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The game industry is rapidly evolving, and in response, Game Developers Conference's organizers and advisory board are programming the second annual GDC Next – being held this November in Los Angeles – to answer a simple question: Once you've made your game, what comes next? The first GDC Next show (held in LA last year) ranged more widely across a multitude of future-leaning subjects. But organizers have zeroed in on a key issue – the contemporary game market is constantly inundated with new titles, resulting in peak saturation. That can make it hard for even an experienced developer to drum up interest in their game. That's why this year GDC Next seeks to provide attendees with knowledge…

The UK video game and interactive entertainment sector was valued at £7.82 billion ($9.76 billion) in 2023.

That's according to the annual Consumer Games Market Valuation Report from UK trade body Ukie, which explained that figure is an increase of 4.4 percent on the revised valuation of £7.49 billion it slapped on the UK game industry in 2022.

Ukie said the latest valuation shows the UK video game market is on a "strong path of growth" in the face of headwinds that have disrupted the industry around the globe. "This increase underlines the video games market's stability and resilience, as well as consumers unrelenting appetite for games and games culture," it added.

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Apex Legends has been around for years now and that means long-time players have probably accumulated a ton of different cosmetic items. Luckily, instead of being forced to decide which character skin is your favorite, you can select multiple different skins to cycle through randomly. This works for a number of different items in the game, too, including loading screens, weapon skins, and music tracks. Here’s how to curate a selection of items to rotate through in Apex Legends.

How to add favorites

In order to select your favorites, you need to navigate to either the “Legends” tab or the “Loadout” tab on the main menu, depending on what you are trying to set. For legends skins, you will need to navigate to that specific legend’s customi…

Breaking Bad’s final season opens with a flash forward, depicting Walter White purchasing a machine gun. Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan claimed that he and the rest of the writing team did not know why White bought the gun until frighteningly close to the finale. The opening flash forward was “was the dumbest thing I ever did,” said Gilligan.

In an interview with Variety, Vince Gilligan discussed writing the show up to the season finale. He wanted to open the final season “with a bang,” but ending up creating a big plotting problem. He said, “It’s astounding how little we knew. There was a little bit of hubris on my part thinking we would figure it out. ‘We’ve got 16 episodes until the end. We’ll get there!’ We were still six or seven episodes away from the end and we s…

After revealing that the way players craft weapons would be evolving after Lightfall’s release, Destiny 2 has given us more of a peek at what that might look like. A new blog post has introduced three new crafting capabilities that will be introduced to the game over the coming year: Weapon Enhancing, Deepsight Activation, and Weapon Level Boosting. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

The first of these to be introduced to the game will be weapon enhancing, which will drop “a few weeks” after the Lightfall Master raid and will be available only for a select few weapons–initially only Adept weapons acquired in Lightfall’s Master raid will be available for enhancing.

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Diablo IV’s next patch will look to address some pain points players of the ARPG have had since launch, including the game’s inventory space problems. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

As revealed during a developer livestream where Blizzard vowed it would never release a huge, player-power-affecting patch similar to the game’s controversial Season 1 update “ever again,” Blizzard additionally announced another patch is right around the corner. Patch 1.1.1 will bring a number of improvements to the game, several of which directly address one common complaint: inventory space.

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On Friday, July 22, a California judge preliminarily approved a $100 million settlement between Riot Games and the women who sued the League of Legends developer on the grounds of gender discrimination. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Via a report from Axios, the court’s sign-off means that the aggrieved women will finally receive material restitution. The payout will be thousands of dollars for both current and former Riot employees who worked at the company from November 2014 to December 2021. Those eligible for the payout will receive notice by the end of August, according to the court. The settlement has further conditions. Riot has agreed to three years of independent oversight to address pay d…

Hearthstone’s next expansion will emerge from the icy cold grip of the Lich King for a more lighthearted affair at a massive Azeroth concert. The Festival of Legends expansion revolves around a music festival being put on by Elite Tauren Chieftain (E.T.C.). The expansion is coming in April and will feature a number of music-themed keywords and mechanics. Plus, Priest is getting a long-awaited overhaul, along with a new class keyword.

Once again, each class will get its own Legendary minion, this time represented as a star musician, along with a Legendary spell to represent that musician’s greatest hit. Classes will also get new instrument-themed weapons, some of which feature Deathrattle effects that improve as they’re in play. It might be a good time to pack some weapon-destroyin…