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After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon
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After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon

Upon Marathon's launch earlier this week, Bungie revealed a pair of in-game currencies that you have to use to unlock various bits. One is called SILK, which you can earn through play and is used to unlock rewards in rewards passes. The other is LUX, a premium currency you have to spend real, cold, hard cash on to get, though its sole purpose is for cosmetics. However, much like all in-game currencies that cost real-world money, the amount you can buy and the amount it costs to buy cosmetics d

Rock Paper Shotgun 07.03.2026 19:01 Uhr
NetEase has reportedly pulled funding from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio and next game Gang of Dragon
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NetEase has reportedly pulled funding from Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio and next game Gang of Dragon

It's looking pretty likely that Gang of Dragon, the debut game from Yakuza/Like a Dragon creator Toshihiro Nagoshi's studio, won't be coming out at all. According to a report from Bloomberg, Nagoshi Studio employees were told by NetEase Inc. Friday, March 6th, that it would be pulling funding for the game from this coming May. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 07.03.2026 18:08 Uhr
'The teenagers have it coming' I tell myself as I set another spike trap in this Greek myth-infused tower defense game
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'The teenagers have it coming' I tell myself as I set another spike trap in this Greek myth-infused tower defense game

At the center of the labyrinth is a minotaur. He is bound with muscle. He is fearsome. He is… snoring. Asterion, bored with how long I am taking to place my traps, has gone to sleep. This is despite warriors armed with swords and bows lining up at the gates leading into the maze, itching for their chance to battle the bull-headed, human-bodied creature. Still, even though he is in mortal danger, I, Daedalus, the labyrinth's designer, am happy for him to sleep. If I do my job in roguelite

Rock Paper Shotgun 07.03.2026 13:00 Uhr
Marathon's story is told like it's a single player game and that's no good when my friends are talking on Discord
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Marathon's story is told like it's a single player game and that's no good when my friends are talking on Discord

Marathon is set in a cyberpunk future in which the air is thick with data and information. You play a runner, a human that's given up their body to become a being of bits and bytes whose consciousness can be transferred into whatever artificial shell they choose. We can't begin to perceive life in that world. A world where to see the data as it flew through the air it would be an onslaught to the senses, overwhelming and impossible to make sense of. Scatch that. The experience of a tsunami of s

Rock Paper Shotgun 07.03.2026 11:00 Uhr