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Summer Game Fest is an annual video game showcase series featuring announcements, demos, and developer interviews streamed online.
The big story this week is that Xbox is set to change the pricing on Game Pass. Again. This time the subscription service will receive a price cut, just over six months since its whopping 50% price hike in October last year. The catch? Brand new Call of Duty games could be excluded from the service (or at least will need to be added on). A drop in users was inevitable after that initial hike, but Xbox would have expected a rise in revenue overall. Xbox boss Asha Sharma reportedly told staff that Game Pass had become ‘too expensive’, so presumably it’s lost more players than anticipated. Unfort
UK minister: It’s not a problem that Grand Theft Auto isn’t UK-owned… It is part of the Summer Game Fest program of events. The Game Business will conduct live on-stage discussions with Miele, Rubin and Ball. Ball will be discussing the state of the industry, and reacting to some of the key reveals during Summer Game Fest. …
… But what of our own event, The Game Business Live? Well, we’ll have a lot more on that next week. If you don’t know what The Game Business Live is, it’s a mini-conference that we run in Los Angeles as part of Summer Game Fest. …
… It is part of the Summer Game Fest program of events. The Game Business will conduct live on-stage discussions with Miele, Rubin and Ball. Ball will discuss the state of the industry, and react to some of the key reveals during Summer Game Fest. …