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Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion
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Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion

Xbox are reportedly closing or spinning off Psychonauts developers Double Fine, Hellblade studio Ninja Theory, and South of Midnight creators Compulsion Games, as Microsoft commence efforts to yet again "reset" their billion dollar gaming business after already laying off thousands of staff, cancelling games, and closing several studios over the past couple of years. Read more

Control a huge drilling vessel rife with bloody religious symbolism in Mole, a horror sim from former GTFO developers
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Control a huge drilling vessel rife with bloody religious symbolism in Mole, a horror sim from former GTFO developers

"There is a hole in the world," writes Ursula K Le Guin in The Farthest Shore, "and the light is running out of it." Alas, The Farthest Shore contains no terrible mechanical instruments of hole-digging. For that, we must turn to MOLE, "a psychological horror experience with tactile simulation elements about madness, faith, and the depths we choose to dig". Out now on Steam, it makes me think of Mike Klubnika's clicky torture instruments, of Iron Lung's unseen exteriors, and of Mouthwashing's wo