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Loading Screen: Two Live Services, Zero Updates Coming
Two live service games today, one with no plan for keeping updates going, and one with a plan to close down. It's another day in the games industry.
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The People Who Actually Make Your Games Are Suffering
An army of secret developers is making your video games, and per a bombshell report, they're suffering to do so.
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Loading Screen: PC Gamers Defeated PlayStation
The evil is defeated, and going forward PlayStation won't be demanding PC users sign into a PSN account. Instead, they'll be asking, and offering rewards if you do.
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Does Veilguard Deserve The Blame For EA's $6Bn Stock Loss?!
The gaming press ran with it, Dragon Age failed to meet expectations by 50% and now EA's stock has plummeted at record speed! Yet that's far from a fair explanation of the problem EA is facing. Dragon Age was little more than a rounding error...
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Loading Screen: GOG Want Your Vote To Save Games
Your vote could help GOG convince more publishers to make their games DRM-free, and now you've got an easier way to help them.
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Could GTA Pave The Way For Triple-Digit Priced, AAA Games?
It's the looming behemoth set to define the games industry in 2025 and beyond, just by launching. However, GTA VI also holds the power to redefine the value proposition of AAA games for years to come. Will Strauss Zelnick's Take-Two pull the trigger on raising AAA's price ceiling once more?
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Loading Screen: The Studio And Games Destroyed By Crypto Bros
A studio and its two games have been effectively killed, with secretive crypto-based shareholders and an egregious desire for microtransactions seemingly to blame.
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Loading Screen: You Aren't Buying Physical Games
The hard data is here. Less of you are buying physical games than ever, and that decline just hit a major milestone last year.
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Runescape Spooked Its Most Dedicated Players
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Runescape developer Jagex has been sold to another corporate owner. Now, its players are feeling the threat of another wave of price increases and predatory monetisation!
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Loading Screen: Sony's Region Lock Shenanigans Continue
PlayStation cannot leave well alone as they keep changing the region locks for who can buy their PC games on Steam. This time, they've opened up a few more territories... or at least it looks like that.
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Runescape Looked Like It Was Going To Gouge Players
Venture capitalists buy a game, and the devs start asking what increased prices players would pay. It's a classic story, but much like the last time we heard it, players have rebelled.
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Game Pass, Springboard or Safety Net for Xbox?
Up to 80% of potential sales lost at the altar of growing Xbox Game Pass? Can (or will) Microsoft continue to justify that kind of risk betting on the no-so-near future?