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Starfield's Seven Dollar Quest Mod
The Internet is mad about Starfield, and Bethesda’s decision to charge $7 for a single quest. This is just the latest in Bethesda managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Ubisoft Is Delivering The Fantasy
Despite $130 Ultimate Editions generating controversy, Ubisoft have managed to come out of the summer showcases with the press and audience more excited about their games than ever. How is the company famous for endless delays and bloated open world titles managing to win people back?
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Loading Screen: Trouble for Steam and Epic Games
Double trouble today - Epic Game accidentally left the game industry's secrets on display for enterprising individuals to find and pick through while Steam are now going to have to face a legal challenge in the UK over an anticompetitive pricing policy.
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Video: Square Enix's Life is Strange Upgrades
Ad Free Video! Life Is Strange isn’t the Square Enix you think of when you think of moneygrubbing and hellish business practices. But somehow that makes the recent reveal that they’ll be charging $30 more for the Ultimate Edition of the recently revealed Double Exposure worse.
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Dragon Age's Reveal Dilemma
One of the greatest traditions of liking Dragon Age is the reveal of a New Dragon Age, which will then be roundly criticised. So lets talk about it. The history, the reveal, the backlash and the recovery. Including how this isn’t even the first time a trailer failed the series it was selling.
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Video: Dark & Darker's Dire Free To Play
Ad Free Video! When is a Free to Play Game not actually Free to Play? How about when the developer doesn’t actually allow players to engage with the whole point of the game.
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Video: Bungie Nailed The Landing for Destiny 2
Ad Free Video! Somehow, Bungie actually did it. They successfully created a whole expansion that people love. And now we can see what Destiny 2 is going to become.
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Loading Screen: Two Games Spoiled By $30 Extra Charges
A pair of monetisation stories today as both Dark and Darker and Life is Strange: Double Exposure suffer at the whims of $30 charges - one to get the full game, and one to get some of the game early.
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Bungie Nailed The Landing for Destiny 2
Somehow Bungie managed to create a whole expansion that audiences love, that has managed to effectively end their 10 year storyline in a satisfying way and which hasn’t alienated mass amounts of their audience. Now they need to do it again.
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Video: Xbox Went Hard
Ad Free Video! Expectations going into this year’s set of summer showcases were low. But even with that context, what Xbox showed this weekend has stunned audiences. Check it out.
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Loading Screen: The Summer Games Showcase Summary
A weekend of games marketing means a newsletter full of new games!
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Xbox Finally Delivered
Expectations going into this year’s set of summer showcases were low. But even with that context, what Xbox showed this weekend has stunned audiences. All of that is incredibly positive - but as we look at the next few years of Xbox, there’s one nagging issue - no one trusts them right now.