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Loading Screen: The Summer Games Showcase Summary
A weekend of games marketing means a newsletter full of new games!
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Loading Screen: Helldivers Leads the Way On Live Service, GOG *Will* Let You Pass Account On and the Summer Showcase Primer
Updates for Helldivers show the limits of the Live Service model that game wanted to work with, even as Concord follows behind. Meanwhile GOG do what Valve don't and are willing to transfer accounts in the wake of user death, while we run through the key things to remember over the Summer Showcases.
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Loading Screen: The Truth Behind Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
A bombshell report has unveiled the truth behind the development of Suicide Squad - and places the blame for the eventual released game firmly at the hands of the core leadership at Rocksteady.
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Loading Screen: 20,000 Negative Team Fortress 2 Reviews in Three Days
The SaveTF2 campaign is over - the FixTF2 campaign has begun! The community are sick of the sheer volume of Bots that they're now dealing with - and the people who host those bots. And now they're hitting Steam where it hurts - right in the user reviews.
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Loading Screen: The Studio That Lasted 8 Months, Stolen Indie Games and PSVR's PC Compromise
Just Cause Developer Avalanche is the latest to layoff developers after management decisions, but it's not just AAAs misbehaving. We've got a tale of the smallest scale indie games being stolen, and then Playstation's hope that you'll pay more for their PC VR Solution, but be happy to get less.
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Loading Screen: Take Two's Failure of The Future and Larian's Multiplatform Modding Plan
Reporting suggests that Take Two's ongoing failure of their indie divison might go beyond the two studios it's already hurt, while for Larian, the future of Baldur's Gate 3 is soon to be in players hands.
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Loading Screen: Riot "Won't Miss" Toxic Players and Redfall's Death Has Changed Zenimax
A pair of stories today - Riot's uncompromising stance on harassment in the wake of players being forced out of games of Valorant and then the final death of Redfall - and the good news that's brought for the rest of Zenimax. Plus the weekend recommend - Selaco!
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Loading Screen: PlayStation's Precarious Position as 50% of Audience Still On PS4
Turns out 50% of the PlayStation audience haven't yet gotten a PS5 and most of their revenue growth is coming from about Live service games. Even while PlayStation want to tell everyone their success is real, and that their pipeline of games are strong, looking at the numbers, we have some doubts.
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Loading Screen: Riot's $450 Skin, XDefiant's Quiet Success and Sony Apologies To Neil Druckmann
Ubisoft continue their trends of quietly successful launches that hardcore audiences don't talk about with XDefiant, Sony would like everyone to stop talking about the Druckmann interview that they pulled from the internet and yes, we have to talk about League of Legends $500 skin pack.
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Loading Screen: Ubisoft MTX Sub Literally Booed By Players and Even Larian Can't Avoid Crunch
Ubisoft's newest monetisation strategy has faced immediate and visceral feedback in being booed by players at it's reveal event, while Larian CEO Swen Vincke has reminded us that it's not as simple as believing crunch makes bad games - it made Baldur's Gate 3.
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Loading Screen: Sony Put Words In Neil Druckmann's Mouth, Bungie Took Down More Cheaters in Court
Turns out that Sony went further than smoothing out talking points in the recent Neil Druckmann interview - they added whole new words. Meanwhile Bungie have managed to secure yet another legal win against industrial cheat providers, and we bring you the most interesting writing of the week!
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Loading Screen: The Sims Decade Old Bug Fixes, Good Space Marine 2 News, The UK Challenge Apple and Google
EA is trying to get The Sims 4 back in a playable state, we've gathered all the news from Warhammer Skulls and the UK has made a move that could force Apple and Google to allow third party stores and app sideloading on their platforms. Plus, the Weekend Recommend!