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• Ready at Dawn and Downpour Interactive impacted by Meta layoffs
• Dark and Darker lawyers fire back at Nexon: 'nothing more than anti-competitive bully tactics designed to put a small indie firm out of business'
• Garry's Mod dev wants to "get rid of the celebration of Nazis" in his game



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• Please stop doing war crimes in multiplayer games, it's upsetting the Red Cross
• Twitch hours watched drop another 5% in March
• Worst boss ever? Tech CEO applauds employee for selling family dog for the good of the company

Stories included in Friday Re:Play

• Dark and Darker dev asks players to torrent latest playtest after Steam delisting
• Dark and Darker's long-awaited playtest goes live the same day the studio gets sued for copyright infringement
• Nintendo 'Hacker' Will Be Punished For The Rest Of His Life
• Nintendo copyright claims strike again, this time with Zelda: Breath of the Wild multiplayer modder

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Nintendo copyright claims strike again, this time with Zelda: Breath of the Wild multiplayer modder
• PUBG developer's NFT metaverse platform is coming this year and still sounds like nonsense
• AARP: 45% of people 50+ play games



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• Man steals Pokémon cards on the job in 'largest' theft the game has ever seen, tries to sell his haul, but the law is super effective
• Niantic is developing an augmented reality Monster Hunter action RPG
• Nintendo 'Hacker' Will Be Punished For The Rest Of His Life

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Dark and Darker's long-awaited playtest goes live the same day the studio gets sued for copyright infringement
• Sega to acquire Rovio in €706 million deal
• Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been cleared in another country

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• American McGee asks fans to "respect his decision to move on" after EA "killed" a third Alice game
• Dark and Darker dev asks players to torrent latest playtest after Steam delisting
• US Senator asks Sony CEO to reveal PlayStation’s game exclusivity deals

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Microsoft responds to re-filed "gamer's lawsuit" against Activision acquisition’
• Final Fantasy XVI | Sony’s State of Play - April 13th, 2023
• WDET 101.9 FM - Culture Shift’s 1upDate with Nate Bender - Military Leaks

Stories included in Friday Re:Play

• Women in Games CEO warns "we are going backwards as an industry"
• Exclusive: U.S. rep mulls legislative action to press games industry on extremism
• ADL criticizes Fortnite, Call of Duty for lax stance on Holocaust denial
• Konami Employee Arrested For Allegedly Attempting To Murder His Former Boss

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Konami Employee Arrested For Allegedly Attempting To Murder His Former Boss
• Nintendo's Doing A Live Fan Event That Kinda Sounds Like Its Own E3
• Redfall won’t have a 60 FPS Performance mode on Xbox Series X/S at launch

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• New Details on Intelligence Leak Show It Circulated for Weeks Before Raising Alarm
• DFC: Global game audience reaches 3.7 billion
• Is Microsoft getting ready to add PC games to Xbox Cloud Gaming?

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• ADL criticizes Fortnite, Call of Duty for lax stance on Holocaust denial
• After complaints about 'free' Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade being sold in a $50 bundle with Ark 2, now it'll be in a DLC bundle for $60
• Super Mario Bros. Breaks Movie Theater Sales Records, And Beats Sonic

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