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Roblox Is In Freefall
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?
Michael Bell
Creative Director, host of the Bellular channels.
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Has Steam Become A Safe Haven For Malware?!
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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As The EA Saudi Deal Closes, Who Really Wins?
$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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Creative Assembly Want You To Know They're Trying
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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The State Of AI Games On Steam Today
“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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Amidst The Hardware Crisis, Could Cloud Gaming Thrive?
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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Jagex Changed Path, But The Journey Isn't Over
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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Epic Generates A New Slop Spiral In Fortnite
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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Sony Have No Intent To Change Their Minds Despite Legal Threats
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!
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Bethesda's Big Reveals Prove XBOX Shouldn't Be Trusted
They're fine! That's what the surviving devs under XBOX keep telling us. Their 100s of lost colleagues were great and all, but they weren't doing anything important enough to stop them making New Entry In IP You Love... Consume Content Please. They swear everything's ok!
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EA (Finally) Stopped Fumbling Battlefield's Live Service
The return of naval & Titan (different Titans!) warfare is just around the corner, and it's the strongest an entry of EA's flagship shooter has looked this far into its lifespan in maybe 15 years? It seems DICE/Battlefield Studios finally learned from the past.
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Patch 12.2: The Worldcore
Blizzard did a little oopsie. They left an icon in the 12.1 PTR build. That icon tells us exactly what 12.2's going to be. Welcome to Patch 12.2: The Worldcore.