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The worst user rated game of 2024, and the 9th worst rated game on Steam ever - Battlefront Classic Collection has a mountain to climb. So the team at Aspyr don’t need the scene’s Modders furious that they’re seeing uncredited modded content in the official releases.
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Call of Duty has somehow found a new way to monetise it's audience as it launches a new platform - while Respawn has been forced to make cuts to the Apex team despite all their success. But for you, this weekend we recommend some tactics, some strategy and a little bit of roleplaying in one package.
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“You Mad Bro?” isn’t the communication strategy you’d expect to see from the COO of a company in official emails, but Valve has never presented themselves as just another company have they?
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Embracer have sold Saber Interactive for $247m, just under half of what they paid four years ago - but the mess they’re still in relates to their game launches, with Aspyr’s Battlefront 2 leaving much to be desired as it’s steam user score nosedives to ~20% via bad networking and other issues.
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Today, Frontier Developments hope the can counteract a niche genre with lower prices, Epic have avoided making Unity's mistakes when they change their contracts and Discord are rolling out new systems designed to keep you on the platform for longer - and make them money.
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With players pointing at dwindling concurrents and a game that’s in the middle of being reconstructed, things are not looking good for Payday 3 and Starbreeze but today the most senior leadership at Starbreeze are paying the price for a game that hasn’t gone the way they hoped.
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Today we've got the return of Warner Bros' IP Spanning Live Service Game, the explicit threat of a Ready Player One Battle Royale and the success of an indie game that knows how much you all love inventory management.
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Despite a deal with Playstation, Deviation Games has shut down with no releases, Epic have managed to get one over on Apple again and SAG-AFTRA think a voice actor strike against the big companies is coming sooner than later.
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Details are emerging from the Indie devs having their games removed by WB and it is a disaster for preservation. Elsewhere, Playstation have revealed a killswitch that can remove titles from your library, EA accidentally wrecked the launch of an indie and Activision’s QA departments are unionising.
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Today, Sony and Warner Bros alike are having problems with keeping their customer's purchases around, we note the passing of Akira Toriyama via his impact on gaming and we suggest you get away to somewhere calming over the weekend.
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Helldivers 2 is starting strong with 75% of players sticking around through the first month as the live service actually begins. But with that many players comes a lot of dissenting opinion on balance, dev communication and more.
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Epic and Apple are yet again throwing names at each other as the ongoing war over stores continue while it's all coming up Capcom as they institute higher salaries and bonuses for staff in an industry that's constantly running layoffs elsewhere.