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I’ve got a big grin on my face. Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era marks the return of one of the most iconic names in turn-based strategy games, a full decade since its last mainline release. This prequel, built by developer Unfrozen and published by Manor Lords and Against the Storm studio Hooded Horse, pulls us back to where it all began. It’s designed to appeal to both long-time series veterans and complete newcomers, and is already off to a fantastic start, rising to the top of the Steam sales chart and breaking even on its development costs within…

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Right now, Civ 6 and Civ 5 each have more players in-game on Steam than Civilization 7 – and it’s not particularly close. The latest entry in the venerable 4X strategy series has failed to connect with fans the same way as its predecessors, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says you can blame him for the game’s failures.”Every time there’s a new Civ,” Zelnick says in an interview for the latest Game File newsletter, “the team at Firaxis thinks about: ‘How do we push the envelope far enough that it makes sense to buy this new game? And how do…

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I, like many others, was completely enamored with the pitch of Kingmakers. A time-travel escapade where one man is sent back to medieval times, and for reasons so far unknown, has to fight thousands of troops with the help of modern technology and, more importantly, modern weapons. Ambitious doesn’t cover it. For all the world, it looked as though Kingmakers was going to scratch that open-world game, Army of Darkness itch I’ve had for decades, until the developer released a message that it was going to miss its early access release date. Since then, we’ve officially heard nothing. It’s been…

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Mortal Kombat co-creator and movie producer Ed Boon has admitted his feedback on a Johnny Cage fight sequence in Mortal Kombat 2 was way off base.”I had one where I was dead wrong,” Boon told IGN. “I was reading the script and the sequence with Johnny Cage and Baraka. Baraka says, ‘Johnny fucking Cage’. That line, I was like, ‘There’s no way Baraka would say that, no one is going to laugh at that.’ It’s like one of the biggest laughs in the movie… I’m glad I was wrong.”While you’ll have to wait until May 8 to see how that…

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Tyler ‘sym’ Porter, a Valorant pro known for his time on Team SoloMid and Moist Moguls, has died aged 21 following a car accident. sym’s friend, Austen, also passed away in the incident. Their deaths were confirmed by a friend on social media. “With a broken heart I write this message to everyone that sadly my best friend sym and our good friend Austen sadly passed away late last night in a car accident,” writes ‘Harry’ on X. “Tyler was celebrating his 21st birthday trip. I know he brought laughs and smiles to a lot of people and if you…

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Daredevil: Born Again season 2 showrunner Dario Scardapane has finally confirmed where Punisher: One Last Kill fits into the MCU timeline.”I don’t know a ton about what goes on in Brand New Day, and I know very well where we left him at the end of Punisher Season 2,” Scardapane told Variety. “I think this tells the story of what happened next after Punisher and before and during the events of [Born Again] Season 2.”Some fans (hi, me) were pretty upset that Frank Castle was absent from Daredevil: Born Again season 2, but it was for two pretty valid reasons:…

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Following confirmation that Greedfall 2 developers Spiders are being liquidated, the French Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (STJV) union have issued a statement claiming that the studio’s fate is “a premeditated and deliberate choice by Nacon’s management”. They’ve also called for a boycott of the publisher.

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