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Steam Wants To Fix Game Marketing
In a year where we've got more good games than ever, Steam wants to make sure you don't miss your next favourite.
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Payday 2 Is Gearing Up To Keep Heisting
Two years after its "Final Update", Payday 2 not only received a notable patch, but a brand new (small) dedicated dev team. With Payday 3 still undergoing a major rework, we try to make sense of Starbreeze's rationale behind renewing work on their 12-year-old Heister...
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Loading Screen: Amazon Kills New World, MMO Development
It's the end of New World as we know it, and Amazon feels fine.
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Loading Screen: EA's Cosiest Creators Just Rebelled
Many The Sims Creators just walked away from EA, because they will not support the new owners at the cost of their own beliefs.
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Microsoft Has Set Impossible Targets For Xbox
Every other week (it's felt like), Xbox leadership has changed course in a major fashion for the past few years. It really didn't make sense, insane layoffs, cancellations, plans never panning out or being reversed before their impacts could play out. Now, depressingly... it all makes sense.
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Loading Screen: Xbox Denies "Mandate" On Generative AI Tech
Xbox's CEO says they're not forcing staff to use generative AI to make games. The devil might be in the details.
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Total War(hammer) Has A Foundational Problem
Total War: Warhammer III should be the pinnacle of Creative Assembly's 25-year-old series. Instead, it's about as shambling as the undead Tomb Kings that brought the near-decade-old strategy game to its review-bombed knees... this time! Can CA recover before their big anniversary showcase?
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The Industry Fights Back Against The EU's MTX Crackdown
Before the summer, it was the Swedish horse-themed MMO that had placed egregious microtransaction practices firmly within the EU's crosshairs. As the consequences are set to ripple across the industry, industry leaders are speaking out!
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Loading Screen: Valve Just Deleted $3 Billion From CS Players
Chaos reigns as with a single update to Counter Strike 2, Valve have wiped out nearly $3 billion in player inventory values.
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Loading Screen: Microsoft Asked Xbox To Do The Impossible
Microsoft asked Xbox to proportionally make as much profit as Nintendo, and three times as much as PlayStation. And then they started cutting.
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Activision Keeps Caving To Call Of Duty's Loudest Players
They said players didn't want it, that things would never go back to how they were... Despite that, Activision (scared by BF6?) have not only rolled back "Fortnite-/enshitification" of their cosmetics, but they've gone ahead and removed Skill-Based Matchmaking AND disbanding lobbies too?!
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The European Pushback On MTX Regulation
In April, the EU tried to regulate in-game monetisation. Six months later, the EU games industry is trying to warn just how badly it could go.