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Elite Dangerous' new experiments with monetisation have players on edge, and accusing Frontier Development of going back on their word - while an Indie dev publishes their game demo, then pauses development all in the same day, because the industry simply isn't funding projects right now.
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Ad Free Video! 15 - The number of years of player content, now made inaccessible as LittleBigPlanet 3 gets removed 0 - The Amount of Censorship Stellar Blade has announced 3 Years, 7 Months and 4 Days - The time between Brackey's Last Video and his latest as he returns to Gamedev tutorials!
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Two money focussed stories for you today - Steam have closed loopholes around refunds as they try to get an industry trend under control while Call of Duty have opened a can of worms as they add monetisation that doesn't just encourage you to spend, it wants you to get your friends involved too.
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With a dedicated vision that’s resonating with audiences and a flurry of post launch updates, in just a week No Rest for the Wicked has already started turning things around from a messy launch.
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The Fallout TV Show is wrecking modding platforms due to surges in popularity, Brackeys has returned to gamedev tutorials in the wake of Unity's very public disasters and Atari are resurrecting the Infogrames brand - which statistically at least some of you remember.
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Ad Free Video! Embracer Group is functionally dead. The company that became Embracer Group in 2019 grew from acquiring the wreckage of THQ, and then springboarded into one of the biggest games companies in Europe by spending the next four years acquiring developers and IP. Now it's all collapsing.
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Today, Playstation shows us they have no plan for the future of their libraries of User Generated Content, while Stellar Blade's PR team have managed to turn victory into even more victory by careful framing of what audiences think censorship means.
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Ad Free Video! In one day, three years of work was wiped out for developers at Possibility Space, an indie team whose CEO seems to have decided that an unpublished leak to the press was so damaging that the team's game could not continue - and that he needed to shut the studio down immediately.
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Management frame the breakup as a glorious next step towards an idelological goal - but the fall of the Embracer Group as a result of their own hubristic desires is an object lesson for other publishers that the growth model they followed has no good end.
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No Rest for the Wicked has launched, and it's no rest for the devs as they scramble for fixes to their mixed user review score, elsewhere Paradox have delayed another(!) game and the Hearthstone team have an interesting idea of how maths works.
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Ad Free Video! Steam's number one wishlisted game is coming out next week, but the solo developer behind Manor Lords needs those players to listen to him - Manor Lords might not be what they're hoping for.
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Ad Free Video! Refunds for those who bought DLC, a community council with content creators and more delays for paid DLC - Colossal Order are fully admitting the plan for Cities Skylines II has failed so far.