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Loading Screen: EA Aren't Selling $80 Games
As the tide shifts in an industry hungry for more revenue, EA aren't willing to risk selling $80 games. They don't seem to think they need to.
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Riot Games Have Officially Embraced Gambling
10.7 BILLION USD. That's how much money is generated by eSports gambling associated with Riot Games' Valorant & League of Legends... as such, morals be damned, Riot wants a cut.
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Loading Screen: "Slavish Copy" Sees PlayStation Sue Tencent
Tencent asked PlayStation if they could make a Horizon game. PlayStation said no. Tencent made a game that looked like Horizon. PlayStation asked them to stop. Tencent said no. Now the lawyers are out for blood.
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Blizzard Never Learn (And We Know Why)
Blizzard rarely repeat mistakes once they've learned them. Then why are we getting PTSD to one of BFA's most annoying inclusions? Good question - we might have the answer.
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Valve Changed Their Rules And Lost Control
When it comes to Steam, Valve have always had a fairly hands-off approach. They act when forced to... yet usually, whether a game stays on Steam is up to them. Not this time, as 100s of games vanished from Steam, all at the behest of Valve's newest rulemakers.
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Loading Screen: Collective Shouting Continues
Collective Shout claim responsibility and duck from blame, itch.io prove the slope is VERY slippery, and we might maybe have a solution to work towards. What a week! What do you mean it's only Monday?
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Microsoft Just Jeopardised WoW’s Future
Microsoft’s blind culling of stuff has just killed one of WoW’s finest assets: its growing reputation.
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Loading Screen: Toxicity Was Almost Solved*
Alt title: How Putin Stopped One Team From Saving Multiplayer Games Forever. I'm not kidding!
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Loading Screen: Itch.io Was Next On Their List
First, they targeted Steam, and now the payment processors have been directed at Itch.io. A whole generation of independent games and media has just been censored.
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The War Within Is Over
What happened to the war within? Not the expansion - the war. We're almost off on a sidequest to a war on another planet! The War Without doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Nepotism: Ubisoft's Plan For The Future
Yves' Son and Yves' Cousin walk into a boardroom, and walk out with control of Ubisoft's new $1.8bn subsidiary. The best men for the job.
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Loading Screen: Microsoft Gives Up On $80 Games
Xbox are backpedalling, as their first attempt to charge $80 for a game is quietly reversed.