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On Friday, July 22, a California judge preliminarily approved a $100 million settlement between Riot Games and the women who sued the League of Legends developer on the grounds of gender discrimination. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Via a report from Axios, the court’s sign-off means that the aggrieved women will finally receive material restitution. The payout will be thousands of dollars for both current and former Riot employees who worked at the company from November 2014 to December 2021. Those eligible for the payout will receive notice by the end of August, according to the court. The settlement has further conditions. Riot has agreed to three years of independent oversight to address pay d…

Hearthstone’s next expansion will emerge from the icy cold grip of the Lich King for a more lighthearted affair at a massive Azeroth concert. The Festival of Legends expansion revolves around a music festival being put on by Elite Tauren Chieftain (E.T.C.). The expansion is coming in April and will feature a number of music-themed keywords and mechanics. Plus, Priest is getting a long-awaited overhaul, along with a new class keyword.

Once again, each class will get its own Legendary minion, this time represented as a star musician, along with a Legendary spell to represent that musician’s greatest hit. Classes will also get new instrument-themed weapons, some of which feature Deathrattle effects that improve as they’re in play. It might be a good time to pack some weapon-destroyin…

Marvel’s Avengers has introduced a controversial new feature, XP boosts that can be purchased with real money, and some portion of the game’s audience is upset.

Players can now purchase “consumables” with credits, a currency that can be acquired with real money, according to VGC. “Consumables can be used to temporarily boost the amount of XP a player gains or increase the number of resources they collect while playing, essentially acting like an accelerator to ensure faster progress,” the site reported.

In a blog post, Crystal Dynamics outlined how consumables work. “We added a Consumable category in the Marketplace where you can purchase Hero’s Catalysts and Fragment Extractors. You can purchase a consumable with a one-day duration for 100 Credits, a three-day duration for …

According to a new report, Microsoft will put this year’s new Call of Duty on Game Pass, though there continue to be numerous unanswered questions about all of this. [Update: Activision has now officially announced that this year’s game is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6]

The Wall Street Journal reported this, though the story had no information about whether or not there may any additional fees, or if the price of Game Pass will go up. The Verge previously reported that Microsoft was thinking about raising the price of Game Pass Ultimate once again.

The site also reported that the new Call of Duty game, which could take place during the Gulf War, is expected to launch in late OctoberCome from Spor…

Retro Games has announced the A500 Mini. It is a smaller version of the 16-bit Amiga 500 home computer that originally released in 1987.

The A500 Mini will emulate the Amiga 500’s original chip set, its future revisions of the Enhanced Chip Set, and the Amiga 1200’s Advanced Graphics Architecture. There will be 25 titles pre-loaded on the mini-console, including:

• Another World
• ATR: All Terrain Racing
• Battle Chess
• Breed 3D
• Cadaver
• Kick Off 2
• Pinball Dreams
• Simon The Sorcerer
• Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
• The Chaos Engine
• Worms: The Director’s Cut
• Zool: Ninja Of The ”Nth” Dimension

Retro Games was also behind the creation of the C64 Mini, which launched in 2018. The A500 Min…

Most games have a more “toxic” side to the communities that gather around them, a vocal minority that according to research does a lot of harm to the long-term success of these titles. In a new paper published by Take That (via Circana executive director Mat Piscatella), the main takeaway from this report is that toxic gaming communities can “negatively impact” the bottom line of studios and publishers, and gaming companies should step up their moderation efforts to weed out these harmful elements.

Using data and insights from Nielsen’s video-game-tracking-service, Take This found a number of interesting facts. According to the data gleaned from 2,328 polled adolescents, 60% of players reported that they had decided to not spend money in a game because of how other players treated…

World Wrestling Entertainment has now reported an additional pair of unrecorded expenses related to former CEO Vince McMahon, bringing the total to $19.6 million.

As reported by CNN, two more payments from 2007 and 2009 have been disclosed by WWE but are apparently unrelated to the investigation over McMahon’s alleged misconduct, according to what the company said in a regulatory filing. The two additional payments are $5 million in total, and WWE said that the investigation remains ongoing.

“The company has evaluated the unrecorded expenses and has determined that such amounts should have been recorded as expenses in each of the periods in which they became probable and estimable,” said WWE in the filing. “It said all payments classified as “un…

During August, the gaming industry in Macau continued to grow in terms of accumulated profits, with gross gaming profits reaching MOP$17.21 billion, which is approximately US$2.12 billion, meaning it increased 3.3% on month-on-month, compared with July’s GGR result of MOP16.66 billion, which was so far the “best monthly performance” since January 2020 when GGR was MOP22.13 billion, the time when COVID-19 pandemic officially started.

Another post-COVID record:

In compliance with information provided by the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ): “The August figure was 686% higher-year-on-year and also 3.3% higher than July’s figure of MOP$16.66 billion (US$2.06 billion), making it yet another post-COVID record for Macau’s gam…