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Loading Screen: Player Expectation Problems
Steam's number one wishlisted game is coming out next week, but the solo developer behind Manor Lords needs those players to listen to him - Manor Lords might not be what you're hoping for.
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Paradox Admits Defeat On Cities Skylines 2 and Victoria 3
Refunds for those who bought DLC, a community council with content creators and more delays for paid DLC - Colossal Order are fully admitting the plan for Cities Skylines II has failed so far.
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Video: Overwatch's Mythic Problem
Ad Free Video! With Season Ten of Overwatch, Blizzard give everyone the ability to earn mythic skins from past Battle Passes! One Step Forward. But they’re also allowing players to spend $80 to buy those skins in their complete form. Two Steps Back Let's talk about it shall we?
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Loading Screen: More Delays For Paradox, Take Two's 400 Layoff Swerve and Playstation's PC Plans
Paradox may be learning their lessons, with delays even coming for DLC now, Take Two said no more layoffs and now they're firing more than 400 people while Playstation break down the barriers between PC and Console - while erecting a new one with account logins.
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Overwatch's Mythic Problem
Once again, a new season of Overwatch has launched and we need to talk about how Overwatch’s need to alter systems in the middle of their live game to try and meet their players expectations has given rise to yet more problems.
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Loading Screen: Mike Ybarra Wants To Tip Devs on $70 Games, Helldiver's Datamining Dilemma and Lawbreakers Returns... somehow.
Today, Mike Ybarra wants to tip more on $70 games as we explain why that's fundamentally ridiculous, Helldivers has a datamining problem and somehow, after everything - Lawbreakers is being brought back. Kinda.
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Loading Screen: CEO Unilaterally Closes Indie Studio - Blames Staff and Press
In one day, three years of work was wiped out for developers at Possibility Space, an indie team whose CEO seems to have decided that an unpublished leak to the press was so damaging that the team's game could not continue.
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Video: Ubisoft Want $130 on Launch From You, 2042 is history & Deader Space!
Ad Free Video! 130 - that’s how many Dollars Ubisoft want you to pay for the Ultimate Edition of Star Wars: Outlaws! 7 - that’s how many Seasons Battlefield 2042 will have had as it’s live service ends. 0 - that’s how many Dead Space Projects are in development right now.
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Video: Destiny Goes All Out - The Final Shape Revealed
Ad Free Video! “Facing The Witness is not the end of Destiny 2, and it's definitely not the end of Destiny” are the strong words of executive creative director Luke Smith as Bungie has stunned critics and fans with the first reveals for The Final Shape Expansions.
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Video: Peace in Our Time - Blizzard Return To China
Ad Free Video! In a shock move, a year and a half after the explosive break up of Netease and Blizzard that saw teams disbanded, insults hurled and a statue destroyed - Blizzard games will be coming back to the Chinese market
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Loading Screen: Free Indie Game with 6M Downloads Profitable, The Fallout of Bethesda's Game Updates and BAFTA Gaming Winners
Today, despite giving away six million copies for free, people are still buying Content Warning, Bethesda is celebrating their hit Fallout show with game updates (that have made people mad) and we run through the best games of 2023 as decided by the BAFTAS.
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Loading Screen: Dead Space, Dead Again
Everyone agrees, there will be no more Dead Space as Motive are now at work on Battlefield or Iron Man games. But where the internet is aflame is on the how and why - with it becoming a matter of semantics on what exactly constitutes development of a game and how success is defined.