Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Roblox banned in Türkiye due to child safety concerns
• Twitch staff fear further layoffs
• 'Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye': Game Informer staff tweets one last goodbye after all of their work was deleted, then GameStop nukes the account from orbit

Friday Re:Play -

• Bungie lays off another 220 staff, acknowledging it was "overly ambitious"
• Intel announces layoffs of around 15,000 staff
• There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent
• Olympics ditched Mario & Sonic series to explore NFTs and esports
• More evidence of "fully-fledged Half-Life game" revealed by Valve dataminer

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Today on Let's Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Meta records loss of $4.5bn in Reality Labs during Q2
• Olympics ditched Mario & Sonic series to explore NFTs and esports
• More evidence of "fully-fledged Half-Life game" revealed by Valve dataminer

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Today on Let's Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Bungie lays off another 220 staff, acknowledging it was "overly ambitious"
• Intel announces layoffs of around 15,000 staff
• There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent

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Today on Let's Play: Daily Gaming News -

• AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
• PSA: This weekend is your last chance to buy from the Xbox 360 online marketplace
• GTA 6 unaffected by video game acting strike, contract terms appear to state

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• SAG-AFTRA calls for a "video game strike", effective from tomorrow
• Humble Games devs told "company is shutting down"
• Netflix has 80+ games in development and plans to release "about one new title per month"

Friday Re:Play-

• Epic Summer Sale
• Steam is massive, but far fewer people work at Valve than you might think
• Paramount+ has canceled its Halo show after 2 seasons
• Workers at Bethesda Game Studios Achieve Union Recognition with CWA becoming First Wall-to-Wall Union at Microsoft
• World of Warcraft’s Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionized
• Campaign to Organize Digital Employees

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Workers at Bethesda Game Studios Achieve Union Recognition with CWA becoming First Wall-to-Wall Union at Microsoft
• World of Warcraft’s Entire Development Team Has Officially Unionized
• Campaign to Organize Digital Employees
• SAG-AFTRA is ready to strike if game companies don't "come to the table with a deal" to protect jobs against AI

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Epic Summer Sale
• Paramount+ has canceled its Halo show after 2 seasons
• Steam is massive, but far fewer people work at Valve than you might think

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• Sega sues social media user for "excessive slanderous and insulting comments" against employee
• Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023.
• FTC claims Xbox’s Game Pass price hike is ‘consumer harm’ it warned of

Friday Re:Play-

• Nintendo's systemic policy of miscrediting is harming external translators
• Dying Light 2 dev Techland is making "most roles" office-based or hybrid, including staff who live abroad
• How Corporate Greed is Killing Your Favorite Video Games
• Space Marine 2 studio says the leaked build is nearly a year old, urges people not to play it: 'It's disheartening that many of the surprises we worked to keep secret were spoiled'
• Resident Evil 7 Is The Latest AAA Port To Flop On iPhone

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Space Marine 2 studio says the leaked build is nearly a year old, urges people not to play it: 'It's disheartening that many of the surprises we worked to keep secret were spoiled'
• Disney reportedly victim to a 1TB data breach
• Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 information seemingly appears online
• Resident Evil 7 Is The Latest AAA Port To Flop On iPhone

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Nintendo's systemic policy of miscrediting is harming external translators
• Saudi Arabia is hosting the inaugural Esports Olympic Games next year
• Dying Light 2 dev Techland is making "most roles" office-based or hybrid, including staff who live abroad
• More Perfect Union: How Corporate Greed is Killing Your Favorite Video Games

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