Recent stories in 2018:

• •Bethesda released Fallout 76 to very mixed reviews.
• •Bethesda falsley advertises a canvas bag which turned out to be a nylon bag. Makes ticket system for people to refund, only to dox every one.
• •Diablo Immortal announced for mobile only.
• •Controversy over woman in Battlefield 5.
• •Activision announces game with a version costing 20 dollars more to have one character unlocked.
• •Stock of EA, Activision and Bethesda has been steadily falling.
• •Activision turns on microtransactions in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. One of the DLC is a fucking red dot for a reticle. And it costs one dollar.

Fallout 76 Saga - New glitch in Fallout 76: broken nukes (Early January)

On January 1st, a glitch caused the nuke silos to be locked, with a countdown timer on 9,999 hours. Oh joy. Way to start 2019 with a bang, except quite the opposite.

Activision lost two chief financial officers at the start of 2019 (Early January)

Blizzard suddenly announces that Soldier 76 from Overwatch is gay (Early January)

After an intense pill to swallow that is the coping from the hate towards Diablo Immortal on mobile, Blizzard suddenly retcons Overwatch to make it that Soldier 76 is gay.

FOX accounces an Alien game on mobile (Early January)

FOX announced Alien Blackout. Turns out, they pulled a Blizzard, because it's a mobile cash grab whose gameplay ripped off Five Nights at Freddy's.

Bungie splits from Activision, taking Destiny with them (Early January)

In a surprise event, Bungie has split and freed itself from Activision, and taking their Destiny franchise with them. It's not the first time they freed themselves from a publisher, which is Microsoft, but Microsoft kept their franchise Bungie made; Halo. Now that Bungie freed themselves from Activision, taking Destiney with them, Activision's stock had dramatically took a dive.

Fallout 76 Saga - IT DOESN'T STOP!!!! Players gained access in dev room with every single items in Fallout 76 (Mid January)

The train wreck hauling burning dumpsters tumbling down the cliff keeps on going! Players had somehow gained access to a forbidden developer's room in Fallout 76.

Activision-Blizzard under investigation for fraud (Mid January)

Shortly after Bungie left Activision, the whole holding company are being investigated for fraud, claiming that the separation of Bungie is some kind of an unlawful business practice.

EA refuses to refund a customer (Mid January)

EA, being typical EA, flat out refuses to refund a redditor their copy of Star Wars: Battlefront, claiming that they didn't meet the refund requirements, even though the redditor DID meet the requirements.

Activision adds "shaming" markers to people who hasn't got a season pass in Black Ops 4 (Mid January)

UPDATE: Apparently, it is a bug that was caused when players don't have all maps installed, and that these indicators were only used in private lobbies, but a mistake was made and they showed up in public lobbies.

Epic Games Saga - A bug in Fortnite gave hackers the ability to access millions of player accounts (Mid January)

Oh boy, glad I don't play Fortnite

Valve's card game, Artifact, lost 97.5% of players in 2 months since launch (Late January)

Activision strikes again, selling a smiley face reticle for two bucks (Late January)

As if selling a red dot was embarrassing enough, you'd think they won't pull this mistake. Right? Well, apparently, we were wrong.

Nintendo completely restarts development of Metroid Prime 4 with a studio that worked on the other 3 MP games (Late January)

Nintendo made a video addressing this issue, while sincerely appologising to the fans.

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda announces a Vault 76 premium leather jacket for $275 (Late January)

You know what to do.

Lootbox saga - Belgium held EA at gunpoint, forcing to remove paid Loot Boxes from FIFA (Late January)

EA just caved in from the backlash and gave up their "normal" thing to do.

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda unleashes a Fallout 76 patch that somehow reintroduces old bugs and glitches (Late January)

Latest January 29 patch actually rolled back to a previous version of the game. How?

