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All The Midnight Lore From Alpha (Major Spoilers!)
Big spoilers ahead! After a few weeks of alpha, we've collected everything - this is every bit of lore in Midnight.
Michael Bell
Creative Director, host of the Bellular channels.
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Discord Got Hacked, But It's Not (The OSA) As You'd Expect
70000 people just saw their real ID data breached by way of Discord, a company that claims to NOT hold onto that data to begin with! This is all happening before we even consider the global laws apparently begging for this to be a greater risk in future...
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Construction Stalls On The Fantastic Pixel Castle
The luck of ex-Blizzard staff (launching their own studios) continues to run out as, following our coverage of Dreamhaven & Frost Giant, we now find Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's MMO in dire straits! Are the incumbents (in this case, Blizzard) going to continue winning by default? Looks that way...
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Elves Keep Wrecking The Place
The most dangerous thing to Azeroth isn't Xal'atath - it's elves. Everything bad in WoW leads back to them. Their whole history is creating fonts of power, beckoning demons, exploiting Azeroth and generally causing chaos.
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Battlefield 6? It's Actually A "Good" Game
Under the shadow of one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history, EA needed Battlefield 6 to NOT repeat the mistakes of prior series entries. It seems on that front, they're safe, but that doesn't mean this "good game" made it to launch without a hitch!
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Unity's Entire Post-'17 Library Of Games Are At Risk!
DOOM, Among Us, Hearthstone, and Elder Scrolls. All IP, and all with entries that were built on a fundamentally vulnerable engine... for the past eight years! There's a patch now, but what about the countless games that simply don't have anyone to fix them anymore? It's a problem.
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Stormgate's Sorry State
"Fully funded to release." After the ex-Blizzard alumni at Frost Giant had raised around $40 million to produce "StarCraft III" in all but name, that was their claim. Now, just over a year after its early access launch, it's hard not to question what the hell happened with Stormgate?!
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Game Pass Got 50% More Expensive!
In the space of two years, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has doubled in price. That's not hyperbole, as it leapt by 50% just this month. The subscription that was once built around the "Play Day 1 On Game Pass" mantra is now $360 yearly. What is going on?!
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Electronic Arts, Soon To Be A Leading (Saudi) Arabian Publisher??
(American) Football with Madden, guns galore with Battlefield, and diverse livelihoods with The Sims. We could go on... but it could certainly be argued that EA's library represents the ideals of the American dream. The Californian-born publisher's natural new home, of course? Saudi Arabia...
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(Blizzard) Veterans Struggle To Survive After Their ActiBlizz Tours Of Duty...
Blizzard Ent saw a mass exodus of some of its best and brightest; the early 2020s funding boom incentivised more and more to take the leap. "Ex-Blizzard talent" seemed a surefire path to success. We're starting to see the first wave of resultant projects in the wild. Success? Not so much...
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Most Gamers Play Remakes, But Nostalgia Isn't Why...
19 years after its original release, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion returned and has become the second-best-selling game of the year to date. Most of us just assumed nostalgia was the driving factor, but a new report suggests the continued success of Remakes & re-releases is much more complex.
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Twelve Years Later, Payday 2 Is A Subscription...
Thirteen years ago, Starbreeze launched Payday 2, and for a decade, they continued developing it with new heists, weapons and cosmetics. That ended two years ago with the launch of Payday 3. Now, though, it's the 2nd game in the series that has a Subscription service? We try to make sense of it.