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Twitch is facing an employee exodus amid a culture clash
A new report has claimed that several top Twitch executives have left the company, apparently in part due to a failure to understand Twitch’s culture. According to Bloomberg (paywalled), Amazon‘s streaming platform has faced an exodus of executives since the start of 2022. The report claims that six top employees – including the chief operating officer, chief content officer and head of ...read more
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Babylon’s Fall PC Launch Sales Are Painfully Low
PlatinumGames’ latest multiplayer hack and slash title Babylon’s Fall has just been released to rather little fanfare, and it shows in the game’s commercial reception. Sales for Babylon’s Fall have been extremely low, and the game’s Steam version has peaked at around 650 concurrent players, according to SteamDB. For context, developer Techland’s highly-anticipated Dying Light 2: ...read more
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The Settlers Delayed to a “Later Date”
Remember Ubisoft’s The Settlers, the reboot of the city-building RTS that was slated to launch on March 17th? Following the closed beta, which had a mixed response due to the new approach, the developer has announced a delay. It will now be released for PC at a “later date.” In a new tweet, the team confirmed that it went through feedback from the beta and realized that “the quality ...read more
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Sony Ships Secret PlayStation Console Prototypes Overseas
In over ten years of covering PlayStation, we’ve never seen this kind of sleuthing before. Tweak Town has been keeping an eagle-eye on Sony Interactive Entertainment’s exports, and has uncovered a ledger for 700kgs worth of video game console prototypes, shipped from its headquarters in London to Norfolk, Virginia. The package, made up of four cartons, was shipped on 16th November, 2021 ...read more
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Battlefield 2042 Map Changes Announced
The Battlefield 2042 developers shared a lengthy post this week discussing and committing to a number of changes planned for the game's various maps. Everything from how long it takes to travel across any given map to the amount of cover players can hide behind in certain situations was discussed alongside some rough indications of what maps will look like once changed. These adjustments will ...read more
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Next week’s free Epic Games Store title has been revealed
Cities Skylines has been confirmed as next week’s free Epic Games Store title. The city-building game will be available as a free download from Epic’s PC marketplace from March 10-17. Cities Skylines will replace Black Widow: Recharged, Centipede: Recharged and the Dauntless Epic Slayer Kit, which are currently free to download until March 10.
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Sifu reaches one million copies sold three weeks after release
Sifu is doing rather well. It has sold over one million copies since its release on February 8. The game has also seen over 10 million hours played, and 45% of players have completed the challenging second level. Over 150,000 players have already learned enough Kung Fu to beat Yang, the game's main antagonist, and some have even reached reached Wude, the true ending of the game.
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Elden Ring had the biggest Call of Duty UK launch since Red Dead 2
Elden Ring‘s UK release was the biggest launch for a game other than FIFA or Call of Duty since Rockstar‘s Red Dead Redemption 2 in 2018. According to digital and physical GSD sales data published on GamesIndustry.biz, FromSoftware‘s newest game sold over twice as well as Horizon Forbidden West and even outsold huge launches from last year such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Assassin’s Creed ...read more
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Nintendo really doesn't want you to use Switch emulators on Steam Deck
Nintendo may be trying to discourage you from emulating Switch games on Steam Deck. Steam Deck, Valve's recently launched portable console, lets you not only play PC games on the go but, as it's an open platform, allows you to run emulated ones too. That is, seemingly, unless Nintendo has anything to say about it. Nintendo Life has reported that a recent video demonstrating how-to run Yuzu, ...read more
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CD Projekt is halting sales in Russia and Belarus
The company behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 is halting sales in Russia and Belarus. Not only does the suspension of digital sales and physical stock apply to its products, but all of the games that are distributed on its online storefront GOG, too. “The entire CD Projekt Group stands firm with the people of Ukraine,” the statement reads. “While we are not a political entity capable ...read more
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