Anthem Saga - EA gives Anthem a complex and messy release schedule (Early Feburary)

EA, being themselves, shows a convoluted release schedule for Anthem, as shown bellow;

Epic Games Saga - Metro Exodus forgoes Steam and becomes an Epic Games Store exclusive title in the last minute (Early Feburary)

Boi

"Your physical copy of Metro Exodus will now ship with an Epic key"

Boi

UPDATE: A dev said that if people boycott the epic exclusive Metro Exodus, the next game will not be on PC.

Boi

UPDATE 2: Deep Silver made a clarifying post that whatever the dev said is not true across the entire 4A and Deep Silver teams, rather, a disgruntled employee in 4A over this decision.

ok

Xbox Live services are coming on the Nintendo Switch (Early Feburaru)

Titanfall 3 is no longer in development (Early Feburary)

Disney was dissapointed by Star Wars Battlefront II's controversy (Early Feburary)

Activision just planned a massive layoff, resulting in hundreds of lost jobs (Early Feburary)

Anthem Saga - Bioware keeps dodging key questions about microtransactions in Anthem (Mid Feburary)

What's the matter? EA got your tongue?

Activision just laid off 800 employees (Mid Feburary)

#FireBoddyKotick (Mid Feburary)

YES! FIRE BOBBY KOCKHEAD

If you don't know, Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision. Because of what he did, everyone is demanding for him to be fired.

Fallout 76 Saga - Fallout 76 now includes boosting items as microtransactions instead of just cosmetics (Mid Feburary)

They lied when they said that the only microtransactions is cosmetic stuff only. Concerns of Bethesda lying starts going up because of this.

Anthem Saga - Anthem is apparently making the same mistakes Destiny was making (Late Feburary)

Looks like Anthem is just another EA "quality" title.

Activision has added loot boxes in black ops 4 (Late Feburary)

Well... I did saw it coming.

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda questionably bans one player on Fallout 78 for cheating... when in reality, that player played the game for 900 hours (how?), and racking up tons of ammo legitimately (Late Feburary)

This whole thing is a mess. The mess of what's left of a train wreck, with both trains hauling burning dumpsters.

Reggie Fils-Aimé announces that he's retiring from CEO position of Nintendo of America, with Doug Bowser to replace Reggie, in April 15 (Late Feburary)

Anthem Saga - Anthem was released to mixed and average critic reviews (Late Feburary)

Oof. Freaking oof.

Red Dead Online economy update causes backlash (Early March)

Looks like it's about to be as messy as Fallout 76's online mode.

Anthem Saga - A defect on Anthem crashes and bricks consoles (Early March)

Oh boy, this sounds worse than Fallout 76. Apparently, sometimes Anthem crashes so hard that it completely shuts down the PS4, as if its AC cord has been pulled while it's still on.

EA skips E3 2019 press conference (Early March)

HA

Valve's Artifact lost 99% of Players (Early March)

As well as other stuff, like team members and a designer.

Anthem Saga - People are losing patience over BioWare's Anthem patches affecting loot (Mid March)

A stealth patch nerfed the loot, then another buffs the loot, then another nerfs it.

Anthem Saga - Anthem became one of those games that got downgraded compared to its E3 gameplay demo, and what's their excuse? (Mid March)

There are so many promises they announced at E3 that turned out to be piss lies, that even Peter Molyneux would blush! But what's their excuse? Well;

"The short answer is that the cost of transparency is things change. We did our best to be transparent on the journey to going live but with that we knew things would be different in some situations. Sometimes people would be happy and sometimes they would be upset."

"It's the cost of transparency."

"To elaborate - game development is full of change. There are a million reasons why you set out with an idea and it evolves over time. This is common in every game. We shared as much as we could. Some things change. So the cost of transparency is that some things we said become not true, not because someone was dishonest but because it changed over the course of development."

EA, it's in the lies

Anthem Saga - Players are now botcotting Anthem due to anti-fun "patch" (Mid March)

After Bioware patched out the fun loot "bug", Anthem Players are preparing a protest to boycott the game for a week from March 11 to 15.

Epic Games Saga - Phoenix Point, a game made by X-COM dev, suddenly announces Epic Store exclusivity (Mid March)

Oh joy...

