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Well, that’s certainly a bold strategy. Mark Gerhard, CEO of MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy, has said that the studio are indeed planning to add a new mission to the game which will “share some of the evidence of the sabotage”. That’d be the sabotage from a malevolent third party which the exec’s been alleging MindsEye faced around launch for a while now, with Gerhard also claiming that an investigation into it is currently in the hands of “authorities” in the UK and US.

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Korean Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has acquired the new studio founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, it’s announced.In an announcement published on Wednesday, Shift Up said it has purchased all shares of Tokyo-based Unbound, the studio Mikami quietly established in 2023 after leaving his former company, Ghostwire and Hi-Fi Rush’s Tango Gameworks.Mikami is best known for his time at Capcom, where he directed the first Resident Evil, its 2002 GameCube remake, and Resident Evil 4, among other titles.In a website published last year, Unbound said it had around 50 employees working on an original IP for consoles and…

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The Elder Scrolls Online is going to look a whole lot different soon, with the 2026 roadmap finally coming to fruition – smaller updates, the new seasonal model, and all – and between an unexplored region of Skyrim coming and Sea of Thieves vibes underway, I can’t wait.It’s no secret that The Elder Scrolls Online is about to look a whole lot different – but it’s not just because of animation changes to werewolves or a revamped Glenumbra. We’ve already had a taste of what’s to come with the recent Update 49, a massive patch that saw the (now admittedly…

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ending is seriously powered-up, so you’d be forgiven if much of it flew by like a portly plumber being propelled out of a Sling Star.The sequel to 2023’s Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie takes to the stars for galactic adventure to save Princess Rosalina from the clutches of Bowser Jr. For fans of the classic 2007 3D platformer, much will be familiar, but the movie also incorporates elements from across Mario and wider Nintendo history, even incorporating crossover characters like Fox McCloud, from the Star Fox series.As such, there’s a lot…

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I’m a sucker for great atmosphere, and Ghostwire: Tokyo is a brilliant example of how to nail it. Set in modern-day Tokyo, but crowded with creatures from Japanese folklore, the darkness of the night allows every step through the typically busy streets to feel tense and uneasy. It’s an action-adventure title injected with some of the best horror game elements, making it accessible for those who don’t like franchises like Silent Hill or Resident Evil – and that’s exactly why you should give it a try, now that it’s cheaper than ever. In Ghostwire: Tokyo, you play as Akito, who,…

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As a longtime Warrior of Light, I’ve clocked over 5,000 hours in Final Fantasy 14 – and, yes, I’d benefit from touching grass. Hundreds of those hours have gone into hardcore raiding, while hundreds more have been spent tending to my cozy virtual home in the Lavender Beds. Since the ill-received Dawntrail expansion dropped, though, I’ve felt myself losing interest in Eorzea and all its previously enthralling charms.With “Mostly Negative” reviews nearly two years post-launch, the DLC failed to pull me in (and apparently, many others) the same way its predecessors did – but my MMO fatigue may have found…

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As April 1 arrived in Japan, Square Enix unleashed chaos by tweeting out the announcement of something called “Nier: Cosmic Horror.” Given the date, you’ve got good reason to believe this announcement is some kind of prank, and a drip of desperation is taking hold in the Nier fandom. Meanwhile, series lead Yoko Taro is living his best life, eating pho and FaceTiming with Grammy Award-winning artist, The Weeknd.”NieR New Project Production Confirmed,” according to a machine translated version of Square Enix’s tweet, which was posted at precisely midnight Japan time on April 1. “Born in nothingness, is it hope?”…

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Hardcore gamers tend to regard day-one DLC roughly the same way that African antelope regard crocodiles, but Steam researcher and indie game marketing advisor Chris Zukowski reckons that enough PC gamers turn up for at least two specific types of launch DLC that game developers should absolutely sell them.At a GDC panel discussing what he described as “golden goose” indie games, or those with significant wishlists and sales on Steam, Zukowski shared some data collected from real golden goose studios. He acknowledged the funk around day-one DLC, but insisted “you have to do this” when it comes to at least…

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The mighty have indeed fallen, knee-deep in a puddle of shame at Miquella’s Haligtree. Who could have predicted that the storied Elden Ring player Klein Tsuboi, best known as Let Me Solo Her, would end up this way?Oh, sorry. Let Me Solo Her, who’s been collecting a cabinet of bruises while helping Elden Ring players as a summon over the past four years, actually says it wasn’t him who recently died screaming and in pain during a battle with the indefatigable goddess Malenia. See? Look at what he wrote on Twitter: “If you summoned me for Malenia on March 27th,…

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As a daily Animal Crossing player, I’ve been enviously watching the Pokemon Pokopia community build absolutely incredible things with the game’s comparatively advanced toolset, but this latest creation has me questioning whether it’s wise to give players that much freedom.We all have neighbors we don’t like, and thankfully, in Animal Crossing you have relatively harmless ways of expressing that in the form of pitfall traps you can place around your island and the tried-and-true bug net, which you can smack villagers with until they start sulking like little babies. Sure, some people take it to the extreme by trapping villagers…

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