Welcome to the UDP Broadcast - Where we discuss gaming related stuff and offer somewhat uninformed opinions.

This week we talk about the Riot Source Code leak for League of legends, Team Fight Tactics, and some legacy anticheat software from their build environment.  

Sources:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/league-of-legends-source-code-is-being-held-to-ransom-but-riot-arent-paying

https://mobile.twitter.com/riotgames/status/1616548651823935488

https://www.pcgamer.com/riot-says-it-wont-pay-ransom-after-league-of-legends-source-code-stolen-by-hackers/

https://gamerant.com/riot-refuses-ransom-stolen-league-of-legends-source-code/

We talk about some of the events from the California Genisis 9 competition from entitlement displays from Riddles when losing to Leon. There was also a story of near kidnapping from a taxi scam of Frenzy.

Sources

https://kotaku.com/super-smash-bros-ultimate-kazuya-chrom-riddles-genesis-1850020737

https://kotaku.com/super-smash-bros-melee-frenzy-genesis-9-illegal-taxi-1850040729

Proletariat has pulled out of unionizing for now due to percieved meddling by the CEO Seth Sivak by using confrontational tactics to demoralize their employees from unionizing.  ABK addresses the pullout from forming a union in an update from gameindustry.biz.

Sources:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/proletariat-unionization-vote-request-dropped

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/proletariat-claims-cwa-s-adversarial-tactics-led-to-union-withdrawal

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/proletariat-withdraws-election-for-unionization-cite-ceo-as-cause

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/proletariat-exits-unionization-process-following-demoralization-tactics-from-activision-blizzard/1100-6510821/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.polygon.com/23541125/proletariat-activision-blizzard-union-vote-withdrawn

And a story where being a gamer and being in the union can keep you from losing your job when you are accused of "playing video games" on the job.

Sources:

https://kotaku.com/twitter-union-pc-gaming-graphics-card-video-games-1850035025

Chapters:

0:00 Intro and topics

3:16 Riot Source Code

15:00 Genisis 9 Events: Entitlement and Kidnapping attempt

36:40 Proletariat Unionization

54:30 Union story from Twitter saving someone's job by being a gamer

1:00:15 Round Table and Outro