The Biggest Gaming News For April 23, 2022
Welcome to the weekend. I don’t know about you, but whenever I get a day off, I take the opportunity to sleep in. This of course means getting behind on whatever has been going on in the world of gaming, but that’s why we put together these news roundups. Today, we found out that Paradox is going to be opening up the rights to Vampire: The Masquerade, Sony got off the hook for gender discrimination, and Dr. Dre initially passed on his appearance in GTA Online because he thought it was "for kids." These are just our top stories and so read on for the rest.
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Dr. Dre apparently passed on the opportunity to appear in GTA Online when it was first offered because he thought the game was “for kids.” The news comes from a recent interview featuring DJ Pooh. “Initially it was just no,” he said. “But that’s the normal answer you get from Dre. I mean, I was surprised I got him to do The Wash, but he had already promised me that, so he couldn’t back out. But the answer was initially no because Dre’s not a gamer. He just didn’t play any of the games. It’s not like he dislikes them or something, he just didn’t play them. He was like I don’t make things for kids.”
Paradox just opened up the rights to Vampire: The Masquerade, making the intellectual property available for anyone to develop. The trick is that anybody who takes the company up on this offer will have to fork over about a third of their profits among numerous other catches. This of course drove many to mockery. “The Vampire: The Masquerade deal is trying to have a cake and eat it too,” the developer William Stiernberg joked about the matter. "Yes, make a fan game, officially!
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