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"If we love this work, we have to protect it" - Hyper Light studio Heart Machine is now a "wall-to-wall" union
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"If we love this work, we have to protect it" - Hyper Light studio Heart Machine is now a "wall-to-wall" union

Developers at Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash and Possessor(s) studio Heart Machine are unionising. They've signed up with a local branch of the Communications Workers of America, in a "wall-to-wall unit [that] represents all frontline employees". This comes in the wake of layoffs, and takes inspiration from larger unionisation drives at megacorps like Microsoft. Read more

Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows 11's gaming UI overhaul, is available to try now on Legion Go handhelds
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Xbox Full Screen Experience, Windows 11's gaming UI overhaul, is available to try now on Legion Go handhelds

Last year, Microsoft finally put some effort into making Windows 11 less dreadful for handheld PCs, launching Xbox Full Screen Experience - a stripped-back, more gamepad-friendly interface specifically for launching and installing games – on the Asus ROG Xbox Ally family. The same update has been strangely unforthcoming to other Steam Deck rivals, but it sounds like the Lenovo Legion Go series is finally getting access soon. There’s a preview build that Legion Go, Legion Go S, and L

A Nioh 3 boss made me so pissed off that I smashed a hole into my desk
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A Nioh 3 boss made me so pissed off that I smashed a hole into my desk

A few weeks ago, I became so irked at a boss battle that I smashed my Xbox wireless controller upon my desk. A loud crunch resulted. My rage quickly melted into horror as I turned my head downwards and realised that lo and behold, my gaming table now had a hole in it. It was the human form of Nioh 3's Takeda Shingen, so not even the toughest boss in the game - merely one who managed to vex me in a very particular manner on a trying day, resulting in the aforementioned cavity decorating the piec

“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companion
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“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companion

When Emil Pagliarulo was growing up in South Boston, he lived in fear of Whitey Bulger: a local crime boss who had been shaped not only by street gangs but Alcatraz, and a stint in the CIA’s mind control program, MKUltra. "He was basically the boogeyman," Pagliarulo says. "He was the evil bad guy. You didn’t know where he was or even what he looked like, but you knew he was out there. I’m 10 years old, and I know this name." Decades later, as Bethesda Game Studios shifted into