Let's Play: Daily Gaming News – Details, episodes & analysis

Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Everything announced at the PlayStation State of Play February 2025
• Take-Two CEO says AI could increase employment and productivity, as long as IP isn’t infringed
• E3 organiser ESA launches new event called ‘iicon’

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• Rooster Teeth returns from the dead, under the ownership of one of its original founders
• Steam adds warning flagging potentially abandoned early access games
• UK government says it won't change the rules on publishers taking videogames offline after selling them: 'We have no plans to amend existing consumer law on digital obsolescence'

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News -

• TikTok's time in the US may be ticking to a close as it makes a last stand in the Supreme Court, though Trump now says he 'opposes banning' it
• New Square Enix policy aims to protect employees from toxic fans
• Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a closed network test, and I'm totally not fuming because PC players aren't invited to the party, or anything
• Elden Ring: Nightreign Closed Network Test Registration

The Friday Re:Play -

• Video Game Layoffs of 2024
• New Nintendo patent appears ahead of expected Switch 2 reveal
• US adds Tencent to list of firms allegedly connected to Chinese military
• Deadly fires in LA lead to office closures for major game studios as tens of thousands evacuate

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Today on Let's Play: Daily Gaming News

• Xbox has established a team dedicated to game preservation
• Vladimir Putin Pushes Russia To Make Consoles To Compete With PlayStation And Xbox
• Apple allows retro game emulators on App Store

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a gift
• Stop Killing Games aims to mount political and legal challenges to games going offline
• Stop Killing Games
• Roku wants to patent the ability to display ads when consoles connected to its TVs are paused

The Friday Re:Play-

• 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs
• Twitch once again updates community guidelines prohibiting sexualized content
• Newzoo: PC and console gaming grew by 3% in 2023
• US government blocks "age estimation" technology that would have analyzed faces

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Discord will reportedly roll out sponsored ads this week
• Newzoo: PC and console gaming grew by 3% in 2023
• US government blocks "age estimation" technology that would have analyzed faces

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Take-Two to acquire Gearbox from Embracer for $460 million
• Twitch once again updates community guidelines prohibiting sexualised content
• 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards | GDC 2024
• Sega, CWA agree on first major US game dev union contract
• Sega sells Relic and will cut 240 jobs across UK studios
• Nintendo makes cuts to US QA contractors

Stories included in Friday Re:Play

• Pokémon’s Former Chief Lawyer On Shutting Down Fan Games & Honeymoon Business Deals
• EU takes aim at Apple, Google, Meta non-compliance
• Video Game Layoff Round Up IV
• IGN Creators Guild loses three members to layoffs
• ‘The Sims’ Movie in the Works With Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap, Vertigo and ‘Loki’ Director Kate Herron

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• ‘The Sims’ Movie in the Works With Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap, Vertigo and ‘Loki’ Director Kate Herron
• Bethesda discusses "early" The Elder Scrolls 6 work-in-progress build
• Phil Spencer has discussed what he’d like to see in a potential Xbox handheld

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Today on Lets Play: Daily Gaming News-

• EU takes aim at Apple, Google, Meta non-compliance
• Video Game Layoff Round Up IV
• IGN Creators Guild loses three members to layoffs
• Federal agencies to tackle extremism online on social media and gaming

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