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Loading Screen: Xbox "depends on heroics" From Devs - CEO
Xbox's CEO says their systems don't work and they need to make things better for devs, to reduce the need for heroics.
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Can We Hold Out Any Hope With The RAM Crisis?
Recent reports suggested that, finally, the dam was breaking, and the components that prop up our industry were finally starting to drop back to less insane pricing highs. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the trend is going to continue nearly long enough!
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Loading Screen: Stop Killing Games Goes To The EU Parliament
Stop Destroying Games has had their day with EU lawmakers, making their case for changing the whole games industry.
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Amazon Just Proved Ownership Means Nothing
Amazon just shut down its Luna streaming service and left players owning games without a way to play them.
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Gunzilla Games Didn't Feel Like Paying Its Staff
Gunzilla Games runs a fairly successful multi-platform "extraction royale". That game, Off The Grid is also linked to a very profitable Web3 currency, GUN. So this indie company has made millions... which makes it completely rational that they'd stop paying the devs working on it for... months?!
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Loading Screen: Game Pass "has become too expensive" - Xbox CEO
Leaks suggest it's all change at Xbox, from prices to exclusives to Microsoft pressure. But why now?
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Loading Screen: 13 Years Later, GTA Online Still Makes $10m A Week
A new hack has revealed that Rockstar is making the kind of money from GTA Online that other developers would commit crimes for.
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Loading Screen: Ratings Board Leaks Dev Data, Upcoming Games
A new mandatory ratings board website just saw years of work from devs leaked, because they weren't secure enough.
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Your Games Are Collateral In The FTC Vs Payment Providers
It was recently reported that, following the censorship chaos instigated by payment processors since last year, the US FTC was swooping in and fixing things, preventing that from happening again. The truth, as ever, is much less simple.
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Loading Screen: Doki Doki Literature Club Banned Eight Years After Release
Google has decided to revive old discourse and banned Doki Doki Literature Club weeks after it was blamed for corrupting the youth. Back to 2018 we go.
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Chaos Evolved At The Studio Formerly Known As 343 Industries
Almost 15 years have passed since Bungie passed the Halo torch to the studio Microsoft founded explicitly to care for that IP. In that time, they've had 2 major successes by repackaging and curating Bungie's Halo titles... and screwing over their own staff! Time to parse the latest on the latter.
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Payment Processor Censorship Vs The US Government
Since last summer, Payment Processors have censored Steam and Itch.io, but is the US Government coming to the rescue?