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“EA CEO says they're interested in putting ads in their video games” is the viral message from the weekend - one that confirms everything you already knew was terrible about Electronic Arts and their leadership. But we've looked at the Transcripts and we're not so sure.
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Capping off a week of disasters for Xbox - an interview with President Sarah Bond has left everyone even more confused as the company deflects questioning. But elsewhere in the industry, a simultaneous launch for four impressive indies has people excited about actually playing games.
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With terrible news comes many leaks, as sources have fed the press information on the state of Xbox in the days after the closure of four studios. Contradictory rationales, arguments about game pass and development in trouble - all topics that we're learning about from Xbox sources today.
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Today one of Helldiver's Community Managers has seemingly been fired following the successful consumer revolt, EA's Financial Results have hints as to future games and Nintendo's New Switch has had it's announcement announced.
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Xbox have an operating cost problem, the solution is closing four Bethesda studios. This will somehow solve the 41% operating cost increase from ABK - the only problem with that is that they've just destroyed any and all faith that their fans, developers and potential partners could have.
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Blizzard have given up with Diablo 4 Season 4. They’ve decided to drop all pretence and speak directly to the audience of players that already owned the game.
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The success of indies this year has led to (responsible) publishers asking players to just let their devs cook - more devs won't get you updates faster. Meanwhile, the Stop Killing Games movement has gotten an official response in the UK - but it's not great news.
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After a weekend of chaos, 331,431 negative steam reviews and 170+ territories losing the ability to buy Helldivers 2 - Sony have finally blinked. But how did things go this badly in the first place? The answer is simple. Playstation has no idea what they’re doing when it comes to the PC audience.
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Today - Riot are facing accusations of bricking people's PCs as they add their kernel level anti cheat to League of Legends - but based on their reported errors and explanation - it's a really niche problem to face. Similarly niche, but no less impressive for it - this week's Weekend Recommend.
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Helldivers 2 is suffering a review bombing and a tide of ill sentiment as players revolt at a new account requirement - that isn't actually that new.
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Turns out that Take Two weren't done killing studios - and even if you do sell critically acclaimed games you aren't safe. Meanwhile From Software have disappointed many with news of Elden Ring DLC, while Square Enix have taken a hatchet to their release plans - to the tune of 22.1 billion yen.
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Two stories today - as in the wake of Tarkov's controversial supporter packages, a new competitor has swept in to charm their shared audience while we're seeing the first impact of Take Two's layoffs and it seems like the team behind Kerbal Space Program have been hit hard.