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Feature | Live, die, try again in Revita
Shudder.
Revita is a very hard blend of roguelite and twin-stick shooter, which I am terrible at but quite enjoying. Breaking down those two terms a little, it offers procedural scrambling of enemies in amidst persistent progress - you die and die but eventually you will get somewhere - and you aim with one stick and move with another.
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Turn a grim laundromat into a bustling 90s arcade in Vostok Inc. dev's Arcade Paradise
Includes 35+ playable games.
Vostok Inc. developer Nosebleed Interactive is trading space-capitalism for retro-tinged arcade management in its newly unveiled Arcade Paradise, coming to PC and consoles later this year.
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Sony confirms PS3, PSP, and Vita digital stores closing for good this summer
Previous purchases will remain downloadable.
Following the quiet closure of an old web version of the PlayStation Store this weekend, Sony has confirmed it'll be permanently closing all PS3, Vita, and PSP digital stores this summer.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone Season Two Reloaded launches this week, Activision announced.
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This week's Call of Duty: Warzone update weighs in at up to 57.8GB
But it reduces the overall file size by over 10GB.
Call of Duty: Warzone gets a mid-season update this week that reduces the overall install footprint of the game - but it comes only after an enormous download.
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Cyberpunk 2077 patch promises fixes for NPCs, driving and police
UPDATE: Now live on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
UPDATE 6.23pm: Cyberpunk 2077's sizeable 1.2 update is available to download now on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Digital Foundry | DF Direct Weekly tackles Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, Switch Pro and more
And what's in the box?
The latest Digital Foundry Direct Weekly has just been posted! This extended show is our chance to sit down and relax a little during the week, discuss the topics that have dominated the news and to share some behind the scenes details on the projects we're working on - while also tackling some Q+A with questions offered up by our fine Patreon supporters. This week, the big topics up for discussion include the extended trailer for the revamped Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade for PlayStation 5, plus - once again - reaction to the latest rumours about the so-called Nintendo Switch Pro.
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Mario 3D All-Stars sales soar as mascot's day of execution looms
Two days remain.
Nintendo's Super Mario 3D All-Stars has done the company proud in its final full week on shop shelves, with physical sales up 276 per cent week-on-week.
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With no EA Fight Night in sight, Esports Boxing Club looks like it's got a good shot
Try not to feint.
Esports Boxing Club is an in-development boxing game that certainly looks the part.
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Feature | Courage and stupidity: The real-life story behind winemaking game Hundred Days
"For me it was an adventure."
"There is a thin line between courage and stupidity."
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EA announces next-gen golf game EA Sports PGA Tour
It's fore the best.
EA has announced a next-gen golf game called EA Sports PGA Tour.
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Monster Hunter Rise shipped 4m copies in three days
Roaring success.
Nintendo Switch exclusive Monster Hunter Rise has shipped 4m units since launch last Friday, publisher Capcom has said.
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Strixhaven, the brand new Harry Potter-ish card expansion for Magic: The Gathering, is nearly here, and we've been given a small collection of cards to reveal.
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Koei Tecmo insists Ninja Gaiden Master Collection "is based on the PS3 version in quality"
After fans notice Ninja Gaiden Sigma looks like the Vita version.
Koei Tecmo has insisted Ninja Gaiden Master Collection "is based on the PS3 version in quality", after fans noticed the Ninja Gaiden Sigma included in the package looks like the Vita version.
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UPDATE: Website now offline.
UPDATE 29TH MARCH 2021: As predicted, SBMMWarzone.com has shut down. The website is now blank.
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On the download.
Sony has pulled an old web version of the PlayStation Store that let people still buy old games.
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Feature | Adios is a small, quiet, 90-minute narrative with a knack for storytelling texture
Smooth talker.
I keep finding myself describing games in terms of "texture" at the moment, and I keep worrying that nobody knows what that means - I'm not sure I know what it means, so I wouldn't blame them. But I know it's there, and I know a game's texture matters, but how to spell it out?
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Feature | Playing Super Mario Sunshine reminds me of a recent tragedy in my country
And some of the coincidences are pretty spooky...
As a Mauritian who loved Super Mario Sunshine back in its day, I could already see the many similarities Super Mario Sunshine has to Mauritius.
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Capcom is marketing Resident Evil Village with this life-size Lady Dimitrescu
Dimitrescu's currently intimidating fans across Hong Kong.
Capcom is ramping up the Resident Evil Village hype train by sending out life-size standees of its chief antagonist, Lady Dimitrescu.
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New photos hint that the Wild Hunt may be coming to Netflix's The Witcher show
Sources close to the show reportedly confirmed the rumours.
New amateur photos taken on the set of The Witcher TV show suggests season two of the highly anticipated Netflix series will feature the Wild Hunt.
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Sega is Metacritic's game publisher of the year
And runner-up Annapurna was the only publisher with a "perfect record" of green metascores in 2020.
Sega has topped the chart of review aggregate website Metacritic's game publisher of the year rankings.
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Anthem director departs BioWare
"BioWare has been home to my grateful heart for nearly ten years."
Anthem director, Jonathan Warner, is leaving BioWare and "moving on to do new things" after ten years at the studio.
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The PC version of Crash Bandicoot 4 launched exclusively on Battle.net yesterday - and players weren't exactly thrilled to discover it's always-online.
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THQ Nordic is taking on the long-running Football Manager series with a football management sim of its own it describes as "a throwback to classic traditional management games".
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Microsoft lists 22 ID@Xbox games coming to Xbox Game Pass
Art of Rally! Narita Boy! Sable! More!
Microsoft held an ID@Xbox showcase last night, and as part of it listed 22 games coming to Xbox Game Pass.
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Rust Console Edition comes out in May
Stay oxide.
Rust Console Edition launches 21st May on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Acclaimed stealth game Shadow Tactics getting standalone expansion
Aiko's Choice coming to PC later this year.
Developer Mimimi Games' superb stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun is getting a standalone expansion. It's called Aiko's Choice and is coming to PC later this year.
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Monster Hunter Rise's first major post-launch update bringing new monsters in April
HR cap will be unlocked too.
Monster Hunter Rise has only just arrived on Switch, but already Capcom is talking up the game's first major post-launch update. Version 2.0, as it's known, will release toward the end of April, bringing new monsters, an unlocked HR cap, and more.
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Hades wins big at this year's BAFTA Games Awards
Plus, gongs for Last of Us Part 2, Dreams, and more.
The results are in for this year's BAFTA Games Awards, and acclaimed dungeon-crawler Hades has proven to be the big winner of the night, picking up gongs in a total of five categories.
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Virginia dev's supernatural "anthology drama" Last Stop shows off new gameplay
Coming to Xbox and PC later this year.
Variable State, the developer behind 2016's small town mystery adventure Virginia, has offered a closer look at its upcoming supernatural anthology drama Last Stop in a new gameplay trailer.
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