Actor David ‘The Hoff’ Hasselhoff – known for his roles in 80s TV series Baywatch and Knight Rider, as well as his music career (I still get Jump in my Car stuck in my head from time to time) – is the new face of an initiative which aims to fight climate change with video games.
It’s called Make Green Tuesday Moves (MGTM). On the first Tuesday of each month, participating studios will launch a collection of ‘green’ items within their games, with these items being exclusive to the movement. MGTM will then invest proceeds from these items into “fully certified sustainability projects by not-for-profit digital platform PlanetPlay”.
And, this month, it is all about that Hoff DLC, with other celebrities expected to follow in subsequent months.

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Hi-Rez Studios, the developer behind Smite 2 and Paladins, has announced it’s laying off an undisclosed number of employees in order to “ensure [the company’s] long-term success”.

Hi-Rez CEO Stewart Chisam announced the job cuts in a lengthy statement shared on social media, saying the layoffs – instigated as part of an “internal reorganisation and reprioritisation” – will “disproportionately impact those in marketing and publishing roles”. Staff at Hi-Rez’s Evil Mojo, G&A, and Titan Forge divisions are also affected, with Chisam saying these latter cuts will “disproportionally affect our team working on cosmetic skin content and system features.”

Chisam went on to acknowledge the “real human impact” of the layoffs, adding, “Each impacted individual is a …