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Cicadamata" is the most exciting FPS I've played in years - come try the demo
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Cicadamata" is the most exciting FPS I've played in years - come try the demo

Let me slash the tendons of that strutting headline with some immediate caveats. Most obviously, you will not like Cicamadata” if you have an overpowering hatred of feisty punctuation in game titles. You will not like it if you're averse to abstract and ostentatiously computerised, 'product design' art direction that is somehow both bright and foggy, crisp and distorted. You won’t like it if you really dislike artisanal glitches and general HUD palaver – cockroach text scuttl

Ambitious Fallout: New Vegas Van Buren remake mod locks in an early March release date for its second demo
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Ambitious Fallout: New Vegas Van Buren remake mod locks in an early March release date for its second demo

Not long after changing their project's name from Fallout: Revelation Blues to Fallout: The New West, the developers behind a New Vegas mod remaking a cancelled Fallout game have settled on a release date for their second demo. The second publicly playable taste of this attempt to resurrect Van Buren - the version of Fallout 3 which was in development at Black Isle Studios before being cancelled in 2003 - is slated to arrive late next week. Read more

Microsoft's throne room rejigging has seen Sarah Bond take the bullet for marketing strategy which was "failing internally", report claims
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Microsoft's throne room rejigging has seen Sarah Bond take the bullet for marketing strategy which was "failing internally", report claims

In case you missed it, Friday saw news arrive of a substantial corporate reshuffle at the top of Microsoft's gaming division. CEO Phil Spencer was revealed to be retiring at the same time Xbox president Sarah Bond was revealed to have resigned, leaving new boss and former president of Microsoft CoreAI Asha Sharma to don the crown of green plastic. A report from The Verge has now offered a bit more detail as to how all this chair-switching went down, and unsurprisingly, it reads like an account