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Ad Free Video! Ubisoft have tried to copy Fortnite’s monetisation but done so in a clumsy, weak way - and then tried to sell their most hardcore players on the idea that a new spending opportunity was a valuable part of the upcoming seasonal content. Players didn’t agree.
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Turns out 50% of the PlayStation audience haven't yet gotten a PS5 and most of their revenue growth is coming from about Live service games. Even while PlayStation want to tell everyone their success is real, and that their pipeline of games are strong, looking at the numbers, we have some doubts.
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Ad Free Video! The Internet loves a punching bag. This week, that’s been Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga. Even though on Steam, it has 2600 Reviews, with 88% positivity. Wild! The first major Xbox release in months, but the reaction ranges from apathy to outright mockery.
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Ubisoft continue their trends of quietly successful launches that hardcore audiences don't talk about with XDefiant, Sony would like everyone to stop talking about the Druckmann interview that they pulled from the internet and yes, we have to talk about League of Legends $500 skin pack.
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Today, the great news that Space Marine 2 will be rejecting MTX - but we have to temper that against their DLC plan. Then news that Creative Assembly’sefforts are starting to pay off - with even more promised for Pharoah. And we’ve got the end of CP2077 - as CDPR are justly rewarded for their work.
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Ad Free Video! 0 - That’s how many games you can transfer in your steam library to loved ones in a will. 14% - that’s the average price increase some gamers are seeing due to currency problems. 100+ that’s how many leaks there have been for Valve’s new in production title Deadlock.
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Ubisoft's newest monetisation strategy has faced immediate and visceral feedback in being booed by players at it's reveal event, while Larian CEO Swen Vincke has reminded us that it's not as simple as believing crunch makes bad games - it made Baldur's Gate 3.
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Ad Free Video! In an Interview with Sony, Neil Druckmann has said that AI will revolutionize the gaming industry. But thanks to a followup statement by Druckmann himself - we have no idea how much of the interview is actually really what we said.
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Hellblade 2 is only the 23rd most played game on Xbox on launch, it's Steam player numbers are weak and reviews frequently call out a shallow and middling experience. So let’s take a look at how the real problem for Ninja Theory isn’t that they’ve changed - it’s that everything around them has.
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Turns out that Sony went further than smoothing out talking points in the recent Neil Druckmann interview - they added whole new words. Meanwhile Bungie have managed to secure yet another legal win against industrial cheat providers, and we bring you the most interesting writing of the week!
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Valve have new Lootbox tech, Steam accounts aren't even transferrable on death, Some gamers are being unfairly penalised by Steam because of their country and Valve really don't want to acknowledge Deadlock.
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Ad Free Video! If there’s a trend in 2024, it’s the largest publishers in gaming finally reaching a tipping point and admitting defeat. Today, that’s Square Enix and they've had enough!