Loading Screen: One Of Gaming's Most Controversial Studios Just Unionised
Of all the studios to voluntarily recognise their staff's union, I didn't expect it to be ZA/UM, the makers of Disco Elysium and Disco Elysium-related controversies.
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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.
Loading Screen: 50% Price Hikes - Xbox's New Plan For Game Pass
An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription will now cost you $360 a year. Are you really spending more than that on new games?
Upcoming Games: An Opulent October
A mountain of great AAA, AA and Indie games awaits in October, so let us guide you through the biggest and best of the lot.
Loading Screen: Epic Games Just Put A Hate Symbol In Fortnite. It's WB's Fault.
Sometimes your business partner tricks you into selling a hate symbol to children, a lesson Epic Games is learning this week.
Loading Screen: EA Bought For $55 Billion In Cash*
EA's being bought outright. Let's break down who by, how they're doing it, and how it's all bad news for the games you like.
Valve Must Be Wary Of A Malicious Problem
Tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a cancer fundraiser, and that's just ONE example of the damage caused by a problem facing Steam, a problem that, as we now understand, isn't new. Can Valve hope to find a solution without fundamentally changing Steam as we know it?
Loading Screen: Refunds After 2000 Hours Of Play For Region-Locked Players
Turns out, Valve might give you a refund after 2000 hours of play... but only if the developers turn off the game in your region.
Games Are Already Hurting From The Online Safety Act!
Now that its most egregious elements have been implemented, the games industry is feeling the impact of the UK's Online Safety Act. As expected, few are happy, and it appears that the resultant problems have only just begun!
What Really Happened With YouTube?
Across YouTube, creators across the spectrum felt mild (to major) panic and general confusion at the notable changes they were witnessing on the backend... YouTube denied fault, but now they've unveiled a suite of new features, many of which look to make things... worse?! What's going on?
Loading Screen: When Monetising A 12-Year-Old Game Goes Wrong
Sometimes, you purposefully increase the price of your paid DLC bundles before you add a cheaper subscription model, and then people get mad.
Loading Screen: The EU Takes On Gold Farmers
The EU has weighed in on gold farming... but the outcome might not be what anyone expected.
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Loading Screen: Steam's $32,000 Malware Problem
After their fourth instance where malware was found in a game on the platform, Steam has to address this problem, as this time it scammed $32,000 from a cancer patient.
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Can Mobile, Marathon or Star Wars Hope To Save Bungie?
Bungie, once a crown jewel of the industry, is now fighting to survive as "just another PlayStation Studio". With new leadership, new games on the horizon and the Force with them... can the once great studio return to, if not greatness, then decent form?
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Loading Screen: Nintendo Secretly Gutted Their Support Teams
Nintendo are copying the rest of the industry, and outsourcing their vital functions to cheaper territories, quality be damned.
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The Truth About The YouTube View Counts
YouTube are adamant, they're not to blame for the viewcount drops. And if these investigators are right, then YouTube is too.
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The Dire State of Bungie
It's a bad time for Bungie. PlayStation is closing in, Destiny is in a bad way, and everything is pinned on Marathon. And then the CEO quit.
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The Fallout From Payment Processor Overreach
Things are getting worse. Tens of thousands of dollars withheld from programmers doing their LEGAL jobs. This has to stop!
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The Entire Story of Xal'atath
Alleria called Xal'atath "A survivor from the depths of time". Today, you'll learn exactly what she means.
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Loading Screen: Valve's New $1500, Regulation-Dodging, Cosmetics
Valve are showing their mastery of microtransactions once more, dodging regulation as players shell out more than $1500 for skins.
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Silksong's Development Isn't Something To Be Emulated
A 3rd of its predecessor's 15 million lifetime sales within days... Hollow Knight: Silksong is off to an incredible start. Team Cherry's latest paired that with some of the strongest reviews of the year-to-date. All great news, but it doesn't mean every dev can (or should) match them!
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Loading Screen: Buy Tarkov Again To Play On Steam, Say BSG
Want to launch Tarkov via Steam? Pay up, please. Already have it? Pay up, please.
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How Many Basic Game Mechanics Can Nintendo Get Away With "Owning"?!
Nintendo are no stranger to facing criticism for the handiwork of their legal department. Recently, however, they've been seen at the forefront of a movement across Japanese publishers that can only be described as weaponising incompetent patent laws, especially in the US. This isn't good.
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Loading Screen: 90% Of Gamers Play Remakes
90% of you are playing remakes, and it turns out 85% of you aren't playing them for nostalgia. No wonder there are so many of them.