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It’s finally time to continue our after-show coverage of IAAPA 2024 with its second part, now tackling the likes of Bandai Namco Amusement, Sega Amusements, LAI Games and UNIS. This does not complete everyone, but will continue to get you caught up on all of the biggest news and announcements on the new games that [&hellip

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Ubisoft to close XDefiant, lay off nearly 300 staff French publishing giant Ubisoft is closing down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant.  In a blog post , chief studios and portfolio officer Marie-Sophie de Waubert said that the game hadn’t been able to bring in and retain enough players to sustain the game. Nearly 300 members of staff are impacted by this news; 143 workers in San Francisco and another 134 employees in Ubisoft’s Osaka and Sydne…

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Space Marine 2 hits 5m players Warhammer 40,000 shooter Space Marine 2 has been played by over five million people since its launch back in September.  That’s according to publisher Focus Entertainment , who released the sales figure alongside details about an upcoming patch for the dark sci-fi shooter. Within 24 hours of its release on September 9th, Space Marine 2 had brought in over two million players. Bringing in ano…

Welcome to Newsbytes, our semi-regular series of posts at AH that covers the quicker pieces of news from around the arcade industry. Quite a few things have bubbled up outside of IAAPA, although we still have a lot to cover from that show – so stay tuned this next week, as we’ll finally be catching [&hellip

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Valve pulls controversial shooter from Steam after UK counter-terrorism unit request Valve has blocked access to controversial shooter Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the UK version of Steam.  404 Media reports that the title has been removed from the platform for UK consumers on the back of a request from the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU).  Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque was released in 2022 and has players tak…