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The Fallout From Payment Processor Overreach
Things are getting worse. Tens of thousands of dollars withheld from programmers doing their LEGAL jobs. This has to stop!
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Silksong's Development Isn't Something To Be Emulated
A 3rd of its predecessor's 15 million lifetime sales within days... Hollow Knight: Silksong is off to an incredible start. Team Cherry's latest paired that with some of the strongest reviews of the year-to-date. All great news, but it doesn't mean every dev can (or should) match them!
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How Many Basic Game Mechanics Can Nintendo Get Away With "Owning"?!
Nintendo are no stranger to facing criticism for the handiwork of their legal department. Recently, however, they've been seen at the forefront of a movement across Japanese publishers that can only be described as weaponising incompetent patent laws, especially in the US. This isn't good.
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Defying AAA Norms, Battlefield Is Putting Performance (Not Fidelity) First!
No DLSS, reportedly runs well on below-minimum spec hardware, skips last-gen hardware AND targets a locked 60FPS floor... this really doesn't sound like a modern title from Electronic Arts at all, does it?
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Xbox Staff Are Shoring Up Their Defences... Against Microsoft
As Xbox leadership's words continued to ring hollow against the barrage of cuts raining down from on high at Microsoft, the rank and file across XBS made a decision. They weren't going to sit around and wait to be the next line in a spreadsheet that Satya, CFO Amy Hood and others callously delete!
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What Did YouTube Do? This Could Hurt.
You didn't think we wouldn't talk about it, did you? It's affecting all of us, including you!
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No Man's Sky Voyages To New Heights
We know its already had its "Engoodening", but with its latest major update, No Man's Sky has managed to soar to fresh heights. How have Hello Games achieved this, and will their gambit to have all this work eventually paid for... pay off?
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Was CoD's "Slop Era" Rollback Part Of The Plan?
Activision just ditched one of their most consumer-friendly policies, and it was met with applause! Mostly. With the subtlety of a sledgehammer, they've removed all existing garish cosmetics for Black Ops 7, a short-term PR win, but will they follow through on their promised grounded identity?
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Helldivers II Brought Back The Boom
PlayStation's live service darling has landed on Xbox, alongside a faithful, curated Halo collaboration, a major patch and a whole lot of bugs. Unfortunately, there are almost as many technical bugs as breakers of democracy. Despite all this, Arrowhead seems to have pulled it off, again!
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Your Credit Card Has Walled Off Steam... Again!
Approximately 1/3 of the UK's population do not possess a Credit card, many for reasons that mean they cannot qualify for one. Now? Many of Steam's oft-lauded features are going to be denied to that 1/3 of society... Valve chose this.
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Valve’s Steam Reviews Rethink
Valve are now censoring which reviews you see when you look up a title on Steam. It doesn't sound like the Valve we've come to know but it's the truth, a truth we all now have to reckon with!
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Valve’s (DMCA) Systems Are Being Used Against Them!
As content creators on YouTube we're no strangers to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but while frustrating, it's usually something we can deal with. Much less workable is the storm of false strikes that have been hitting Steam lately, with bad actors emboldened by Valve's lax systems!