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Showcase Showdown - Your Guide to Summer 2024's Games Events
We thought it was good idea to gather up all the times and stream locations for ease of access - so you don't miss anything you'd like to watch.
Conor Caulfield
I cover everything Not Warcraft - Expect wider games industry coverage, analysis, and as much commentary as I can get away with
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Loading Screen: Helldivers CEO Steps Down, Multiversus Hope To Bribe Old Players
As Helldivers launch success subsides, Arrowhead Founder Johann Pilestedt looks to a future where he's not in charge - while at Warner Bros, the team building Multiversus are so determined to get players back from the open beta, they're resorting to bribery to accomplish it.
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Games Media is Being Failed By Its Owners
You, the audience are not being served by the Games Media being consolidated and gutted to produce content rather than journalism. So today we’re going to take you through this story, and a wider look at the ecosystem. And how you’re being failed by the interests of very few people.
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Loading Screen: Steam Gets Disneyfied, Paradox Can't Not Delay Games and Even Nintendo Are Making Acquisitions
The Epic Game Store loses another exclusive to Steam and people rejoice, Paradox have delayed another game, this time two weeks before release and Nintendo make a rare acquisition in order to protect their future plans.
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Loading Screen: PSN Can't Stop Ghosts of Tsushima, Call of Duty's $70 Question and Redfall's Not Quite Dead
Today, Ghosts of Tshushima has rocketed to the top of the Steam charts despite PSN requirements, Call of Duty might only cost you $16.99 this year and Redfall gets a dying gasp that gives Arkane Austin a chance to finish what they started.
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Loading Screen: Take Two Deny Closing The Two Studios They're Closing, Total War and Valve Game Leaks and More!
Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick denies they're closing two studios - but the people have actual reciepts Strauss! Meanwhile, corroborated leaks have revealed the future for Valve and maybe the Total War Franchsise with a Hero Shooter Moba and Star Wars respectively.
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Loading Screen: Activision's New (Narrative) Studio and Ubisoft Cancels Another BR
Activision have today unveiled a new development studio - and in a shock move - they're not building Call of Duty. In more predictable news, Ubisoft have used their positive financial report to help bury the cancellation of The Division: Heartlands, even as Skull and Bones sails on.
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How Can Ubisoft Ask For 130 Dollars For A Game?
Once more, the headlines and social media outcry is clear - How are Ubisoft daring to charge $130 for a video game? For an open world Ubisoft game of all things? We dive in and explain - things aren't as simple as they seem.
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Loading Screen: Wayfinder Kills It's MTX Based Live Service and XDefiant's Challenge To Call of Duty
Embattled RPG Wayfinder is trying something new, the previously F2P psuedo MMO deciding their best chance is to abandon F2P and Live Service - while XDefiant are doing their best to bring over disgruntled Call of Duty players, promising to slay the biggest boogeyman of all - Skill Based Matchmaking.
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Steam Vs The World
Steam has been seemingly banned in one country, and is being investigated in another for anti-competitive practices - because when every major publisher starts talking about the need to port games to PC to survive, that means that the biggest PC gaming platform needs a little more scrutiny.
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Loading Screen: Paradox Ditches Prison Architect Devs, Square Enix's Multi-platform Future and Playstation's Console Peak
Paradox have taken a weird turn with the development of Prison Architect 2, Square Enix's new plans will see fewer, bigger games on more platforms and Playstation have reached the peak of their PS5 sales - it's all downhill from here.
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Loading Screen: Criticism Banned For Marvel Rivals and Countries Banned for Ghosts of Tsushima
As content creators rebel against a draconian restriction on criticism for the alpha test of Marvel Rivals, Sony are facing a new front in their own war - because the PSN problem is not getting better.