Loading Screen: Stop Killing Games Think They've Stopped Killing Free-To-Play Games
Selling a costume could be very expensive for new games, as SKG think they have F2P in their sights.
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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?
Loading Screens: Licensed Games' Dark Side As Mass Layoffs Strike
80% of a studio just got fired because their owners seem to think tie-in licenses are more important than developers.
Loading Screen: Leaks Suggest "hurdles" for Xbox Backwards Compatibility
Plans for backwards compatibility across Xbox and PC could be subject to publisher interest, and that could be the project's doom.
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?