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Loading Screen: Australia Wants To Clean Up Steam's Nazi Problem
Age verification was only the tip of the iceberg, as regulators want to make sure it isn't just kids who are safe online.
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“Game Pass Ultimate has become too expensive for too many players.”
Game Pass prices went up, now they've come down. But that comes at a different type of cost than currency.
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Stop Killing Games Took The EU Stage
Nine months since the Stop Destroying Games European initiative succeeded in gaining the support needed, they've gotten their hearing within the European Union, and it's gone better than could ever have been expected, with much greater support from parliament than the organisers dared hope.
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Loading Screen: Japanese Brands Take Gaming Into Their Own Hands
The makers of Hello Kitty, Dragonball and more have decided to turn their hands to active game development, not just licensing IPs.
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Loading Screen: BAFTA Refused To Show This Indie Game
Another Indie Game that wants to treat games as art has been denied a platform, but this time it's by an acclaimed awards organisation.
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Stream Instead Of Owning Hardware... A Failed Experiment?
Amazon were pitching a working solution to the rising hardware costs afflicting the industry. Links with your EA, GOG & Ubisoft libraries had given their streaming service some solid credibility. Why then have they tossed all that aside for a digital facsimile of Snoop Dogg & digital board games?!
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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?