Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Experis Game Solutions staff are pursuing unionization
• Media Molecule to reduce workforce
• Report: Less than 1% of Netflix's total subscribers play games daily

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Bowser: Nintendo doesn't have unions due to employee satisfaction
• PlayStation's Visual Arts studio hit with layoffs
• Fallout TV series launch date revealed

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• FaZe Clan Is Merging With Company Backed by Jerry Jones
• Starfield helps boost US games revenue 10% in September | US Monthly Charts
• Everybody's either mad or sad about the Alan Wake 2 system requirements

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Streamer's Shiba Inu to become first dog speedrunner at AGDQ 2024
• JSR_’s Youtube
• AMD kicks its new Anti-Lag+ feature out of its latest drivers, stripping support and the potential for player bans from games
• Minecraft Still The Best-Selling Video Game Of All Time (It's Not Even Close)

Stories included in Friday Re:Play

• Activision Blizzard is officially part of Microsoft
• CD Projekt staff form union for Polish developers
• Bandcamp dismisses 50% of its staff amid Epic Games mass layoffs
• How one gun company partnered with Call of Duty to attract 'young potential shooters'

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• How one gun company partnered with Call of Duty to attract 'young potential shooters'
• Unity clarifies new fee plans amid developer backlash
• Unity makes big changes to the install fee that pissed off just about every game developer last week
• Unity CEO Riccitiello steps down, effective immediately

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Bandcamp dismisses 50% of its staff amid Epic Games mass layoffs
• Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation
• Microsoft reiterates labor neutrality agreement following ABK acquisition

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• International Olympic Committee announce plans for Olympic Esports Games
• Van Gogh Museum forced to stop distributing special Pikachu cards after scalpers storm the gates: '[we] take the safety and security of visitors and staff very seriously'
• CD Projekt staff form union for Polish developers

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Activision Blizzard is officially part of Microsoft
• Around 100 Devs At Just Cause Studio Are Unionizing

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(Sorry this episode was late, I set the post date incorrectly)

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We have a special announcement from host of Let's Play Nate Bender.

Let's Play episode will resume production on Monday, October 16th 2023.

Apologies for the downtime.

RIP Fritz

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Japanese YouTuber gets suspended jail sentence and fine for posting game footage
• Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom
• ReedPop and ESA part ways over E3

Stories included in Friday Re:Play

• SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies
• Stray, That Cute Cat Game From Last Year, Is Getting An Animated Movie
• Survey finds more than half of game developers experience crunch
• GameWorkers.org Developer Survey
• Twitch bans Smash pro bobby big ballz after drinking and driving on stream

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