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Loading Screen: Xbox Denies "Mandate" On Generative AI Tech
Xbox's CEO says they're not forcing staff to use generative AI to make games. The devil might be in the details.
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Total War(hammer) Has A Foundational Problem
Total War: Warhammer III should be the pinnacle of Creative Assembly's 25-year-old series. Instead, it's about as shambling as the undead Tomb Kings that brought the near-decade-old strategy game to its review-bombed knees... this time! Can CA recover before their big anniversary showcase?
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The Industry Fights Back Against The EU's MTX Crackdown
Before the summer, it was the Swedish horse-themed MMO that had placed egregious microtransaction practices firmly within the EU's crosshairs. As the consequences are set to ripple across the industry, industry leaders are speaking out!
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Loading Screen: Valve Just Deleted $3 Billion From CS Players
Chaos reigns as with a single update to Counter Strike 2, Valve have wiped out nearly $3 billion in player inventory values.
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Loading Screen: Microsoft Asked Xbox To Do The Impossible
Microsoft asked Xbox to proportionally make as much profit as Nintendo, and three times as much as PlayStation. And then they started cutting.
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Activision Keeps Caving To Call Of Duty's Loudest Players
They said players didn't want it, that things would never go back to how they were... Despite that, Activision (scared by BF6?) have not only rolled back "Fortnite-/enshitification" of their cosmetics, but they've gone ahead and removed Skill-Based Matchmaking AND disbanding lobbies too?!
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The European Pushback On MTX Regulation
In April, the EU tried to regulate in-game monetisation. Six months later, the EU games industry is trying to warn just how badly it could go.
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Loading Screen: Payday 2 Just Came Back From The Dead. Again.
Two years after the last patch, twelve years after launch, Starbreeze just handed the keys to Payday 2 to a bunch of modders.
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Loading Screen: The 11.3 Billion Dollar Secret Behind The Latest Viral Hit
The latest viral hit on Steam looks like another quirky indie riff on a popular genre. It's not quite that simple.
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Loading Screen: The State Of Total War
A deep dive today into the month of chaos that led to Total War: Warhammer 3's user reviews dropping to just 22% positive.
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The Boy(s) Who Built This Rocket Are Not Happy
Coming from one of the original "visionaries" behind Grand Theft Auto, MindsEye, along with its UGC toolset, 'Everywhere' was supposed to be Leslie Benzies' second coming. Instead? Its own devs considered it "one of the worst video game launches this decade," and now they're fighting back!
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Discord Got Hacked, But It's Not (The OSA) As You'd Expect
70000 people just saw their real ID data breached by way of Discord, a company that claims to NOT hold onto that data to begin with! This is all happening before we even consider the global laws apparently begging for this to be a greater risk in future...