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According to a new lengthy report from GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi, despite boasting about their openness, Moon Studios was often an “oppressive” place to work. Moon Studios’ setup is a somewhat unique one, with almost all its employees being remote contractors and founders Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol touting a “flat” structure and “no bullshit” attitude. Unfortunately, according to a number of former employees, the flat structure didn’t really apply to Mahler and Korol, who still exerted exacting control over everything done at Moon Studios and used the “no bullshit” mantra to heap scorn on those they didn’t think were measuring up....

The proverbial stars appear to be finally aligning for the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization as historical precedents, cross-asset volatility, and key on-chain metrics suggest that Bitcoin’s bottom is nigh at hand. Evidence 1: Bitcoin Has Historically Bottomed Out Between 413 and 364 Days After Having Formed a New All-time High When $BTC peaked in the 2017, it took BTC 364 days to bottom It’s been 333 days since the November 2021 peak These figures suggest a BTC bottom should take place in the next 1-3 months#Crypto #Bitcoin — Rekt Capital (@rektcapital) October 5, 2022 Bitcoin was able to carve out a bottom 413 days after reaching a zenith back in 2013....

So, what’s this about? Consumer rights champion Alex Neill is the person behind this lawsuit, according to a report from Sky News. The action is funded by Woodsford - a specialist team of litigation and arbitration experts investing in large commercial claims. It accuses the company of breach of competition law by abusing its market power to impose unfair terms and conditions on game developers and publishers, forcing consumer prices to go up....

All that being said, it plans to add four new games to the service next month. The first of them, being Death Squared, is a puzzle game designed to be played by multiple players. The object of the game centralizes on guiding your color-coded character to its respective goal through puzzles that increase in difficulty. The second, and probably most infamous of the bunch, is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The Definitive Edition....

“The v0.55 release cycle continued our progress toward getting PowerToys ARM64 ready, fix some top issues and new utilities,” the team writes. “Work from last month helped us enable us to upgrade the code base to .NET 5 and next month onward to .NET 6.” PowerToys v0.55.0 changelog For more details and downloads, head over to GitHub. - Windows 11 Is Designated for Broad Deployment – Enters Its Final Phase of Availability

Dead Space 2 – Return as Isaac Clark to explore The Sprawl and its zero-g environments as players uncover the truth behind the Unitology’s role in the Necromorph epidemic. The Curse of Monkey Island – Guybrush Threepwood returns to take up the dull blade and his rapier wit against the nefarious demon-pirate LeChuck in the highly anticipated third installment of LucasArts’ popular Monkey Island series. Out of Line – Play as San who goes on a quest to escape the Factory that was once home in this distinctive hand-drawn 2D adventure game filled with charming puzzles....

Since its announcement back in 2020, the game was promptly delayed. Originally, it was set to release in 2021, and then got delayed to this year. Now, as of today, it got pushed all the way out of the fiscal year 2023. As such, Ubisoft quietly delisted it from stores and provided a few comments relating to the delay. A representative said the following in a statement to IGN: So, the big reason behind such a delay, to the point of no new release date being disclosed, is a development team switch, which happens sometimes in development periods… Again, this isn’t the first time that The Sands of Time’s remake was pushed back, but now without a release window, at worst, it could be a much longer wait than anticipated....

Here are your August PS Plus Extra games, which will be available on August 16… Yakuza 0 The glitz, glamour, and unbridled decadence of the 80s are back in Yakuza 0. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka with protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and series regular Goro Majima. Play as the former to discover how he finds himself in a world of trouble when a simple debt collection goes wrong. Then, step into the silver-toed shoes of Goro Majima and explore his “normal” life as the proprietor of a cabaret club....

Apple and Qualcomm Were Previously Believed to Have Settled Their Differences in 2019 Due to being unhappy with an earlier decision, Qualcomm reportedly pursued an appeal, and according to Reuters, the chipset maker successfully managed to get the patent dispute re-opened. It is not clear which patent in question was deemed invalid and sent back for re-evaluation, but Qualcomm apparently seemed upset with an earlier decision. To recap, back in January 2017, Apple took Qualcomm to court, alleging that the chipset maker had withheld around $1 billion in royalty payments to Apple....

