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"You Mad Bro?" - Valve
“You Mad Bro?” isn’t the communication strategy you’d expect to see from the COO of a company in official emails, but Valve has never presented themselves as just another company have they?
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Payday 3 CEO Pays The Price
With players pointing at dwindling concurrents and a game that’s in the middle of being reconstructed, things are not looking good for Payday 3 and Starbreeze but today the most senior leadership at Starbreeze are paying the price for a game that hasn’t gone the way they hoped.
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WB Don't Care About Indies, Playstation Delete Licenses and EA Ruin A Dev's Day
Details are emerging from the Indie devs having their games removed by WB and it is a disaster for preservation. Elsewhere, Playstation have revealed a killswitch that can remove titles from your library, EA accidentally wrecked the launch of an indie and Activision’s QA departments are unionising.
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Helldivers 2: The Drama of Balancing Even A Good Live Service
Helldivers 2 is starting strong with 75% of players sticking around through the first month as the live service actually begins. But with that many players comes a lot of dissenting opinion on balance, dev communication and more.
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Last Epoch - The ARPG For Diablo Fans From Diablo Fans
Last Epoch has finally released from Early Access to acclaim, record player numbers and a thrilled fanbase. The ARPG renaissance has begun as games like Last Epoch releasing mean ARPG fans can play a game tailored exactly for them.
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Nintendo Strikes Against Emulation
“We hope our actions will be a small step towards ending piracy of all creator’s works” - the statement from emulator developer Tropic Haze following a $2.4m settlement with Nintendo after the Switch developer used it’s legal weight to remove one of the biggest Switch/3DS emulators from existence.
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Is This How We Fix Game Launches?
Would you spend $60 on an unfinished game - in the hopes that in a year or two, it’s significantly better? Some people would say that you already do. But today we look at a curious trend that publishers are committing to - where they might be learning lessons from last year's messy launches.
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EA Layoffs: Bookkeeping with People's Lives
670 Layoffs in one go - as EA decide to clean up their balance sheet, killing a studio they only established two years ago, and ending development on a Star Wars FPS before it even makes it out of the prototype stage.
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Baldur’s Late (Modding Support)
“All we ask is that if you do love us, then please talk to us” is the plea from an open letter to Larian by Modders of Baldur’s Gate 3 - as the developers of one of 2023’s most prominent games deal with the ongoing expectations of development.
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Cities Skylines 2 Developers: “Our Biggest Regret”
“The biggest regret we have is that modding support is not yet available for the game” admits Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen as their latest update on Cities Skylines II deals with the fallout of a content creator revolt and an audience who aren’t seeing changes happen fast enough.
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The Secret Policy That's Making Games Worse
There’s a secret policy at the heart of some of the biggest games in the world. The impact is a worse environment for developers and ultimately it means the games you play aren’t as good as they could be. What drives all of this? What else - short term profits over long term benefits.
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Helldiver's Live Service Has People on Board. How?
Helldivers 2 is breaking all the rules. It’s a Live Service, AAA premium game that’s been borderline unplayable, with MTX and Battle Passes. And yet other than the servers, everyone loves it. How?