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Collective Shout claim responsibility and duck from blame, itch.io prove the slope is VERY slippery, and we might maybe have a solution to work towards. What a week! What do you mean it's only Monday?
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Alt title: How Putin Stopped One Team From Saving Multiplayer Games Forever. I'm not kidding!
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First, they targeted Steam, and now the payment processors have been directed at Itch.io. A whole generation of independent games and media has just been censored.
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Yves' Son and Yves' Cousin walk into a boardroom, and walk out with control of Ubisoft's new $1.8bn subsidiary. The best men for the job.
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Xbox are backpedalling, as their first attempt to charge $80 for a game is quietly reversed.
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Two months and two rounds of layoffs later, Splitgate 2 is going back into beta. The game is being "unlaunched" so the devs can get things back on track.
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When stringent age verification was announced to be coming to Nexus Mods, many called foul, placing blame at the feet of the site's new corporate owners. Not so according to the original founder. The real truth here is causing tremors across the industry.
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An anonymous complaint has the Stop Destroying Games movement concerned, but with 1.4 million signatures a week before the deadline, they're doing pretty well regardless.
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Valve are in charge of Steam. Except when they're not, and they have to bend to the will of payment processors like PayPal, Visa or Mastercard.
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Xbox were about to give up; Nintendo continued to play their own game while PC continued to rise. Where'd that leave Sony? With a market ripe for the dominance... would anyone notice if they squeezed players dry once they had them fenced in?
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Ubisoft's shareholders had questions, and Yves Guillemot had answers, as the company opened up the floor to the public at their AGM.
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This week, the internet you're used to will be changed thanks to a wave of new laws.