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[Link] ‘Gloomwood’ Is More Than Just a Spiritual Successor to ‘Thief’
Read: 10/9/2022 www.vice.com
In Gloomwood—the Thief-inspired stealth-action survival horror shooter by New Blood Interactive—you play as a doctor. In the game’s opening moments you awaken, hazy, on a floor covered with meat. It compresses grossly and softly beneath your feet, masking your footfalls.
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[Link] DRM Breaking Games Again, This Time Due To New Intel Chip Architecture
Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
We were just discussing how Denuvo's inability to renew one of its domains suddenly prevented lots of paying customers from playing several of their paid-for video games.
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[Link] Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last evening the web was alive with angry players who couldn't play their games due to an unexpected error.
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[Link] Halo Infinite's Battle Pass Sucks, Fans Say
Read: 19/11/2021 kotaku.com
Did you just eek out a nail biting victory in a Big Team Battle Slayer match? Bash a bunch of your fellow Spartans’ heads in with a flaming skull in Oddball? Capture a ton of objectives in Total Control, putting big numbers on the board for all your PVP comrades to see? Halo Infinite’s battle pa
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[Link] Kainga is a city-building game that’s also a deadly roguelike
Read: 15/11/2021 www.pcgamesn.com
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a city builder. It’s also a roguelike. You build up a civilisation in an ancient world full of mysterious monsters and enemies, you probably die, and you take what you’ve learned from the process into a new run.
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[Link] ‘New Game+’ Is a Terrible Name but Offers a Great Advantage
Read: 14/11/2021 www.wired.com
Every single action-adventure game comes with its own unique playing style baked in. Combat is intricately orchestrated; tools and weapons—from health boosts to special bombs and traps—are abundant.
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[Link] Battlefield 2042 players are demanding a traditional scoreboard
Read: 14/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Battlefield 2042 has only just launched for those who buy into the game early (you can read out review-in-progress here), and players already have a wishlist of changes for DICE to implement. Chief among them, judging by BF2042's official subreddit, is a traditional in-game scoreboard.
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[Link] Halo 3: ODST is still unlike any other Halo
Read: 14/11/2021 www.polygon.com
Since it first released on the Xbox 360 back in 2009, Halo 3: ODST has remained a unique entry in the sci-fi shooter Halo series — and according to developers who worked on the game at the time, that was entirely the point.
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[Link] RTS Is Beginning To Solve The ‘Absent Endgame’ Problem
Read: 27/10/2021 www.kotaku.com.au
A quick game’s a good game, they say. Apparently “they” never heard of Neptune’s Pride 2. But while there’ll always be a place for long, deep, thoughtful gameplay, it’s becoming more and more important to respect the players’ time.
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[Link] Leaker Details Battlefield 2042's 'Troubled Development'
Read: 21/10/2021 gamerant.com
It was no secret that DICE's Battlefield 2042 beta had its fair share of problems as many players were very vocal about the issues they experienced while playing the game.
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[Link] Playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ How It’s ‘Supposed’ To Be Played Is Lifechanging
Read: 12/10/2021 www.forbes.com
Yesterday, I got a new PC from PowerGPU after my old one died last week. I could have repaired it, and I probably still will, but I figured it was time for an upgrade anyway. The first game I installed after I got it set up? Cyberpunk 2077.
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[Link] 'There's a gaping hole in our knowledge': the scientists studying why gamers invert their controls
Read: 12/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
It is one of the most contentious aspects of video game playing – a debate where opposing sides literally cannot see each other’s perspective.
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[Link] PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings
Read: 8/8/2021 www.polygon.com
2021 marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
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