Epic Games Saga - EPIC STORE ACCESSES PRIVATE STEAM USER DATA BEHIND VALVE'S BACK (Mid March)

OH SHIT, EPIC STORE IS NOW LABELED AS SPYWARE, AND VALVE IS NOT HAPPY

BadLand Publishing legit took money from Axiom Verge dev and wouldn't give it back without an epic legal battle (Mid March)

BadLand Publishing essentially stole a shitton of money from an indie developer, and its distributor, and is shadily avoiding legal battle emails.

Oh yeah, and did you know, BadLands also exploited the indie developer's love for his sick child to sign up for the agreement which lead to this?

Epic Games Saga - The Outer Worlds now became a one year Epic Store exclusive (Late March)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EA lays off 350 people from marketing, operation and publishing divisions (Late March)

It's still nearly half as Activision's layoffs earlier, but damn...

Anthem Saga - Even after a month, Anthem remains a heartbreaking disaster (Late March)

At this time, it's now in the same standards of Fallout 76, according to YongYea.

Driveclub servers are going to shutdown in March 2020 (Late March)

Epic Games Saga - Borderlands 3 has been leaked as a timed Epic Store Exclusive (Early April)

sigh...

Apparently, it's not an (out of season) April Fools joke.

UPDATE: This turned out to be true, but it's only for 6 months, rather than a whole year. It was also leaked to be released on September 13 2019.

Anthem Saga - Investigative report shows that Anthem's development has been a troubled mess (Early April)

Things such as the fact that the game was in pre-production until the last 16 months of development because of poor management, messy leadership, no visions, how the frostbite enging bit the team in the ass, the team being understaffed and fighing for resources from EA, who in turn actually took some staff from the team for their personal gains, overworked employees, especially in an evironment where overstress, nervous breakdowns, anxiety and stress leaves are occuring, friction between teams, and so on and so forth.

Bioware's response from that article is as expected, claiming that things are good in the studio.

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda announced monetized non-cosmetic items for Fallout 76, even though they promised not to do it (Early April)

It's been so long since the last Fallout 75 controversy.

Epic Games Saga - Valve has had it for review bombing games because of Epic Store esclusivity (Early April)

So they implemented a new thing called Off-Topic Review Bombs or something.

Sony has finally allowed people to change their PSN ID (Mid April)

See? It's now easy as ever.

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order was announced and promised absolutely no monetization (Mid April)

Hmm, let's see how this pans out though.

Anthem Saga - Bioware Delays Anthem Roadmap (Late April)

Epic Games Saga - Epic buys Rocket League developers Psyonix and implies the removal of Rocket League from Steam (Early May)

Ok, this time, they've taken this exclusivity shit too far.

The next BlizzCon requires you to get an application that lets you enter (Early May)

Oh, and the permissions made the app akin to spyware.

Anthem Saga - Key developers leaves Anthem to work on Dragon Age 4 (Early May)

Lootbox Saga - U.S. Senator introduces bill to ban Loot Boxes and Pay-to-win microtransactions (Early May)

Anthem Saga - Latest Anthem patch removes content (Mid May)

Epic Games Saga - Outer Wilds (not to be confused with The Outer Worlds) becomes a timed Epic exclusive at the last minute (Mid May)

Sony and Microsoft are teaming up for cloud streaming (Mid May)

Epic Games Saga - Epic starts an Epic Games Store Mega Sale, despite games being pulled from the storefront (Mid May)

UPDATE: Epic is banning accounts for buying games too fast, especially during their Mega Sale event where people want to get games in bulk.

Epic Games Saga - BREAKING NEWS: Epic Games just sent a user's personal information to a random person (Late May)

Randy Pitchford just shared a video of a cat getting abused by a crab (Late May)

Just when you think Randy couldn't get so low, you're unfortunately wrong...

Good News - Taiwanese website leaks Spyro Reignited Trilogy PC port (Late May)

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda admits Fallout 76 sucks (Early June)

I don't know why they would make games and release them, even though it sucks.

