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Xbox Staff Are Protecting Themselves Against Microsoft
Generative AI adoption, layoffs, studio closures. Under Microsoft, Xbox is being changed. Staff aren't going to take it.
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Loading Screen: The Companies Caught Stealing Voices With GenAI
Stealing voices is the crime pinned against Aspyr and Konami today - and they'd probably have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky non-English speakers.
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Loading Screen: Did Nintendo Just Patent Summoning In Games?
A new patent from Nintendo could spell doom for hundreds of games with summoning mechanics... maybe.
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Loading Screen: Team Cherry Made Silksong Easier*, Some Players Want More
A difficult video game has been released, and now the devs are nerfing* it. A tale as old as time, but one we're going to take a closer look at today for Silksong.
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Loading Screen: Paradox Are Refunding VTM: Bloodlines 2 Preorders. Again.
Ten years later, Paradox are still trying to get Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 out the door, and are now on their second set of refunds for preorders after controversy.
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No Man's Sky Just Had Its Biggest Launch... Since Launch
98,000 people at once. Nine years after launch. No Man's Sky is a phenomenon. And as yet another free update launches, the question is how can Hello Games possibly continue to justfiy it?
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Loading Screen: Silksong Broke Gaming. Literally.
When a game nukes every store at once, rendering them unusable, we should probably dig into why.
Reports
Helldivers 2 Did It Again
We're back on the Helldivers rollercoaster. Performance problems versus incredible new experiences. Once again, it's so over, and we're so back.
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Loading Screen: The Launch So Bad It Killed A Publisher
How badly did the launch of MindsEye go? So badly it might have put their publisher off backing any more games.
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Loading Screen: Xbox Didn't Have To Kill Perfect Dark
Turns out, Xbox didn't just cancel Perfect Dark. They locked the series in a vault, rather than letting someone else finish making the game.
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Loading Screen: Capcom Says PlayStation To Blame For Poor Monster Hunter Sales
The price of the PlayStation 5 is why Capcom have sold less than 500,000 copies of Monster Hunter Wilds since launch. At least, that's what their CEO says.
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Loading Screen: Steam UK Now Locked Behind A Credit Card
In the UK, unless you sign up for a credit card, you're getting a worse version of Steam than the rest of the world. And it still can't fully stop kids from getting to Adult Content.