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Loading Screen: Crimson Desert's Win Is Eve Online's Loss
Eve Online developer CCP is independent again, and it's got hit game Crimson Desert to blame.
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Upcoming Games: A Much Anticipated May
Between Forza, Subnautica and James Bond, May is already packed. And then we need to talk about the indies...
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Loading Screen: The Publisher "pillaging the still-warm body" Of Their Developers
"a premeditated and deliberate choice by Nacon’s management" is behind the closure of AA team Spiders, and staff aren't happy.
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SKG Heads Stateside, Gains Californian Support
Not happy with European efforts hogging the limelight, the Stop Killing Games movement is finally inching towards some meaningful progress via the California State Assembly. The 4th largest global economy certainly isn't a bad first step!
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Loading Screen: Financiers Are Destroying Europe's AA Teams
A whole development studio is shuttering because their corporate parent's corporate parent can't raise money from their banks.
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Loading Screen: Denuvo Doesn't Work Anymore
As of this month, after years of limited breaches, Denuvo now protects zero games on PC.
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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!