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• Checking In On ‘Marathon’ A Month After Launch
• Off the Grid maker and Game Informer owner Gunzilla Games accused of missing staff salary payments | GamesIndustry.biz
• Pokemon Go champion stripped of title for celebrating his win - Dexerto
• Beat ’em up pioneer and Double Dragon creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto has died at 64 | VGC
• PlayStation hunting for "biggest fans" so it can scan their faces and put them in games | Eurogamer.net
• Build a Rocket Boy CEO responds to end of publishing agreement with IOI Partners | GamesIndustry.biz

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• Sony Removes Over 1,000 Low-Quality Games From PlayStation Store
• Rockstar Games Illegally Underpaid Staff at GTA 6 Studio, UK Government Confirms - RockstarINTEL
• Fortnite Maker Epic Games Cuts About 1,000 Jobs Across Company - Bloomberg
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ItsAllAboutGames/s/8yWuU0pMFX
• US patent office revokes Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle | VGC
• Disney could be interested in buying Fortnite maker Epic Games, but not everyone's on board with the idea | Eurogamer.net
• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Dev Is Reportedly Developing The $100 Million Lord Of The Rings Game

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• Sony Shuts Down Video-Game Studio Bluepoint
• Former Xbox President's direction reportedly "offended" employees
• Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week | New Scientist
• Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe and it's probably not good news for EA Sports FC | Eurogamer.net
• EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN
• Valve argues loot boxes "widely used, not just in video games but in the tangible world" as it expresses 'disappointment' over New York state lawsuit | Eurogamer.net

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• DRAM prices expected to nearly double in Q1 • The Register
• Baldur's Gate is getting an HBO TV series set after Baldur's Gate 3 | TechSpot
• MindsEye Boss Legally Threatens YouTuber After Epstein Video
• Indie game film adaptation Iron Lung earns $21.5 million on opening weekend | GamesIndustry.biz
• Arc Raiders Dev Says It's Being Hit By Coordinated DDoS Attacks - GameSpot
• Call of Duty' Microtransactions Surge Followed Jeffrey Epstein Advice to CEO | IBTimes UK

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• Why is Valve’s Steam facing a $900 million UK lawsuit over anti-competitive practices?
• One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals
• Ubisoft unions in France call for international strike
• CD Projekt issues DMCA notice against Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod | GamesIndustry.biz
• https://www.gamescensor.com/hideki-konno-leaves-nintendo-mario-kart-yoshis-island/
• Roblox releases statement after player confirmed missing - Dexerto
• More than 50% of game developers say generative AI is harming the industry, the highest level to date | TechSpot
• United Video Games union writes to US Fed in protest of Saudi EA acquisition, attaching public petition | Eurogamer.net
• Fable Gameplay Teaser - Xbox Developer Direct 2026
• Forza Horizon 6 - Gameplay Teaser Trailer

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• Paramount Escalates WBD Fight, Sues Over Netflix Deal and Aims to Install Friendly Directors at Warner Shareholder Meeting
• Ryan Hurst Cast As Kratos In Prime Video’s 'God of War'
• Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts | The Verge
• First Look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Amazon's Tomb Raider TV Series - IGN
• The Future of New World: What to Expect - News | Official New World: Aeternum Website
• Ubisoft hits The Division and Avatar studio, Massive Entertainment, with layoffs | VGC

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• Disgraced Thai e-sports queen denies cheating but faces lifetime ban
• Report: GameStop closing hundreds of stores in the United States | GamesIndustry.biz
• CWA Canada says it will "pursue every legal recourse" to protect unionised Ubisoft Halifax workers | GamesIndustry.biz
• Hochul targets Roblox, kid-focused platforms in renewed push for online child safety | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise
• Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans
• New games performed really well on Steam last year, shaking the dominance of the same old live service games | Eurogamer.net

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• PS5 reigns supreme over Black Friday, accounting for a staggering 62% of all console sales | Eurogamer.net
• Steam Deck LCD production is ending — Valve's budget handheld gaming PC will no longer be available once stock is gone
• Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN
• The first post-EA FIFA soccer sim will be a Netflix Games exclusive
• The Game Awards 2025: Complete list of winners as Clair Obscur wins Game of the Year and sets a new record for awards won | VGC
• The Game Awards 2025 – All the Announcements and Trailers

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• Epic's Sweeney says platforms should stop tagging games made with AI | GamesIndustry.biz
• Xbox Cloud Gaming Expands to More Countries, Is Increasingly Popular Among Game Pass Users
• Rockstar insider reveals Discord messages that reportedly caused mass firing - Dexerto
• EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Set To Explore Ancient Rome
• Saudi Arabia's public investment fund to own almost all of EA under buyout plan, report says - Los Angeles Times
• Supreme Court hears billion-dollar battle over online piracy - ABC News
• It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion
• Disney Working On A "Groundbreaking Game Experience" For Star Wars - GameSpot
• iam8bit is suing Skybound Game Studios alleging fraud and theft of designs

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• Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” - AUTOMATON WEST
• Black Ops 7 Is The Worst User-Reviewed Call Of Duty, Dropping Below Modern Warfare 3
• Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton allegedly looked to ChatGPT to figure out how to not pay that $250 million bonus | Rock Paper Shotgun
• Battlefield 6 Just Had the Best Month of Sales in the U.S. of Any Game in the Last Three Years - IGN
• Elon [Musk] truly would be the best owner of any game company,' claims former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick with a completely straight face | PC Gamer
• Update: Tencent completes €1.16 billion investment in Ubisoft subsidiary
• "They didn’t plan ahead at all": Leaker says Xbox Series prices may increase again due to severe RAM shortages, with Microsoft reportedly telling partners the impact is coming "very, very soon"
• F1 26 to be skipped in favor of a paid expansion for F1 25

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