Anthem Saga - Bioware deletes old Anthem roadmap (Early June)

Epic Games Saga - Shenmue 3 has suddenly announced to go Epic Store Exclusive (Mid June)

The kicker? They won't even allow anyone to get refunds.

UPDATE: (Early July) After this backlash, they finally give refunds to disgruntiled players.

People getting pissy over Cyberpunk 2077 over supposed "racist" and "transphobic" aspects (Mid June)

Lootbox Saga - EA adamant that loot boxes are not gambling and keep insisting it by calling them "surprise mechanics" (Late June)

Goddamn it, EA.

NBA 2K19 now features unskippable ads in the game (Late June)

Don't fucking tell me this is going to be the next biggest triple A gaming trend.

Activision Blizzard is now hiring for a community manager after they laid off 800 employees earlier this year (Early July)

Pokémon fans falsely accuse Pokémon creator Junichi Masuda of rape because they're outraged at Pokémon Sword and Sheild's lack of National Pokédex (Early July)

What. In. The. Fucking. Fuck. No words can describe how fucking done I am with this bullshir.

Epic Games Saga - Remaster bonuses are being snatched up by Epic from Steam (Early July)

Epic Games Saga - Shenmue 3 creators makes backers pay for pre-order content (Mid July)

Ubisoft bans players for making custom XP farming quest as to not interfere with their microtransactions (Mid July)

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda pulls a Skyrim patch onto Fallout 76 (Mid July)

Latest Fallout 76 patch actually breaks the game. It also added more non-cosmetic microtransactions.

Rockstar releases a Casino in an update in Grand Theft auto Online (Late July)

Lootbox Saga - Loot boxes are no longer marked as gambling in the UK (Late July)

We live in a strange timeline.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Is Getting Microtransactions (Late July)

Wolfenstein: Youngblood was released unfinished and filled with microtransactions (Early August)

A loot bug caused the Team Fortress 2 economy to crash (Early August)

Microsoft bought famous Fortnite streamer, Ninja, from Twitch for Mixer (Early August)

Personal details of 2025 journalists, analysts and YouTubers have been been accidentally leaked by E3 (Early August)

Apparently, it was all the fault of the ESA.

Sony announced a game for the PS4, an open-world Chinese game called Genshin Impact, at which Zelda fans are smashing PlayStations and flipping the game off for being a rip-off of The Legend of Zelda (Early August)

Lootbox Saga - Triple A publishers have been caught red handed rigging lootboxes for popular streamers to misrepresent percentage rates (Early August)

Walmarts that are selling guns removes violent video game ads and demos from display (Early August)

This is beyond pathetic.

ESPN postponing Apex Legens eSports Footage because of the recent shoo- as a distraction for Trump's propaganda (Mid August)

Epic Games Saga - Epic faces a class action lawsuit after 200 million Fortnite accounts were exposed via a security flaw (Mid August)

Apparently, this security flaw was happening in January of this year, only to bite back on Epic's ass today, filed by Franklin D. Azar and Associates in the U.S. District Court in North Carolina, for not only for failure to maintain adequate security measures, but also notify users of the security breach at the time. Ouch.

Epic Games Saga - There's no pre-loading nor roadmap for Borderlands 3 on Epic Games Store (Mid August)

Lootbox Saga - Respawn releases an item on Apex Legends but only if you get a certain amount of stuff from Lootboxes, which causes that item to be a $170 paywall (Mid August)

2K Games has sent private investigators at a Youtuber's home after said Youtuber made video on leaked Borderlands 3 content, meanwhile also copyright striking his entire Youtube channel (Mid August)

Respawn insults the Apex Legends playerbase in their apology, and became Karens when the reddit community calls Respawn out (Mid August)

NBA 2K20 Saga - 2K Games releases NBA 2K20 trailer which focuses more on lootboxes, and literally shows a fucking slot machine that's tied to the lootboxes. Oh, and this game has been rated for 3 year old and above (Late August)

If you're ever to look up the word blatant, you'll be redirected to the trailer.

