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The European Pushback On MTX Regulation
In April, the EU tried to regulate in-game monetisation. Six months later, the EU games industry is trying to warn just how badly it could go.
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Loading Screen: Payday 2 Just Came Back From The Dead. Again.
Two years after the last patch, twelve years after launch, Starbreeze just handed the keys to Payday 2 to a bunch of modders.
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Loading Screen: The 11.3 Billion Dollar Secret Behind The Latest Viral Hit
The latest viral hit on Steam looks like another quirky indie riff on a popular genre. It's not quite that simple.
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Loading Screen: The State Of Total War
A deep dive today into the month of chaos that led to Total War: Warhammer 3's user reviews dropping to just 22% positive.
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The Boy(s) Who Built This Rocket Are Not Happy
Coming from one of the original "visionaries" behind Grand Theft Auto, MindsEye, along with its UGC toolset, 'Everywhere' was supposed to be Leslie Benzies' second coming. Instead? Its own devs considered it "one of the worst video game launches this decade," and now they're fighting back!
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Discord Got Hacked, But It's Not (The OSA) As You'd Expect
70000 people just saw their real ID data breached by way of Discord, a company that claims to NOT hold onto that data to begin with! This is all happening before we even consider the global laws apparently begging for this to be a greater risk in future...
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Loading Screen: "Ubisoft asked me to step aside" - AC Boss
Ubisoft's ex-Assassin's Creed lead is making his position clear. If he had his way, he'd still be at Ubisoft.
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Construction Stalls On The Fantastic Pixel Castle
The luck of ex-Blizzard staff (launching their own studios) continues to run out as, following our coverage of Dreamhaven & Frost Giant, we now find Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's MMO in dire straits! Are the incumbents (in this case, Blizzard) going to continue winning by default? Looks that way...
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Loading Screen: Another Single-Player Studio Thinks They Can Go Multiplayer
30 years of single-player games, and Quantic Dream just revealed a F2P MOBA to take on the entrenched giants. Will they succeed where so many have failed?
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Loading Screen: AC Boss Walks From Ubisoft's Tencent Subsidiary
Assassin's Creed's head honcho just walked from Ubisoft... only weeks after the franchise was taken over by the Tencent-backed subsidiary Vantage Studios
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Battlefield 6? It's Actually A "Good" Game
Under the shadow of one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history, EA needed Battlefield 6 to NOT repeat the mistakes of prior series entries. It seems on that front, they're safe, but that doesn't mean this "good game" made it to launch without a hitch!
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Loading Screen: No New Helldivers Content Till Performance Improves
Arrowhead are making a commitment to unhappy players. New content releases will be paused until the team can guarantee they won't break the game.