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Loading Screen: A Different Kind of Hacked Pokémon
A hack affecting 2600 pieces of personal information and terabytes of development assets has struck Pokémon maker Game Freak - so let's break down what's happened.
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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Disco Elysium's Fractured Successor Studios
Five separate studios now claim they are following in the footsteps of Disco Elysium. Who's telling the truth, and does it even matter, if we get good games?
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Loading Screen: Two More Successors Come For Disco Elysium's Throne
Two new games announced in one day is one thing, two new games from the people who made Disco Elysium is another - so let's dig into what's coming. Elsewhere, Steam capitulates to the law and Xbox profits from Google's problems. Plus the Weekend Recommend!
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Two Years In, Overwatch 2 Is A Shop With A Game Attached
Premium purchase opportunities are now the core mechanic Overwatch has to entice audiences back regularly. Two years from release, let's check in on a game that's marketed around paying rather than playing.
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Loading Screen: The "Proof" People Will Buy $70 Games
Today we dig into the fact that people are willing to pay way more than $70 for a game, and it seems to back up the worst impulses of publishers. Elsewhere, more Blizzard secrets and Humble Games are reborn!
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Loading Screen: Paradox Need You To Believe They've Changed
A deluxe edition today as Paradox Interactive are on an apology tour, and they need you to believe they've changed. We've gone through all the interviews to see whether or not we should believe them.
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Loading Screen: Proof Good Things Can Happen as Alien Isolation Returns
Sometimes good things do happen in the games industry and as proof, we're getting Alien Isolation 2 from Creative Assembly and Sega.
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Shattered Space Won't "Save" Starfield
Starfield has taken a battering in public perception following the release of the Shattered Space expansion, as the hopes of a reborn game are themselves shattered. But were Bethesda even trying to achieve that?
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Loading Screen: 343 Industries Are No More (And That's Good)
343 is dead. Long live 343. Xbox's hail Mary to restore Halo to its rightful place has begun. Halo Studios, Unreal Engine 5, and a stack of promises. But does a new name and engine change anything? Yes, actually!
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Loading Screen: The Messiest Possible Way To Sell A Remaster
PlayStation have managed to annoy yet more people with their remaster nonsense for Horizon Zero Dawn, while creatives are leaving Ubisoft... but there might be light at the end of the tunnel.
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Loading Screen: 18 Days of Consecutive Crunch For Star Citizen Devs
18 straight days of work in a row is the latest demand for Star Citizen devs, who have retaliated by leaking to the press. Management's response? Staff get a day off when they're done.
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The Conflict At The Heart Of Blizzard
Rockstar arguments. fistfights and pay disputes. Blizzard has always been powered by personality and conflict, today we dig into some of the recent revelations on the topic.