Author: [email protected] (Wes Fenlon)
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Palworld roadmap: Everything announced for the early access survival game so far
With five million sales under its belt in just five days, Palworld developer Pocketpair all of a sudden has the kind of money most early access developers can only dream of. Unless Pocketpair starts lighting yen bills on fire in the street or makes a bad investment in Bored Apes, it should now have the…
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Square Enix’s CEO suggests the company makes too many mid-budget games, but that’s exactly where it’s doing its best work
In a November financial briefing picked up on by My Nintendo News, Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu said that he wants to structure Square Enix “to ensure higher quality from each title by slimming down our lineup.” It’s the exact kind of thing CEOs say all the time, and most videogame publishers seem to vacillate…
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Thank god Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is first-person
As videogame marketing clichés go, there may be only one line more overused than “See that mountain? You can go there,” and MachineGames just trotted it out to pitch its new Indiana Jones game, The Great Circle. “In this game, you aren’t just playing as Indy. You are Indiana Jones,” says director Jerk Gustafsson. No…
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After translating one cult PlayStation game after another, fan translation group Hilltop Works announces its most obscure game yet: ‘a hidden gem of the highest caliber’
In November, fan translation group Hilltop Works released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (aka My Summer Vacation 2), a beloved adventure/life sim that fans have been eager to play in English for more than 20 years. After that release Hilltop wasted no time leaping into its next project, which was announced today…
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Get ready for a year of out-of-control AI marketing: revived GameShark brand just announced peripherals that use AI to ‘adapt to your play style’
Would you like a game controller that “can suggest button remaps and sensitivity adjustments” based on how you use it? What about a gaming mouse that “adjusts DPI settings in real-time, ensuring that your cursor movements are always accurate and fluid?” Or a keyboard that will “suggest key remaps and macros tailored to your gaming…
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Bloomberg reports Twitch to cut 35% of staff ‘as soon as Wednesday,’ laying off 500 workers
Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch is set to lay off approximately 500 employees this week, or 35% of its total workforce, Bloomberg broke in a report on Tuesday. According to Bloomberg’s Cecilia D’Anastasio, Twitch may announce the layoffs as soon as tomorrow. The news comes just a day after game engine developer Unity announced it’s laying…
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Pour one out for the late great Windows 7: Steam has finally stopped supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
On January 1, Valve ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, which means that users on those older versions of Microsoft’s OS will eventually not be able to use the gaming platform. “We expect the Steam client and games on these older operating systems to continue running for some time without updates after January…
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In the year Doom turned 30, nothing better captured the endless imagination and creativity of its mod scene than Myhouse.wad
I was just young and naive enough when The Blair Witch Project came out to be suckered in by the premise that it was real—that someone had found this real life footage after the fact, or that it was just a movie but one based on real events. Even now when you Google it, the…
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I was so determined to get into Street Fighter 6 this year I built my own hitbox (but I still didn’t get into Street Fighter)
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See that beautiful fight stick? It’s not just a controller: it’s a symbol. A symbol of me running out of excuses to git gud (or at least crawl my way out of scrubhood) in Street Fighter 6. Earlier this year I was so excited for the new Street Fighter that I decided to build my…
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Yikes: Xfinity has suffered a data breach exposing the usernames, hashed passwords and potentially even partial Social Security numbers of 36 million internet subscribers
On December 18, Comcast notified customers of a “recent data security incident” with one of its software companies that exposed their personal information to an outside party. In October, someone gained “unauthorized access” to customers’ usernames and hashed passwords for a period of four days. And it gets worse: Comcast says that “for some customers,…