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Star Wars Outlaws Has Left Early Access
Star Wars Outlaws is finally out on Steam, and after two months of updates, it hasn't been the massive success Ubisoft will have hoped for. So let's dig into it and see if we can work out why.
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Nintendo Want Palworld Pulled From Sale
Palworld made millions, but Nintendo doesn't really care. Their lawsuit against the game is trying to do something much more important. Stop the sales, and send a message.
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Space Marine 2 Cost Half Of Doom Eternal's Budget
In a year of smaller studios finding success, we found out that Space Marine 2 was only half the budget of the AAA Doom Eternal. So what's the secret of beating the biggest players at their own game?
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Loading Screen: Tencent's Copycat Games Strike Again
Accusations of plagiarism are stirring again, as Tencent unveils a game that's suspiciously like Horizon Zero Dawn in design and Palworld in gameplay. Is the latter game getting a taste of its own "inspired by" medicine?
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Loading Screen: Ubisoft's EULA Uproar Reveals They Can Monitor Your PC
Another day, another story of Ubisoft annoying the gaming audience. But digging into this one, there may be some other companies behaving just like them in checking PCs.
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Loading Screen: NetEase Just Closed This Developer After Only A Year
NetEase gave a Bioware veteran one year's worth of support to make a AAA game, and then seem to have changed their minds, leaving yet another studio shuttering in a year of chaos.
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Star Wars Outlaws Couldn't Sell Its Fantasy
Star Wars Outlaws has underperformed, and the Steam launch doesn't seem to have reignited the interest of the audience. But the question we maybe should be asking is whether there was enough of an audience for this fantasy at all.
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Payday 3's Budget Has Been Slashed... Yet Execs Hope For Trust
Payday 3 has closed out its first year of content, including the aptly titled Operation Medic Bag, yet with sentiment finally on the rise, Starbreeze execs are talking of "significantly lower" budgets... what's going on?
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Loading Screen: 2K Games Surrenders, Kills PC Game Launcher
A victory for efficiency, player choice and even modding today as 2K games get rid of their launcher from their back catalogue and all future titles.
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It's Too Risky, Games Preservation Might Lead To Future Recreation!
Despite claiming to love our industry, the ESA repeatedly make it worse. With the industry's history continuing to rapidly erode, is there any hope for its preservation?
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Loading Screen: Console Players Keep Breaking Baldur's Gate 3 With Mods
Console players are learning the limits of their machines this week, as Larian impose modding restrictions on Baldur's Gate 3 players to stop them from breaking their saves.
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Loading Screen: Path Of Exile 2 Wants To Break The Live Service Sequel Curse
We finally know what Path of Exile 2 is going to look like. Now it's up to Grinding Gear Games to keep as much of their audience as happy as possible while running two live service games at once.