Creative Director, host of the Bellular channels.
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Fired, a writer of a newly revealed game believed she'd been replaced with GenAI. CEO of Space Marine 2's Saber insisted they hadn't, despite leaning heavily on GenAI for the project! But that's not all. . . Somehow, Randy & the Medieval Times USB stick returned.
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Claiming credit for one of the best licensed games of recent times was a bold move. True on a technicality, Delphi Interactive deserve more credit for pushing some of the worst practices of the industry's past back into the spotlight!
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Celebrating 25 years of Halo and XBOX, the recently rebranded Halo Studios dropped a nearly-good remake of Halo: Combat Evolved. No multiplayer, some very bizarre design changes, and now they've ditched more of the staff who brought it to life. Not layoffs, though - on a technicality!
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After having morality forced upon it by regulators, Roblox's value and number of paying players are plummeting. Investors are furious, but what comes next?
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Blending innocently into the background, trying not to be discovered until it's too late... no, we don't speak of the paint-covered stars of Meccha Chameleon. Rather, the malware that was hiding under the surface of the Steam Workshop platform that game, and so many others, avail themselves of!
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$20 billion in debt to clear and new owners who favour literal corruption, abuse and murder over human rights and the global rule of law? Nothing could possibly go wrong for Electronic Arts in the months and years to come...
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Total War had quietly become an annual franchise by the late 2010s. Nearly 3 years after the last, Pharaoh, we don't even have a release window for their next project, 40K. Medieval III is being built across streams for all to see; it's nowhere near launch. Will this creative reset work?
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“Steam is checking. Steam is catching it.” That's on AI usage within player-facing dev work on Steam games. So the disclosure is needed... so it's a good time to find out that those games disclosing AI usage are consistently performing worse on almost every metric. Success for genuine creativity?
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Cloud gaming has been repeatedly raised up by executives across the industry as "the future" for nearly TWO decades (remember Gaikai?!). Now, with hardware prices skyrocketing, can cloud gaming "platforms" find a path to carving out a meaningful corner of the industry?
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RuneScape was becoming one of the most heavily monetised games of its kind. Then, last year, Jagex announced they were gutting almost all of the dark patterns at play, replacing them with... nothing? Today, to no surprise, profit is down. Will they hold their nerve?
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Even for genAI work, this is some top-grade slop... yet Epic's Tim Sweeney is proposing it's the future of Fortnite? Really?!
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Ten Thousand Strong voiced their frustrations under a single game trailer. The vocal audience is not happy with Sony for dropping physical discs going forward. Despite this, there will almost be no backtrack from PlayStation!