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Former BioWare veteran Mark Darrah has weighed in with his thoughts on what the AAA video game business can do to make more money and become more sustainable: sell product placement. In a video on his YouTube channel, Darrah said the fascination with live-service games and "over-reliance on microtransactions" is stopping other genres from flourishing. Development budgets keep going up and up, and without an increase to the current $70 going rate for new releases, developers could look to product placement to help make money, Darrah said. He said the live-action Smurfs movie "paid for itself en

Star City lead Rhys Ifans and showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi explain why it's time to tell the Russians' side of the alt-history story.

Marathon is attempting to broaden its playerbase with new offerings, such as a PVE-only mode.

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Even though I pay attention to these things for a living, I almost didn't realize that Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 was coming up so quickly. It's just two weeks away now, with Season 3 slated to launch on June 6, and we really don't know anything about it. And that's because there haven't been any leaks about it.  Not a single. Dang. One. No stray strings of text or banner icons in the files indicating a new collab, or sketchy-sounding Twitter rumors about gameplay changes, or anything. It's dead out there. It's a strange place to be for Fortnite fans, since we usually expect pretty much