some caveats

Apple’s App Store has famously been a walled garden for a while now. The tight policies have only recently been changing mostly thanks to EU regulations. Though, even taha has been a bumpy process met with a lot of pushback from Cupertino. Thankfully, things seem to be looking up, and Apple’s most recent App Review […]

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Xbox is not allowed X-Men games until 2036, according to illegally breached Insomniac Games materials

What you need to know PlayStation studio Insomniac Games was breached in a ransomware attack, illegally spreading innumerable private documents including game plans and personal developer information.  Among the leaked information were details on the X-Men license, which covers the previously announced upcoming PlayStation 5 title Marvel’s Wolverine.  According to the agreement between Marvel, PlayStation, […]

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Developer reveals that their Xbox Game Pass deal allowed them to delay the game and add over a hundred hours more content

What you need to know Mike Rose of No More Robots has shared a thread on Twitter exploring the effects of Xbox Game Pass on the publisher’s most recent game release, Spirittea. Rose shared that more than 100,000 people had played Spirittea via Xbox Game Pass in its first week after launch.  Spirittea’s Game Pass […]

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Spotify Subscribers No Longer Allowed to Pay Through App Store

Spotify will no longer allow customers who previously subscribed to the Spotify streaming music service through the App Store to continue to pay using Apple’s platform, reports Variety. Spotify has started sending emails to subscribers who pay using an ‌App Store‌ subscription to let them know that they’ll need to make changes. Spotify has not […]

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Raven Software QA employees allowed to vote for union

Update, April 22 (6:15 pm ET): An Activision Blizzard spokesperson reached out to Windows Central, expressing that the company is looking into an appeal. Raven Software quality assurance (QA) employees are being allowed to vote for a union, a move that could see the first-ever union within a major North American gaming publisher. The Game […]

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Affirmative action job posts now allowed on LinkedIn in some countries

LinkedIn will now allow posts about job openings that express a preference for candidates from historically disadvantaged groups in certain countries. The company announced the change on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 after receiving criticism for removing a post by the Center for the Analysis of Freedom and Authoritarianism (LAUT). The news was first reported by […]

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Apple Closes Loophole That Allowed Mir Cardholders to Use Apple Pay in Russia

Apple this week suspended its Apple Pay service for the Mir card payment system in Russia, effectively closing a loophole that had allowed Russians to continue to use the ‌Apple Pay‌ service. According to Reuters, Mir had remained connected to ‌Apple Pay‌ even after Apple restricted the use of the payments service in Russia on […]

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