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Overwatch needs ways to convince players to play the game otherwise they’re not around to be sold skins. They've found a way. They’re going to make heroes more accessible, give more access to the coolest cosmetics and double down on ongoing content - with new purchase opportunities.
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Warner Bros has slashed the price of Suicide Squad by 40% - bringing it down to $42. It’s been out for 31 days. This is an incredibly egregious cut but it’s one that makes complete sense as Warner Bros desperately try and increase sales, even while decreasing the value of their game overall.
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The worst user rated game of 2024, and the 9th worst rated game on Steam ever - Battlefront Classic Collection has a mountain to climb. So the team at Aspyr don’t need the scene’s Modders furious that they’re seeing uncredited modded content in the official releases.
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“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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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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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 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 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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“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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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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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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“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.