Tag: Industry
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What's Going On with The Sims 4's New Expansion Monetisation?
Tech Talk Sep 13, 2025Confused by the constant stream of expensive Sims 4 DLC? So am I. EA is releasing another full-priced £35 expansion less than three months after the last one. Here's a quick look at their new, aggressive monetisation plan and why it's a worrying sign for the franchise.
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Capcom's President on MH:Wilds tanked sales
Tech Talk Sep 11, 2025After a record-breaking launch, Monster Hunter Wilds' player base collapsed. Now, Capcom's president is blaming... the PS5's price tag. Sound familiar?
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OpenAI's Paper on Hallucinations
Tech Talk Sep 8, 2025OpenAI's newest research paper on how and why LLMs hallucinates.
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Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement
Tech Talk Sep 7, 2025Anthropic, the 'ethical' B Corp, just settled a lawsuit for $1.5 billion after being caught pirating books to train its Claude LLM. So much for being the good guys.
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Money Hunter: Capcom's Wild Monetisation
Tech Talk Aug 23, 2025Capcom says they're "disappointed" with Monster Hunter Wilds' sales, despite selling 10 million copies. Their disappointment was never about the game sales...it's about their ridiculously aggressive microtransactions. Lets take a look at this insanity.
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FF14: A Decade of Underinvestment - Square Enix's latest Financial Report
Tech Talk Aug 21, 2025Lets dissect why FF14 has performed poorly in Square Enix's latest financial report Q1 26.
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MHWilds: Too little, too late
Tech Talk Aug 17, 2025Is the latest Monster Hunter Wilds update enough to save the game? The numbers from the Steam player count say no. Despite a new endgame grind and a 20% off sale in August 2025, Capcom's response to the disastrous PC performance and shallow gameplay is too little, too late.
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1 week of GPT5
Tech Talk Aug 14, 2025One week after its release, GPT-5 has sparked more backlash than excitement. Hyped as a leap forward, it instead delivered small coding and enterprise tweaks, recycled marketing claims, and the same core limitations.
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DOOM: The Dark Ages of Pricing
Tech Talk Aug 2, 2025Out of the pure goodness of their hearts, Microsoft has put their £70 blockbuster on sale after just two months. I checked the Steam stats to see how this "generous" QuakeCon celebration is going for Doom: The Dark Ages.
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Wow, Capcom is so generous with MHWilds!
Tech Talk Jul 31, 2025Ever wondered what it takes for a multi-billion dollar company like Capcom to finally notice their flagship game is a complete dumpster fire? It's not the abysmal PC performance, the "Overwhelmingly Negative" Steam reviews, or even a biblical 98% drop in players for Monster Hunter Wilds. No, it took a quarterly sales report so catastrophic it couldn't be ignored. Now, after months of silence, they're suddenly rushing out an "early" update and pretending it's a generous gift for the fans. Don't buy the PR spin. Lets take a look into the hard data, the cynical marketing, and the blatant gaslighting behind Capcom's bungled response to the Monster Hunter Wilds backlash.
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The UK's race to the bottom
Tech Talk Jul 29, 2025The "loicense" meme is no longer a joke in the UK. Sold as a law to "protect the children," the Online Safety Act has become a nightmare of state-level censorship and surveillance. From needing an ID for gaming to threatening Wikipedia, this is how the UK's insane overreach is fundamentally breaking the internet for everyone.
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Microsoft backtracking on The Outer Worlds 2 pricing
Tech Talk Jul 26, 2025Microsoft tried to charge a ridiculous $80/£70 for The Outer Worlds 2, and with what transpired in recent months; not surprising they're backtracking.
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RIP Arkane Studios, I'll miss them...I guess?
Tech Talk Jul 16, 2025Everyone blames Redfall for the fall of Arkane Studios, but the truth is, the studio was dying long before. Lets take a look back at Arkane's entire history, from the breakout success of Dishonored to the commercial failures of Dishonored 2 and Prey.
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Final Fantasy XVI and its (Nonexistent) Cultural Impact
Tech Talk Jul 15, 2025An autopsy of Final Fantasy 16's nonexistent cultural impact. This isn't a review but a deep dive into why FF16 flopped commercially, vanished from memory, and how its entire philosophy was exposed as a failure by the success of Baldur's Gate 3.
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Fired by Microsoft? There's an AI for That
Tech Talk Jul 6, 2025Microsoft is firing thousands while Phil Spencer boasts about success. The truth? Game Pass growth has stalled, their '62% revenue growth' is a financial illusion built on the Activision deal, and the core Xbox business is stagnant. Lets take a look into this shitshow.
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Ohh, Ouch, Anthropic
Tech Talk Jun 8, 2025Anthropic got caught red-handed stealing data.
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Google 250 plan
Tech Talk May 21, 2025What? Someone has to pay for all those "free" subs.
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£200 plans
Tech Talk Apr 13, 2025Silly £200 plan from Anthropic.
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People Like Japanese Games Because They're... JAPANESE?!
Tech Talk Apr 2, 2025Truly shocked at this revelation!