Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• SAG-AFTRA national board approves tentative agreement
• Switch 2 breaks Nintendo records, sells 3.5m units globally in four days
• Ubisoft trial witnesses testify to "being tied to a chair, forced to do handstands, and subjected to constant comments about sex"

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple's latest appeal fails: 'The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended'
• Nintendo Switch 2 consoles arrive damaged as retailer staples receipts on outer packaging
• Crit Award Round 2 Voting

The Friday Re:Play -

• State of Play | June 4, 2025 [English]
• ESA: 64% of Americans play games for more than an hour a week
• Elden Ring Nightreign sells 2 million copies on day one, as a patch for easier solo play is announced

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• State of Play | June 4, 2025
• ESA: 64% of Americans play games for more than an hour a week
• Elden Ring Nightreign sells 2 million copies on day one, as a patch for easier solo play is announced

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• FromSoftware and A24 to produce Elden Ring adaptation
• FTC drops case against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
• Summer Game Fest 2025: What new game announcements to expect and how to watch

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• Xbox Series X will now cost $600 as Microsoft increases console and game prices
• EA cuts another 200 jobs "in service of driving future growth", bringing total job losses to around 300
• Polygon has been sold to Valnet, with the majority of staff laid off

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• IGN joins the fight to keep AI out of journalism…or are they?
• Fallout creator says he was "ordered to destroy" source code that the studio has since "lost"
• Tim Cain - Game Preservation
• Nexon wins the bidding war to make a new StarCraft as well as distribute a Blizzard mobile game that's being called 'Overwatch 3'

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• NGO files complaint against Ubisoft for data protection concerns and forcing "always online" connections
• Apple and Meta have been fined a total of €700,000,000 for non-compliance with the EU Digital Markets Act. Which, in their billion-dollar world, is just chump change
• Steam to launch new tags to help disabled players "search for games based on accessibility features"

The Friday Re:Play -

• Bethesda has "no intention" to shut down fan-made Skyblivion mod
• Nintendo files request to subpoena Discord for Pokémon leaker identity
• Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Bethesda has "no intention" to shut down fan-made Skyblivion mod
• Nintendo files request to subpoena Discord for Pokémon leaker identity
• Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Some Discord users now need to scan their face or ID to view sensitive material
• The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake is real
• Confirmed: Nintendo Switch 2 US pre-orders open next week, as accessories get a price hike

The Friday Re:Play -

• A Minecraft Movie surpasses $550m globally
• Video game M&A activity rises to $6.6 billion in Q1 2025, driven by mobile acquisitions
• Niantic is laying off 68 staff following the acquisition of its games business by Scopely

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• A Minecraft Movie surpasses $550m globally
• Video game M&A activity rises to $6.6 billion in Q1 2025, driven by mobile acquisitions
• Niantic is laying off 68 staff following the acquisition of its games business by Scopely

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