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Fan revolt forces RPG studio to kill its new launcher just 19 hours after release

After an incredibly brief existence, Owlcat has completely rolled back a controversial new launcher from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Introduced yesterday, the Owlcat Launcher was intended to be a pre-game space for collating news and updates about Owlcat’s various games. “Instead of searching across multiple platforms for updates, news, and announcements, now you can find…

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The grim industry summer continues as EA lays off staff ahead of $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia, likely to soothe the sting of its $20 billion debt

It’s looking like another grim summer for the videogame industry. Microsoft is eyeing up several studios to shutter, and the CEO of Epic Games says there’s a tidal wave sweeping over the AAA business, which I’m sure is fine. The next step in this macabre march comes from EA, which will reportedly be laying off…

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Final Fantasy 14 has done something I did not expect—it’s actually fixed one of the most annoying things about its newest ultimate raid

Loving someone means putting up with all their flaws. In Final Fantasy 14’s case, that’s shrugging my shoulders and going “classic server tick moment” every time something that is definitely not supposed to happen does, in fact, happen. That’s been happening an awful lot more lately as I’ve been progressing through Dancing Mad (Ultimate), the…

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