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Loading Screen: Dragon Age Ditches Denuvo
"We trust you," is the reason why Dragon Age: The Veilguard is dropping EA's Denuvo requirements, but don't get too excited PC players, there's a trade-off.
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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Blizzard's Ex-Developers Are Finally Showing Us Their Games
In the last few years, we have seen a rush of developers leaving Blizzard to form new studios, and now we're seeing results. We know they have talent, but is that enough to succeed?
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Loading Screen: Bandai Namco Alleged To Send Staff To A Room Till They Quit
Bandai Namco have one of the biggest successes of the year in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero! so of course today we find out they're cancelling games and firing staff in the strangest way possible.
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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.
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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!