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Loading Screen: Microsoft Broke Xbox's Servers
For 24 hours, Xbox players couldn't access their purchased games, and it turns out it was all Microsoft's fault.
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Loading Screen: Indie Devs Find, Fix Malware, Lose Discord To Hackers
Art imitates life, as Meccha Chameleon's devs just lost their Discord to an impersonator while fixing malware in community maps.
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Sony Have No Intent To Change Their Minds Despite Legal Threats
Ten Thousand Strong voiced their frustrations under a single game trailer. The vocal audience is not happy with Sony for dropping physical discs going forward. Despite this, there will almost be no backtrack from PlayStation!
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Loading Screen: Can Cloud Gaming End The Hardware Crisis?
As hardware costs spike, companies attempt to find new entry points for gaming - returning to the clouds once more.
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Bethesda's Big Reveals Prove XBOX Shouldn't Be Trusted
They're fine! That's what the surviving devs under XBOX keep telling us. Their 100s of lost colleagues were great and all, but they weren't doing anything important enough to stop them making New Entry In IP You Love... Consume Content Please. They swear everything's ok!
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Loading Screen: Xbox Backwards Compatibility Is About The Future
Xbox just revealed PC backwards compatibility for original Xbox games, but the timing and the tech have us asking questions.
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Loading Screen: Indies Failed By The Industry Fight Back
Three indies were failed by industry trends outside their control. Now they're fighting back.
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Loading Screen: Only 7 Games Sold 100K Physical Copies On PlayStation US In 2026
Hard numbers show hard truths, as we lay bare the reality of the US physical games market in 2026.
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EA (Finally) Stopped Fumbling Battlefield's Live Service
The return of naval & Titan (different Titans!) warfare is just around the corner, and it's the strongest an entry of EA's flagship shooter has looked this far into its lifespan in maybe 15 years? It seems DICE/Battlefield Studios finally learned from the past.
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Loading Screen: The Games Industry Is Being Failed By Its Leaders
Leaders keep their jobs, devs get fired, and you get worse games.
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Tim Sweeney's AI Future For Game Development
New AI-powered voices for Fortnite are just the first step for Tim Sweeney's Epic Games. If he gets his way? The future is Unreal.
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Meccha Chameleon’s Copycat Problem
Days after your game goes viral, there are scores of copycat pretenders flooding game marketplaces. Meccha Chameleon was blessed with 15 million sales, but not all devs will be so lucky when it happens!