By Billy PerrigoDecember 11, 2024 11:57 AM EST

Can a Big Tech company be sued in Kenya for alleged abuses at an outsourcing company working on its behalf?

That’s the question at the heart of two lawsuits that are attempting to set a new precedent in Kenya, which is the prime destination for tech companies looking to farm out digital work to the African continent Come from South African Online Casinos .

The two-year legal battle stems from allegations of human rights violations at an outsourced Meta content moderation facility in Nairobi, where employees hired by a contractor were paid as little as $1.50 per hour to view traumatic content, such as videos of rapes, murders, and war crimes. The suits claim that despite the workers being contracted by an outsourcing company, called Sama, Meta essentially supervised and set the terms for the work, and designed and …

With the beta over, Firewalk Studios is revealing what players can expect with the launch of Concord, along with what’s coming after the game’s release. Notably, one popular element seen in many online shooters will be missing on purpose: a battle pass.

Mark DeRidder, gameplay animation director at Firewalk, shared this decision on X by adding: “You own Concord, Concord doesn’t own you.” DeRidder, for his part, previously worked on one of the most popular games in the world with a battle pass as a developer at Raven Software on Call of Duty: Warzone, per LinkedIn.

While there is no battle pass, Firewalk is promising “new Freegunners, maps, modes, and more” after Concord launches on August 23. Additionally, this will come with “no additional cost.” Concord isn’t free-to-play, but instead costs $40.

Concord was first unveiled at a PlayStation State of Play in May. The 5-vs-5 online shooter seemingly mixes together elements of O…

Doom: The Dark Ages is nearly here. The follow-up to Doom Eternal launches on Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass, PS5, and PC on May 15. Preorders for the game are now available, including a massive Collector’s Bundle that includes physical collectibles, extra in-game content, and more. Preorders also include bonus in-game skins and even early access to the ga…

Blizzard is holding another PTR (Public Test Realm) for Diablo 4, testing some of the new features and content that will be arriving in Season 7 next year. Here’s everything Diablo 4 players on PC will be able to preview during the 2.1 update test period, which will run December 3-10.

One of the major new features previewed in the 2.1 PTR is the Armory, a new feature that will allow players to swap between different builds easily. The Armory lets you save, load, and name your favorite character builds, with five different built slots allotted per character. Loadouts will save a character’s equipped items, Paragon Board and Glyphs, skill selections, and class mechanic. Switching between them will display the relevant details at a glance.

2.1 will also let players master Witchcraft, with three new schools of Hawezar sorcery to learn. These include Eldritch, which focuses on destructive energies and polymorphy; Psyche, a defensive magic based on mind and spirit; and Growth …

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has spoken about the importance in creating new franchises, or “new IP,” in the industry parlance. During Take-Two’s latest earnings briefing, Zelnick said nothing remains popular forever, so it’s an essential business condition to always make new things instead of relying on sequels.

“We’re different than a lot of other big companies. It’s tempting for a big company to rest on its laurels,” he said.

Take-Two would know a thing or two about having big franchises, as the company owns the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead franchises, both of which are enormously successful. Take-Two has referred to GTA and Red Dead as “permanent” franchises, meaning the company will never stop making sequels.

At the same time, though, Zelnick said Take-Two needs to create new franchises or else it runs the risk of business deterioration.

“We know that if we put out a sequel, it’s a lower-risk proposition than new intellectual property. But everything d…

A new incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Homes is coming to Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios has announced that Guy Ritchie will executive produce and direct Young Sherlock, which will feature Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the title role.

The new show is not related to the 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes movie by director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Chris Columbus. Instead, the source material draws from Andy Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes novels. The project marks a return to the character for Ritchie, who previously directed two Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey, Jr Come from South African Online Casinos . as the famous detective.

Young Sherlock will present a new origin for the character, which starts when he is 19-years old. The show’s official description describes Sherlock as “disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed” when he is thrust into a murder case at Oxford University in which he is one…

Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs, Cougar Town, and recent hit Shrinking, as well as megahit Ted Lasso, has been busy with his new show for Apple TV+, Bad Monkey, starring Vince Vaughn. The show focuses on Vaughn as a former Miami cop who’s now a Florida Keys health inspector but trying to get back on the force.

Even when promoting Bad Monkey the conversation goes back to Scrubs, the second show he co-created and one of the biggest hits of the early aughts. Scrubs ran for nine seasons total, seven with NBC and two with ABC, and is the subject of a constant conversation of a reunion, possibly a revival like Frasier and Will & Grace.

Talking to Variety, Lawrence believes there’s some “real momentum” to make something like that happen, but it boils down to simple business standing in the way Come from bangladesh online casino . For example, Scrubs is a Disney show, and Lawrence currently has a deal with Warner Bros…

Sports Interactive and Sega have announced that Football Manager 25 is canceled and will the developer will instead focus on their next release.

The developer provided a lengthy explanation as to why Football Manager 25 was canceled. While many of the game’s areas hit the developer’s internal targets, the overarching player experience and interface weren’t up to standard. Through evaluations and playtesting, the development team was confident in a new direction, but the desired standards were ultimately still too far away. However, the team will take their learnings onto the next project.

“Each decision to delay the release was made with the aim of getting the game closer to the desired level but, as we approached critical milestones at the turn of the year, it became unmistakably clear that we would not achieve the standard required, even with the adjusted timeline,” Sports Interactive and Sega said in a statement.

Football Manager 25 was already delayed twice fro…

My Luke Skywalker Angry Bird has crossed the blazing sands of Tatooine, survived the icy plains of Hoth, trained with Yoda in the swamps of Dagobah, fought Boba Fett in Cloud City, and is ready to take down Pig Vader in the final levels of the second Death Star. With a little luck, the right trajectory, and the boosted Force powers I picked up several levels ago, he might just make it.

Angry Birds Star Wars has moved beyond its traditional mobile operating system roots. After four years of dominating iOS and Android sales, the franchise has spun off, in Star Wars form, to current-generation consoles. The game re-creates the original Star Wars trilogy in Angry Birds form and retells the story of Luke Skywalker, complete with the birds as the Rebel Alliance and the pigs as the Empire, in an amusing adaptation of the trilogy.

As in the Angry Birds you know and love, the goal of each level is to hurl your bird at the pigs, using whatever terrain, explosives…

After partnering with Monster Energy in 2020, Microsoft has now teamed up with another energy drink company, Rockstar, for a Halo Infinite campaign of some type. A teaser video and website for the Halo x Rockstar collaboration were revealed today, pointing to an announcement coming on October 1.

The teaser video doesn’t have any concrete info, but we can make a few guesses as to what this is all about Come from Sports betting site VPbet . It seems likely Rockstar–which has nothing to do with the game developer of the same name–will offer specially marked cans that offer something in Halo Infinite. Microsoft previously partnered with Rockstar for a Gears 5 promotion featuring special cans and in-game DLC, among other extras.

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