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Microsoft asked Xbox to proportionally make as much profit as Nintendo, and three times as much as PlayStation. And then they started cutting.
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Activision Keeps Caving To Call Of Duty's Loudest Players
They said players didn't want it, that things would never go back to how they were... Despite that, Activision (scared by BF6?) have not only rolled back "Fortnite-/enshitification" of their cosmetics, but they've gone ahead and removed Skill-Based Matchmaking AND disbanding lobbies too?!
The European Pushback On MTX Regulation
In April, the EU tried to regulate in-game monetisation. Six months later, the EU games industry is trying to warn just how badly it could go.
Loading Screen: Payday 2 Just Came Back From The Dead. Again.
Two years after the last patch, twelve years after launch, Starbreeze just handed the keys to Payday 2 to a bunch of modders.
Loading Screen: The 11.3 Billion Dollar Secret Behind The Latest Viral Hit
The latest viral hit on Steam looks like another quirky indie riff on a popular genre. It's not quite that simple.
Turtle WoW Fired Back At Blizzard
Turtle WoW, not content with hiding from the law, decided to admit that they're an illegal server. They're asking Blizzard to let them go legit.
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A deep dive today into the month of chaos that led to Total War: Warhammer 3's user reviews dropping to just 22% positive.
Midnight Won't Be Harder, But It Might Be More Broken
PTR Housing test went well... after it broke the entire game for a day. On the brighter side, Ion said the game won't be too hard.
The Boy(s) Who Built This Rocket Are Not Happy
Coming from one of the original "visionaries" behind Grand Theft Auto, MindsEye, along with its UGC toolset, 'Everywhere' was supposed to be Leslie Benzies' second coming. Instead? Its own devs considered it "one of the worst video game launches this decade," and now they're fighting back!
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.
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...
Loading Screen: "Ubisoft asked me to step aside" - AC Boss
Ubisoft's ex-Assassin's Creed lead is making his position clear. If he had his way, he'd still be at Ubisoft.
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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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11.2.7 Is WoW's Biggest Chance
11.2.7 is a gigantic patch, and most if it is geared at one thing: Getting new and returning players to finally stick.
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Loading Screen: Another Single-Player Studio Thinks They Can Go Multiplayer
30 years of single-player games, and Quantic Dream just revealed a F2P MOBA to take on the entrenched giants. Will they succeed where so many have failed?
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Loading Screen: AC Boss Walks From Ubisoft's Tencent Subsidiary
Assassin's Creed's head honcho just walked from Ubisoft... only weeks after the franchise was taken over by the Tencent-backed subsidiary Vantage Studios
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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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Loading Screen: No New Helldivers Content Till Performance Improves
Arrowhead are making a commitment to unhappy players. New content releases will be paused until the team can guarantee they won't break the game.
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Blizzard Saved Legion Remix
Legion Remix is a resounding success, so here's everything you need to know to get the most out of it.
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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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Loading Screen: The Devs Behind The Worst Game Of 2025 Are Suing Their Leaders
The devs of Mindseye have told all about their terrible working conditions, and with a little help, they're standing up against their bosses.
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Battlefield 6 Is A "Good Game"
The devs wanted "to make good game", and, despite all odds, they managed it. BF6 fixes everything 2042 broke. Including player trust.
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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?!