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Ex-PlayStation Boss Speaks Out Against Exclusive...

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2024/03/11

In today's Daily Fix:Shawn Leydon, former president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America, has admitted this major weakness in big-budget exclusive games: their exclusivity. Game production budgets have ballooned in recently years, with titles like Marvel's Spider-Man 2 costing Sony around $300 million. Since the game was a PS5 exclusive, Sony needed to sell roughly 7 million copies just to break even. Seems smart to release those types of games on multiple platforms like PC. In other

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Helldivers 2 Finally Gets Mechs, But There's a Catch...

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2024/03/08

In today's Daily Fix:Helldivers 2 players have liberated Tien Kwan and now the planet can get to producing mechs for the war effort...but you can only call one down if you have the prerequisite minimum level and have the coin to unlock that stratagem. It's a bummer for new players, but for a limited time, the game will let you call down one mech for free. In other news, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 just a New Game+ update, but it also came with a dev menu meant for the development team. Woops. And

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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Finally Gets New Game+ - IGN...

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2024/03/07

In today's Daily Fix: Insomniac Games is finally releasing the promised New Game+ update for Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The update also comes with new suits, the ability to change the time of day and replay missions, and a new trophy if you beat the game on NG+. In other news, man your hellpods, Helldivers, because the planet Tian Kwan is under automaton assault. And Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead could be hinting that the liberation of the planet is tied to the release of the long-awaited mechs

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Helldivers 2's Latest Patch Nerfs the Best Loadouts -...

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2024/03/06

In today's Daily Fix: Helldivers around the world will have to come up with new meta loadouts now that developer Arrowhead has nerfed some of the weapons and stratagems. While this was all done in the name of balanced gameplay, it no doubt will upset some who like to dive with a very specific set of gear. But also included in the update are changes to the planets themselves, namely in more environmental hazards like fire tornadoes and meteor showers. In other news, another hit PlayStation game is

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Game Pass Games for March 2024 Announced - IGN Daily Fix

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2024/03/05

In today's Daily Fix: Microsoft has revealed the first wave of games coming to the Game Pass service in March. Today, you can play Warhammer 40K: Boltgun,a retro-styled shooter set in the Warhammer 40K universe. Later this month is PAW Patrol World and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom—Rehydrated, you know, for the kids. IGN's 2019 Game of the Year, Control, is returning to the service, this time with all the DLC. If you finished Alan Wake II and want to explore more of the Remedy

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FF7 Rebirth’s Performance Mode Is Getting a Patch...

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2024/03/04

In today's Daily Fix: Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth is now out in the wild, and just like many AAA games this generation, it comes with separate performance and quality modes. But for FF7's performance mode, it's still kinda ugly. Don't worry, though, as Square Enix is preparing a patch meant to address many of the problems with that mode. In other news, Xbox has a new partner showcase arriving this week, giving us a more detailed look at some third-party games coming to the Series X and Series S

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Helldivers 2 Fakes Are Popping Up on Steam - IGN...

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2024/03/01

In today's Daily Fix:Helldivers 2 is a massive success for developer Arrowhead, and of course lazy devs are trying to capitalize on it by releasing fake versions with the same name on Steam. Valve has been quick to squash these fakes like the terminids they are, but Arrowhead is growing concerned about how these fakes end up on Steam with the Helldivers name in the first place. And that's not the only game suffering from impersonators; Palworld has its fair share of fakes popping up on Steam, too

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Rockstar to Curb GTA 6 Security Breaches By Bringing...

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2024/02/29

In today's Daily Fix: Rockstar Games is asking their employees to come back to the office five days a week. This is in response to several data breaches resulting in major leaks of the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6. Employees, however, are less than thrilled with the idea, and a game dev union is accusing Rockstar of going back on promises made regarding their work-from-home policy. In other news, Saber Interactive has now separated itself from their embattled parent company, Embracer Group,

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PS Plus Games for March 2024 Revealed - IGN Daily Fix

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2024/02/28

In today's Daily Fix:PlayStation Plus games for March have been revealed, and leading the charge is the excellent Destiny 2 expansion, The Witch Queen. Also on the list is the action game Sifu, and if you love kung-fu movies, you'll like that game. You also get Hello Neighbor 2, EA Sports F1 23, a bunch of cosmetics for The Finals, and more! In other news, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is out now in Japan, but if you bought the physical edition you might have a confusing time installing the game. That's

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PlayStation Lays Off 900 Staff - IGN Daily Fix

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2024/02/27

Sony has announced a significant round of layoffs affecting around 900 staff, or about 8% of its global PlayStation workforce. The layoffs affect a number of PlayStation studios, including Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Firesprite, and, most significantly, PlayStation's London studio. Alongside the layoffs, a number of in-development games are cancelled, Sony said.

