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Loading Screen: Marvel Rivals Wants A New Hero Every Month
Marvel Rivals is heating up, and to keep their audience happy, they're going to give players a new hero every month. How long they can accomplish that is another matter.
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When Leaks Evolve Into Guerilla Marketing
After years of trying to rush success, EA wants to do things right for a change. With Dead Space, Skate, The Sims & now Battlefield, they've involved players in testing far earlier. With that player involvement, leaks obviously come. In response? EA are taking lessons from Valve!
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Loading Screen: Microsoft's QA Teams Threaten Strikes
Some of 2025's biggest releases could be under threat if Microsoft's QA teams don't have their unionisation demands met.
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Nintendo's $80 Games
Nintendo's $80 games on Switch 2 have broken the back of many players, but this might not just be about greed.
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Loading Screen: Nintendo Tells All On Switch 2
Today we go through everything Nintendo said (and didn't say) as part of the reveal of the Switch 2.
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SAG AFTRA's Strike Has Caught Up To Games
It's getting worse. We'd already seen the sludge of GenAI work getting layered into AAA titles like Call of Duty, but now we're seeing it end-to-end. At GDC, ARK's developers were celebrating the absolute CREATIVE TRAVESTY that is their latest expansion's trailer. This is just the start.
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Loading Screen: Baldur's Gate Mod DMCA'd By Wizards
Takedowns for a popular mod sparked a weekend of chaos for Baldur's Gate 3 fans, and it all appears to have been Wizards of the Coast's fault.
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Presenting: The "New" Ubisoft
Just hours after celebrating AC Shadows' further success (3 million & counting), Ubisoft confirmed that with the hefty financial help of Tencent, the Guillemot brothers have pulled a fast one on their shareholders, announcing the creation of, for lack of an official name: Ubisoft Two!
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Upcoming Games: An Awesome April
April is dominated by AA games and Indies, with some of the year's most creatively innovative titles planned for release. Let's check them out!
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Loading Screen: StarCraft's Suspicious Successors
Rumours are swirling about StarCraft's return, but the form it's taking might not please everyone.
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Discord's "Enshittification"
Millions around the world use Discord daily. Our team uses the platform to coordinate our work. You all probably use it too! We like Discord, which makes the concern about the slippery slope the platform appears to be overlooking such an important one to gain an understanding of!
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Loading Screen: The New €4.3 Billion Ubisoft
Ubisoft just announced a new company, a €1.16 billion partnership with Tencent, and possibly a plan that will protect them from any hostile takeover in future.