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Loading Screen: Steam Banned This Game, It Released Anyway
Steam refused to release a promising indie horror game on seemingly arbitrary terms, after being spooked by payment processors. The dev isn't letting that stop them.
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Loading Screen: Are Nintendo About To Scrap Game-Key Cards?
All the drawbacks of a physical game, and a digital game - Nintendo's Game Key Cards haven't been well recieved. Which is why fans were excited about surveys where they could make their anger clear. But the story might not be so clear cut.
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Loading Screen: Bioshock Sent Back To The Drawing Board
Fired executives, six years of development time and threats of layoffs. But we're still far away from the next BioShock game.
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Loading Screen: EA's Open Source Battlefield Gamble
It turns out the secret weapon for BF6 won't be anything EA builds. It'll be what you end up building for them.
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Loading Screen: Only 5% More Sales For MH: Wilds Since Launch
477,000 sales mean that Monster Hunter: Wilds has hit a wall, as the total copies sold only increased by 5% since February.
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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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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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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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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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Loading Screen: Microsoft Gives Up On $80 Games
Xbox are backpedalling, as their first attempt to charge $80 for a game is quietly reversed.
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Loading Screen: The Anonymous Threat To Stop Destroying Games
An anonymous complaint has the Stop Destroying Games movement concerned, but with 1.4 million signatures a week before the deadline, they're doing pretty well regardless.