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Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It's not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future
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Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It's not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future

You know what I might have most about games? There's no universal way to play them. You buy a DVD, you buy a DVD player, and aside from maybe a region lock issue you're as good as gold. If I buy Snowboard Kids for the N64, and I don't have one of those, well, I'm up a particular creek. That has meant that many a game over the years has been stuck to particular platforms, one of the most surprising being Jet Set Radio Future, to this day a game that's still only available on the original Xbox,

Sandfall Interactive have some light regrets over how they handled Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's final boss
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Sandfall Interactive have some light regrets over how they handled Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's final boss

We've all been there. You're at the end of a game, you've done all of the side quests, you're strong as hell, finally read to take on the final boss, confident you can finish this quest you started 30-100 hours ago. Only to find that the fight is a piece of piss because, whoops! You overlevelled yourself by too much. This was seemingly the case for a number of people in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and now the game's lead designer Michel Nohra has expressed some regret for those who had that e

Ubisoft close the studio behind Assassin's Creed Rebellion days after the developers vote to unionise
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Ubisoft close the studio behind Assassin's Creed Rebellion days after the developers vote to unionise

Ubisoft are closing Ubisoft Halifax, the Canadian developers of mobile games Rainbow Six Mobile and Assassin's Creed Rebellion. This is strictly speaking outside our mandate as a PC gaming site, of course - I fear smartphones like Hell itself, and only ever communicate over long distances using homing pigeons - but it's all part of Ubisoft's wider transformation into a heavily Tencent-backed publisher, and the nasty twist is that Ubisoft Halifax had only just voted to unionise. Read more

Turns out you have Helldivers 2 to thank for Arc Raiders moving away from a free-to-play model
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Turns out you have Helldivers 2 to thank for Arc Raiders moving away from a free-to-play model

A few years ago, it would have been pretty easy to imagine Helldivers 2 releasing as a free-to-play game. It is a live service game after all, most of those are free-to-play because studios want to reduce the barrier to entry. Instead, it launched as a paid-for, $40 game, a far cry from free, but not the $80-$100 releases we're seeing more and more of. And it's because Arrowhead made the decision to do so that Arc Raiders developer Embark did the exact same thing for their own shooter. Read m

Parasite Mutant explores the horrors of running circles around not-quite-Xenomorphs, and its demo is out now
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Parasite Mutant explores the horrors of running circles around not-quite-Xenomorphs, and its demo is out now

I'm jogging around. Has the gauge filled up to one bar yet? No. Well, back to jogging around it is. Time to politely salute the horrific mutant trying to attack me as I double back past it for the third time. Ooh, we have a bar. Right, time to whip out my pistol and - BANG, BANG. Shit, I forgot to wander up to point blank range and so have hit absolutely nothing. Well, back to jogging I go until the gauge fills again. Read more

Deep Rock Galactic's Season 6 secret release date looks to have been cracked in minutes by astute diggers
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Deep Rock Galactic's Season 6 secret release date looks to have been cracked in minutes by astute diggers

Ghost Ship Games could learn a thing or two from Rockstar about hiding secrets in cobwebs. While RDR2’s spider-spun mystery continues to vex seasoned easter egg hunters, the message behind a piece of Deep Rock Galactic promo art – posted on the game’s Discord server earlier today – was seemingly spotted in about twenty minutes. Still, at least it looks to be a handy bit of info: a release date for its big Season 6 update. Read more