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Loading Screen: The New €4.3 Billion Ubisoft
Ubisoft just announced a new company, a €1.16 billion partnership with Tencent, and possibly a plan that will protect them from any hostile takeover in future.
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Nintendo Reinvents Sharing Digital Games, Marketing
Nintendo just reinvented game sharing for Switch games ahead of the Switch 2 launch, and then, to top that, they reinvented how game marketing works, too.
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Loading Screen: NFT Battle Royale Dev Resurrects Game Informer
Strange bedfellows, as an NFT backed developer has managed to resurrect the Game Informer brand. But with no strings attached, this might just be good news for a change.
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Is The Collapse Of Steam's Store Algorithm Imminent?
With the new titles arriving on Steam numbering in the tens of thousands over the past few years, it is no wonder players and devs alike are getting skittish. Can the devs at Valve hope to keep up with their store's lauded algorithm?
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Shadows Hasn't "Saved" Ubisoft, But It's A Mighty Start.
Amidst corporate drama, all eyes have been on Ubisoft's latest. If it had been a complete failure, the writing had been on the wall for a while... but as a success, the question is now being asked. Will it be enough?
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Loading Screen: Silent Hill f's Censorship Confusion
Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, except... it really wasn't. Confusion has surged as Australia's history of banning games has folks worried.
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Loading Screen: The Law Comes For Premium Currency
The EU just laid down the law on premium currency and FOMO practices. This could be the start of a massive change in games.
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Shadows Defied All Expectations
Assassin's Creed Shadows is on track to be the best-selling game in the series. Good thing, because Ubisoft have more riding on that game than just sales.
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They Produced Indie Darlings. Then They Bet Big. It Cost Them Their Soul.
Checking Thunderful Publishing's Steam page, you'll find a short but sweet list of (often Very) Positively received titles. Their leadership didn't think this was close to enough, having far greater ambitions. Over the past half-decade, those ambitions have cost them almost everything!
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Loading Screen: Xbox Plan To Incorporate Steam
Xbox's plans for the future might have leaked, and they tease a new system where Steam (and everyone else) are under the Xbox umbrella on PC.
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Too Many Games On Steam?
Steam has more than 19k games released yearly since they allowed Generative AI. Is the slop taking over?
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Loading Screen: Assassin's Creed Devs Thwart Plans Of Japanese Politician
A day one patch for Assassin's Creed Shadows is less about stopping bugs, and more about stopping the plans of one Japanese Politician.