Longtime Square Enix President Steps Down; Company Points to “Extraordinary Losses”
Tuesday, 26th March 2013Posted in Industry
Tags: billion, fiscal, losses, net, sales, square, Square Enix, yoichi wada, Yousuke Matsuda
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Yoichi Wada has announced his resignation as President and CEO of Square Enix, citing severe profit losses to the company over the last fiscal year. Representative Director Yousuke Matsuda will officially take over all of Wada’s former duties, while Wada himself is re-assigned to an as-yet unspecified new role.
According to The Next Web, Square Enix’s decision is partly a result of huge shortcomings in projected gains for the company over the last fiscal year — Continue reading “Longtime Square Enix President Steps Down; Company Points to “Extraordinary Losses”” »
Don’t Cheat on Diablo 3–Blizzard Issuing Thousands of Account Bans
Wednesday, 19th December 2012Posted in Gaming
Tags: ban, battle, blizzard, botting, cheaters, diablo 3, net, post, programs
Written by: Craig Hunter
Several different developers and publishers have been attempting to crack down on cheaters as of late. Diablo 3 is seeing its fair share of bot accounts and cheating programs being put into use and now a post on the official battle.net forums has outlined Blizzard’s plans to issue account bans on players caught “using botting programs.” (via GT)
Even though Blizzard has announced it plans just recently to take action against the cheaters, many have speculated for a while now that the top ranked players didn’t get there fairly.
Continue reading “Don’t Cheat on Diablo 3–Blizzard Issuing Thousands of Account Bans” »
Apple iNett: Does Conan Go Too Far With Foxconn Suicide Net Sketch?
Friday, 3rd February 2012Posted in Apple, Blog Archive, Online Video
Tags: apple, child labor, Conan, factories, foxconn, inett, iPhone, net, sketch, suicide, supply chain, video
Written by: Craig Hunter
Conan’s past Apple-related sketches have for the most part been received well by Apple fans. First we had a fake iPad 2 ad following the launch of the iPad 2, then a sketch in protest of the controversial changes made in Final Cut Pro X, and more recently a video mocking rumors of a lost iPhone 5 prototype. However, this week’s Apple sketch from Conan is getting a lot of backlash.
In light of recent controversies related to Foxconn suicides and the working conditions in Apple’s supply chain, Conan’s latest sketch introducing a revolutionary suicide prevention net might be going too far… Continue reading “Apple iNett: Does Conan Go Too Far With Foxconn Suicide Net Sketch?” »
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