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You can make a poorly selling game and get laid off. You can make a GOTY contender and get laid off. As Bungie face 220 more layoffs, and more staff departures - It might not be about the developers.
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Chivalry II announced an end to planned content updates, and audience reaction has broadly been frustration. Which leads us to the question - are developers ever allowed to walk away from their games?
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A triple threat today! Sonic and Mario are out, NFTS are in at the Olympics, The Behemoth is making DLC for a 16 year old video game, while Sega have a new plan for their gaming divison.
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Just because players *want* something - that doesn't mean it's good for them or for the game they're playing. Thanks to a report from Activision - now we've got some evidence to back that up.
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Voice Actors in the Video Game Industry are on strike! What does this mean for you? Do you need to stop playing your favourite titles? Today we go through all that and more.
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The future seems safer for nearly 500 World of Warcraft Developers today as they secure a union vote win - while for Paradox, they've not fully lost - but 90% of their profits were wiped out by cancelling Life By You.
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Activision have been alleged to sell Generative AI Based Skins in Call of Duty, while Huimble Bundle's parent company just shut down their publishing arm to save money. It's just another day in the games industry.
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Helldivers 2's newest plan is to just tell the Audience what's coming - we'll see if it pays off. Elsewhere Capcom are sticking with Physical Games even as they represent only 10% of sales and the Video Game Voice Actors union is getting ready to strike against the biggest companies in gaming.
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We're curious about why Warframe developer Digital Extremes have seemingly forgotten their history of live service development, our take on Xbox's rebuke of the FTC and we check out what's next now Bethesda Game Studios is a full union shop.
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A viral survey suggests 82% of gamers spend money on MTX in F2P games, but that's not the *whole* story. Over in the world of anti-trust, the FTC are taking their chance to say "I told you so" in the wake of Game Pass's price rises.
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Hasbro's billion dollar bet on the future of their company is video games, so they're putting that money in a pair of safe (and familiar) hands. Meanwhile Sega aren't taking harassment of their devs lying down - they've had the lawyers take on abusive fans.
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Warhorse Studios are rewarding the biggest backers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance ahead of the sequel, Space Marine 2's leak isn't as bad as we thought, Nintendo revived a 35 year old series and Halo *probably* isn't being outsourced.