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Nintendo Switch 2 Reportedly Delayed to 2025 - IGN...

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2024/02/26

Nintendo Switch 2 won’t launch until March 2025 at the earliest, according to a new report. Plus, the developer of Helldivers 2 has declared the weekend a success, insisting the game’s servers handled all players “without problem”. And you'll soon be able to play Doom on a robotic lawnmower.

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Warner Bros. Admits Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice...

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2024/02/23

In today's Daily Fix: WB execs have admitted that the AAA game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, had missed their sales mark and fell short of company expectations. The game was met with middling reviews, with many critics and gamers taking issue with the divisive story. Developer Rocksteady, though, still has more DLC for the game in the works, including a playable Joker. In other news, Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead is working on a patch that will rise the cap of concurrent players from 500,000

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New Helldivers 2 Patch Finally Kicks Idle Players -...

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2024/02/22

In today's Daily Fix: A new Helldivers 2 patch is on the way, and this one will add a much-requested feature: kicking AFK players to free up room on the servers. The game has proven so popular that the hard cap of 500,000 concurrent players is constantly being hit, and players lucky enough to get in will just stay logged in and idle to secure their spot. Some have admitted to staying logged in for days at a time so they can play whenever they want. Now the game will kick anyone who is idle for more

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Price and Release...

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2024/02/21

In today's Daily Fix: The long-awaited DLC to Elden Ring has finally been unveiled, and will arrive on all current-gen and last-gen systems plus PC (and obviously not Switch). It'll arrive on June 21 and the basic edition of the expansion will cost $39.99 USD. If you've got money to burn, there's also a $250 Collector's Edition that comes with a statue. In other news, those four games that Microsoft teased would come to PlayStation and Nintendo platforms have been revealed. Pentiment and Grounded

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PS5 Pro "Likely" Coming in 2024, According to...

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2024/02/20

In today's Daily Fix: Video Game industry analysts are saying that the mid-gen update for the PS5 should be arriving sometime this year. 2024 will mark the fourth anniversary of the PlayStation 5, which hit stores in November 2020. The PS4 Pro was launched about 3 years after the base PS4, so it stands to reason that an pro model for the current-gen PlayStation is overdue. It's also worth noting that the PS5 "slim" model was recently launched, and the base PS5 really only had about a year or two of

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Star Wars Mandalorian Shooter Reportedly In The Works...

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2024/02/16

In today's Daily Fix: Respawn Entertainment's next Star Wars game might not be another Jedi Fallen Order game, but a first-person shooter starring a Mandalorian. Multiple sources have said that it won't be open-world like Ubisoft's upcoming Star Wars Outlaws, but a more linear affair and set during the time of the Empire, NOT during The Mandalorian TV series. In other news, Microsoft dropped a tiny nugget of info on their next hardware release during yesterday's Xbox business update podcast. They're

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Xbox Console Exclusives Confirmed For PS5 and...

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2024/02/16

A lot was revealed in the latest Xbox podcast, where Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty discussed the future of its platform and its plans on embracing third-parties in regards to publishing. While he didn’t name those four games, he did quell the rumors of if either Starfield or the upcoming Indiana Jones game are among those four with a no. Exclusivity is something that those who own one console or the other take stock in and somewhat pride in when heralding their respective console of

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Sony Says the PS5 Is Approaching the 'Latter Stage'...

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2024/02/14

In today's Daily Fix: Sony Senior VP Naomi Matsuoka has said the company expects sales of the PS5 to begin to slow, starting next fiscal year (which begins in April 2025, FYI). The PlayStation 4 was Sony's primary console from 2013 to 2020, so if that current lifecycle trend holds up, we can probably expect the PS6 sometime in 2027, making 2024 the beginning of the "latter stage" of the PS5's life. In other Sony news, the company has basically admitted to a drought of first-party software for the

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Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Has a Warning for Racial...

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2024/02/13

The newly-released remastered collection for the original Tomb Raider trilogy came with an additional warning: racial and ethnic stereotypes that would likely be problematic in a modern game are still present in this collection. Developer Crystal Dynamics explained that they thought it was better to leave them in unchanged—and with a warning—rather than remove them and pretend they never existed. In other news, the action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a certified hit, selling one million units in

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Xbox Reportedly Has No Plans to Stop Making Consoles...

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2024/02/12

Phil Spencer reportedly reassured his employees that Xbox is not getting out of the hardware business, and there’s a debate happening around yellow paint in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

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