Author: Harvey Randall
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says he’s open to Fortnite on Steam or ‘any serious store’, but that ‘the end of these ridiculous 30% fees’ is a requirement
Fortnite (a game which by all accounts probably doesn’t need the help) could come to Steam, but on one condition: the platform does away with its 30% cut. As spotted by Gamesradar, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney laid out the conditions for bringing Fortnite to the platform in a response to a Tweet, writing: “We’ll compete,…
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Looking back on Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker—two years of frustration for a game I still love
Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker will finally call curtains next year as we head into Dawntrail, and I’ve never had so many mixed feelings about an MMO I absolutely love. Endwalker had a lot riding on the back of it. It was the culmination of a 10-year storyline, saddled with massive expectations from Shadowbringers. It was…
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Inside Homeworld 3: How Blackbird Interactive aims to make you feel attached to your fleet as you ‘see the history of battles through the whole campaign’
Homeworld 3 is the third instalment of the Homeworld series, a space strategy game whose last instalment came out in 2003. It received a remaster in 2015, which we gave a 92 in our Homeworld Remastered Review—a worthy remake of “one of the most challenging and evocative strategy series ever made.” Homeworld 3 was voted…
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World of Warcraft’s new Night Elf capital allows Horde tourists, and boy is it ruffling some feathers
In World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, the Night Elves have ended its latest story patch with a new home: Bel’ameth. In case you’ve been out of the loop for a while and don’t know why Teldrassil is gone: Sylvanas blew it up. Former PC Gamer writer Steven Messner documented The Burning of Teldrassil back when it…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 player chucks a magic mace on Shadowheart, gets one-shot by her clone, then realises hours later they paid 13,000 gold for the privilege
Way back in August, a Baldur’s Gate 3 player managed to one-shot the final boss of Act 2 by using a mace that deals damage based on how much gold the target has, doing so by reverse-pickpocketing 15,000 sword coast smackeroons into Ketheric Thorm’s pocket. Fast-forward to the present day, and it seems like someone…
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Hasbro’s 1,100 layoffs have hit D&D and Magic: The Gathering hard, as a growing list of staff announce their departures
Earlier this week, Hasbro announced that it would be laying off approximately 1,100 employees two weeks before Christmas, as per an internal memo. At the time, I pointed out that the memo announced “the majority of the notifications will happen over the next six months, with the balance occurring over the next year.” While it…
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A former Grand Theft Auto dev weighs in on GTA 6’s delayed PC version: ‘it’s hard to do that as a developer, because the team isn’t big enough’
Grand Theft Auto 6 didn’t get a PC release date along with its trailer. Historical precedent isn’t promising either, since Red Dead Redemption 2’s port took 13 months to make the jump, while GTA 5 took a whopping 19. At the time of writing, though, GTA 5 is number 10 on the top sellers list…
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‘I’m an actor, I’m not a doctor—I’m not a hero’: Astarion’s voice actor reflects on his Game Awards win for Baldur’s Gate 3, and the humility of helping others feel seen
The Game Awards had some interesting problems this year. In particular, the words “Please Wrap it up” will be carved into the public’s brains for a while due to some major criticisms on how rushed the award speeches from the devs were. In particular, I noticed that Neil Newbon (the voice of Astarion in Baldur’s…
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D&D and Magic: The Gathering owner Hasbro announces the layoffs of 1,100 employees, calls it a ‘lever we must pull to keep Hasbro healthy’
Hasbro, the toy company which oversees D&D and Magic: The Gathering (under Wizards of the Coast), has announced sweeping layoffs just two weeks before the holiday season. The decision was announced yesterday in an internal memo by CEO Chris Cocks, who wrote: “While we have made some important progress across our organisation, the headwinds we…
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We’ll never get another big blockbuster MMO while the industry’s still drooling over live service games
It’d be wrong to say that the MMO is dead. A lot of the enduring classics are still around—if a little diminished—and there are some promising MMO games on the horizon like Palia and Pax Dei. I also liked the look of Wayfinder, but that’s not exactly been doing well. Still, it’s nothing compared to…