Loading Screen: The Risk Of Losing Your Digital Life
Consumers report losing access to decades-old accounts under Xbox hacks, but some are managing to fight back.
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Is Warcraft Safe?
Xbox is "not healthy", their new boss has admitted. To fix it, they're laying off thousands, and getting rid of multiple studios. Xbox owns Blizzard. Is Warcraft safe?
Loading Screen: Stop Worrying, Say Gutted Xbox Studios
Nothing to see here, folks, Xbox's studios say they're fine despite losing up to 50% of their staff.
You're Smarter Than AI Advocates Think... Steam Users Don't Want GenAI
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney is NOT happy... Half-assed on Valve's part it may be, but Steam's AI disclosure policy is having the desired effect. Players are skipping games with GenAI used in their development in serious numbers.
Loading Screen: €400M Lawsuit Hits PlayStation At Worst Time Possible
Legal hot water for PlayStation as a Dutch consumer group tries to break open the PSN digital store, just as physical games end.
XBOX, What Hope Remains For Its Future?
You will not be surprised. You might get competence... XBOX want to only give you the things you know, and they expect you to LOVE it.
Loading Screen: Xbox Devs And Modders Fight Back Against Layoffs
Devs and Modders of Bethesda games alike are trying to fight back against the layoffs that have gutted Xbox this week.
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Turn off progression modifiers, add paid-for progression in single player. EA always finds new ways to surprise us.
A Major "Loss" For Stop Killing Games In California?
Admitting defeat, the establishment is ganging up on them - or so some of the movement is claiming. What actually happened to Stop Killing Games' POG Bill in California?
Loading Screen: "we simply spread ourselves too thin" - Xbox CEO
The future of Xbox is revealed in their layoffs. The forecast is both bleak and familiar.
Xbox Fired 20% Of Its 16,000 Developers!
Five studios, a fifth of Asha's workforce... GONE.
Loading Screen: PlayStation Bans 132 Countries From Playing... Again
Sony are PC villains once more, as PSN region locks prevent many from joining in the fun.
News Videos
Unaffordable Hardware Is The New Reality For Gaming
It's been a familiar story this generation: instead of dropping in price to make way for newer tech, every few months consoles and PC parts have leapt up in price... an XBOX Series S is now as expensive as a launch Xbox Series X! Normality doesn't look to be returning either.
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Loading Screen: 20% of Xbox, Five Studios Gone
Xbox is going to cut 20% of their staff, and five studios, then chase an impossible goal.
Warcraft Posts
Ion Knows Something Has To Change
Ion, in an hour-long interview with Psybear, explains what led to 12.0.5's bugs and what they're doing about it. Also, he knows the game is getting a bit stale - and they're working on it. Oh, and Blizzard's selling a feature back to you.
Reports
Turns Out AI Games Sell Worse On Steam
Tim Sweeney thinks AI disclosures hurt game sales, but the data says... he's right.
News Videos
They Just Fired Their Experts... So Sony Doubles Down On Live Service
It feels like Sony just WANTS bad press these days... Bungie has just been chopped in half, so of course they're recommitting to live service plans at PlayStation!
Videos
Blizzard Are Fixing Our Number 1 Problem With Gearing
THROW OFF YOUR CHAINS, RAIDERS! The tyranny of "keystones", those Mythic+ demons of 'scaling' and 'affixes' and other inhuman concepts, is at long last coming to an end. In other words, Blizz are finally making their game make sense.
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Loading Screen: Are You Being Manipulated Into Giving Up Physical Games?
Are PlayStation manipulating all of us into giving up physical games when we all still want them?
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PlayStation's Physical Games Market Is Sentenced For Execution
Well, that's that... in less than 2 years, the era of physical games on PlayStation will be over.
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Loading Screen: Death Threats, Cow Dung and The Cancelled Companion Character
The power of the people is real, and has consequences far beyond internet complaints.
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Loading Screen: PlayStation Just Killed Physical Games
From January 2028, PlayStation is done with making physical games. The industry is about to change.
Opinion
Upcoming Games: A Jacked July
Murderous isekai trucks, remade pirate assassins, gangly-armed weirdoes and a bunch of squid-kids. Just another month in video games!
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Loading Screen: Did "Illegal" Minecraft Servers Just Kill SKG USA?
"Illegal" Minecraft community servers might not have killed SKG's California dream, but they sure didn't help.