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Game Industry Condemns Insomniac Hack and Shows Support for Spider-Man Devs

The video game industry rushes to Insomniac Games' defense after the leak of its Marvel game slate and more.

-Foxtrot129d ago

Funny how there's so much bullshit in the world from Politicians, Hollywood executives, Big Pharma and so on yet these hackers would rather direct their attention to a games studio of all things.

Not even a shady, money grabbing studio full of sexual harassment cases and the like but Insomniac of all people.

shinoff2183129d ago

Right. Go after these war mongers and fked up politicians(on both sides). Could be such a better place if they used their talent for better purposes.

darthv72129d ago

Do you find it a bit of a double standard when all these outfits reported on the Rockstar, Capcom, MS leaks now take this moral high road when its Insomniac?

Hackers and leakers can suck ass... but to see this selective outrage is disingenuous. They need to be consistent no matter who or what is being hacked/leaked. If its a trailer or screenshot or personal information or whatever... it needs to be condemned always.

dumahim129d ago

What outlets are those? All I'm seeing here is devs condemning the hack. New sites are gobbling it all up.

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shinoff2183129d ago (Edited 129d ago )

To an extent. Capcom I don't remember, Rockstar should've just released the trailer (if that's what your referring to) but it also seemed like an inside job, far as ms didn't ms accide tly leak some of there own internal sh. Not all of it but pretty sure they accidentally leaked internal info.

Dumahim your right. Sites are eating it up. Darth trying to make something outta nothing.

KrillinShine128d ago

@dumahim

https://www.resetera.com/th...

Gamespot, Push Square, and VGC it seems. Jeff Grubb will be "selective" in how they cover it. Probably more but I don't care to look further into it.

They have all covered past leaks between Nintendo, Capcom, and even other Sony games like TLoU2, despite the similar personal information breach of Capcom in particular. These outlets could just focus on the gaming related portion of the leak, but they aren't. This is at best bias, or at worst hypocrisy.

Also a bonus Greg Miller of Kinda Funny Games:

https://i.imgur.com/D3cHiJO...

dumahim128d ago

@KrillinShine
Thanks for that. Good to see some are taking a stand.

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outsider1624129d ago

Couldn't have said better. And they hacked personal details of the devs. This is pathetic. I feel bad for the devs really. They didn't deserve this.

anast129d ago (Edited 129d ago )

It relatively less safe to go after governments etc. People don't want to get screwed, so they go after things that seem less harmful to them.

BeHunted129d ago

It's actually safe to target Goverments if you live in a country that doesn't care, like Venezuela and Russia. The only problem is, they'll be an international arrest warrant...

Tody_ZA129d ago

100% this comment. These hackers are pathetic degenerates and I hope they get caught and rot. Instead of using their skills for something useful to the world they go after Insomniac of all developers.

Demetrius129d ago (Edited 129d ago )

Exactly smh 🤦🏽 politicians & their lil buddies that think they can hide underground in their hideout homes to keep away from disaster, politicians disgust me

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Einhander1972129d ago

All i have to say about this hack is that Sony needs to start switching it's network off any Microsoft based software and mandate Mac or Linux for it's employees.

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Michiel1989128d ago

Mac and Linux aren't interchangable words, shows how much you know about it. Love the tinfoil hat btw!

Einhander1972128d ago

Just an FYI I am fully fluent on both Mac and Linux based software.

dumahim129d ago

I kind of wish sites wouldn't report on news that was obtained from the leaks. But we all know they're not going to pass up the juicy info.

shinoff2183129d ago

In the rush to be top dog they have to report on it. I don't blame them for the most part. They didn't leak it and it is news

shinoff2183128d ago

I was talking about the game related stuff not the employee stuff if any of that has been leaked that's trash

dmonee129d ago

This sort of thing should be condemned

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein9h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii5h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo5h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows905h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha5h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno5h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan5h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno4h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19815h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 1h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno5h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 1h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator19h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac17h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 22h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 8h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 7h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.