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    Epic Games has been prepping for Fortnite’s recent launches for six years.

    Donald Mustard, who used to head up Fortnite’s story, shared a six-year-old sketch of how the team at Epic Games imagined Fortnite could evolve from a battle royale hit into a series of different experiences connected by a central “hub.” Following the recent avalanche of launches for the Lego, racing, and music modes, it’s remarkable how close the game has actually come to the vision in the sketch.

    Also, I saw this weekend that the company is working on support for instrument controllers for Fortnite Festival, so Fortnite may become even more like Rock Band someday.

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    Jay Peters
    Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox players, update your game — and your Xbox.

    Larian Studios has released an update with “stability fixes” and is encouraging users to update their Xbox consoles to help address issues with “saves disappearing after a crash.”

    The Game Awards’ game of the year came out on Xbox on Thursday.

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    Jay Peters
    A class-action pay disparity lawsuit against Disney brought by 9,000 female employees can move forward.

    The lawsuit, which was certified on Friday, is “the largest ever certified under California’s Equal Pay Act,” Variety reports.

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    Jay Peters
    There’s a new union contract in the video game industry.

    VR studio Tender Claws and the Tender Claws Human Union have reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement, and it’s “one of the first union contracts for video game developers in the US,” according to a press release. Proposals in the agreement include pay scales, codifying LGBTQIA+ inclusive benefits, benefits like dental insurance, and codifying virtual reality breaks.

    Tender Claws is currently developing Stranger Things VR.

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    Jay Peters
    YouTube Premium is getting more expensive for people who have legacy plans.

    Google is telling users who pay less for Premium because they once had Google Play Music or YouTube Red that they’ll owe the recently-instated $13.99 per month fee in January, 9to5Google reports.

    Google had already said that it was going to give legacy subscribers a grace period before bumping them up to the higher fee, but that period is now coming to an end.

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    Jay Peters
    Not a flattering portrayal of Sam Altman.

    A new report from The Washington Post says that senior OpenAI staffers had indicated to the board Altman had been “psychologically abusive.” The board had also worried that it couldn’t keep Altman accountable.

    All of that contributed to Altman’s firing, the report says — though, as we now know, Altman ultimately came out on top.

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    Jay Peters
    Beeper Mini is having an outage, but it’s apparently not Apple’s fault.

    Users reported issues like delayed notifications on Friday, and a Reddit user who says they’re on the Beeper team says that the company is “dealing with an outage on the Beeper Mini side.”

    Seems like it’s just a blip and that Beeper Mini will live another day.

    Update, December 8th, 5:01PM ET: Welp.

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    Jay Peters
    For recap season, Twitch, naturally, has a game.

    In the Twitch Recap Game, you play as an autoscrolling dinosaur and try to collect goat emotes while a bunch of clips from the year play in the background. It’s a simplistic game, and the clips are the same no matter how many times you play, but it’s a fun diversion.

    The game only available on desktop at the moment, though I imagine it you’ll be able to play it on mobile soon: the game told me to rotate my device when my browser window was too small and had an image of a phone rotating in that message.

    Twitch’s “Recap Day” is on Monday, where I’m guessing Twitch will offer personalized recaps of your year.

    A screenshot of Twitch’s Twitch Recap Game.
    Yes, my score sucks. I was trying to capture screenshots, ok??
    Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge