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Editor's Note #8: Spinning Off Or Out Of Control?
In years gone by it felt like every popular game was getting a plethora of spin-offs in every genre! Will we ever find ourselves in a similar era of spin-offs again?
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Video: EA Lays Off 670 More Staff
Ad Free Video! 670 Layoffs in one go - as EA decide to clean up their balance sheet, killing a studio they only established two years ago, and ending development on a Star Wars FPS before it even makes it out of the prototype stage. It’s a brutal range of cuts.
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Loading Screen: These Three Developers Escaped Their AAA Overlords
On a Leap Day, ancient Irish tradition dictates that customs can be flipped - like that women can traditionally propose marriage to men. Turns out that another custom is that apparently Games Companies can actually excise themselves from their corporate overlords.
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Upcoming Games: A Mighty March
The year is in full swing and March of 2024 is going to see some of the biggest launches we can imagine. There’s really something for everyone - so let’s dive in.
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Loading Screen: Remedy's In Control, Rockstar's Broken Promise and Nintendo's Legal Threat
Remedy are recording an unmitigated win, Rockstar are angering their staff by going back on promises and Nintendo are bringing the legal hammer down on Emulators.
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Video: Baldur's Late with Modding
Ad Free Video! “All we ask is that if you do love us, then please talk to us” is the plea from an open letter to Larian by Modders of Baldur’s Gate 3 - as the developers of one of 2023’s most prominent games deal with the ongoing development of the game.
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EA Layoffs: Bookkeeping with People's Lives
670 Layoffs in one go - as EA decide to clean up their balance sheet, killing a studio they only established two years ago, and ending development on a Star Wars FPS before it even makes it out of the prototype stage.
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Video: Success Will Not Save You - Playstation Layoffs
Ad Free Video! Playstation’s Studios are being decimated. 900 staff across studios and support teams join the wave of layoffs for the company across the last year. Many studios have been hit, titles have been cancelled, and an entire studio has been shut down.
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Loading Screen: No One Is Safe From Layoffs - and There Will be No Golden Age To Follow
From the smallest, most ethically managed indie teams to the very heights of state backed corporations, today we’re going to cover just some of the 7000+ layoffs - and how there's no guarantee things get better.
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Video: Cities Skylines 2 "Our Biggest Regret"
Ad Free Video! “The biggest regret we have is that modding support is not yet available for the game” is the admission from CEO Mariina Hallikainen as their latest update on CS2 deals with the fallout of a content creator revolt and an audience who aren’t seeing changes happen fast enough.
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Loading Screen: Success Will Not Save You
Playstation’s Studios are being decimated as 900 staff across studios and support teams join the wave of layoffs for the company across the last year. As Jim Ryan leaves the company as CEO, the projects he oversaw are in tatters - as Playstation’s developers are left asking what happens next.
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Video: Roundup: Suicide Squad Vs Hogwarts, Disco Elysium & Gigantic!
Ad Free Video! Suicide Squad has “Fallen Short of our expectations” - A damning quote by WB, the talent that made Disco Elysium has now been fully wasted by their corporate overlords - and Gearbox experiment with removing the live service parts of an old game!