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Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing

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The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions in lost sales. A cluster of European regulations is taking aim at how games are sold to minors. Loot boxes are the main target. The shift could crimp sales worldwide, Bloomberg reported. Regulators […]

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Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed

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The video game disc is dead, and Sony’s been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony’s discmaking operations, Sony DADC president Dietmar Tanzer, told ORF Salzberg that the company’s Thalgau plant produces 600,000 discs every day, half of which are for PlayStation. But […]

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Ubisoft taps ex-Amazon Games chief to run its Tom Clancy studio

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Ubisoft has hired Christoph Hartmann, until recently vice president of Amazon Games, to run the division that controls its Tom Clancy properties. He takes over as general manager of Creative House 2, the unit built around The Division, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, according to Ubisoft’s own statement. The appointment lands at a delicate moment for […]

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The funeral for PlayStation discs has begun

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Cody Spencer, the co-owner of the small games retail chain Pink Gorilla Games, put it well when I asked about the impact of Sony’s recent announcement that it will stop making discs for new games starting January 2028. “It’s sad to see. This decision is only a negative for gamers. We’re losing the ability to […]

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Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft’s looming layoffs and studio closures

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Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly-promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to staff warning of an “Xbox reset.” The business, they said, is facing significant challenges, including a 3 percent “accountability margin,” massively higher […]

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Krafton settles with Subnautica 2 developer after drawn-out dispute over $250 million

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After a lengthy legal dispute, Krafton has settled with its subsidiary Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is developing Subnautica 2, and will pay bonuses to the studio’s staff, Bloomberg reports. The dispute began last year after Krafton pushed out Unknown Worlds’ co-founders, Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, and its CEO, Ted Gill, ahead of a potential […]

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Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection

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Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees […]

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