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Subnautica 2: $250m Bonuses, Leaks, Delays and Lawsuits
$250m in bonuses denied to staff, leaks of internal documents, massive delays, and legal battles. The Subnautica 2 situation is wild.
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: SAG-AFTRA Finally Won
Raises, safety precautions and complete control over how their voices will be used for Generative AI tools. SAG-AFTRA managed to get everything they wanted for their members.
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Loading Screen: Subnautica 2 Delay Might Cost Staff $250 Million
Everything's better, down where it's wetter, under the sea, unless you work at Unknown Worlds on Subnautica 2, in which case, allegations are flying that Krafton just denied you your piece of a $250m bonus.
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Runescape Can't Go On Like This
Runescape just announced MTX changes that will lose developer Jagex money. And that's the point, because they'd rather lose money than players.
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Loading Screen: Did Xbox Expose Their Users To Hacks?
The bad news is that Xbox just pulled a game from Game Pass on PC because it was putting users at risk of hacking. The worse news is that it was one of their own games.
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We Stopped Destroying Games, What's Next?
The petitions passed, the industry responded, and the Stop Killing Games movement is only getting started.
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They Broke Steam's Rules
Two games just launched on Steam while breaking the rules of Valve's platform. If they don't follow them, does anyone else have to?
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Loading Screen: The Xbox Game Pass Conundrum
"an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry" - Game Pass's critiques this week seemed to gain ground, as questions of profitability surfaced.
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Loading Screen: The Industry Responds To Stop Destroying Games
“prohibitively expensive” and “curtailing developer choice”. The industry's response to Stop Destroying Games is everything we expected.
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Loading Screen: Video Game Executives Might Not Be Okay
Claims that MindsEye is being sabotaged and that the next Battlefield could hit 100 million players have us asking if video game execs are okay.
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Anthem Proved Stop Killing Games Right
As more than 1 million people ask the EU to preserve video games, EA just announced Anthems' end-of-life update.
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Loading Screen: New FPS From Romero Games Axed
Xbox just pulled funding on a new shooter from the father of FPS games, and they're not the only publisher leaving indies high and dry.