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Loading Screen: PlayStation's DRM Killswitch
A thirty-day countdown to inaccessibility is what some PlayStation fans are facing, as they believe Sony has flipped the killswitch.
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Are "Disposable" Games The Future Of AAA?
Krafton certainly have a confusing reputation, publisher of the absurdly popular PUBG, saviour of Hi-Fi Rush & its team, major advocate of shoving GenAI into every project and all the Subnautica legal drama... now they want to ruin the very concept of Early Access games on Steam for us all too?
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Xbox Have Taken The Blame & Backtracked On Game Pass
New Head of Xbox Asha Sharma has been in the role for a mere 60 days. Likely any fledgling leader, she (and her bosses at Microsoft corporate!) wanted to make a strong first move. Kicking CoD off Game Pass's day 1 offering and slashing the subs pricing substantially? It's a bold strategy, Cotton...
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Loading Screen: Xbox CEO -"Players Are Frustrated", But Can Xbox Change For Them?
"We Are Xbox", but is Xbox something that players actually want? The new leadership think they can prove that.
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Loading Screen: California Wants To Stop Killing Games
A deep dive today as California gives hope to Stop Killing Games in the US with a new law designed to give you more rights.
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Secrets Unveiled As Rockstar Refused To Give In To Hackers
When it was threatened with a successful hack of their sensitive internal data, Rockstar barely blinked. Now we know why, and today we break down the numbers they'd kept hidden, but weren't worried you'd find out!
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Loading Screen: Australia Wants To Clean Up Steam's Nazi Problem
Age verification was only the tip of the iceberg, as regulators want to make sure it isn't just kids who are safe online.
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“Game Pass Ultimate has become too expensive for too many players.”
Game Pass prices went up, now they've come down. But that comes at a different type of cost than currency.
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Stop Killing Games Took The EU Stage
Nine months since the Stop Destroying Games European initiative succeeded in gaining the support needed, they've gotten their hearing within the European Union, and it's gone better than could ever have been expected, with much greater support from parliament than the organisers dared hope.
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Loading Screen: Japanese Brands Take Gaming Into Their Own Hands
The makers of Hello Kitty, Dragonball and more have decided to turn their hands to active game development, not just licensing IPs.
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Loading Screen: BAFTA Refused To Show This Indie Game
Another Indie Game that wants to treat games as art has been denied a platform, but this time it's by an acclaimed awards organisation.
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Stream Instead Of Owning Hardware... A Failed Experiment?
Amazon were pitching a working solution to the rising hardware costs afflicting the industry. Links with your EA, GOG & Ubisoft libraries had given their streaming service some solid credibility. Why then have they tossed all that aside for a digital facsimile of Snoop Dogg & digital board games?!