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Daily Briefing: Monday 8th March

Microsoft's Bethesda acquisition has been approved by the EU

The European Union's antitrust regulator has approved the proposed $7.5bn acquisition in another step towards its final completion. The acquisition was cleared without concessions during the regulator's prelimin...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 5th March

Valve end development on Artifact 2.0

An official statement published to Artifact's Steam page reads that, while the team were "reasonably satisfied" with the extent to which they had achieved their game-side goals, Artifact just wasn't able to draw in enough active playe...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 4th March

Those Switch Pro rumours suddenly got a lot more detailed

A new report from Bloomberg has claimed that Nintendo's long-rumoured "Switch Pro" will begin production sometime in June, and will contain a new 7-inch Samsung OLED scree...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 3rd March

Fall Guys developer purchased by Epic Games

The as-yet undetailed acquisition deal means that Epic Games now own the entire Tonic Games Group, which includes Fall Guys studio Mediatonic. In an official statement, Mediatonic have called the deal "a huge move for Fall Guys"...

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The iPad Invention Prototype: The BEST Solution Out There!

How to make your iPad EVEN MORE flexible & have incredible ergonomics!

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 2nd March

Need for Speed delayed into next year, Criterion shifted to Battlefield

Chief Studios Officer Laura Miele told Polygon that the decision was influenced by a combination of pandemic pressures and the fact that EA's recent acquisition of Codemasters will be delivering at le...

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Daily Briefing: Monday 1st March

New documents claim E3 2021 live event has been cancelled, unsurprisingly

A new report published by the Board of Los Angeles Convention and Tourism Development Commission (what a name) has listed E3 2021 as a "cancelled live event", and that the Board are instead "working...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 26th February

EA have reportedly canned Dragon Age 4's multiplayer elements

Fresh off the back of Anthem Next's cancellation, a new report from Bloomberg has suggested that EA have allowed BioWare to drop all planned multiplayer elements for Dragon Age 4. The game will reportedly now b...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 24th February

Sony say they underestimated PS5 demand

The admission comes courtesy of Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who told The Washington Post that high demand mixed with "supply chain issues" are what has caused the widespread shortage of PS5 units since the console's...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 23rd February

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer removed, release delayed, preorders cancelled

The hotly-anticipated title has now been delayed out of 2021 and publisher Paradox Interactive have officially pulled development responsibilities from studio Hardsuit Labs - in...

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Daily Briefing: Monday 22nd February

Diablo 2: Resurrected won't ruin the original version like Warcraft III: Reforged did

Reforged was a laundry list of controversies when it released last January, but one of the biggest was that its multiplayer component merged with the original Warcraft 3 and wiped out tw...

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Welp, That Happened! BTS Of Our First Ever Live Show & Future Plans

Experiments are happening! We'll be piloting a show on our Warcraft channel, and then potentially doing industry news content.

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 18th February

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is headed to Nintendo Switch

Last night's Nintendo Direct was packed full of announcements but one of the biggest was that Skyward Sword, which first released on the Wii in 2011, will head Switch on July 16th. It'll have updated visuals,...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 17th February

Nintendo are holding an actual Nintendo Direct presentation today

The upcoming presentation, set to air today at 2pm PT/5pm ET/ 10pm GMT, will mark the first full Nintendo broadcast since September 2019 - that's nearly 18 months. Nintendo have stated the show will include...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 16th February

Six Days in Fallujah (a game about the Iraq War) isn't intended to be political

That's according to the game's publisher Victure who outlined that the game, which aims to tell the story of the 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah, isn't attempting to make "a political commentar...

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[EARLY ACCESS] The Lore You Missed In Shadowlands

Hey everyone! This is our next lore video - it's a little less 'grand scheme' and a lot more 'here's the breadcrumbs Blizzard left us', but it's full of some wild stuff and can drive a LOT of speculation.

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Daily Briefing: Monday 15th February

"Over 100" games will reportedly release on Stadia this year, despite studio closures

A new community blog posted to the official Stadia website states that players can expect a stack of games from a wide variety of genres "over the next few weeks and months." A "sampling...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 12th February

Stolen Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 data reportedly sold at dark web auction

After leaking the source code to Gwent earlier this week, the hacking group promised that more substantial information would be sold at auction. According to cyber intelligence firm Kela, this looks to have been ...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 11th February

HBO's The Last of Us finds its Joel and Ellie

The showrunners apparently flicked through their Game of Thrones rolodex  to find their leading duo. Pedro Pascal will play Joel - he was Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones and he's also in some quaint little indie thing c...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 10th February

Riot Games CEO sued for sexual harassment

Riot Games and their CEO, Nicolo Laurent, are currently facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from Laurent's former assistant - who is seeking damages for nine issues including sexual discrimination, hostile environment harassment, a...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 9th February

Terraria creator locked out of Google accounts, cancels Stadia release in response

Andrew Spinks took to Twitter to detail being inexplicably locked out of his Google accounts since mid-January, and to criticise Google for doing nothing beyond giving him "the runaround" s...

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LOOT: February 2020

Here we have it: Tailoring, a kickass shield to go with the swords we're about to ship out (see https://www.patreon.com/posts/vlog-loot-tease-47326917 ) and the creature sticker!

The schedule fo...

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VLOG: Loot Preview, Shipping & Project Tease!

Updates from the field!

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Daily Briefing: Monday 8th February

That Prince of Persia remake has been delayed indefinitely

The remake of Ubisoft's 2003 classic Prince of Persia: Sands of time was originally slated to release in January 2021 before being pushed to March - this latest delay does not include an updated expected release w...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 5th February

Activision-Blizzard say no Overwatch 2 or Diablo 4 in 2021

In their earnings call, AB quashed hopes of these games appearing this year. They did, however, confirm a Call of Duty aimed for Q4 2021, more remasters coming this year (Diablo 2? Crash Bash?) and that multiple F2P Warcraft mobil...

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Daily Briefing: Thursday 4th February

Activision Sued Over 'Copied Character'

According to photographer Clayton Haugen, the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Operator named Mara is infringing on his copyright. He developed a character named Cade Janus for a short story and hired model Alex Zedra to play her for a photo shoot. Alleg...

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 3rd February

Embracer Go Shopping For More Acquisitions

Embracer Group have acquired Gearbox, port studio Aspyr Media and mobile publisher Easybrain for a maximum of $1.3b, $450m and $865m respectively. They also noted that Aspyr are working on a $70m AAA licensed project - rumoured to be Star Wars KO...

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Daily Briefing: Tuesday 2nd February

Stadia Have Axed Their Game Dev Teams

Announced late yesterday, Phil Harrison has confirmed that Stadia will move from focusing on exclusive, first party content to hosting and supporting third party content. According to Kotaku, this includes selling Stadia's tech to publishers as a prod...

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Daily Briefing: Monday 1st February

Nintendo deny planning a Switch Pro 'anytime soon'.

With various insider references to a Switch Pro (or Super Switch), the ageing Switch is almost certainly being replaced - the question is just when, at this point. Nintendo said they aren't planning an announcement 'anytime soon', which ...

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Daily Briefing: Friday 29th January

Rumour: Microsoft Gearing Up For Another Big Acquisition

Rumour has it that Microsoft is prepping for another Bethesda-like acquisition in the coming years. As to who it could be... the crazy one is Take-Two, trying to get the purchase in ahead of Tencent, who are also rumoured to want Ta...

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