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Loading Screen: PlayStation CFO Says "Not Everything Is Going Well"
All PlayStation wants to talk about is their great balance sheet, but all their investors want to talk about is Marathon. It's not very fair.
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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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For Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft's About Family
Founded by Yves Guillemot and his brothers Christian, Claude, Gérard, and Michel, Ubisoft has, for nearly 40 years (30 post-IPO), maintained its family-led structure. After dodging forced privatisation, they've just doubled down with some blatant nepotism. What could go wrong?
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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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Who Is To Blame For The Mass Game Delistings?
It's finger-pointing time as everyone says it's someone else's fault that we're seeing legal adult games being delisted from online stores. But an overreach of PR by one company might have given the game away...
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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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Xbox's $80 Price Hike Is Dead On Arrival
The Outer Worlds was supposed to be Microsoft's wedge. If Obsidian's latest launched at $80, then of course, the next Call of Duty, Halo or Diablo from Xbox could follow suit. That wedge just broke; the $80 floodgate is staying shut, for now.
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Upcoming Games: An Alluring August
August sees the return of legendary game series like Gradius and Shinobi, alongside new titles from the developers behind Journey and the Oblivion Remake. Let's check it out!
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Splitgate Just Unlaunched... Again!
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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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.