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Loading Screen: Xbox Didn't Have To Kill Perfect Dark
Turns out, Xbox didn't just cancel Perfect Dark. They locked the series in a vault, rather than letting someone else finish making the game.
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Your Credit Card Has Walled Off Steam... Again!
Approximately 1/3 of the UK's population do not possess a Credit card, many for reasons that mean they cannot qualify for one. Now? Many of Steam's oft-lauded features are going to be denied to that 1/3 of society... Valve chose this.
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Loading Screen: Capcom Says PlayStation To Blame For Poor Monster Hunter Sales
The price of the PlayStation 5 is why Capcom have sold less than 500,000 copies of Monster Hunter Wilds since launch. At least, that's what their CEO says.
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Loading Screen: Steam UK Now Locked Behind A Credit Card
In the UK, unless you sign up for a credit card, you're getting a worse version of Steam than the rest of the world. And it still can't fully stop kids from getting to Adult Content.
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Upcoming Games: A Very Silksong September
Yes, Silksong is finally releasing this month. But so are many other cool games, that don't deserve to get lost in the crush. Let's check them all out.
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Valve’s Steam Reviews Rethink
Valve are now censoring which reviews you see when you look up a title on Steam. It doesn't sound like the Valve we've come to know but it's the truth, a truth we all now have to reckon with!
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Loading Screen: Lost Frames Aside, Or Some Equally Clever Joke
Lost Soul Aside launches today. 9 years in the making. PlayStation-backed $70 AAA hack-and-slash Final Fantasy. You just know something was going to go wrong. Of course, it did. And that might just be okay.
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Loading Screen: When Is A Threat Not A Threat? When Yoshi-P Says It
The fear of Hot Coffee strikes again, in a highly theoretical way. Meanwhile, in Europe, a new report shows the march of digital over physical and mobile over console continues apace.
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Loading Screen: The De-Fortnite-ification Begins
Dreams of Fortnification are coming to an end. For now, at least. Meanwhile, nightmares under Microsoft continue.
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Valve’s (DMCA) Systems Are Being Used Against Them!
As content creators on YouTube we're no strangers to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but while frustrating, it's usually something we can deal with. Much less workable is the storm of false strikes that have been hitting Steam lately, with bad actors emboldened by Valve's lax systems!
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Loading Screen: Silksong Swings In Like A Scythe
Silksong releasing so suddenly is so exciting! Surely, it can't have kicked off a cascading nightmare of delays threatening indie games, right? Well...
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Loading Screen: Dreamhaven's Having Nightmares, And Aren't We All?
Dreamhaven, once full of promise, failed to make a splash. Now, they're drowning. In search for an answer, I went way, way overboard and got personal. I do not apologise.