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Loading Screen: The Line In The Sand For Paid Mods
Paid mods are in the headlines again as the biggest modding platform in games has changed the rules, hoping to draw a line under the practice. Let's dig into it.
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Loading Screen: Ubisoft Just Launched An NFT Game In 2024
Dated trends and boring gameplay, but this time with the potential to play to earn. Ubisoft just quietly released their first full NFT game and unfortunately for them, everyone noticed.
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Post-Concord, Sony Has Grounded Firewalk... For Good
8 years after it first spawned on a designer's napkin, Concord is officially dead. Sony's major investment, Firewalk, is shuttered and its staff gone. How'd we get here?
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Loading Screen: Bungie Breaks Marathon Silence, Shows Very Little
Bungie has broken 18 months of silence with an update on their extraction shooter revival for Marathon, but they didn't have a lot to say. Per leaks, that wasn't necessarily by choice.
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Loading Screen: New DLC For Old Games To Save Paradox
18 months after announcing an end to paid DLC, Cities Skylines just got a brand new DLC. And all while its successor is still in the middle of its resurgent arc. Certainly feels like Paradox broke the emergency glass.
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The Games Industry Won't Preserve Its History
Games are fun, and that's why the US Government won't treat them like any other artform worthy of study. At least, until the games industry says that won't risk their profits.
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Denuvo's Biggest Problem: You
Why is Denuvo attempting to clean up its reputation with the gaming audience? Maybe it has something to do with major companies using a lack of Denuvo in their games as marketing.
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Loading Screen: Sometimes Developers Admit They're Wrong
Today, a look at allegations that Destiny might have had a massive bug at the heart of one of its most important mechanics for years.
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Loading Screen: Oh, Activision - Pay To Win Subscription Accusations Before Launch
Even before launch, Call of Duty is courting controversy as players have argued the best version of the game's sound features is hidden behind a $20 paywall.
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18 Days Of Crunch. Near $1 Billion Spent. Star Citizen's 'Visionary' Leader Seems Desperate.
Squadron 42, Star Citizen's standalone, expansive campaign finally has a 2026 release date. Reaching that announcement cost the staff - it took an 18-day work "week". Was it worth it?
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Loading Screen: Even Good Ubisoft Games Aren't Good Enough
Today, a deep dive into reports around Ubisoft disbanding the team that made the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Because even when Ubisoft win, they can't win.
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Riot's Two-Step Plan To Success: 1. Fire Staff. 2. Add Gacha!
Riot just laid off the most impactful artists on the League of Legends team. Less than 24 hours later they dropped some of the most egregious gacha mechanics into LoL yet.