Yield Issues Continued to Plague Samsung’s Foundry, Which Likely Led to Qualcomm Making This Decision With Samsung unable to provide a steady supply of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chips to Qualcomm due to reported yield issues, the immediate reaction for Qualcomm would be to head over to TSMC’s camp. According to Ice Universe, Samsung may lose out on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 orders too, but no reasoning is provided by the tipster as to why that is....

The adaptation, originally rumored in early 2019, landed this July on Netflix. Developed by Andrew Dabb and executive produced by Mary Leah Sutton, Oliver Berben, Robert Kulzer, and Bronwen Hughes, it was produced by Constantine Film, the same company behind the feature films. It featured Lance Reddick as the clones of Albert Wesker, Ella Balinska and Adeline Rudolph as his daughters, and was set across two timelines (2022 and 2036) several years after the games’ events....

Another day brings with it another interesting observation on the ongoing Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) saga from a Wall Street player. Today, Rosenblatt is out with a research note on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover prospects. To wit, Rosenblatt analyst Barton Crockett initiated coverage of Twitter shares today with a Neutral rating and a $48 stock price target. In a series of interesting observations, Crockett noted that Musk’s $54.20 per share offer for Twitter is not a “premium” and that his suggestions around content moderation, switching Twitter’s business model to one based on subscriptions instead of advertising, and pursuing non-commercial enterprise is likely to “effectively trashes the bulk of Twitter’s talent and efforts, which the board probably sees as dropping a bomb on something they love....

Apple has Discounted the Black Smart Folio Case for iPad mini to Just $48.65 for a Limited Time This big 18% discount is applicable on the black color option while other colors are only slightly discounted. But you will save the most on the black one. Buy Apple Smart Folio for iPad Mini (6th Generation) - Black - Was $59, now just $48.65 There are a ton of great iPad mini cases available out there, but many of you will lean towards Apple in that department....

Retailers like Newegg remove the refund option for NVIDIA’s RTX 4080, leaving scalpers scampering in the direction of third-party marketplaces Posts on r/PCMR show that scalpers are flocking to various marketplaces like Facebook in an effort to offload their scalped stash of NVIDIA RTX 4080s. It looks like they are having trouble the inventory even at a very “generous” pricing close to MSRP ($1200). Quite understandably, gamers that were left in the lurch during the cryptocurrency mining boom are watching this unfold with glee....

Scavengers was first announced in March 2018 by former Halo franchise director Josh Holmes. The game was inspired by Halo 5’s Warzone mode design, which should have been further enhanced by Improbable’s cloud-based SpatialOS backend. Unfortunately, the game didn’t really find an audience thus far. According to the Eurogamer story, a small internal team is keeping the PC version of Scavengers alive for now, though it’s hard to say for how long....

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Probably the best trailer we’ve seen for Sonic Frontiers thus far, despite the slight Switch blurriness. It will be interesting to see how many of these Cyberspace levels there are. Is there basically a full traditional Sonic game hiding within Frontiers or are they just a small bonus? Need to know more about the blue blur’s latest? Wccftech’s Kai Powell got to go hands-on with the game and came away with somewhat mixed feelings....

Within hours of the liftoff of the Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it has decided to award another lunar landing contract to SpaceX. SpaceX is currently the only company that NASA has contracted to land astronauts on the Moon, with the company’s Starship lunar lander tasked with the mission to take the astronauts from the Orion spacecraft to the Moon....

Created by modder ‘Maxie Zeus’, this ‘over-the-shoulder’ camera mod for the latest Spider-Man PC port was also released for the PC version of Spider-Man Remastered. As you might have guessed, it changes the game’s default camera position to a more Batman Arkham-like camera by moving it closer to Miles. It’s an interesting mod for sure and one that might add some immersion to the game for some players. We’ve included some screenshots and a video of this mod in action down below: The mod can be downloaded via Nexusmods....

Nintendo announced the news through an official press release on the Japanese Nintendo website earlier today. According to Nintendo, Splatoon 3, the latest installment in the series, domestic sales have exceeded 3.45 million units in its first days after launch. This number includes both retail and digital sales. Interestingly, this means that initial sales of Splatoon 3 have already exceeded those of Nintendo’s previous fastest-selling Switch title in Japan – Animal Crossing: New Horizons....