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June is a great month for games, yet a comparatively quiet one for mainstream releases! You know why? In between the behemoths of Destiny 2 and Elden Ring, we've got some very brave indies and AA titles - Lets make sure they don't get lost in the crush.
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A pair of stories today - Riot's uncompromising stance on harassment in the wake of players being forced out of games of Valorant and then the final death of Redfall - and the good news that's brought for the rest of Zenimax. Plus the weekend recommend - Selaco!
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Turns out 50% of the PlayStation audience haven't yet gotten a PS5 and most of their revenue growth is coming from about Live service games. Even while PlayStation want to tell everyone their success is real, and that their pipeline of games are strong, looking at the numbers, we have some doubts.
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Ubisoft continue their trends of quietly successful launches that hardcore audiences don't talk about with XDefiant, Sony would like everyone to stop talking about the Druckmann interview that they pulled from the internet and yes, we have to talk about League of Legends $500 skin pack.
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Today, the great news that Space Marine 2 will be rejecting MTX - but we have to temper that against their DLC plan. Then news that Creative Assembly’sefforts are starting to pay off - with even more promised for Pharoah. And we’ve got the end of CP2077 - as CDPR are justly rewarded for their work.
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Ubisoft's newest monetisation strategy has faced immediate and visceral feedback in being booed by players at it's reveal event, while Larian CEO Swen Vincke has reminded us that it's not as simple as believing crunch makes bad games - it made Baldur's Gate 3.
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Hellblade 2 is only the 23rd most played game on Xbox on launch, it's Steam player numbers are weak and reviews frequently call out a shallow and middling experience. So let’s take a look at how the real problem for Ninja Theory isn’t that they’ve changed - it’s that everything around them has.
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Turns out that Sony went further than smoothing out talking points in the recent Neil Druckmann interview - they added whole new words. Meanwhile Bungie have managed to secure yet another legal win against industrial cheat providers, and we bring you the most interesting writing of the week!
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Valve have new Lootbox tech, Steam accounts aren't even transferrable on death, Some gamers are being unfairly penalised by Steam because of their country and Valve really don't want to acknowledge Deadlock.
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EA is trying to get The Sims 4 back in a playable state, we've gathered all the news from Warhammer Skulls and the UK has made a move that could force Apple and Google to allow third party stores and app sideloading on their platforms. Plus, the Weekend Recommend!
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It is another day on the Internet, and Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann has said something that’s made people mad. This time extolling the virtues of AI for Game development - but is there more to this than meets the eye?
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The First Console War has ended with Atari winning, but the Intellivision Amico saga continues! Meanwhile, Embracer's layoffs have been made clear while Overwatch's future doesn't contain a PvE game mode that's been so poorly received that it needs to be taken out of the game.