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Capping off a week of disasters for Xbox - an interview with President Sarah Bond has left everyone even more confused as the company deflects questioning. But elsewhere in the industry, a simultaneous launch for four impressive indies has people excited about actually playing games.
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With terrible news comes many leaks, as sources have fed the press information on the state of Xbox in the days after the closure of four studios. Contradictory rationales, arguments about game pass and development in trouble - all topics that we're learning about from Xbox sources today.
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Today one of Helldiver's Community Managers has seemingly been fired following the successful consumer revolt, EA's Financial Results have hints as to future games and Nintendo's New Switch has had it's announcement announced.
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Xbox have an operating cost problem, the solution is closing four Bethesda studios. This will somehow solve the 41% operating cost increase from ABK - the only problem with that is that they've just destroyed any and all faith that their fans, developers and potential partners could have.
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The success of indies this year has led to (responsible) publishers asking players to just let their devs cook - more devs won't get you updates faster. Meanwhile, the Stop Killing Games movement has gotten an official response in the UK - but it's not great news.
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Today - Riot are facing accusations of bricking people's PCs as they add their kernel level anti cheat to League of Legends - but based on their reported errors and explanation - it's a really niche problem to face. Similarly niche, but no less impressive for it - this week's Weekend Recommend.
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Turns out that Take Two weren't done killing studios - and even if you do sell critically acclaimed games you aren't safe. Meanwhile From Software have disappointed many with news of Elden Ring DLC, while Square Enix have taken a hatchet to their release plans - to the tune of 22.1 billion yen.
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Two stories today - as in the wake of Tarkov's controversial supporter packages, a new competitor has swept in to charm their shared audience while we're seeing the first impact of Take Two's layoffs and it seems like the team behind Kerbal Space Program have been hit hard.
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An interview with Todd Howard by KindaFunny has given everyone insight into the state of Bethesda going forwards - we've got Starfield updates, Fallout questions and then following that, we dig into the state of their games right now as a very angry modding community take Bethesda to task.
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Roblox is resurrecting a 19 year old system to let players buy real objects from inside the game world, a Streamer turned the tables on Nexon to argue for community demands and we bring you the most interesting stories of the weekend.
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Tarkov is asking folks to pay $250 for PvE - and players are revolting, Activision Blizzard has saved Xbox's financials and Capcom are making very weird decisions around delisting smaller titles.
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Elite Dangerous' new experiments with monetisation have players on edge, and accusing Frontier Development of going back on their word - while an Indie dev publishes their game demo, then pauses development all in the same day, because the industry simply isn't funding projects right now.