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We've sure been calling it an "esports winter" for a long time

did the person DDoSing Final Fantasy XIV consider tonight is the night my stable is beating A8S

"documents also show transfers of over $400,000 from an Xsolla bank account to an anti-aging nonprofit called Open Longevity, of which Agapitov is a director ...$250,000 to an investment fund for nonfungible tokens; and $56,000 toward a 7-foot statue of Iron Man"

Please enjoy the graphic from our months-long investigation into Xsolla. It's pretty interesting.

Wow, just realized today is my 10-year anniversary writing about games 🎉

NEW: In March, top Bungie employee and former Marathon director Chris Barrett suddenly left the company. Barrett was fired after an HR investigation found that he had behaved inappropriately with at least eight female employees, Bloomberg has learned: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Telegram's Pavel Durov has become an overnight free-speech icon for many on the right. But critics, including a Telegram co-founder who has since left the company, told us Durov is using free speech as a smokescreen to profit from the worst the internet has to offer.

Deadlock is so sick

Concord's removal isn't unprecedented. Amazon quickly unreleased its live-service shooter Crucible after it underperformed. (I liked it.) It was in development for 6 years.

New: Bloomberg obtained the reason for Roblox's Turkey ban. The game fosters "virtual sex parties" that kids as young as 8 can access, according to a filing. It also references child safety concerns and "violent" games. Roblox said it is appealing the ban bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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New: The suspected Georgia shooter was banned from Discord last year for violating its policy against extremism. Full story: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…