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Producer on most of Rockstar's biggest hits, Leslie Benzies sold an impressive plan to investors: Rockstar-quality games with AAA-quality user-generated content on day one. Now that MindsEye is in players' hands... it seems he overpromised. A lot!
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FOMO has the worst rep in the industry. Where once players simply wanted to be involved in updates they might miss, now it's associated firmly with predatory engagement and monetisation practices. Arrowhead flipped the script. The fight for Super Earth? You had to be there...
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Splitgate 2 should have been the explosive, successful return of one of the pandemic-era's breakout successes. Instead, it's become mired in stacked controversies and apologies. Can 1047 Games recover, or will it need to be 3rd time's the charm for Splitgate?!
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There's no use denying it, physical games as we knew them are in their final stage of dying. We could mourn them, of course, but the better option could be to platform ventures like Lost in Cult, who aim to bring them back in a fascinating manner!
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Every major AAA publisher is pushing AI, especially GenAI, at every opportunity. Almost unanimously, players are rejecting it. Now, though, to coincide with their latest push within Unreal Engine, Epic may have found the wedge to gaslight players into accepting the tech, cost-cutting warts and all!
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Straight from the headlines, Steam users globally can hop online and grab themselves a tactical experience steeped in... officially sanctioned modern Russian war propaganda?! That might sound far-fetched, but Squad 22: ZOV is far from the first game of its kind on Steam. Will it be the last?
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Behind the scenes, EA had been doing everything "right" with its upcoming licensed title. Sadly, while carefully building a single-player focused successor to the Middle-earth: Shadow of... games and their Nemesis system was a goal for '2020 EA'? '2025 EA' is far too impatient and cowardly!
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With over 30 staffers each making an average of $4.5 million a year as of 2021, Valve might be one of the most revenue-efficient companies within the games industry, yet they don't rest on their laurels. As SteamOS arrives, we take a look at how it could redefine that industry once again.
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4 Years. 4 Months. 17 Days. That's how long Tim Sweeney (backed by Epic Games) had been battling Apple in the courts of the world before Apple's fairly shocking loss at the start of this month. In a battle of billionaires, we actually won?
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Capcom have been winning for 8, 10, no 12(!) years and counting! Players have been loving it, investors had been loving it, but maintaining a streak of success this long comes at a cost, a cost players feel like they're starting to pay... Especially on PC.
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Microsoft yearned for the closure of the Activision Blizzard deal, making every promise needed to make it across the line. That included plenty towards those advocating for their workers' rights. Now that the deal has closed, they don't want to honour those promises!
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After a string of relative failures, Assassin's Creed: Shadows was the success Ubisoft needed to kickstart their journey back towards stability. Successfully convincing Tencent to bail them out to the tune of €1.16bn with "Two-bisoft"? That certainly makes things simpler.