Ten years later, Paradox are still trying to get Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 out the door, and are now on their second set of refunds for preorders after controversy.
We know its already had its "Engoodening", but with its latest major update, No Man's Sky has managed to soar to fresh heights. How have Hello Games achieved this, and will their gambit to have all this work eventually paid for... pay off?
We've dug deep into every word uttered at the Midnight reveal, to bring you what the story actually is.
The results of Blizzard's post-Gamescom scramble are here. A series of posts that do the job. They know what's up! Though, no word of Mythic+ solo queue, despite a survey hinting...
98,000 people at once. Nine years after launch. No Man's Sky is a phenomenon. And as yet another free update launches, the question is how can Hello Games possibly continue to justfiy it?
When a game nukes every store at once, rendering them unusable, we should probably dig into why.
Activision just ditched one of their most consumer-friendly policies, and it was met with applause! Mostly. With the subtlety of a sledgehammer, they've removed all existing garish cosmetics for Black Ops 7, a short-term PR win, but will they follow through on their promised grounded identity?
PlayStation's live service darling has landed on Xbox, alongside a faithful, curated Halo collaboration, a major patch and a whole lot of bugs. Unfortunately, there are almost as many technical bugs as breakers of democracy. Despite all this, Arrowhead seems to have pulled it off, again!
We're back on the Helldivers rollercoaster. Performance problems versus incredible new experiences. Once again, it's so over, and we're so back.
How badly did the launch of MindsEye go? So badly it might have put their publisher off backing any more games.
Blizzard's lawsuit is a legal nuke, using anti-mafia law to potentially financially ruin Turtle WoW's developers. Why? Because they allege Turtle's a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise.
Turns out, Xbox didn't just cancel Perfect Dark. They locked the series in a vault, rather than letting someone else finish making the game.
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Approximately 1/3 of the UK's population do not possess a Credit card, many for reasons that mean they cannot qualify for one. Now? Many of Steam's oft-lauded features are going to be denied to that 1/3 of society... Valve chose this.
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The price of the PlayStation 5 is why Capcom have sold less than 500,000 copies of Monster Hunter Wilds since launch. At least, that's what their CEO says.
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In the UK, unless you sign up for a credit card, you're getting a worse version of Steam than the rest of the world. And it still can't fully stop kids from getting to Adult Content.
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Yes, Silksong is finally releasing this month. But so are many other cool games, that don't deserve to get lost in the crush. Let's check them all out.
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Blizzard quietly retconned the worst parts of Shadowlands, and just recently, saving the best parts.
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Valve are now censoring which reviews you see when you look up a title on Steam. It doesn't sound like the Valve we've come to know but it's the truth, a truth we all now have to reckon with!
Warcraft Posts
We'll see if they fix it in time, but Legion Remix is... not what anyone wanted. Uh oh. But at least there's more good Midnight news!
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Lost Soul Aside launches today. 9 years in the making. PlayStation-backed $70 AAA hack-and-slash Final Fantasy. You just know something was going to go wrong. Of course, it did. And that might just be okay.
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The fear of Hot Coffee strikes again, in a highly theoretical way. Meanwhile, in Europe, a new report shows the march of digital over physical and mobile over console continues apace.
This flew a little bit under the radar: DPS meters, a complete nameplate overhaul, and Blizzard's official DBM. All confirmed for Midnight launch.
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Dreams of Fortnification are coming to an end. For now, at least. Meanwhile, nightmares under Microsoft continue.
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As content creators on YouTube we're no strangers to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but while frustrating, it's usually something we can deal with. Much less workable is the storm of false strikes that have been hitting Steam lately, with bad actors emboldened by Valve's lax systems!