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Crazy Taxi comes out of Sega’s heyday as a giant of arcade gaming, whipping up cabinets that try to toe the line between rewarding skill and pinching coins from your pocket to get extra lives and continues. The original trio of Crazy Taxi games were all high score chases…
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Just over a month on from a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund taking over EA, in a buyout worth $55 billion, said new owners are reportedly considering merging the publishers with their existing gaming firm Savvy Games Group. The result…
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Once a simple throwaway line to explain away Luke Skywalker’s dad, the Clone Wars has become one of the most richly mined eras within Star Wars. There have been movies, shows, and books that have charted the events of the war with specific focus on the rise and fall of…
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The beautiful thing about people that like dungeon crawlers is that they're all sickos. Every single one of them! This is not a genre that's for the faint of heart. It is often plodding and methodical and conniving, so focused on stats and character classes that you could drown…
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There are probably many jokes one could make about mushrooms being edible, and mushrooms being like, edible, man in relation to Shroom and Gloom, a positively mycelial roguelike deckbuilder where you roam spore-filled dungeons with two decks of cards in tow. I won't do that…
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Today marks yet another day in reporting on layoffs that have occurred in the games industry over the past several years, with this occasion unfortunately being GNOG and Goodbye Volcano High developer KO_OP. The studio shared word that 13 staffers were being laid off less than…
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The nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands "strategy" to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of Drag-Select knows that strategy is always, primarily, the mastery of time. I don't think…
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In this IP-obsessed world, it is quite easy to wonder if anything will ever actually come to an end. Theoretically, the Final Fantasy 7 trilogy of remakes will be coming to an end next year with Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. Except that might not even be true because a couple of…
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I didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved Creation, that I’d now be sitting here noting that I dug said…
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Update: Ubisoft have confirmed the Steam announcement post about them starting to test a new Ubisoft Connect Services Steam tool is genuine, and they've now stuck it in Prince of Persia The Lost Crown's regular Steam news feed so everyone can have a read. Original story follows:…
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I remember once when I was a child, my uncle was visiting and completely unprompted (and kindly) he gave me a copy of one of the Total War games, I think the Rome one, you'll have to forgive my memory. I'd literally never played a strategy game in my life, but I gave it a go…
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Shroom and Gloom is one of those deckbuilders which just wants to beat you up. The meta-progression is minimal, with unlocks being the only real thing. You’re not going to get stronger by upping your starting health or damage, you’re going to learn about the ins and…
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Marvel’s Wolverine sees the talented folk at Insomniac take a crack at another comic book icon following their acclaimed Spider-Man series. Although there’s definitely some shared DNA here, it’s a markedly different game, from its linear level design to a more frenzied,…
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You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute tonic. It's a witty procession of Orphic descents, in which you assemble a…
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"You're not the last Belmont anymore", Trevor reminds his daughter Rose, as they gently sail into a Paris ablaze and ripped apart by monsters. Rose knows it well, as do indie developers Evil Empire. Following their success with roguelike Dead Cells (and its own Castlevania DLC),…
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And so it comes to this. Final Fantasy VII Revelation is all set to bring the epic retelling of the PS1 classic RPG to a close, and once again it promises a dramatic expansion of how the world and the game is structured. It’s not just kind of open-world, Revelation is…
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There’s a new Steam client beta update out, and for SteamOS devices like the Steam Deck or Steam Machine – or just the Windows client's Big Picture Mode – it’s meaty one, features-wise. Read more
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Rockstar Games have issued a statement making clear they're sticking to their guns, as the final hearing in the legal battle between them and a group of former staff they fired last year begins. The hearing's set to run from today, September 10th, until at least October 15th.…
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