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Loading Screen: Epic Games Just Put A Hate Symbol In Fortnite. It's WB's Fault.
Sometimes your business partner tricks you into selling a hate symbol to children, a lesson Epic Games is learning this week.
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Loading Screen: EA Bought For $55 Billion In Cash*
EA's being bought outright. Let's break down who by, how they're doing it, and how it's all bad news for the games you like.
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Valve Must Be Wary Of A Malicious Problem
Tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from a cancer fundraiser, and that's just ONE example of the damage caused by a problem facing Steam, a problem that, as we now understand, isn't new. Can Valve hope to find a solution without fundamentally changing Steam as we know it?
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Loading Screen: Refunds After 2000 Hours Of Play For Region-Locked Players
Turns out, Valve might give you a refund after 2000 hours of play... but only if the developers turn off the game in your region.
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Games Are Already Hurting From The Online Safety Act!
Now that its most egregious elements have been implemented, the games industry is feeling the impact of the UK's Online Safety Act. As expected, few are happy, and it appears that the resultant problems have only just begun!
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What Really Happened With YouTube?
Across YouTube, creators across the spectrum felt mild (to major) panic and general confusion at the notable changes they were witnessing on the backend... YouTube denied fault, but now they've unveiled a suite of new features, many of which look to make things... worse?! What's going on?
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Loading Screen: When Monetising A 12-Year-Old Game Goes Wrong
Sometimes, you purposefully increase the price of your paid DLC bundles before you add a cheaper subscription model, and then people get mad.
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Loading Screen: The EU Takes On Gold Farmers
The EU has weighed in on gold farming... but the outcome might not be what anyone expected.
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Loading Screen: Steam's $32,000 Malware Problem
After their fourth instance where malware was found in a game on the platform, Steam has to address this problem, as this time it scammed $32,000 from a cancer patient.
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Can Mobile, Marathon or Star Wars Hope To Save Bungie?
Bungie, once a crown jewel of the industry, is now fighting to survive as "just another PlayStation Studio". With new leadership, new games on the horizon and the Force with them... can the once great studio return to, if not greatness, then decent form?
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Loading Screen: Nintendo Secretly Gutted Their Support Teams
Nintendo are copying the rest of the industry, and outsourcing their vital functions to cheaper territories, quality be damned.
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The Truth About The YouTube View Counts
YouTube are adamant, they're not to blame for the viewcount drops. And if these investigators are right, then YouTube is too.