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The Latest Breaking News from Anthem

I've seen enough: No more forcing singleplayer studios to make mediocre live service games

We're leaving this one behind in 2024.

PC Gamer

A murder, a manhunt and a McDonald's

While some lauded the fast food employee who called the police after spotting Mangione a hero, others disagreed

Salon

Anthem Blue Cross Cancels Controversial Plan To Limit Anesthesia Coverage After Overwhelming Public Outcry

The insurance company will not follow through with its proposed policy that would have limited coverage for anesthesia during surgeries and procedures.

International Business Times

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Murdering CEOs is not a solution

Why is the internet so unsympathetic to the death of an insurance CEO? Ask the violent health care industry

Salon

Anthem Blue Cross Cancels Controversial Plan to Limit Anesthesia Coverage After Overwhelming Public Outcry

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield will not follow through with its proposed policy that would have limited coverage for anesthesia during surgeries and procedures.

Medical Daily

Connecticut Shuts Down Anthem Blue Cross Attempt to Limit Anesthesia Coverage for Surgery Patients: 'Will No Longer Be Going Into Effect Here'

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has abandoned plans to limit anesthesia coverage for surgeries in Connecticut following widespread backlash.

Medical Daily

Connecticut Blocks Anthem's Proposed Anesthesia Coverage Limits After Anesthesiologists Bash The 'Cynical Money Grab'

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has abandoned plans to limit anesthesia coverage for surgeries in Connecticut following widespread backlash.

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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield halts plan to cap anesthesia coverage based on ‘arbitrary’ time frame after massive backlash

Company said it would ‘never’ stop paying for necessary anesthesia

The Independent UK

After misses like Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem, Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director says BioWare decided to "look at what's worked in the past" for inspiration

"We wanted to make sure that this one landed in a way that was satisfying"

GamesRadar

Anthem Blue Cross Plans Won't Cover Anesthesia for Entire Length of Surgeries That Exceed Time Limit: 'It's a Cynical Money Grab'

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield has a new policy to limit anesthesia coverage based on arbitrary time caps.

Latin Times

Dragon Age and Anthem producer says live-service games can "dramatically" fail as they forget they're competing with juggernauts like World of Warcraft as they are now, not as they were 20 years ago

Mark Darrah has a warning for folks walking into the live service arena

GamesRadar

Dragon Age: The Veilguard director says chasing industry trends with Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem "starts to dilute your focus," so he wanted to get back to BioWare's "very real strength"

Character building and storytelling remains king

GamesRadar

EA boss reckons with Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare is finally returning to "BioWare-type games" after the failure of Anthem

The new RPG marks a restoration of "what made BioWare great"

GamesRadar

Forget Dragon Age and Mass Effect 5 for a minute, this Anthem dev would "love" another shot at BioWare's doomed co-op game

The live service flop still has fans out there

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Is there any chance of a Concord comeback? Here are 5 other times major PC games failed to launch, and what happened next

Can the attempted revivals of past live service games give us a preview of what Concord does next?

The Guardian - US

US road to 2031 Rugby World Cup starts with Pacific Nations challenge

Eagles coach Scott Lawrence has picked college talent – and crossovers from football and wrestling – in his squad to face Canada and Japan in new event

AVNetwork

How Washington D.C.'s The Anthem Hosts Arena-Level Artists in Intimate Space

Two Washington D.C. live-music venues , have now updated their FOH and monitor mix positions with SD12 consoles.

PC Gamer

Dragon Age director says BioWare learned an important lesson from the disaster that was Anthem: 'Know what you're good at and then double down on it'

Creative director John Epler says Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a singplayer RPG, "and that's all it needs to be."

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The Guardian - US

New England face Seattle in MLR final as US rugby seeks swift growth

Free Jacks and Seawolves head for San Diego, seeking to add to momentum stoked by Eagles’ women’s Olympic glory

The Guardian - US

‘Journey starts in earnest’: DC begins countdown to US Rugby World Cups

Scotland face Eagles at Audi Field but Alan Gilpin, World Rugby CEO, is also focusing on the women’s game and more

PC Gamer

Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams: 'What they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair'

Gaider remembers how excited execs were for live service games like Anthem, and reckons they're just repeating a pattern.

What Hi-Fi?

The trouble with my listening room: speakers weren't made for it

A realisation that open-house lifestyles may not provide quite the conditions for which your loudspeakers were designed...

AVNetwork

How the Right Sound System Brought a Storytelling Experience to Chasing Rabbits

1 SOUND's Cannon Series brings to life a restaurant, arcade, speakeasy, and 'The Library' to life under one roof.

The Canberra Times

Meet the Canberra cheerleaders at the top of their game

Here's how you can cheer on Anthem at Worlds.

The Guardian - US

‘Seismic shifts will happen’: US pro rugby league MLR loses teams but looks to future

Alex Magleby, CEO of champion New England Free Jacks, says Toronto and New York will be missed as the show goes on

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