The AAA Industry Really Wants GTA VI To Be $80!
We all thought we were done with this... but the industry REALLY wants GTA 6 to shift the overton window with games pricing!
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Loading Screen: Subnautica's Success Is Krafton's Loss
Krafton went through all that fuss, spent all that money on ChatGPT legal advice, and they're probably still gonna have to pay out.
Loading Screen: Payment Processors Won't Even Let Adult Games Crowdfund Now
Payment processors have struck down another corner of the internet. You can't distribute games without their input, and now you can't fund them either.
Loading Screen: He Wants To Save Video Games From His Old Boss
One man is trying to fix the damage that NetEase inflicted on the games industry. Because he set them up to do it.
12.0.7 Changes Leveling, And Hopefully Forever
Blizzard are starting to wise up to the issues we have with those dreaded last ten levels. 12.0.7 introduces the first of hopefully many changes to solve them.
Bungie's Value Has Plummeted In The Eyes Of Sony
Bungie convinced Sony that their output and staff were worth a combined $3.7 Billion a mere four years ago. Now? Sony has marked $765 Million as losses attributed to that same studio. Things are looking grim for the studio formerly behind Halo...
Blizzard Caught Scrubbing Vital Classic+ Evidence
Classic+ news is afoot, and Blizzard tried to cover some things up. By doing so, they may have revealed their hand. New elves, anyone?
Loading Screen: Sega Just Gave Up On Live Service, Cancelled The ¥100m "Super Game"
Pretty much everything Sega's done in the last five years has gone wrong for them, except the Sonic Movies, I guess.
GameStop Isn't Just Alive... It's Aiming To Consume eBay?!
$55.5 Billion for GameStop of ALL companies to buy eBay is truly absurd...
Loading Screen: Xbox Just Handed Forza To Pirates
An expensive mistake has just handed pirates the entirety of Forza Horizon 6, and Xbox can't do much about it.
We Now Know Where Steam's Hardware Vanished
It doesn't look like we're getting the new Steam Machines in the first half of the year as promised. Valve had been silent, but now we know why.
Loading Screen: Bungie Written Down By PlayStation For $765M
Marathon couldn't save Bungie from PlayStation's expectations. After being bought for $3.6 billion, perhaps nothing could.
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No Winners Here As Nacon Butchers Their Own Dev Teams
Nacon are immune to good press. Selling pirated copies of games they have no rights to, laying off staff at solidly successful teams for their own failed book-balancing, and ignoring the business models that work for the teams they own. Yet they insist on limping on at others' expense. £#*% Nacon.
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Loading Screen: "Sabotage", "Piss-Stinkers" and "Superfluous" Employees Striking At Union Dodging Publisher
Another French studio is facing layoffs under Nacon, and staff are happily airing their grievances ahead of strikes.
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Loading Screen: Generative AI Copilot Dead On Xbox
Two months after an industry showcase, Xbox Copilot, as a generative AI tool, was killed by company leadership. But which leadership?
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This Is Why You Don't Have A Steam Machine Yet
Steam Controllers are already out of stock, but the Machine and Frame haven't made it to sale yet. But Valve are being open about why.
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Loading Screen: $80 For GTA VI Would Benefit "The Entire Industry"
If GTA VI doesn't cost $80, Bank of America thinks the games industry is really in trouble.
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Blizzard's Damage Control Interview Was Secretly A Disaster
Media-trained game director giving nothing answers to the press. That's not new. What is new is that what he said actually betrayed how they think, and we really need that to change.
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It Wasn't Supposed To Be Xal'atath
Xal'atath's story once belonged to someone else. Someone much more fundamental to WoW's history.
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Did PlayStation Really Add A DRM Killswitch To PSN?
Their silence was deafening. For more than a moment, it seemed the very publisher who'd mocked Xbox (One) for adding DRM to physical games was going a step further and adding a ticking time bomb to every title on their platforms. What were PlayStation thinking?!
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Loading Screen: GameStop Wants To Buy eBay For $55.5 Billion
You know how at GameStop you trade in a game and then put that towards another game? They want to use their own stock to do that and buy eBay.
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Microsoft Desperately Wants To Convince You Xbox Is Back.
WE ARE XBOX. That's the rallying cry from the new leads of the Microsoft subsidiary formerly known as Microsoft Gaming... but after ousting Phil Spencer after his quarter-century tenure with Xbox, is this all for show, or are "are we so back"?
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Why Do They Keep Review Bombing Slay The Spire 2?!
Slay The Spire's sequel was punching well above its weight when it launched earlier this year. Critically adored, the game went toe-to-toe with a new game from Bungie and came out on top! Why then has it been facing sequential review bombs to the tune of 10s of 1000s reviews on Steam?!
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Loading Screen: Crimson Desert's Win Is Eve Online's Loss
Eve Online developer CCP is independent again, and it's got hit game Crimson Desert to blame.