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Loading Screen: NetEase Just Cut Off Another Developer's Funding
Another studio is at risk after NetEase lured devs to work with them with promises of support... only to change their minds halfway through development.
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Loading Screen: Activision Just Gave In to Players. Again.
For the second time in as many months, Activision just gave players what they'd been asking for. They might yet regret it.
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Game Pass Got 50% More Expensive!
In the space of two years, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has doubled in price. That's not hyperbole, as it leapt by 50% just this month. The subscription that was once built around the "Play Day 1 On Game Pass" mantra is now $360 yearly. What is going on?!
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Electronic Arts, Soon To Be A Leading (Saudi) Arabian Publisher??
(American) Football with Madden, guns galore with Battlefield, and diverse livelihoods with The Sims. We could go on... but it could certainly be argued that EA's library represents the ideals of the American dream. The Californian-born publisher's natural new home, of course? Saudi Arabia...
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Loading Screen: 60% Of Players Buy Two Or Fewer Games Per Year
A staggeringly small number of you are apparently keeping every indie and AA developer afloat right now.
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The Sad State of Stormgate
Stormgate never stood a chance, because that team made a bet based on an entirely different games industry. The CEO agrees.
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Loading Screen: Ubisoft's Mysterious Backer Allows Free DLC
Players aren't paying for Ubisoft's new DLC for a two-year-old game. Someone has to be... but Ubisoft aren't giving away any details.
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Loading Screen: Every Unity Game Made Since 2017 Is A Hacking Risk
A newly discovered exploit might affect every game made in Unity since 2017, and that means a lot of finished, abandoned games are now at risk.
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(Blizzard) Veterans Struggle To Survive After Their ActiBlizz Tours Of Duty...
Blizzard Ent saw a mass exodus of some of its best and brightest; the early 2020s funding boom incentivised more and more to take the leap. "Ex-Blizzard talent" seemed a surefire path to success. We're starting to see the first wave of resultant projects in the wild. Success? Not so much...
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Loading Screen: AI Snoop Dogg Is The Future Of Gaming
As Amazon and Netflix try to reach new audiences with their games, they think Generative AI is the future. It seems bleak.
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Most Gamers Play Remakes, But Nostalgia Isn't Why...
19 years after its original release, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion returned and has become the second-best-selling game of the year to date. Most of us just assumed nostalgia was the driving factor, but a new report suggests the continued success of Remakes & re-releases is much more complex.
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Loading Screen: One Of Gaming's Most Controversial Studios Just Unionised
Of all the studios to voluntarily recognise their staff's union, I didn't expect it to be ZA/UM, the makers of Disco Elysium and Disco Elysium-related controversies.