FIFA boss David Rutter is now the general manager of some of EA's European studios, such as DICE, Criterion and Ghost Games. (Early September)

For those uninformed, DICE is responsible for the Battlefield franchise and Star Wars Battlefront II, Criterion was partially responsible for Battlefront II, and Ghost is responsible for the Need For Speed franchise.

And for history, Rutter joined EA in 2007, and his first game, FIFA 09 is the first title to start off the Ultimate Team mode.

Oh boy, here we go.

Need For Speed: Heat will not have lootboxes my ass. September 03, when this was edited so I can mark it to see if they actually lied about it.

Epic Games Saga - Another day, another Epic Store Exclusivity Controversy (Early September)

Super Meat Boy Forever has been announced as an EGS exclusive, with the devs stating that the exclusivity is a "no brainer".

Nice, real classy.

Update: Valve updated its distribution agreement that games that was announced for steam and suddenly announced for exclusivity elsewhere can be reported.

Now that's a no brainer.

NBA 2K20 Saga - NBA 2K20 released as a broken game and shows evidence that it's NBA 2K19 literally copied and pasted as 2K20 (Early September)

Evidence such as NBA 2K20's shoddy PC port desktop icon uses NBA 2K19's icon.

UPDATE: A patch had been issued, but it didn't fixed any of the major bugs, such as the 12 hour loading screen. TWELVE FUCKING HOURS. HOLY SHIT.

Epic Games Saga - Early Borderlands 3 reviews were based on an unfinished broken version of the game (Mid September)

Epic Games Saga - 2K Games refuses to give Borderlands 3 review copies to Giant Bomb after their negative cover of the E3 build (Mid September)

Lootbox Saga - A damning report shows that the United Kingdom claims that Loot Boxes are considered gambling, and said that it should be regulated as such (Mid September)

And this report was published soon after the BBC was being spoken to by Jim Fucking Sterling Son.

Epic Games Saga - Borderlands 3 deleting save data for PC players (Mid September)

This might be because of EGS' cloud saves.

NBA 2K20 Saga - ESRB responds with "Deal with it" towards NBA 2K20's gambling controversy (Mid September)

Lootbox Saga - A player spends $62,000 on microtransactions in RuneScape (Mid September)

Fallout 76 Saga - Fallout 76 collectable helmets recalled due to mold issue (Late September)

UPDATE: Apparently, the recall process has been happening since July.

Gamers revolt over the fact that a single mode in Modern Warfare is exclusive to the PS4 port for one year (Late September)

We're suffering because of all those Epic exclusivities being snatched up left and right, but okay.

Focus Home Interactive refuses to transfer Frogwares' IPs to them, resulting in titles such as the Sherlock Holmes series, being removed from digital storefronts (Late September)

Scumbags

FIFA 20 Saga - FIFA 20 released to broken single player career mode (Late September)

Epic Games Saga - Borderlands 3 reported overheating Xbox consoles (Late September)

Ghost Recon Breakpoint hits a "breaking point" at disgusting pay to win microtransactions (Early October)

The Ubisoft Standard, such as multiple editions, and microtransactions within them, are at their worse here. A fuck ton of microtransactions.

You use premium currency to buy weapon bundles, attachment bundles, gear bundles, weapon blueprints, vehicles, customizations, fucking in-game currency, fucking time savers and fucking battle pass boosters!

Even if it doesn't contain loot boxes, this is all scummy.

AlphaDream, developers famous for the Mario & Luigi RPG series, had filed for bankruptcy (Early October)

FIFA 20 Saga - FIFA 20 for switch is just FIFA 19 copied and pasted with a 20 added (Early October)

When asked about adding microtransactions, EA said, "We've built the game so that, in the future, we could ass in-game purchases if we felt they would add to the experience for players."

FIFA 20 Saga - EA leaks personal data for players who signed up for FIFA 20's Global Series (Early October)

The ESRB has been exposed as nor actually playing games before rating them (Early October)

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard had banned Heartstone pro player Blitzchung for one year for supporting Hong Kong, calling for Hong Kong to be liberated (Early October)

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Blizzard Saga - Blizzard lambasted by thousands of internet users, US Senators, even the ones representing Democrats and Republicans, Government bodies, College Players, and even by some Blizzard employees itself, over banning Heartstone player for supporting Hong Kong (Early October)

#BoycottBlizzard has been massivley popular as several people cancels their Blizzard accounts and uninstall Battle.net. And then Blizzard managed to stop people from cancelling their accounts all together.

