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Has Risk of Rain 2 Been Ruined By Gearbox?
Ad-free video! Risk of Rain 2's new content has caused severe backlash - the new custodians of the game, Gearbox, made a massive misstep.
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Space Marine 2 Surpassed Expectations
Sometimes you wait thirteen years for a sequel to a beloved game, and when it arrives - it’s almost everything you expected. Space Marine 2 is out, reviews are stellar and after all this time, hope was not the first step on the road to disappointment.
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Loading Screen: Sony's "Original IP" Problem and Paradox's Content Consolidation
Days after Concord went so badly, Sony's CFO is giving interviews saying the company needs more "original IP", while Paradox is trying something new by making their games more valuable to players with free DLC.
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Loading Screen: Concord Unreleased, $90 Indie MTX, and $6 Xbox JPEGs
Today, Concord's been pulled from sale as Playstation goes back to the drawing board, we've got an Indie trying to sell $90 MTX bundles and we've got Xbox trying to charge $6 for some old JPEGS.
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PlayStation Are Unreleasing Concord!
Ad-free video! In an almost unprecedented move, PlayStation are pulling Concord from sale entirely. What a mess. Let's break it down.
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Strikes. Layoffs. Closures. Union Anger. What's Going On?
It's all going down across the industry. Studios are being gutted and devs are fighting back in every way possible. Let's dig into each story and see what's up.
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Gearbox Messed Up Risk Of Rain 2
A game that is no longer being made by the original developers, that seemingly had new content pushed out way too early, and which is getting massive backlash from long-term fans. We need to talk about the Risk of Rain situation and how messy the whole thing is.
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Loading Screen: Valve Can Do Acquisitions Too and Xbox "Don't Care" About Indies
Today Valve have doubled down on their new practice of actually developing games by acquiring the team behind Risk of Rain, while Xbox's back end has managed to annoy another indie developer enough that they'll no longer be publishing a game on the platform.
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Concord's Sales Numbers Might Be Worse Than We Expected
Twenty five thousand sales worldwide. Those are the analyst estimates on how badly Concord’s launch has gone for PlayStation. But as the smoke starts to clear, and the questions start to be asked - was this always going to be the case?
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Another Ubisoft Gamble May Have Failed!
Ad-free video! Another one of Ubisoft's multi-million dollar live service gambles exploded out of the gate, but has not stuck the landing. This time, it's their Call of Duty competitor!
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Loading Screen: Greedfall Studio Strikes, Rocksteady Layoffs, Visions of Mana Dev Gutted and Activision Union Reprisals
The games industry is on fire. Developers are striking, studios are closing, unions are agitating and layoffs are hitting hard. Let's make sense of it all together.
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Ubisoft's Live Service Gamble May Have Failed... Again
They've gone from eight million players in launch week to reports of under twenty thousand across all platforms - it's not looking good for XDefiant and Ubisoft.