Marvel Snap is back online after falling afoul of TikTok’s temporary ban, and unsurprisingly, its creators are on the search for a new publisher

When TikTok was temporarily blocked in the US at the weekend, one of the unexpected knock-on effects was the simultaneous blocking of Marvel Snap, a CCG starring the usual gaggle of buoyant American superheroes. TikTok access was reinstated after 12 hours, but the game remained offline for another 12 hours. Now it’s back (on PC…

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‘You’re not supposed to say this out loud!’: Baldur’s Gate 3 dev reacts to analyst who says some game makers ‘hope’ Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost up to $100 at launch

Larian head of publishing Michael Douse warned that game companies are saying the quiet part out loud after industry analyst Michael Ball wrote that some of them are hoping Grand Theft Auto 6 will launch with a price of at least $80, and possibly as high as $100. The remark came in Ball’s “State of…

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Streamers including Kai Cenat named in Drake’s UMG lawsuit for their reaction videos instantly respond with reaction videos: ‘The biggest Ls come from not knowing how to take an L’

Popular gaming-adjacent streamers including Kai Cenat And Mark Phillips have been named in musician Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG), which accuses the music publisher of spreading the “false and malicious” narrative he is a pedophile via the Kedrick Lamar track Not Like Us. The Lamar song is a diss track, an established…

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The run up to the US TikTok ban got as messy, emotional, and weird as the final days of an MMO—and now everyone’s back and no one can look each other in the eye

In case you missed it: this past weekend saw social media platform TikTok banned completely in the US, then restored about 12 hours later thanks to the personal intervention of Donald Trump. Watching the whole series of events unfold on the app itself was chaotic, revelatory, and fascinating—and now it all feels like the morning…

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‘You deserve better customer service’: Path of Exile 2 studio apologizes for long support wait times but with 545,000 emails received, it’s kind of understandable

Grinding Gear Games says it’s sorry for the slow response times to Path of Exile 2 customer support requests, but it’s dealing with an absolute avalanche of them—roughly 545,000 email requests since the game launched in November, far more than it was prepared to deal with. “In the lead up to the launch of Path…

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