Author: [email protected] (Andy Chalk)
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After a year marooned on the Epic store, Dead Island 2 debuts on Steam to ‘mixed’ reviews for a very silly reason
After a year of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store, the zombie survival game Dead Island 2 is now available on Steam—and not everyone is as excited about its arrival as you might expect. Dead Island 2 didn’t knock our socks off when it debuted in 2023, thanks to “dull design choices, repetitive combat, and…
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Path of Exile studio warns of ‘malicious’ phishing post that appeared on Steam, tells players ‘please take immediate action to secure your account’
Grinding Gear Games is warning followers to change their passwords after a post containing a phishing link appeared briefly on the Path of Exile page on Steam. “Earlier today, a malicious news post containing a phishing link went up on the Path of Exile Steam page from a compromised account,” the studio wrote in a…
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Telltale shares new images from The Wolf Among Us 2, says it’s ‘been heads down’ on the game
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More than three years after reassuring fans that The Wolf Among Us 2 is still happening but remained a good way off, Telltale Games has released four new images from the game to reassure fans that The Wolf Among Us 2 is still happening—but it’s apparently still a good way off. The Game Awards host…
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The long-awaited sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters hits its crowdfunding target in less than four hours, and they’re not kidding about that $4.4 million stretch goal
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After a long, rocky road, the sequel to Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters is finally taking flight. A Kickstarter campaign to support the development of Free Stars: Children of Infinity got underway earlier this week, and it’s already a major success, having tripled its $100,000 goal in just three days. For those who haven’t been…
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World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to ‘let Blizzard be Blizzard,’ but I’m not sure that’s entirely true
Six months after its 2023 acquisition by Microsoft, it sounds like its business as usual at Blizzard. In an interview with VGC, World of Warcraft executive producer and vice president Holly Longdale said being a part of Microsoft has “just been helpful,” and that so far the new owners are taking a light touch. “We…
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Paradox apologizes for latest Cities: Skylines 2 boondoggle, will give refunds for the Beach Properties DLC: ‘[We] hope we can regain your trust going forward’
The first post-launch DLC for Cities: Skylines 2, Beach Properties, arrived in March, and it did not go well. Players already irritated by the state of the game felt the DLC—an asset pack, with no new features—wasn’t worth its $10/£8.49 price, and predictably a new wave of negative reviews flowed into Steam. The Beach Properties…
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The Witcher on Netflix will end after season 5: ‘We’re thrilled to be able to bring Andrzej Sapkowski’s books to an epic and satisfying conclusion’
Geralt’s adventures on Netflix are finally coming to an end: The network announced today that it has given the green light to a “fifth and final season” of The Witcher, which will be filmed back-to-back with season 4. “It is with huge pride that we begin shooting our penultimate season of The Witcher with a…
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Braid: Anniversary Edition will feature 40 ‘brand new and/or alternate redesigns of original levels,’ and is also delayed into May
16 years after the release of the original Braid, four years after the announcement of the remake, five months after the reveal of the remake’s launch date, and just 12 days before it was finally set to happen, Braid: Anniversary Edition has been delayed. The good news is that it’s just a brief postponement: Instead…
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Stardew Valley’s latest patch ‘adds two inappropriate names to the list to exclude from the name generator’ and I am dying to know what they are
The Stardew Valley 1.6.4 update is now live on PC and it is surprisingly beefy, including new content, balance changes, visual improvements, fixes, and gameplay tweaks. The 1.6.4 update was announced on April 10 with virtually no detail, as is the Eric Barone way, except that it would include “a new fishing thing, and some…
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Jack Black sings the Double Rainbow song to unofficially confirm he’s playing Steve in the Minecraft movie
Beloved loudster Jack Black has all but officially confirmed that he’s taking on the role of Steve in the upcoming Minecraft movie. The pseudo-announcement of the casting, which was first rumored in January, came by way of an Instagram post (via GameSpot) which opens with Black signing a paean to a double rainbow—although I’m pretty…