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1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks
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1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks

At least 1,200 Ubisoft developers have gone on strike across Paris and Milan in response to the company’s recent massive cutbacks and change of policy towards remote-working. That’s the figure given for yesterday’s bout of strike action by Marc Rutschlé, Ubisoft Paris staffer and a representative of the union Solidaires Informatique, in a statement to the socialist agitators of GamesIndustry.biz. The primary inspiration for this week’s strike is Ubisoft’s ca

Cyberpunk platformer Replaced has a demo out, and it's wonderfully atmospheric when you're not plummeting a short distance
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Cyberpunk platformer Replaced has a demo out, and it's wonderfully atmospheric when you're not plummeting a short distance

Warren! Warren! Warren! ARRGGHHH! WHAAAA! HUHHHH! Replaced, the long-in-development dystopian platformer from Sad Cat Studios, keeps shouting my last name at me. It might because the game's main character, a jacketed gap jumper and baddie shooter, is called Warren. It might also because I did plenty of falling and accidentally got shot by a robo-sniper in Replaced's demo, which is now live ahead of the full thing's release next month. Read more

How to use a Starsand Island Flawed Chest
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How to use a Starsand Island Flawed Chest

On your travels through the Moonlit Forest, you may uncover a pretty Starsand Island Flawed Chest, but it’s not that straightforward to use.

How to get ruins keys in Starsand Island
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How to get ruins keys in Starsand Island

A large Starsand Island bronze gate stands between you and exploring the Moonlit Forest, but you need two ruins keys to be able to unlock it.

Come shout down dystopia in the demo for Amanita's fancy cardboard mind control puzzler Phonopolis
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Come shout down dystopia in the demo for Amanita's fancy cardboard mind control puzzler Phonopolis

Czech indie developers Amanita Design – creators of Samorost, Creaks and Machinarium, among other marvels – have released a demo for Phonopolis, their 3D cardboard adventure about a young man called Felix who is trying to save a city brainwashed by massive loudspeakers. Protected by his headphones, Felix is on a mission to stop the authoritarian Leader from issuing the Absolute Tone, which will “strip every citizen of their humanity forever”. Seems like a thing to avoid!

Reanimal review – the dollhouse horror of Little Nightmares gives way to a grimier tale of war and slaughter
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Reanimal review – the dollhouse horror of Little Nightmares gives way to a grimier tale of war and slaughter

In an industry pestered by calls to "think of the children", Tarsier’s games are useful reminders that children can be utterly depraved in ways no coddling adult would ever dream. Later in Reanimal, the developer’s latest, strictly 'co-optional' horror game, two kids rip an eyeball out of a massive, sunken horse skull and shove it into what I sincerely hope is the eyesocket of a slumbering whale. Somehow, this is necessary to advance. It’s the kind of thing that would onl