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After a turbulent few years, Creative Assembly chose to pump the breaks and take stock of their future. Now we're starting to see that future begin to take shape... will returning to Medieval times be enough to reshape their fortunes, and what else do they have planned?
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All the headlines over recent years regarding game prices have been fixated on shrinkflation, or that first $70, now $80 being the new $60... but amidst all of it, something has flown under the radar. The average player has been getting more of their games, cheaper?! Make it make sense? Let's begin.
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Earlier this year, we blamed the Credit companies for muscling in on Steam and dictating what constituted "art". We weren't wrong then, but with a ban being brought down upon arthouse indie horror game HORSES, we now know Valve's "judgment" is pretty terrible too!
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Last year, Bungie gave Destiny players an exit ramp... and most players took it! They've been scrambling to recover since, amidst the chaotic apparent non-starter that's been Marathon. All the while, even Sony has given up on them to the tune of $240 million!
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Despite creating and investing over 15 years of work at Paradox into the Cities (In Motion & Skylines) series, following Skylines II's rather dreadful launch? Colossal Order is out, and a new dev is taking over, just like that. 'Apparently', it's a "mutual" decision. . .
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After Subnautica's success, developer Unknown Worlds leapt at the opportunity of half a billion dollars to be bought by, and produce the sequel for Krafton. A deal was signed, the sequel built. But now, devs and publisher are at war over the realities of the fine print... oh. And $250 million!
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Call of Duty Vs Battlefield, a rivalry that's spanned two decades, yet before this year? It wasn't ever, truly, a competition. With a truly gargantuan first month of sales, DICE have finally found themselves in the running... but even with a weak and wounded CoD, can they truly topple the incumbent?
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A decade after Riot first invested, 5 years after they bought the studio, June's "Difficult Update" made one thing clear. Work on Hytale was ending. It was cancelled. Hopeful musings from co-founder Simon seemed like wishful thinking... yet, just 5 months later, Hytale is back, about to launch...?!
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Catfishing in Call Of Duty? It's 100% not what you think! We mean fishing, with catfish, as creatively robbed from Studio Ghibli. If this makes no sense, you're not alone. GenAI is rampant in its nonsense, but it's not just Activision spewing slop anymore! Even Anno & Expedition 33 took part...
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Nearly 200,000 players across the UK spoke up, and not only did they get the Government to respond, they forced a meaningful debate out of them too! Major change may not be happening immediately, but Stop Killing Games is making itself heard.
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It's been nearly 25 years, but the GameCube is back?! Nope, it just looks like it. Instead, we've actually gotten the tenth anniversary return of Valve's ill-fated Steam Box. This time around, though, Gabe & co look prepared to avoid the past's mistakes.
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That problem? They think Steam is a monopoly, but there's not really much they expect can be done about it! But what if we told you that Steam was, in fact, an Oligopoly. And that distinction? It makes everything far tougher to resolve... *across major studios In The US & UK