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One led to a movie where Jeff Goldblum gets beat up by a tyrannosaurus while the other inspired centuries of strange little girls like me hosting tea parties for their eyeless teddy bears – but Jurassic Park and Alice in Wonderland have an important connection through the former’s creator, Michael Crichton. Without him, ex-Doom developer American McGee may have never made the Alice action game in 2000 that, 26 years later, still represents one of publisher EA’s most beloved series.”I can’t say that, looking back on my childhood, that I remember or recall being the world’s biggest Alice in Wonderland…

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If your idea of great FPS level aesthetics is a hot mess of Black Mesa, Penumbra and Get Even – or you’re just driven wild by the sight of porcelain tiles peeling flirtatiously away from mortar – you might get on with Industria 2, which launches today. I’ve not played the first one, but I admired its parallel dimension Cold War-era Berlin. The second game introduces a new parallel dimension, summarised by developers Bleakmill as a tug-of-war between “industrial decay”, “boreal nature” and “otherworldly sprawling machine structures”. Phwoar!

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When is the next PUBG update? There are very few battle royale games, or any games for that matter, that have a history like PUBG. The first BR that truly broke out, it almost single-handedly created an entirely new genre, and it’s hard to think about the gaming landscape without the shooter-with-the-ever-closing-circle now. If you haven’t played PUBG for a while, logging on might give you a bit of a fright. Menus look completely different, events are constant, but thankfully, the actual game remains more or less the same. There are new weapons and PUBG maps, of course, but it’s…

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A former Square Enix exec reckons Sony’s lack of marketing for Marathon suggests a lack of faith in Bungie’s latest game from PlayStation.On Twitter, Jacob Navok (former director of business at Square Enix Holdings) commented on Marathon’s Steam player count, calling it “brutal.” And while the numbers on PS5 and Xbox aren’t available, Navok reckons Sony’s marketing push behind the game isn’t doing the job. “Sony owns a ton of digital real estate on the PlayStation dashboards to push Marathon,” he says, adding that “Its lack of marketing push to support the numbers speaks to the lack of faith from…

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After Monument Valley 3 was unceremoniously pulled from Netflix last year, series developers Ustwo Games are now focusing on PC first and foremost. The first two entries in the series did also hit our game box shores, but only after their initial mobile releases. This shift’s clearly forced Ustwo CEO and chair of the UK games industry trade body Ukie Maria Sayans to look long and hard at some numbers. Cue her concluding that the studio might have been “a little bit too romantic” about taking on full-time staff, rather than relying more heavily on contractors.

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EA CEO Andrew Wilson has hit back at the suggestion that using AI in game development is contributing to people getting laid off, claiming that the technology is simply “augmenting” existing roles rather than leading to their elimination.   The use of AI in game development has been a hot topic over the past year. On one hand, companies argue that it not only removes mundane tasks from the plates of their workers, but it can also allow them to make more games and take bigger risks, as suggested by Jack Buser, Google Cloud’s Global Director of Games. For gamers,…

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The chair of the UK games industry trade body Ukie and the CEO of Monument Valley studio Ustwo Games say it’s becoming less viable for smaller studios to retain long-term employees.In an interview with Game Developer, María Sayans said the studio has been making games that cost between £7 million and £10 million, with production cycles lasting 3-4 years, noting: “We need to lower that.”The boss explained that Ustwo Games currently employs just under 30 people (down from a peak of around 40 while Monument Valley 3 was in development), before suggesting that the studio shouldn’t have hired so many…

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Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi has revealed that the developers cut a chapter from the game before release.In an interview with Denfaminico Gamer (translated by TheGamer) Nakanishi recalled a cut chapter from Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, saying, “Up to now, I’ve talked in interviews about how Resident Evil 7 had a ‘phantom Chapter 2’ that got cut during development. It was supposed to be the section where you move from the guest house to the main house.” He then segued to the latest entry, saying, “Actually, Resident Evil Requiem had its own ‘phantom Chapter 2’ as well.”Nakanishi explained, “As…

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When the new Steam Controller goes on sale on May 4th, it will go up against much more established gamepads in the Xbox Wireless Controller and PS5 DualSense vein – though none that share its singular focus on being a PC gaming controller, specifically. Why are there so few PC pads? It’s a question I put to Valve designer Lawrence Yang and engineer Steve Cardinali, who’ve also worked on the Steam Deck, Steam Deck OLED, and the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame VR hardware. And while theories were offered, the true reasoning for the peripheral industry’s console monogamy was,…

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To help you out, we’ve gathered all the new Blockade Battlefront codes and listed them below. Simply pop them into the game, then get on with the tower defense mechanics, making use of more units. There are plenty of bosses and elite enemies to take down either on your own or with fellow players, but one thing’s for sure – you’re going to want to use the ST: Blockade Battlefront codes. Here are all of the new Blockade Battlefront codes: 100MVisit2 – a random skin CamArmada – 2k gems For more Roblox codes every day, follow PCGN on Google for…

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