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Interview | Tracing a line through design, with the developers of Paper Trail
How Netflix, origami, and Romanian tattoos shaped a deceptively clever puzzler.
It's rather appropriate that the idea for Paper Trail - a game where you have to fold paper to solve puzzles - came from a brainstorming session where Newfangled Games' founders and brothers, Henry and Fred Hoffman, folded the paper of their hand drawn levels, then noticed that the puzzles on the front and the back could combine to make an even bigger puzzle. This one magic idea stuck from the off - but Newfangled Games' debut indie didn't always look like the polished puzzler it is now. There were some conceptual design bumps in the road, a trip to Boxpark Shoreditch, and a Netflix deal to chase before they could reach Paper Trail's true potential.
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Trombone Champ is bringing its acclaimed tooting action to VR this autumn
Parping onto PC, Quest, and PSVR2.
Video gaming's premier horn honker, Trombone Champ, is bringing its comedic rhythm-tooting to virtual reality helmets - meaning PC, PlayStation VR 2, and Meta Quest players might want to pucker up in preparation for a vigorous tromboning session this autumn.
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Preview | The Plucky Squire offers familiar ideas in a lovely new arrangement
Desktop publishing.
The special, almost intangible loveliness of the Plucky Squire isn't down to either the game design itself or the way it's presented. It's down to both of these things, combined so thoroughly, and with such imagination, that it's hard to stir them apart.
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Try Nintendo's Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club for free next week
Come up and see me.
Nintendo is dropping a free three-part demo for its upcoming horror, Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club from next week.
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And helping impacting players is likely to "take some time".
Destiny developer Bungie says it has addressed an issue where players have had their usernames changed by its "name moderation tool".
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GTA: San Andreas VR "on hold indefinitely" Meta confirms, nearly three years after it was announced
No way, CJ!
If you cast your minds back to October 2021, you may recall the news that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was set to make its way to the VR headset, Oculus Quest 2. While details on the project were thin on the ground at this time, it was said to have been "many years in the making".
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Where's our Black Myth: Wukong review?
We're taking our time with it.
Editor's note: Our full Black Myth: Wukong review is now live!
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The Elder Scrolls: Castles mobile game launches next month, pre-registration now open
Ace in the scroll.
The Elder Scrolls mobile game, The Elder Scrolls: Castles, is set to launch on 10th September.
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Tango Gameworks acquisition will transfer around 50 out of original 100 staff
Job openings at the studio.
Following the news Krafton was saving Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks from being shut down for good, the PUBG publisher has confirmed its plans to "transfer approximately 50 development staff" from the studio to its Japan subsidiary.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered mod H2M shuts down after cease and desist demand
Abandon call hope.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered mod, H2M, has been cancelled following a cease and desist demand from Activision.
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Two Legacy of Kain games are being re-released, but for the Evercade retro handheld console.
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"We've probably lost $1bn dollars... but what's the price of freedom?"
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has said he has "no regrets" over his company's decision to break Apple and Google's terms of service back in August 2020 - something that saw the hugely-popular Fortnite booted off both iPhone and Android storefronts.
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Abby actress Kaitlyn Dever protected by extra security while filming The Last of Us season two
"There's so many strange people in this world."
Kaitlyn Dever, the actress portraying Abby Anderson in the second season of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, required extra security during filming for her own protection.
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Silent Hill: Ascension wins major award
Emmy happy returns.
Genvid's experimental choose-the-outcome, episodic Silent Hill series, Ascension, has won an Emmy.
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged gets September release date
With enhanced visuals and UI.
The enhanced version of classic point-and-click adventure Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars now has a release date: 19th September.
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Feature | What we've been playing - fitness games, old classics, and Dungeons & Dragons
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we get sweaty in a new fitness game called Quell; we mull the ways in which Dungeons & Dragons combat is exciting but also frustrating; and Ian goes digging through the crates and revisits a classic.
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Pokémon launches adorable Japan plane safety video
Flying type.
Japanese airline ANA has revealed a new plane safety video starring a variety of Pokémon.
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Call of Duty might have seen its last 200GB+ install size as Activision announces optimisation plans
Says "smaller and more customised downloads" are on the way.
