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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. We’re four years into the current Xbox Series X|S generation, and in 2024, it was business mostly as usual for Microsoft’s console brand. While the biggest news this year related to Xbox was a new focus on […]
Arkane founder and Dishonored co-creative directorRaphaël Colantonio says the Metacritic scoring ecosystem encourages devs to make “safe, boring games,” while launches like Stalker 2 suffer in overall scoring at launch due to bugs and technical problems. Colantonio calls lower launch scores impacted by bugs “misleading” because these technical issues can be fixed further down the line, […]