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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.
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Twelve Years Later, Payday 2 Is A Subscription...
Thirteen years ago, Starbreeze launched Payday 2, and for a decade, they continued developing it with new heists, weapons and cosmetics. That ended two years ago with the launch of Payday 3. Now, though, it's the 2nd game in the series that has a Subscription service? We try to make sense of it.
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Loading Screen: 50% Price Hikes - Xbox's New Plan For Game Pass
An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription will now cost you $360 a year. Are you really spending more than that on new games?
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Upcoming Games: An Opulent October
A mountain of great AAA, AA and Indie games awaits in October, so let us guide you through the biggest and best of the lot.
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Loading Screen: Epic Games Just Put A Hate Symbol In Fortnite. It's WB's Fault.
Sometimes your business partner tricks you into selling a hate symbol to children, a lesson Epic Games is learning this week.
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Loading Screen: EA Bought For $55 Billion In Cash*
EA's being bought outright. Let's break down who by, how they're doing it, and how it's all bad news for the games you like.
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Valve Must Be Wary Of A Malicious Problem
Tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a cancer fundraiser, and that's just ONE example of the damage caused by a problem facing Steam, a problem that, as we now understand, isn't new. Can Valve hope to find a solution without fundamentally changing Steam as we know it?
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Loading Screen: Refunds After 2000 Hours Of Play For Region-Locked Players
Turns out, Valve might give you a refund after 2000 hours of play... but only if the developers turn off the game in your region.
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Games Are Already Hurting From The Online Safety Act!
Now that its most egregious elements have been implemented, the games industry is feeling the impact of the UK's Online Safety Act. As expected, few are happy, and it appears that the resultant problems have only just begun!
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What Really Happened With YouTube?
Across YouTube, creators across the spectrum felt mild (to major) panic and general confusion at the notable changes they were witnessing on the backend... YouTube denied fault, but now they've unveiled a suite of new features, many of which look to make things... worse?! What's going on?