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Starfield's Seven Dollar Quest Mod
The Internet is mad about Starfield, and Bethesda’s decision to charge $7 for a single quest. This is just the latest in Bethesda managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Ubisoft Is Delivering The Fantasy
Despite $130 Ultimate Editions generating controversy, Ubisoft have managed to come out of the summer showcases with the press and audience more excited about their games than ever. How is the company famous for endless delays and bloated open world titles managing to win people back?
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Dragon Age's Reveal Dilemma
One of the greatest traditions of liking Dragon Age is the reveal of a New Dragon Age, which will then be roundly criticised. So lets talk about it. The history, the reveal, the backlash and the recovery. Including how this isn’t even the first time a trailer failed the series it was selling.
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Bungie Nailed The Landing for Destiny 2
Somehow Bungie managed to create a whole expansion that audiences love, that has managed to effectively end their 10 year storyline in a satisfying way and which hasn’t alienated mass amounts of their audience. Now they need to do it again.
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Xbox Finally Delivered
Expectations going into this year’s set of summer showcases were low. But even with that context, what Xbox showed this weekend has stunned audiences. All of that is incredibly positive - but as we look at the next few years of Xbox, there’s one nagging issue - no one trusts them right now.
Summer Showcases Streaming Soon!
This weekend the Not-E3 Geoff Keighly Power Hour is coming. So keep an eye on when the streams your most interested in are showing.
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Destiny's Final Chance
The Final Shape is the final roll of the dice for the Destiny team that’s been battered over the last 12 months. What Bungie didn’t need is for the expansion to launch to applause for the actual game they made - but players being unable to experience it due to crashes, bugs and technical issues.
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Space Marine's Microtransaction Confusion, Total War's Resurgence and Cyberpunk's End
Today, the great news that Space Marine 2 will be rejecting MTX - but we have to temper that against their DLC plan. Then news that Creative Assembly’sefforts are starting to pay off - with even more promised for Pharoah. And we’ve got the end of CP2077 - as CDPR are justly rewarded for their work.
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What Happened To Hellblade 2?
Hellblade 2 is only the 23rd most played game on Xbox on launch, it's Steam player numbers are weak and reviews frequently call out a shallow and middling experience. So let’s take a look at how the real problem for Ninja Theory isn’t that they’ve changed - it’s that everything around them has.
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Valve Just Made Lootboxes Worse and Other Steam Problems
Valve have new Lootbox tech, Steam accounts aren't even transferrable on death, Some gamers are being unfairly penalised by Steam because of their country and Valve really don't want to acknowledge Deadlock.
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Neil Druckmann's Promise of An AI Revolution Explained
It is another day on the Internet, and Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann has said something that’s made people mad. This time extolling the virtues of AI for Game development - but is there more to this than meets the eye?
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Games Media is Being Failed By Its Owners
You, the audience are not being served by the Games Media being consolidated and gutted to produce content rather than journalism. So today we’re going to take you through this story, and a wider look at the ecosystem. And how you’re being failed by the interests of very few people.