Konami announces a new Silent Hill game, as a slot machine (Mid October)

#FucKonami.

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard returns prize money to Blitzchung and reduces his ban time to 6 months after universal backlash (Mid October)

But they never said sorry for anything.

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard cancels their Overwatch Switch launch event due to fear of protests (Mid October)

Oh, and Access Now, an international activist group that works with the United Nations, gets involved.

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard bans three more Heartstone players for holding out "Free Hong Kong" signs during live stream (Mid October)

Oh brother. Blizzard is digging deeper and deeper until they landed in china.

Activision replaces lootboxes with battle pass system for Modern Warfare, amist the backlash (Mid October)

If there's something we learned from Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, let's wait for some weeks before they put them anyways.

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda adds even more gameplay affecting microtransactions (Mid October)

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard gets faced with Rebuke from US senators (Mid October)

Oh bother

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda announces Fallout 1st, a subscription for Fallout 76 that costs either $13 a month or $100 a year (Late October)

Bethesda... bruh...

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard cancels Q&A session for Blizzcon (Late October)

Except for the World of Warcraft Q&A except they made it so people can submit questions without human interactions.

Oh bother

Fallout 76 Saga - Players are reporting that the benefits of Fallout 1st are broken and are losing items (Late October)

Bethesda... bruh...

Players are reporting that Call of Duty Modern Warfare is hard crashing Xbox One X (Late October)

Electronic Arts announced that they're putting their games to Steam (Late October)

UPDATE: Respawn, Apex Legends devs, just announced that origin isn't required anymore.

Gaming journalist Kotaku is going out of business (Late October)

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, also known as the ACCC, forced Bethesda to hand over refunds for Fallout 76 to mislead customers (Early November)

Blizzard Saga - Blizzard performs a fake apology for the china controversy at Blizzcon (Early November)

Because of course they faked the apology.

Fallout 76 Saga - Leak suggests that Bethesda is going to add even more paywalls in Fallout 76 subscription (Early November)

Bethesda...

Latest Pokémon Sword and Shield leaks showed that over half the previous 800 pokémon have been cut (Early November)

This includes both the Bulbasaur and Squirtle lines.

Though it's important to note that it's a leak, as nothing has been 100% confirmed.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC port released broken for some players (Early November)

The most common issue is a bug in the Rockstar Games launcher.

Activision makes monetization in Call of Duty Black Ops 4 more tolerable just as players move onto Modern Warfare (Early November)

Dirty. Fucking dirty.

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda bans loyal fan, Map76, for reporting exploits (Early November)

Fallout 76 Saga - Bethesda bans even more loyal fans (Mid November)

Google Stadia Saga - Google Stadia's launch lineup has been revealed (Mid November)

Google Stadia is going to launch in November 19, with the following games to be released with it at launch:

• • Assassin's Creed Odyssey;
• • Destiny 2;
• • Gylt;
• • Just Dance 2020;
• • Kine;
• • Mortal Kombat 11;
• • Red Dead Redemption 2;
• • Rise of the Tomb Raider;
• • Samurai Showdown;
• • Shadow of the Toom Raider: Defenitive Edition;
• • Thumper, and;
• • Tomb Raider: Defenitive Edition;

It will also include more games until the end of 2019, including these beauties:

• • Borderlands 3;
• • Ghost Recon: Breakpoint;
• • NBA 2K20, and;
• • Wolfenstein: Youngblood;

Oh, and it has also been revealed that it's going to be missing a good chunk of important features at launch.

Yikes...

Anthem Saga - Bioware has been working on a complete overhaul of Anthem for the past months (Mid November)

Valve has announced a brand new VR game: Half-Life: Alyx (Mid November)

Holy crap, Valve has announced a third Half-Life game O.O

And people are mad that it's a VR title. Fucking hell. What counts is that it's another Half-Life game in my book.

