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Loading Screen: The Industry Responds To Stop Destroying Games
“prohibitively expensive” and “curtailing developer choice”. The industry's response to Stop Destroying Games is everything we expected.
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They Did Things The "Right" Way And Failed Anyway
Clair Obsur: Expedition 33 has defined the conversation surrounding game dev funding over recent times. Its studio's "back of the box" features were celebrated as the way to go. Alzara: Radiant Echoes followed that blueprint, but now their dev, Studio Camelia is dead. What happened?
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Microsoft: This Was Just Cruel.
Satya Nadella's Microsoft doesn't care about the success of individual studios, projects or the staff who produce them. Xbox as a whole is simply another line item on a spreadsheet, one that, in sacrifice to the line gods, was butchered once again. It's been a rough week.
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Loading Screen: Video Game Executives Might Not Be Okay
Claims that MindsEye is being sabotaged and that the next Battlefield could hit 100 million players have us asking if video game execs are okay.
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Anthem Proved Stop Killing Games Right
As more than 1 million people ask the EU to preserve video games, EA just announced Anthems' end-of-life update.
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And Just Like That It's Over For Hytale...
It's December 13th 2018. The team of renowned Minecraft modders behind Hypixel have just unveiled Hytale, their standalone fantasy-themed Minecraft competitor. Over 6.5 years, a Riot Games buyout, $100s of millions + 61,499,705 views later? It's dead.
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Loading Screen: New FPS From Romero Games Axed
Xbox just pulled funding on a new shooter from the father of FPS games, and they're not the only publisher leaving indies high and dry.
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Xbox "Have Never Looked Stronger"
Xbox has been decimated, with sweeping layoffs, studio closures and game cancellations. All because the line didn't go up fast enough.
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Finally, Some Hope For 'Stop Killing Games'?
Despite the best intentions, it seemed the "Stop Killing Games" initiative was doomed to fizzle out and fail. Not so! The power of (arguably unrelated!) internet drama has clutched a victory from the jaws of defeat supporters resigned themselves to months ago!
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Loading Screen: Subnautica 2 Leadership Sacked
Leadership at Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds had been there for decades. Now their corporate overlord has replaced them, so Subnautica 2 ships sooner.
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Loading Screen: Ready or Not Was Not Ready For This Censorship Backlash
Players believe that Ready or Not's developer has bowed to censorship, four years after standing against it.
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Upcoming Games: A Juicy July
July is jam-packed with AA games and Indies, with sequels, spiritual successors and lots of promise. Let's see what's on offer!