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We Now Know Where Steam's Hardware Vanished
It doesn't look like we're getting the new Steam Machines in the first half of the year as promised. Valve had been silent, but now we know why.
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No Winners Here As Nacon Butchers Their Own Dev Teams
Nacon are immune to good press. Selling pirated copies of games they have no rights to, laying off staff at solidly successful teams for their own failed book-balancing, and ignoring the business models that work for the teams they own. Yet they insist on limping on at others' expense. £#*% Nacon.
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Did PlayStation Really Add A DRM Killswitch To PSN?
Their silence was deafening. For more than a moment, it seemed the very publisher who'd mocked Xbox (One) for adding DRM to physical games was going a step further and adding a ticking time bomb to every title on their platforms. What were PlayStation thinking?!
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Microsoft Desperately Wants To Convince You Xbox Is Back.
WE ARE XBOX. That's the rallying cry from the new leads of the Microsoft subsidiary formerly known as Microsoft Gaming... but after ousting Phil Spencer after his quarter-century tenure with Xbox, is this all for show, or are "are we so back"?
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Why Do They Keep Review Bombing Slay The Spire 2?!
Slay The Spire's sequel was punching well above its weight when it launched earlier this year. Critically adored, the game went toe-to-toe with a new game from Bungie and came out on top! Why then has it been facing sequential review bombs to the tune of 10s of 1000s reviews on Steam?!
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SKG Heads Stateside, Gains Californian Support
Not happy with European efforts hogging the limelight, the Stop Killing Games movement is finally inching towards some meaningful progress via the California State Assembly. The 4th largest global economy certainly isn't a bad first step!
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Are "Disposable" Games The Future Of AAA?
Krafton certainly have a confusing reputation, publisher of the absurdly popular PUBG, saviour of Hi-Fi Rush & its team, major advocate of shoving GenAI into every project and all the Subnautica legal drama... now they want to ruin the very concept of Early Access games on Steam for us all too?
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Xbox Have Taken The Blame & Backtracked On Game Pass
New Head of Xbox Asha Sharma has been in the role for a mere 60 days. Likely any fledgling leader, she (and her bosses at Microsoft corporate!) wanted to make a strong first move. Kicking CoD off Game Pass's day 1 offering and slashing the subs pricing substantially? It's a bold strategy, Cotton...
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Secrets Unveiled As Rockstar Refused To Give In To Hackers
When it was threatened with a successful hack of their sensitive internal data, Rockstar barely blinked. Now we know why, and today we break down the numbers they'd kept hidden, but weren't worried you'd find out!
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Stop Killing Games Took The EU Stage
Nine months since the Stop Destroying Games European initiative succeeded in gaining the support needed, they've gotten their hearing within the European Union, and it's gone better than could ever have been expected, with much greater support from parliament than the organisers dared hope.
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Stream Instead Of Owning Hardware... A Failed Experiment?
Amazon were pitching a working solution to the rising hardware costs afflicting the industry. Links with your EA, GOG & Ubisoft libraries had given their streaming service some solid credibility. Why then have they tossed all that aside for a digital facsimile of Snoop Dogg & digital board games?!
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Can We Hold Out Any Hope With The RAM Crisis?
Recent reports suggested that, finally, the dam was breaking, and the components that prop up our industry were finally starting to drop back to less insane pricing highs. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the trend is going to continue nearly long enough!