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Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons (www.retbit.com)

Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal (insider-gaming.com)

"We're not blessed with big marketing budgets," Xbox's EMEA marketing lead laments Microsoft's lack of investment (www.windowscentral.com)

Summer 2024 Team Fortress 2 Update Released (store.steampowered.com)

Fallout London's Robot Speaker of the House Played by UK's Actual Former Speaker of the House (www.ign.com)

Context: Fallout London is a very huge mod for Fallout 4.

Splitgate 2 Re-announced With a Much Bigger Team and Bigger Dreams (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft First Quarter financial report (staticctf.ubisoft.com)

Interesting bits:...

Rockstar might be bringing GTA+ to Nintendo Switch (wolfsgamingblog.com)

WW2 Shooter Enlisted re-launches for free, for real this time, and is met with positive reviews. (store.steampowered.com)

After years of open beta development the game had a controversial Steam release in March as a pay-to-access game that was otherwise free with their own launcher, now has relaunched as completely free....

Report: Resident Evil 7 on iOS has earned Capcom $28,140 since launch (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Whatever Apple paid must’ve been worth it to go through with this.

Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #28 Closed Beta (store.steampowered.com)

Coming to you this September, Patch 7 rolls out the perfect escape with split screen updates, brand new cinematics for evil endings, plenty of bug fixes, plus our official modding toolkit which we talked more about in our last Community Update!

Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates (www.tomshardware.com)

Danganronpa creator left Spike Chunsoft so that he could do unlimited overtime work and take on risks without fearing bankruptcy (automaton-media.com)

Former Bungie, Pokémon Lawyer Explains How They Caught Leakers (www.bloomberg.com)

‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive (www.wired.com)

Embracer Group is Killing Your Favorite Video Games (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell" (www.gamesradar.com)

What’s interesting to me is of course how cheaply Bioshock got made compared to today’s blockbuster hits. Somewhere, we took the wrong turn in regards to modern game development, truly....

$500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form (arstechnica.com)

Ubisoft’s apology for stolen imagery in Assassin’s Creed Shadows followed by further call for revision of Collector’s Edition artbook (automaton-media.com)

Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now (www.eurogamer.net)

This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don’t like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it....

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