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Valve’s Steam Reviews Rethink
Valve are now censoring which reviews you see when you look up a title on Steam. It doesn't sound like the Valve we've come to know but it's the truth, a truth we all now have to reckon with!
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Loading Screen: Lost Frames Aside, Or Some Equally Clever Joke
Lost Soul Aside launches today. 9 years in the making. PlayStation-backed $70 AAA hack-and-slash Final Fantasy. You just know something was going to go wrong. Of course, it did. And that might just be okay.
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Loading Screen: When Is A Threat Not A Threat? When Yoshi-P Says It
The fear of Hot Coffee strikes again, in a highly theoretical way. Meanwhile, in Europe, a new report shows the march of digital over physical and mobile over console continues apace.
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Loading Screen: The De-Fortnite-ification Begins
Dreams of Fortnification are coming to an end. For now, at least. Meanwhile, nightmares under Microsoft continue.
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Valve’s (DMCA) Systems Are Being Used Against Them!
As content creators on YouTube we're no strangers to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but while frustrating, it's usually something we can deal with. Much less workable is the storm of false strikes that have been hitting Steam lately, with bad actors emboldened by Valve's lax systems!
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Loading Screen: Silksong Swings In Like A Scythe
Silksong releasing so suddenly is so exciting! Surely, it can't have kicked off a cascading nightmare of delays threatening indie games, right? Well...
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Loading Screen: Dreamhaven's Having Nightmares, And Aren't We All?
Dreamhaven, once full of promise, failed to make a splash. Now, they're drowning. In search for an answer, I went way, way overboard and got personal. I do not apologise.
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A Future With No More Gamers
The future of gaming is not gamers. It's not even on consoles or PCs. The next generation prefers phones and experiences. What does that mean for the games you love?
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Loading Screen: PC Gaming's New Saviour - Xbox! Well, Maybe.
Xbox save you (maybe, eventually) from the dreaded Unreal Engine 5. Maybe. Plus, Square Enix execute a beloved mod. Why? VERY good question.
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Loading Screen: Silksong's Development Story Will SHOCK You! (And, I Hope, Save The Industry)
I'm sure there's other news for me to cover... but that can wait until tomorrow. We've all gotten very good at waiting, thanks to today's story. It's my genuine pleasure to publish this.
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All This Has Happened Before... Can It Really Happen Again?
A multibillion-dollar industry rose & collapsed back to barely a few hundred million in the space of a year. That began in 1983, and ever since the question has remained... will it happen again? Can it? Three consecutive years of record industry layoffs would suggest it may have already begun.
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Loading Screen: Gamescom ONL Was Only A "B"...? The Stats Behind It All
Opening Night Live was interesting. I mostly liked it, but it turns out, I'm in a small group. So, I spent all of today working on a spreadsheet to figure out why viewers didn't like ONL.