From corporate shenanigans, to great and botched games, to moments that define our culture, we cover everything important in games for you.
Ad Free Video! Microsoft is having one hell of a week with this triple whammy. One: Mass unionization. Bethesda and World of Warcraft devs are banding together. Two: The FTC is breathing down their necks, accusing them of 'product degradation.' And three: The Halo TV show? Cancelled after season 2.
Voice Actors in the Video Game Industry are on strike! What does this mean for you? Do you need to stop playing your favourite titles? Today we go through all that and more.
Ad Free Video! EA just got schooled by its own players. Apex Legends' Battle Pass? Still earnable with in-game currency. EA's grand plan to squeeze more cash? Crushed. Watch this for the real story.
Apex Legends will not move ahead with a controversial plan to force players to pay for their battle passes with real currency - thanks to fan backlash. But it paints a picture of EA's problems going forwards - they need fans onside.
The future seems safer for nearly 500 World of Warcraft Developers today as they secure a union vote win - while for Paradox, they've not fully lost - but 90% of their profits were wiped out by cancelling Life By You.
Activision have been alleged to sell Generative AI Based Skins in Call of Duty, while Huimble Bundle's parent company just shut down their publishing arm to save money. It's just another day in the games industry.
Helldivers 2's newest plan is to just tell the Audience what's coming - we'll see if it pays off. Elsewhere Capcom are sticking with Physical Games even as they represent only 10% of sales and the Video Game Voice Actors union is getting ready to strike against the biggest companies in gaming.
We're curious about why Warframe developer Digital Extremes have seemingly forgotten their history of live service development, our take on Xbox's rebuke of the FTC and we check out what's next now Bethesda Game Studios is a full union shop.
“Will Team Fortress 2 Stay Fixed?” After a year of chaos, bots and miserable play experiences - Valve have listened to the TF2 community. But the question above is on everyone's lips - is this permanent?
A viral survey suggests 82% of gamers spend money on MTX in F2P games, but that's not the *whole* story. Over in the world of anti-trust, the FTC are taking their chance to say "I told you so" in the wake of Game Pass's price rises.
Hasbro's billion dollar bet on the future of their company is video games, so they're putting that money in a pair of safe (and familiar) hands. Meanwhile Sega aren't taking harassment of their devs lying down - they've had the lawyers take on abusive fans.
Warhorse Studios are rewarding the biggest backers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance ahead of the sequel, Space Marine 2's leak isn't as bad as we thought, Nintendo revived a 35 year old series and Halo *probably* isn't being outsourced.