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"You Mad Bro?" - Valve
“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?
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: Saber Interactive Sells... Mostly and Battlefront's Bad Launch
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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Loading Screen: Publisher Hopes Lower Costs Means More Sales, Epic Avoids Pulling A Unity and Discord Wants You To Go On A Quest
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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Payday 3 CEO Pays The Price
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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Loading Screen: Multiversus Round Two, Ready Player One More Battle Royale and the Innovative Inventory Indie
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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Loading Screen: Deviation Games Dead, Epic Win and the High Probability of a Voice Actor Strike
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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WB Don't Care About Indies, Playstation Delete Licenses and EA Ruin A Dev's Day
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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Loading Screen: Delisted Games and Deleted Licenses
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: The Drama of Balancing Even A Good Live Service
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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Loading Screen: Epic is "Verifiably Untrustworthy" and Capcom Institute Raises Instead of Layoffs
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.
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Loading Screen: The Live Service Games Warner Bros. Wish They Had Instead Of Suicide Squad
The headlines are clear: Warner Bros looked at Suicide Squad and decided that despite everything - they want more live services. But when we looked at the source of that statement, it turns out it's so much worse.
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Last Epoch - The ARPG For Diablo Fans From Diablo Fans
Last Epoch has finally released from Early Access to acclaim, record player numbers and a thrilled fanbase. The ARPG renaissance has begun as games like Last Epoch releasing mean ARPG fans can play a game tailored exactly for them.