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FROM CANCELLED AND BROKE TO A MULTI-MILLION SELLER: THE UNHINGED STORY OF 'PEAK'

Let's be real, the games industry is a brutal meat grinder. For every success story, there are a thousand tales of burnout, canceled projects, and creative dead ends. Aggro Crab, the studio behind Another Crab's Treasure, was staring right into that abyss. Fresh off a draining three-year dev cycle, their next big project had just lost its funding and imploded, leaving the team burnt out and resentful. Their solution was a desperate, last.ditch "fuck it" trip to Korea with some friends. That trip created Peak, a game that has now sold 4.5 million copies.

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KRAFTON DELAYS SUBNAUTICA 2, POTENTIALLY DODGING A $250 MILLION DEVELOPER PAYOUT

In what might be one of the most brazenly cynical corporate moves of the year, it appears Krafton Inc. is delaying the massively anticipated Subnautica 2 for a very specific reason: to avoid paying its developers a nine-figure bonus. A new report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has laid out a timeline of events so goddamn suspicious it would make a conspiracy theorist blush, involving ousted founders, a conveniently timed delay, and a quarter of a billion dollars.

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GAME PASS IS PROFITABLE, APPARENTLY: A WHIPLASH-INDUCING RUMOR CORRECTION

In a news cycle that gave the entire games industry whiplash, the great "Is Game Pass Profitable?" debate went from a raging fire to a puff of smoke in about 24 hours. After a report from journalist Chris Dring sparked speculation that the service was a money pit, a swift and decisive correction has put the matter to bed: yes, the big green machine is making money.

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FROZEN POLITICS: WHY FROSTPUNK'S SOCIETY SIMULATOR HITS DIFFERENT

Society simulators usually let you play god from a comfy distance, dropping buildings like a kid playing with LEGOs. But Frostpunk grabs you by the throat and makes you feel every death, every desperate choice, every compromise of your moral compass. It's like The Sims had a baby with Schindler's List, and that baby grew up to write really depressing poetry.

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GAMING'S GOLDEN AGE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE MID-2000S 'PISS FILTER'

Remember when every video game looked like it was filmed through a glass of dehydrated urine? Reddit sure does, and they're getting surprisingly nostalgic about it. A recent viral post on r/gaming has sparked a heated debate about the infamous "piss filter" era of gaming, when developers apparently thought the height of realism was making everything look like it was soaked in Mountain Dew.

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DEADLOCK: HOW TO GET YOUR INVITE THE EASY WAY

Valve's new hero shooter Deadlock is causing a shitstorm in the gaming world. Everyone wants in, but scoring an invite is about as easy as finding a competent teammate in a MOBA. But don't worry, I've got the solution that doesn't involve Reddit begging or selling your organs on the black market.

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GAMERS UNITE: EU PETITION TO STOP PUBLISHERS FROM NUKING YOUR DIGITAL LIBRARY GAINS STEAM

In a world where digital games are becoming as disposable as yesterday's leftovers, gamers across Europe are saying "Fuck this shit" and fighting back. The "Stop Destroying Videogames" petition, launched as a European Citizens' Initiative, is gathering signatures faster than a speedrunner collects coins. With over 327,000 signatures in just a month, it's on track to hit the magic million needed to make the suits in Brussels sit up and take notice.

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