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"Arkane is profitable," say Marvel's Blade developers in fiery new statement, "just not profitable enough for Microsoft"
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"Arkane is profitable," say Marvel's Blade developers in fiery new statement, "just not profitable enough for Microsoft"

Unionised workers at Dishonored developers Arkane Lyon have published a fresh statement about the progress of negotiations with Microsoft over the studio's potential closure. Aside from calling on Xbox management to make a redundancy offer proportionate to Microsoft's colossal market value, they accuse the parent company of creating the very economic conditions cited as a reason for closing Arkane, and thereby "sabotaging" development of the forthcoming Marvel's Blade. Read more

Oblivion and Skyrim’s gap was bridged by forward-looking books about a murderous floating island, so why is The Elder Scrolls 6 stuck reanimating a world that’s stood still since 2011
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Oblivion and Skyrim’s gap was bridged by forward-looking books about a murderous floating island, so why is The Elder Scrolls 6 stuck reanimating a world that’s stood still since 2011

Long waits between mainline entries in a series aren’t a new phenomenon, if perhaps a bit more common nowadays due to big games' ballooning development cycles. It took about 23 years for BioWare’s Baldur's Gate 2 to be followed up by Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3, though there were a decent amount of spin-offs and remasters peppered between the two. The wait for The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel hasn’t stretched on that long quite yet, but as Bethesda finally revealed concr

Rimworld-inspired colony sim Stardeus gets a huge update representing a year's worth of expansion and revision, with new tools for evil AI overlords
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Rimworld-inspired colony sim Stardeus gets a huge update representing a year's worth of expansion and revision, with new tools for evil AI overlords

"Stardeus is in an early stage in terms of bulk and complexity, but it's already a pleasant blend of interesting ideas that generate a mostly relaxing vibe," wrote gallant star captain.exe Sin Vega in our 2022 analysis of Rimworld-influenced colony manager Stardeus. "One to watch for sure." Well, let it not be said that we weren't watching. Read more

Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review
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Deadly Days: Roadtrip 1.0 review

Now Deadly Days: Roadtrip has left Early Access as a full and complete game, here's my thoughts on this zombie-slaying bullet heaven inventory management game.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Fate of the Galaxy is a huge, fully-featured Star Wars space combat sim that, thanks to being a total conversion mod for Freespace Open, even runs on my rubbish laptop
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Fate of the Galaxy is a huge, fully-featured Star Wars space combat sim that, thanks to being a total conversion mod for Freespace Open, even runs on my rubbish laptop

Star Wars has been back in the news recently because, to cut a long story short, the US alt-right have decided that Darth Vader was actually the good guy. We are not here to indulge such buffoonery. We are here to talk about Fate of the Galaxy, a free unofficial space combat simulator set during the events of the original Star Wars trilogy, featuring several mission-based campaigns and a stable of Imperial and Rebel Alliance ships that ranges from the quad-blasting X-Wing to Boba Fett's Firespr