Month: March 2025

Google has pushed an update to Chrome that essentially rolls back an unpopular policy change from last week that automatically muted audio for auto-playing web-based apps, including many HTML 5 based games and art projects.

While this means that the web games affected by last week’s update should no longer see their audio forcibly and automatically muted, Google notes that the rollback is only a temporary measure and that it plans to re-introduce the policy change in the Chrome 70 update this October. 

“We’re doin…

Swedish entertainment company Modern Times Group has laid out plans to buy a 74 percent stake in eSports firm ESL for €78 million (~$86.3 million USD at current exchange rates.)

MTG is best known for operating both free and paid sports-focused TV networks in multiple countries, making this a significant investment in eSports on the part of a traditional sports broadcast company.

However, it's not unprecedented; MTG already operates an eSports enthusiast website and broadcasts some eSports coverage. Those effor…

Ubisoft is developing what sounds like the most ambitious Assassin’s Creed title yet, one that is basically a “massive online platform that evolves over time,” according to a report that was subsequently confirmed, at least in part, by the publisher.

This game is codenamed Assassin’s Creed Infinity, according to Bloomberg’s sources, and then confirmed by Ubisoft’s own statement. The report said Infinity, or whatever final name the game is given if development is seen through to release, will feature multiple settings and “room to expand” in the months and years after launch. The games…

Epic Games, which was one of the first companies behind the effort to push for cross-play across consoles, is now going further and launching its cross-play overlay for Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. Although this doesn’t mean a bunch of additional games will suddenly support cross-play, Epic is providing developers with the tools to more easily make it happen. That could mean cross-play becomes even more common in the future.

Epic’s cross-play overlay for PC launched about a year ago, in June 2022. This allowed developers and players alike to connect their games and communities acros…

The group of QA developers seeking to form a union at Call of Duty studio Raven Software and management at parent company Activision Blizzard could not come to terms. The developers are now planning to petition the National Labor Relations Board in the US for approval.

“We, the supermajority of workers at Raven QA, are proud to be confidently filing our petition with the NLRB for our union election,” the Game Workers Alliance group said on Twitter. “We are deeply disappointed that Raven Software and Activision Blizzard refused to uplift workers rights by choosing to not voluntarily re…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is gearing up for an in-depth reveal and beta later this month, but leakers are already posting tons of game footage online. One of the latest leaks shows a potential new Warzone map, which is already creating some controversy due to the design.

As originally reported by CharlieIntel, the leaked footage shows an island setting for a large-scale battle-royale map called Avalon. The video reveals that the map consists of a series of small islands Come from Sports betting site VPb…