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Digital Game Ownership? Not On Gabe's Watch
With a nudge from California's government, Valve have said the quiet part out loud. You do NOT own your Steam library, and it could be stripped from you at any time.
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Loading Screen: A Different Kind of Hacked Pokémon
A hack affecting 2600 pieces of personal information and terabytes of development assets has struck Pokémon maker Game Freak - so let's break down what's happened.
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Disco Elysium's Fractured Successor Studios
Five separate studios now claim they are following in the footsteps of Disco Elysium. Who's telling the truth, and does it even matter, if we get good games?
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Paradox Have Changed... They Swear!
Paradox have had a turbulent time so their executives' solution? Hosting a press event filled with flowery words, and no games! Have they convinced us?
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Starfield Will Not Win Players Back
"A Brand New Universe, 25 Years In The Making". That's how Bethesda tried to sell us on Starfield. It didn't land. Could they 'pull a No Man's Sky'? With its first expansion out we know the answer. No. And Bethesda don't want to.
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Loading Screen: Two More Successors Come For Disco Elysium's Throne
Two new games announced in one day is one thing, two new games from the people who made Disco Elysium is another - so let's dig into what's coming. Elsewhere, Steam capitulates to the law and Xbox profits from Google's problems. Plus the Weekend Recommend!
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Two Years In, Overwatch 2 Is A Shop With A Game Attached
Premium purchase opportunities are now the core mechanic Overwatch has to entice audiences back regularly. Two years from release, let's check in on a game that's marketed around paying rather than playing.
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Loading Screen: The "Proof" People Will Buy $70 Games
Today we dig into the fact that people are willing to pay way more than $70 for a game, and it seems to back up the worst impulses of publishers. Elsewhere, more Blizzard secrets and Humble Games are reborn!
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Loading Screen: Paradox Need You To Believe They've Changed
A deluxe edition today as Paradox Interactive are on an apology tour, and they need you to believe they've changed. We've gone through all the interviews to see whether or not we should believe them.
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Are Sony This Desperate For Cash?
Once again, Sony try to sneak a few extra dollars out of your wallet. Their only strategy - squeezing remasters for every drop, even leaning on deceptive practices - is getting tiresome.
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Loading Screen: Proof Good Things Can Happen as Alien Isolation Returns
Sometimes good things do happen in the games industry and as proof, we're getting Alien Isolation 2 from Creative Assembly and Sega.
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Are Ubisoft About To Go Private?
Following its very public series of losses, Ubisoft are reportedly considering going private. What does this mean for the games they develop? Who comes out of all of this a winner?