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Valve Is Unstoppable: Deadlock, Automation & Blue Shift
Ad Free Video! Deadlock restrictions have been lifted, Blue Shift is back, and Valve are banning keyboard features.
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Concord Was Never Going To Survive
Ad Free Video My breakdown of why Concord failed to capture audiences.
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How Do Executives Make Games Worse?
Ad Free Video! Did executive meddling hurt The Callisto Protocol? The end result ultimately didn't land the way that Striking Distance intended. But what if it had come out when it was meant to? And what if it had come out the way the developers intended?
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The Most Played Single Player Game On Steam... Ever
Ad Free Video! Black Myth: Wukong is an absurd success, The most played single player game on Steam before most of the Western World even woke up, and all that’s from a Chinese team of indie devs with a fairy tale story of ditching their AAA jobs to make what they wanted.
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Valve's Steam Cleaning & SteamOS Expansion
Ad Free Video! Valve are Steam cleaning. Demos are different. Store Pages are shifting and User Reviews are being reworked. Valve are also cooking up something with SteamOS too - something we think could be huge!
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Deadlock? We've Never Heard Of It!
Ad Free Video! There's a secret game with over 20,000 people playing. Ever heard of it? Is it actually okay to even acknowledge it's existence? A lot of PR people and game press have been talking about it, so let's peel back the curtain on the game Valve are definitely (not) making.
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Helldivers II - A Game For Everyone Is A Game For No One
Ad Free Video! “A game for everyone is a game for no one.” That's the motto of Helldivers creator Arrowhead Studios. At launch, that meant people adored the brutal, friendly fire, PvE only that Helldivers 2 offered. But now things are complicated. It turns out staying true to that motto isn’t easy.
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Hi-Fi Rush Has Been Saved, But Can We Trust Their Saviours?
Ad Free Video! Almost 3 months after the closure of the studio, Tango Gameworks exists again as a game developer! New owner Krafton has welcomed back all staff who would like their roles again and also negotiated the rights to Hi-Fi Rush as an IP! What are these new saviours planning?
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Stormgate Has Arrived... & It's Struggling!
Ad Free Video! You can take the developer out of Blizzard, but you can't take Blizzard out of the developer. A Steam review for Stormgate mincing no words in their disappointment. The loudest criticism though isn’t even about the game itself. It’s about a team of ex Blizzard developers.
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Blizzard's New AA Team; Mario & Sonic vs Olympic NFTs
Ad Free Video! There’s a NEW Blizzard team. Microsoft have commissioned a whole new team to explore the company’s IP and produce AA scale games again. Meanwhile, the Olympics have decided to replace Mario and Sonic with NFT Mobile Games. All this and more.
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Stop Killing Games: The European Initiative
AD Free Video! Recently there's been a lot of talk about Stop Killing Games and their attempts to bring a new public initiative to the European Commission - one that could see the EU set rules for how live service game end their service. So let's break it down - and address *how* this all works.
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Paradox Delays Prison Architect 2 Again (... Indefinitely)
Ad Free Video! Remember in April, Prison Architect 2 was delayed by Paradox? And then Double Eleven was publicly replaced by Co-developer Kokku a week later? We thought the odds of this new team taking over for release was unlikely. Now, we’ve got an indefinite delay.