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Last Year, Was The Games Industry Truly Static?
With all the turmoil across the games industry, the assumption was that things were going badly, trending downwards. The reality is far less clear... did any of the chaos really matter?
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Loading Screen: GOG Staff Decry Store's GenAI Art
GOG Staff are going against their leaders, as GenAI banners generate bad blood.
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Ubisoft's Have Pushed Out 1000s Of Staff. Just One Of Those Could Cost Them $1.3m!
Ubisoft claim to be striving for "the best talents" to take their IP into the future. A strange contradiction amidst the 3000+ staff departures in recent years. Those left including truly costly losses such as Assassin's Creed's "guardian" and The Division series lead. Is Yves determined to fail?
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The EU Is Gearing Up To Take On Gaming's "Dark Patterns"
For years, the games industry has been trusted to "self-regulate" many of its most harmful methodologies... leaders of big publishers pledged they'd rein it in and do right by the kids. It seems they pushed their luck too far, and now the EU is breathing down their necks!
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Loading Screen: Valve Will Face The UK Courts Over Steam Anti-Competition Suit
£656 million in anti-competition payouts could follow, if Valve loses its case in a UK tribunal.
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Loading Screen: Cult Indie Game Pulled Off Steam By Bizarre DMCA Claims
Void War's been pulled from Steam at the request of someone, but it doesn't seem to be the litigious megacorp everyone might think.
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Ubisoft's Attempted Resurrection Has Come At (Too High?) A Cost
Corporate shenanigans, nepotism at the highest levels... It's all been about family for Ubisoft, even at the cost of BILLIONS in market value for the much-maligned publisher. Despite this, things were looking up. So, of course, Yves and co. decided to throw everything into chaos once again.
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Loading Screen: Gacha Game Reaches Into The Wrong Wallet
A worrying launch for Arknight: Endfields as players found themselves paying for someone else's gacha game habit.
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Do PlayStation Really Want Games To Play Themselves?
Why play games, or even watch another human play games, when you can just have your copy play itself? That's the question that it looks like Sony are asking its audience. What are they really doing?
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Loading Screen: Time Runs Out For Prince of Persia And Ubisoft
A billion euros lost, the Sands of Time remake dead alongside five more games, and studios shuttered. What is Ubisoft playing at?
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Loading Screen: Russia Wants Its Own Call Of Duty
There's "No Russian" Call of Duty rival yet, but that will change if lawmakers get their way.
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Why Is "Everyone" So Worried* About Highguard?!
Apex Legends. Titanfall 2. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2011). A team packed with staff who worked on many of these bona fide classic and popular FPS games. Why the hell did "the internet" decide Highguard was going to fail?!