The two unions under Activision Blizzard move forward into contract negotiations, a third subsidiary studio started to organize. Workers at Boston-based World of Warcraft support studio Proletariat attempted to unionize under the Communications Workers of America, just like Raven Software and Blizzard Albany before them. Workers announced their petition in late December, but withdrew the … Read more
Image: blizzard Workers at Proletariat Studio, also known as Blizzard Boston, won’t be unionizing after all. The Communications Workers of America Union announced on Tuesday that it will pull its petition for a union election, and blames Proletariat CEO Seth Sivak for treating workers’ organizing efforts as a personal betrayal and holding a series of … Read more
Square Enix did not provide a Forspoken PC review copy to anyone ahead of launch, leading fans to fear the worst for the optimization on the platform. It’s hard to blame them, given the sad state of many recent PC ports, not to mention the extremely high official Forspoken PC system requirements. I was therefore … Read more
Smartphones are the obvious must-have tech gadget in 2023. More than 85% of us have one. We use it for several hours a day for just about everything from texting, talking, and taking photos or videos — to shopping, working, social media-ing, and so much more. Still, are we getting the most out of our … Read more
All planning, and consequently many collaboration apps, boil down to lists. It doesn’t matter if you’re tracking inventory, thinking up which books you’d like to read, or training a new employee—you’re going to be making lists. You can use paper, or even a spreadsheet, but neither of those tools are designed to make it easy … Read more
Anna Torv, Bella Ramsey, and Pedro PascalPhoto: Liane Hentscher/HBO [Spoiler warning: The following discusses events from the second episode of the first season of The Last Of Us. If you haven’t seen it, you may want to wait until you have before reading on.] Whether you’ve played the game or not, the end of “Infected”—the … Read more
Apple iPhone leaks typically run throughout the entire year. No sooner does the latest iPhone series arrive – sometimes even before – than rumors start about the next models. For 2022, there were four iPhone models: the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro Max. We’ve covered off what … Read more
DevZero makes Uber, Meta, Carta, and Twilio DevOps technology accessible to all developers. Seattle, WA –News Direct– DevZero DevZero today announced it raised $26M in funding, with a Series A round led by Anthos Capital and a Seed round led by Foundation Capital. Fika Ventures, Foundation Capital, and Madrona Venture Group participated in the Series … Read more
Last year, on the last day of August 2022, we wrote with mild astonishment, and perhaps even a tiny touch of excitement, about an unexpected but rather important update for iPhones stuck back on iOS 12. As we remarked at the time, we’d already decided that iOS 12 had slipped (or perhaps been quietly pushed) … Read more
Photo: Formatoriginal (Shutterstock) If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, your Apple ID is among your most important digital accounts. If it is compromised, bad actors can access your iCloud information, see your location, or outright steal your devices from you. Keeping your Apple ID safe is obviously paramount. While code-based two-factor authentication (2FA) … Read more