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Today, Steam approved the launch of a new game. One that was designed to be propaganda for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Today, Steam approved the launch of a new game. One that was designed to be propaganda for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The scourge has new villains. The Scarlet have amassed an army. Northrend, in The Last Titan, will not be the Northrend you remember.
EA have a licensed game problem, as they try to balance fan demand with licensing costs, and come up with bad results.
Capcom have been winning for 8, 10, no 12(!) years and counting! Players have been loving it, investors had been loving it, but maintaining a streak of success this long comes at a cost, a cost players feel like they're starting to pay... Especially on PC.
Player numbers for Battlefront II have gone up nearly 2000% in the last month, and it's at least partly thanks to a fan rebellion.
While we weren't paying attention, Blizzard have been filling the game with clues: There's more chaos on Northrend than we could have imagined.
Stalker's enhanced editions launched this week with missing monuments, and players weren't happy. Now, GSC have relented and put them back.
11.1.7’s story has it all: The Defias, the Scarlet Crusade, and faction tensions. Why, then, is everyone so mad about it?
Microsoft yearned for the closure of the Activision Blizzard deal, making every promise needed to make it across the line. That included plenty towards those advocating for their workers' rights. Now that the deal has closed, they don't want to honour those promises!
Steam banned NFT games, yet this week we heard about two of them coming to the platform. Has Valve loosened the rules?
Lorewalking might be how Blizzard fix one of their biggest problems: Having 20 years of story that only a handful of people played.
After a string of relative failures, Assassin's Creed: Shadows was the success Ubisoft needed to kickstart their journey back towards stability. Successfully convincing Tencent to bail them out to the tune of €1.16bn with "Two-bisoft"? That certainly makes things simpler.
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Valve are setting their standards early for SteamOS on third-party devices, and that bodes well for the future.
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A new player in preservation has arrived, and they're interested in treating physical games as the art that they are.
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In a shocking display of candidness, Ion opened up to PC Gamer about 11.1.5 shipping the way it did, and why. I have a lot of thoughts about what he said.
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Prepare to be marketed at! Not-E3 Season is kicking off already, and the games industry wants you to get hype.
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Xbox's response to union demands leaves a lot to be desired, with staff now waiting more than two years for agreements.
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Epic Games are in hot water with voice actors for their latest Fortnite innovation - a generative AI-powered Darth Vader.
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Their new game revealed with a whimper, Destiny, a source of mockery & credible plagiarism accusations abound... It's no wonder that leaks concerning Bungie's workings point to a sorry state of affairs. Is all hope lost?
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EA spent $2.5 billion not making games last year, and that's exactly what they're supposed to do.
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Bungie, we're worried about you. Once is a mistake, twice is the process, thrice is pushing it... But plagiarism in your work four times in as many years? That's a habit forming, and it needs to stop!
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$800m in funding later, and Star Citizen players are just starting to realise that Cloud Imperium Games intends to monetise everything in-game.
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A handful of lucky creators got to see what player housing actually feels like, and Blizzard asked him to tear their system apart for feedback. Here's how that went down.
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An uncomfortable stream, messy leaks and a sense that things are going to get much worse. That was Bungie's weekend after they admitted plagiarism.