Call of Duty has become an absolute hard drive hog in recent years, with 2023's entry managing to consume over 200GB of storage in some cases. That all might be about to change, however, as Activision has announced major changes to the way it'll be handing installs with this year's Black Ops 6, promising "smaller and more customised downloads" as a result.
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Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded's enhanced stealth action gets an airing in first gameplay trailer
Coming to Meta Quest 3 later this year.
Back in June, developer IO Interactive revealed it was resurrecting and reworking Hitman 3's VR mode, first released for PSVR in 2021, exclusively for Meta Quest 3 - and the studio has now shared first gameplay, showcasing this Reloaded edition's various enhancements.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard release date leaks
UPDATE: Familiar face returns in eye-catching new trailer.
UPDATE 6.45pm UK: This evening's big new Dragon Age: The Veilguard trailer has landed, confirming what we knew already - that BioWare's upcoming RPG will arrive at Halloween. Also in the trailer? Well, Dragon Age fans will get to see a very familiar face - we'll let you watch for yourselves and read more below.
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Acclaimed biking game Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a skiing sequel
And it's coming later this year.
Lonely Mountains: Downhill, the brilliantly serene/controller-snappingly infuriating mountain biking game from developer Megagon Industries, is trading its wheels for a pair of skis later this year, with the arrival of newly announced follow-up, Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders.
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Games Done Quick's week-long Flame Fatales charity speedrunning event returns this Sunday
Raising money for the Malala Fund.
Flame Fatales, the all-women and femmes charity speedrunning event from Games Done Quick, returns for another week-long programme of impressively swift gaming feats this weekend.
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Amazon MMO New World's Aeternum overhaul is having an open beta next month
On Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
New World: Aeternum, the latest expansion/do-over for Amazon's middling MMO New World, is having an open beta on 13th September ahead of its full PC and console release in October.
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Digital Foundry | Doom and Doom 2: are Nightdive's latest remasters the definitive editions?
Not quite perfect - but excellent nonetheless.
For many, scaling Mount Everest has stood as the ultimate challenge of one's strength and endurance. An achievement of a lifetime. For long-time Doom players, however, there is an equivalent: NUTS.WAD. Legend has it that NUTS.WAD descended upon Doom players in the year 2001: a map from the future in which players are dropped into a single map with more than 10,000 enemies and a handful of power-ups. And now - for the first time ever - it's playable on a games console.
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Preview | Splitgate 2 plays great - but its new focus on objective-based 4v4 team games may be a turn off
Portal combat.
The thing I loved the most about the original Splitgate was the fact that, to me at least, it felt like playing the original Halo with my pals at LAN parties back in the early 2000s. Not only that but it came with all the mod cons of the current gaming era, including a wealth of customisable lobbies and crossplay multiplayer so it was incredibly easy to set up our ideal matches.
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Jelly Deals | The new Doom Anthology includes a BFG model, and is now up for pre-order
That's cute.
Including six critically acclaimed games: Doom, Doom 2, Doom 64, Doom 3, Doom (2016), and Doom Eternal Deluxe Edition, the upcoming Doom Anthology is now available for pre-order. Time to rip and tear.
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The Plucky Squire, one of Eurogamer's most anticipated games of the year, will launch for PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X/S on 17th September, publisher Devolver Digital has announced.
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Feature | Persona 3's Episode Aigis DLC has left me with plenty of unanswered questions
SEES control.
Fans were jubilant when Persona 3 received a remake earlier this year, but this turned to disappointment when it became clear its Episode Aigis epilogue DLC was not included. Multiple versions of Persona 3 have been released since the game's initial PS2 launch in 2006 - namely Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable, each with unique additions. The release of this year's Persona 3 Reload was an opportunity to provide the definitive version of the game, but without Episode Aigis fans were upset it would remain incomplete.
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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 delayed to 2025
"We aimed for the end of the year and almost made it."
Warhorse Studios has revealed a delay to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which will now arrive on 11th February 2025.
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Let's Build a Zoo studio is making a game dev management sim where you design your own MMO
And it's coming to Xbox and PC.
Springloaded Software, the developer behind 2021's animal-splicing tycoon game Let's Build a Zoo, has unveiled Let's Build a Dungeon - a new "multi-layered" management sim in which players attempt to run a game development studio while creating their own MMORPG.
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