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May '19, Splitgate: Arena Warfare arrived on Steam in early access. August '21, Splitgate entered indefinite Beta as focus shifted to a sequel. May '25, Splitgate 2 arrived in Open Beta, launched June '25, unlaunched into indefinite Beta July '25. How fast will round 3 cycle?!
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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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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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10.7 BILLION USD. That's how much money is generated by eSports gambling associated with Riot Games' Valorant & League of Legends... as such, morals be damned, Riot wants a cut.
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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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When it comes to Steam, Valve have always had a fairly hands-off approach. They act when forced to... yet usually, whether a game stays on Steam is up to them. Not this time, as 100s of games vanished from Steam, all at the behest of Valve's newest rulemakers.
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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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Alt title: How Putin Stopped One Team From Saving Multiplayer Games Forever. I'm not kidding!
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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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Yves' Son and Yves' Cousin walk into a boardroom, and walk out with control of Ubisoft's new $1.8bn subsidiary. The best men for the job.
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Xbox are backpedalling, as their first attempt to charge $80 for a game is quietly reversed.
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Two months and two rounds of layoffs later, Splitgate 2 is going back into beta. The game is being "unlaunched" so the devs can get things back on track.