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Gaming Is About To Get More Expensive
A global trade standoff means the prices of your games and hardware could increase. More than that, it could also change the face of the games industry forever.
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Loading Screen: The New Game From The Disco Elysium Studio
It's not Disco Elysium 2, but ZA/UM have a new game to show off. The question is whether, after all the controversy, Disco Elysium fans will even care.
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Loading Screen: FOMO MTX Faces The Law
FOMO practices face a new lawsuit in the US as Epic Games is taken to task for their misleading timers and grimy tactics that target children.
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Your Death(s) Have Just Been Monetized!
With every passing update, Activision are shifting their $70 cash cow closer to the F2P hellscapes of the Asian mobile market. Their latest source of monetization? Your deaths! Being Activision, of course there's more.
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Loading Screen: Tony Hawk's Missing Features In Upcoming "Remake"
Audiences haven't been thrilled to find out that Activision are cutting corners with the upcoming Tony Hawk remake seeming more like 3 + 3.5 than 3 +4.
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Loading Screen: Discord's Next Move Could Mean Enshittification
Discord might be going public, and that means a need to keep investors happy, but users are already concerned about the enshittification of the popular app.
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Call Of Duty Just Monetized Dying
Activision's grasping hand of greed has now extended as far as giving you purchase opportunities when you die in Call of Duty.
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Monster Hunter Wilds: Capcom's (Im)perfect Win
With stellar reviews and over 8 million copies sold, Capcom's latest is another blindingly bright spot for the publisher. Yet over on Steam? Barely half the million-strong players reviewed it positively, what's happened?
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Loading Screen: Indie Devs Announce Release Date, Studio Closure
Two weeks before launch, the developer of Reignbreaker announced they were being shut down by their owner.
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Loading Screen: Activision's Lying AI Marketing
Activision just revealed new Crash Bandicoot, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty games via AI-generated adverts! Except they didn't really, because it's not just the artwork that's fake.
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They Might Protest, But Riot Games Reeks Of Greed
Riot isn't happy. Too many of their players are playing their Free To Play MOBA, for free. Their solution? Make the experience far less rewarding for those players, regardless of how long they've supported the studio's work!
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Monster Hunter Wilds' PC Problems
Capcom's biggest ever success came at a price for PC players, and that might not have been an accident.