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Hacking on a global stage has wrecked a tournament and left players and pros alike scrambling to work out if their machines are safe. While Sony scramble to work out if their virtual reality machines are sellable as stock piles up on the global stage.
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The worst user rated game of 2024, and the 9th worst rated game on Steam ever - Battlefront Classic Collection has a mountain to climb. So the team at Aspyr don’t need the scene’s Modders furious that they’re seeing uncredited modded content in the official releases.
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Ad Free Video! With players pointing at dwindling concurrents and a game that’s in the middle of being reconstructed, things are not looking good for Payday 3 and Starbreeze.
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Call of Duty has somehow found a new way to monetise it's audience as it launches a new platform - while Respawn has been forced to make cuts to the Apex team despite all their success. But for you, this weekend we recommend some tactics, some strategy and a little bit of roleplaying in one package.
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Ad Free Video! Embracer have sold Saber Interactive for $247m, just under half of what they paid four years ago while Aspyr’s Battlefront 2 steam user score nosedives to ~20% via bad networking and other issues.
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“You Mad Bro?” isn’t the communication strategy you’d expect to see from the COO of a company in official emails, but Valve has never presented themselves as just another company have they?
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Embracer have sold Saber Interactive for $247m, just under half of what they paid four years ago - but the mess they’re still in relates to their game launches, with Aspyr’s Battlefront 2 leaving much to be desired as it’s steam user score nosedives to ~20% via bad networking and other issues.
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Today, Frontier Developments hope the can counteract a niche genre with lower prices, Epic have avoided making Unity's mistakes when they change their contracts and Discord are rolling out new systems designed to keep you on the platform for longer - and make them money.
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Ad Free Video! Helldivers 2 is starting strong with 75% of players sticking around through the first month as the live service actually begins. But with that many players comes a lot of dissenting opinion on balance, dev communication and more.
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With players pointing at dwindling concurrents and a game that’s in the middle of being reconstructed, things are not looking good for Payday 3 and Starbreeze but today the most senior leadership at Starbreeze are paying the price for a game that hasn’t gone the way they hoped.
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Today we've got the return of Warner Bros' IP Spanning Live Service Game, the explicit threat of a Ready Player One Battle Royale and the success of an indie game that knows how much you all love inventory management.
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Ad Free Video! Indie devs are having their games removed by WB and it is a disaster for preservation. Playstation have revealed a killswitch that can remove titles from your library, EA accidentally wrecked the launch of an indie and Activision’s QA departments are unionising.