Google Stadia Saga - Google launches Google Stadia as a catastrophy (Mid November)

Google Stadia Saga - People reporting that Google Stadia is causing their Chromecast Ultras are overheating (Late November)

Patrice Désilets, developer of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, and former Assassin's Creed director, accuses reviewers of not playing the game when they give it mediocre reviews (Early December)

UPDATE: The reviews that mentioned the elements that are not in the game, meaning that they haven't played the game, has been found; MSPowerUsers and Gamespot's reviews, though only in the post-review discussions, or that the statements have been retracted.

Epic Games Saga - Phoenix Point has been released on Epic Games Store to poor communications from developers, no pre-load because the EGS doesn't support pre-loading, and to middling reviews (Early December)

TRON: Evolution, a game initially released in November 25, 2010, is no longer available to buy, or install and play even if someone already bought it, because the DRM it contains, known as SecuROM has its serial keys revoked (Early December)

This is concerning for an all digital future, as this is the kind of shit publishers tried to justify when they keep whining about the fact that they only sell liscences, not the actual game for customers to play.

Epic Games / Lootbox Saga - A patch introduced in Rocket League fucks up the marketing by making monetization worse (Early December)

The patch caused loot boxes to change into what the game calls blueprints, while the lootbox keys are replaced by credits. This however caused the market to get worse, as explained in this picture:

Sony rips off Student and Professional animations for its Japanese PS4 lineup video (Early December)

The original official video was taken down by Sony, however someone else uploaded the same video for everyone to still see.

Apparently, this isn't the first rodeo for this freelance animator Sony got to make the animation, as he also plagiarized other works in other animations.

Battlefield V patch 5.2 breaks the game (Mid December)

This "patch" gave issues to TTK (time to kill) where it was lowered drastically, meaning it now takes more shots to kill a player.

EA DICE had picked up on the backlash and has officially announced that the team currently has no plans to fully revert the patch, but rather to make adjustments.

Fallout 76 Saga - Fallout 76's latest patch causes a bug where reloading your gun degrades your equiped armor (Mid December)

Activision removes Kill-Death Ratio Tracker in Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, and adds a $20 bundle pack that includes a Kill-Death Ratio Tracker (Mid December)

The ability to see your Kill-Death Ratio during a match is something that was implemented in every single Call of Duty games, until the latest one. Now, you can't keep track of your Kill-Death ratio during a match until after the match ends, unless you buy a "Mother Russia" pack costing 2000 cod points, or $20 which includes a watch where you could check your Kill-Death ratio during a match

Fucking scummy, Activision. You give them an inch, they take a mile.

Fallout 76 Saga - Hackers spawns Fallout 4 Assets, NPCs, Custom Broken Legendaries and more in Fallout 76 (Mid December)

Google Stadia Saga - Borderlands 3 launches on Google Stadia as an old build that's missing content, updates and patches from its latest build (Late December)

Fallout 76 Saga - An exploit in Fallout 76 makes hackers steal other players' whole inventory (Late December)

UPDATE: The hack got live, wrecking havoc in Fallout 76, and Bethesda never took measure.

UPDATE 2: Bethesda took the servers down for maintenance.

Someone hacked P.T. (the now removed playable trailer of the cancelled Silent Hills) to enable the player to explore outside the house where the trailer would "end" (Late December)

There are interesting finds, such as the area outsode the house has no collision, thus making the player fall, but interestingly, one of the creepy creatures gets the player and reset the game.

Despite only being used for the cutscene in the trailer, the area has a surprisingly amount of details and atmosphere.

The lost potential realised via this hack is heartbreaking to say the least. #FucKonami

Final Words

What a fucking year this has been for the video game industry. But more importantly, what a decade. Things went to shit over the last half of the decade.

Will the 2020s be a decade where the video game industry finally calms down and unwinds itself from shit? Well... As much as I worry about it, there's only one way to find out;

We're going to have to see the latest news for next year.