Microsoft CEO consoles employees by saying recent layoffs are down to ‘the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value’

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This month began with some stark news for Microsoft employees: The business was doing better than ever before, and that somehow means layoffs. Around 9,000 employees were laid-off globally, studios were closed, games were cancelled, and then to rub salt in the wound some Microsoft exec with terminal LinkedIn brain suggested that those affected use … Read more

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has its summer roadmap and, with all due respect, how did it take this long to get a fast-forward time option?

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Summer Roadmap Update – YouTube Watch On I enjoyed my time with Assassin’s Creed Shadows but, much like I did with Valhalla, I had my fill long before I ever reached credits. These games are too big, and their content becomes familiar too quickly, for me to get all the way through … Read more

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers devs promise performance fixes are on the way, as it fights a flock of negative Steam reviews: ‘These problems should never have occurred’

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is currently crumpling under a flood of negative Steam reviews—at the time of writing, only 30% being positive—due to, primarily, performance issues and bugs. Having given it a try myself and had similar issues, I’d simply written it off as having a meek 3060, not exactly the Ritz of graphics cards. But … Read more

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital

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It’s not even out yet, but zombie base management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is already a certified hit. Its demo, released in May, attracted hundreds of thousands of players (myself included), received great reviews and lots of attention on social media—and has now infected over a million Steam wishlists. It’s not surprising, then, … Read more

Rematch devs call it a ‘samurai game’ and give a timeline for player reports, new ranked queues

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Small-squad soccer game Rematch has blown up—no, really, it’s huge—over the last month since it released. Fascinatingly, developer Sloclap was also responsible for Sifu, the time-bending 2022 kung fu game. In a recent Reddit post updating Rematch’s now quite large community on its development, Sloclap addressed its opinion about the relationship between the two as … Read more

Fans are celebrating Magic: The Gathering’s latest return to its own setting, but numbers don’t lie—the Final Fantasy crossover boosted revenue 23%

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The planes of the Magic: The Gathering multiverse are separated by the Blind Eternities, a mysterious between-space that’s never been fully explored. The latest set, Edge of Eternities, visits the boundary of the Blind Eternities for the first time, using it as the locale for a science-fantasy space opera that pushes at the limit of … Read more

Wordle today: Answer and hint #1499 for July 27

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Use our clue for today’s Wordle whenever you feel you need some extra help. Keep it to one side, ready for those tricky moments later on when either the right letters aren’t showing up, or they are but make no sense. Unleash it straight away, ensuring your first line is the best it can possibly … Read more

I played a visual novel about the terror of having a ‘casual’ boss and a job that wants you to conform to society’s expectations—but not the ones involving economic stability

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Truer than You is a visual novel about the gig economy. You’re hired by a start-up run by a techbro who wears “fun” t-shirts—always a warning sign—to complete vague tasks delivered via phone app. It’s sort of like Fiverr only the jobs range from helping someone who might be an artist or might be a … Read more