Reports
The Sad State of Stormgate
Stormgate never stood a chance, because that team made a bet based on an entirely different games industry. The CEO agrees.
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Loading Screen: Ubisoft's Mysterious Backer Allows Free DLC
Players aren't paying for Ubisoft's new DLC for a two-year-old game. Someone has to be... but Ubisoft aren't giving away any details.
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Loading Screen: Every Unity Game Made Since 2017 Is A Hacking Risk
A newly discovered exploit might affect every game made in Unity since 2017, and that means a lot of finished, abandoned games are now at risk.
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(Blizzard) Veterans Struggle To Survive After Their ActiBlizz Tours Of Duty...
Blizzard Ent saw a mass exodus of some of its best and brightest; the early 2020s funding boom incentivised more and more to take the leap. "Ex-Blizzard talent" seemed a surefire path to success. We're starting to see the first wave of resultant projects in the wild. Success? Not so much...
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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?
Opinion
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.