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Last Year, Was The Games Industry Truly Static?
With all the turmoil across the games industry, the assumption was that things were going badly, trending downwards. The reality is far less clear... did any of the chaos really matter?
Michael Bell
Creative Director, host of the Bellular channels.
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Ubisoft's Have Pushed Out 1000s Of Staff. Just One Of Those Could Cost Them $1.3m!
Ubisoft claim to be striving for "the best talents" to take their IP into the future. A strange contradiction amidst the 3000+ staff departures in recent years. Those left including truly costly losses such as Assassin's Creed's "guardian" and The Division series lead. Is Yves determined to fail?
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The EU Is Gearing Up To Take On Gaming's "Dark Patterns"
For years, the games industry has been trusted to "self-regulate" many of its most harmful methodologies... leaders of big publishers pledged they'd rein it in and do right by the kids. It seems they pushed their luck too far, and now the EU is breathing down their necks!
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Ubisoft's Attempted Resurrection Has Come At (Too High?) A Cost
Corporate shenanigans, nepotism at the highest levels... It's all been about family for Ubisoft, even at the cost of BILLIONS in market value for the much-maligned publisher. Despite this, things were looking up. So, of course, Yves and co. decided to throw everything into chaos once again.
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Do PlayStation Really Want Games To Play Themselves?
Why play games, or even watch another human play games, when you can just have your copy play itself? That's the question that it looks like Sony are asking its audience. What are they really doing?
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Why Is "Everyone" So Worried* About Highguard?!
Apex Legends. Titanfall 2. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2011). A team packed with staff who worked on many of these bona fide classic and popular FPS games. Why the hell did "the internet" decide Highguard was going to fail?!
The Legion Return
There's a lot going on millions of miles from Azeroth. For now, anyway. By the time we put an end to Xal'atath's scheming on our home turf, the Legion will have finishing rebuilding for a comeback. No, seriously. We have the evidence.
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After Nearly A Decade, And Cancellation By Riot, Hytale Arrived
Hytale lives. We've played it. It's better than anyone expected.
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PC Building Is Fucked, And It Won’t Get Better
Prices are spiking, and PC parts aren't for consumers anymore. They won't be for a while.
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After A Record-Breaking Launch, Has BF6 Really 'Battlefailed'?!
Being one of 2025's biggest success stories didn't make Battlefield 6 bulletproof. Bugs, glitches, cosmetic drama and more have plagued EA's latest... "90% (of Steam) players are gone, and now? The big Season 2 launch that could pull them out of the fire faces a month-long delay! Will they recover?
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We Asked, Larian Answered With A (Genuine?) Generative Backtrack
Just following our coverage of the chaos surrounding the idea that Larian were "pushing hard on generative AI", Swen and his leadership team took to Reddit to face the music. They say they've listened, so have now tossed their GenAI workflows (almost) completely! But that's not all...
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Beating The Biggest Publishers At Their Own Game(s) Came At A Cost
For years, they were dismissed as publishers of cheap, derivative copies of the industry's successes. Last year, they quietened those naysayers. The cost, however, was very high, and it wasn't NetEase who paid it!