AT&T's 100+ year-old heritage comes with some hefty baggage, which includes the onerous requirement of having to dish out vast sums of money in California every year just to serve a tiny proportion of its state-wide clientele that is still using analog phones with copper wires. Apparently, the carrier has had enough now, and has just filed a lawsuit against the state of California to win a reprieve. AT&T no longer wants to serve its customers in California who still use copper wire-based analog phones, and is willing to sue the state to win a reprieve For the benefit of […]

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Former Overwatch director and one of Blizzard's most well-known developers, Jeff Kaplan, has been in the news a lot recently. Part of that stems from an interview he did where he shared a significant event at Blizzard that was emotionally destructive for him, saying "it broke me," and played a huge role in his departure from the company. The other is the fact that he's making a new game called The Legend of California. As part of the latter point, Kaplan and his co-founder, Tim Ford, showed themselves playing the game together for 10 hours in a livestream. It's about […]

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After several years of silence, Overwatch creator Jeff Kaplan has resurfaced to announce his new game, the action survival multiplayer FPS The Legend of California. At the same time, he was also interviewed by Lex Fridman in a massive, multi-hour interview where he revealed the truth behind his exit from Blizzard after 19 years at the company, during which he also worked as a tester on Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Game Director on World of Warcraft. Kaplan described the separation as very painful: It broke me. I think after you've been at a place like Blizzard, which I […]

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Nearly five years after he left Blizzard, Jeff Kaplan, the man behind Overwatch, has revealed his new game called The Legend of California. Kaplan is developing it at his new independent studio called Kintsugiyama. The game will be published by Dreamhaven, which was founded years ago by fellow ex-Blizzard co-founder and president Mike Morhaime. It's a multiplayer action survival first-person shooter game set in the Gold Rush era and bound for early access on Steam later this year. According to the Steam page, players will explore an expansive, ever-changing open world inspired by the Gold Rush era, featuring distinct biomes, […]

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Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the California DMV in the ongoing battle around Autopilot.