Riot's Two-Step Plan To Success: 1. Fire Staff. 2. Add Gacha!
Riot just laid off the most impactful artists on the League of Legends team. Less than 24 hours later they dropped some of the most egregious gacha mechanics into LoL yet.
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Loading Screen: The NFT Games On Steam
Steam banned NFT games, yet this week we heard about two of them coming to the platform. Has Valve loosened the rules?
Lorewalking: Blizzard’s Attempt To Save The Story
Lorewalking might be how Blizzard fix one of their biggest problems: Having 20 years of story that only a handful of people played.
Emerging From The Shadows, Ubisoft's Hope Is Renewed. Will It Last?
After a string of relative failures, Assassin's Creed: Shadows was the success Ubisoft needed to kickstart their journey back towards stability. Successfully convincing Tencent to bail them out to the tune of €1.16bn with "Two-bisoft"? That certainly makes things simpler.
Valve's New OS Standards
Valve are setting their standards early for SteamOS on third-party devices, and that bodes well for the future.