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‘I Play Kojima’s Latest Game Then I Return to Fallout 4’: Ghost in the Shell Director Mamoru Oshii Says He’s Racked Up 10,000 Hours While Avoiding the Main Quest

Mamoru Oshii, the director of legendary anime movie Ghost in the Shell, has said that he's played Fallout 4 for 10,000 hours while avoiding its main quest.In a Japanese video interview to mark the 30th anniversary of Ghost in the Shell, Oshii chatted about his love of games — and ...
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Dark Pictures sci-fi horror Directive 8020 will open its doors in May, letting some evil fleshslime loose

Until Dawn developers Supermassive Games have announced a release date for Dark Pictures sci-fi horror game Directive 8020. Following a delay announced as the studio laid off staff last year, Directive 8020's set to land this May. Read more ...
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‘Next Game in the Making’: Split Fiction Director Josef Fares Posts Set Photo Which Fans Think is a 3-Player Hint

It Takes Two and Split Fiction director Josef Fares has posted the first photo from the set of developer Hazelight Studios' next project.The image shows Fares, dressed in a cosy-looking sweater, in front of three actors in performance capture suits. Clearly, work has now begun on Fares' next game — ...
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Review: Mario Tennis Fever (Switch 2) – Slim For Singles, But An Addictive Core Gives It Online Legs

Nadal it's cracked up to be?Having never been any sort of tennis fan for my entire childhood — Wimbledon always seemed a bit posh to me — I fell completely and utterly in love with the sport in my teenage years through the medium of video games.Yes. Video games. They're ...
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New Helldivers 2 update out today

In an unprecedented and unforeseeable event, the Cyborgs have returned to once again threaten the liberty and sovereignty of Super Earth and its inhabitants. This nightmarish turn of events follows the discovery that the Automatons seized the schematics for the Star of Peace with the intent to build one for ...
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ZA/UM’s New RPG Is Similar To Disco Elysium Because ‘We’re Still the Same People’

Take one look at Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, the upcoming RPG from ZA/UM, and you can immediately see the similarities between it and the studio’s previous game, Disco Elysium. It’s an isometric game with a striking art style, featuring dialogue-heavy gameplay where conversations are displayed vertically on the right-hand ...
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MindsEye studio reportedly installed monitoring software on staff PCs without their knowledge, as execs continue alleging sabotage

Management at Scottish studio Build A Rocket Boy, makers of notoriously panned GTA-like MindsEye, have reportedly installed monitoring software onto the PCs of their staff without informing the workers beforehand. The move appears to be linked to ongoing claims from BARB executives that the game's prospects have been deliberately sabotaged ...
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‘There’s a Level of Investment We Need’: Despite the Popularity of Nintendo Switch and Being Owned By Microsoft, Blizzard Discusses Why Hearthstone Still Isn’t on Consoles

Blizzard has said that its Warcraft-themed collectible card game Hearthstone is still not available on consoles because the team needs "a level of investment... to make that happen."That's according to executive producer Nathan Lyons-Smith, who recently revealed that because of the 12-year-old game's aging code — estimated to be 16 ...
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Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike gaming mouse review: a new standard in customisable clickery

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but a gaming mouse has just tried something new. New and, it turns out, brilliant. Read more ...
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Capcom Developing Another Monster Hunter Wilds ‘Large-Scale Expansion’ Similar to Iceborne

Monster Hunter Wilds will welcome a "large-scale" expansion later this year.Addressing fans in a video celebrating the open-world adventure game's first anniversary, series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto teased that this expansion will be similar to Monster Hunter World's Iceborne add-on, but was otherwise coy about the details. He did, however, stress ...
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