Posts Tagged ‘Video games’
Quake at 30: The Game That Shook the Future of First-Person Shooters
When Quake arrived in 1996, it did more than add another landmark title to id Software’s already formidable reputation. It pushed the first-person shooter into a new technical, social, and cultural era. Released after the genre-defining success of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Quake transformed the shooter from a fast, flat, maze-like experience into a fully…
Read MoreRockstar Games Workers Union Seeks Formal Recognition
This article is part of a series about Rockstar Games and working conditions in the video games industry. Rockstar Games could become just the second UK games studio with a recognised union after developers applied for voluntary recognition of the IWGB Games Workers Union. Formal recognition of the union would grant additional protections and rights…
Read MoreGTA VI and the End of Owning Games
The countdown is on, and the publicity machine is in high gear, for the impending release of Grand Theft Auto VI. But one detail has cut through the usual cycle of trailers, pre-orders and speculation: Rockstar Games has revealed that the boxed “physical” edition of GTA VI will not actually contain a disc. Instead, customers…
Read MoreRockstar Developers Launch UK Union
Developers at Rockstar Games in the United Kingdom have publicly launched the Rockstar Game Workers Union, the studio’s first union, as a legal dispute over the dismissal of 31 workers continues five months before the release of Grand Theft Auto VI. The union, a subsidiary of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain, was announced…
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