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Woke tech giant Microsoft has announced a round of layoffs affecting 650 employees within its Xbox gaming unit, marking the third gaming-related layoff since the company’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.

Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering and Respawn’s Apex Legends, both extremely popular properties in the gaming world, have come under fire for their use of AI-generated artwork in their recent promotional materials.

South Korea will allow male video game players who win a gold medal at this year’s Asian Games, which began on Monday, to avoid mandatory military service, outraging fans of boy band superstars BTS who argue that the feat of becoming the country’s most successful music act in history is more deserving.

An AI-powered gaming news content mill was recently pranked by Redditors with a fictitious character named “Glorbo” in the popular game World of Warcraft. By excitedly discussing a game character they invented themselves, pranksters tricked an AI system into writing an article about their character.

A party hosted by the EU Foreign Aid department on its own proprietary “metaverse” that cost around ~$400,000 to build reportedly flopped on Tuesday, with almost no one attending.

Merchandise appearing to depict a fictional character described as being “around ten years old” with her underwear exposed was publicly put on sale at the “world’s biggest” gaming convention last week.

The CEO of Tripwire, creator of the popular games Killing Floor and Red Orchestra, was forced to step down after expressing support for the Texas law to protect the unborn and leftists attacked him on social media.

According to recent reports, Amazon’s latest video game, New World, has been “bricking” high-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards. Computer hardware is bricked when it has been damaged beyond repair, turning in this case top of the line graphics cards costing as much as $1,499 into expensive paperweights. 

According to a recent report, tech giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire video-game chat community app Discord for more than $10 billion.

Polish game developer CD Projekt Red has faced harsh criticism and potential shareholder lawsuits following the launch of its hotly anticipated game Cyberpunk 2077, considered by many gamers and industry experts as the most hyped video game in the last decade. Breitbart Tech went hands on with the game to find out just how bad the bugs are, and if the game is worth playing today.

Tech giant Apple is reportedly refusing to allow major gaming apps from Microsoft, Google, and Facebook onto its iPhone app store, sparking a skirmish between the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.

Wizards of the Coast, the company behind Dungeons & Dragons, has published a blog post outlining a new approach to diversity in the famous tabletop role-playing game.

Gaming peripheral company Razer will reportedly shift manufacturing lines from producing its own products to manufacturing surgical masks as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe. The company plans to donate up to 1 million masks around the world.

Andrew Gottlieb is launching 2A Gaming as a way of reaching the millions upon millions of people who are steeped in firearm-based video gaming but non-committal when time to vote for pro-gun candidates.

South Korean organizations launched a committee Wednesday to oppose moves by the World Health Organization (WHO) to classify addiction to video games as a health disorder.

References to Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson have been removed from the game after he expressed his belief that transgender women are not women this month.

A Florida man allegedly used popular video game Fortnite to lure at least 20 teenagers to his house for “sexual activities.”

An Australian gamer live streamed video and audio on Sunday, of the moment he allegedly attacked his pregnant girlfriend for interrupting him while playing Fortnite.

Shirrako, a popular YouTube content creator, was banned from the platform on Wednesday for publishing a series of videos showing him killing a suffragette character in the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Google’s video platform claimed the videos “promoted violence” despite taking no action against the many other videos from the popular and violent game.

The University of Akron announced this week that they are killing 80 degree programs in order to open a massive eSports facility.

The shares for Chinese Internet gaming giant Tencent dropped by 3.6 percent in Hong Kong, Tuesday, after the Chinese government forced them to remove a hit game from their PC store for failing to comply with regulatory standards.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been criticized for adding “gaming disorder” to their “disease classification manual.”

Tributes poured in for popular video game commentator John “TotalBiscuit” Bain, following the announcement of his death on Thursday.

“No significant changes” were found in adults who spent two months playing popular violent video game Grand Theft Auto V daily, according to a report.

The Guardian claimed video games create racism and promote right-wing ideology in an article published Monday, citing the “expulsion of aliens” in sci-fi games and “border control” in Plants vs Zombies.

CNN has claimed that a Russian anti-Hillary Clinton video game called Hilltendo influenced the 2016 presidential election, prompting mockery of the news outlet online.

One-third of young voters supported President Trump during the 2016 presidential election, and Trump’s recent attempts to blame video games for violence could lose them.

President Trump is set to meet with leading figures in the video gaming industry Thursday, following the Parkland school shooting in February, despite the fact that his claim video games influence violence has been factually disproven.

Popular video game streaming website Twitch has surpassed both CNN and MSNBC for the number of monthly viewers in January.

In a blog post by “Kurtis” on behalf of Valve’s Steam gaming platform, the company outlined why they made the decision to cut support for the popular digital currency Bitcoin.

The device that began as an Xbox 360 curiosity is concluding the final chapter in the seven-year run of intelligent camera advancement for which it is largely responsible.

Twitter has managed to lure Google’s former director of gaming content on YouTube in an apparent push to make the platform appeal to more gamers.

Ninjas In Pyjamas announced today that CEO Per Lilliefelth will be standing down with immediate effect, following a Breitbart Tech report that revealed the team owes its players thousands of dollars. Breitbart revealed the management of NiP had withheld prize money and in-game

Digital media festival South By Southwest (SXSW) has caved to media pressure following their decision to cave to online threats last week. Two panels were cancelled last week: one on gaming culture and integrity in games media, and another on “harassment

Digital media festival South By South West (SXSW) faced frenzied criticism from across the tech media this week after it cancelled two panels on gaming, with Vox Media and BuzzFeed promising to boycott the festival. Yet much of the outrage was confined to the cancellation of just one of the panels: the one that reinforced progressive narratives.

Darkode, a forum used by the web’s most notorious hacking groups, has been taken offline after an investigation by authorities in 20 countries. Twenty-eight people have been arrested, including twelve U.S citizens.