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Streets of Rogue is getting a limited physical Switch release on July 11:
superraregames.com
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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Streets of Rogue is getting a limited physical Switch release on July 11:
superraregames.com
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Open-world factory-building sim Satisfactory is fully launching on September 10:
www.gematsu.com/2024/07/sati...
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Witchy farming-RPG Critter Crops is launching on July 22:
store.steampowered.com/app/1641120/...
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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot shipments + sales have surpassed 8 million copies:
www.gematsu.com/2024/07/drag...
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Phantasy Star TTRPG announced, launching in 2025:
www.timeextension.com/news/2024/07...
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PlayStation is returning to Tokyo Game Show this September, for the first time since 2019:
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/playsta...
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Super Mario x Baskin Robbins ice cream collab is finally a thing:
retrododo.com/super-mario-...
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A new survey reveals the majority of China's PC players use Steam's international version without a VPN to play games - rather than their official domestic version or other storefronts, as a way to circumvent the restrictions of approved games:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/04/p...
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There is a vast difference between being inspired by something, or building upon an idea with original thoughts and takes, as humans have always done, and the creative task of literally just asking a computer to make a thing for you, using an amalgamation of human creative outputs it stole.
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Nintendo has run out of parts for Wii U repairs in Japan - with the company no longer supporting the console globally:
www.gamesradar.com/hardware/res...
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Nintendo says it will not use generative-AI, preferring to create stuff that is "unique to" them and to avoid copyrighted material used by gen-AI:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/n...
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Keywords Studios - an Irish outsource studio who have worked on more games you've played than you realise, including CoD, Fortnite, Baldur's Gate 3, and Assassin's Creed - is being acquired by a Swedish equity firm for £2.1 billion:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/k...
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Biophobia is a free, 5-minute vignette art experience, that deals with topics of body horror, death, and sexual assault. @CharlotteMadelo
charlotte-madelon-design.itch.io/biophobia
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Ubisoft Toronto has let go of 33 people due to that classic "targeted realignment":
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Gamurs Group has laid off an unknown number of staff from Destructoid, The Escapist, PC Invasion, and more:
www.gamesindustry.biz/gamurs-group...
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Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios is laying off an unknown number of staff, just over 2 months since its debut launch:
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/rep...
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Singularity 6 - the struggling studio behind Palia - has been acquired by Daybreak Game Company:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/02/d...
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Transformers: Galactic Trials announced - a mix of racing and rogue-lite combat.
Launches October 11 for consoles + PC:
nintendoeverything.com/transformers...
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Splatoon 3 is getting a new physical release with all its DLC on the cartridge in the West.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had similar treatment in Japan:
nintendoeverything.com/splatoon-3-e...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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The next mainline Resident Evil game is in development, with Koshi Nakanishi directing, Capm has announced.
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Internet speed records have been broken in lab conditions, using standard optic fibre cabling - 50TBs per second:
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/int...
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The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - The Dead Shall Rise announced.
This prequel novel is the first new official Legacy of Kain content in 21 years:
www.ign.com/articles/leg...
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Arc System Works has opened a new European branch:
www.gematsu.com/2024/07/arc-...
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The Keeper's Diary, a Resident Evil fan film featuring the original Chris Redfield cutscene actor, has been released on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6f8...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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The Sims 4 is adding polyamory in its latest free update:
www.gamesradar.com/games/the-si...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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World of Tanks Blitz has surpassed $1 billion in revenue since it first launched in 2014:
www.gamesindustry.biz/world-of-tan...
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Steam has broken its concurrent user record again - with 37 million people on Steam at the same time this weekend:
gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/01/s...
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's producer says he would love Hideo Kojima to return to the series with Konami:
www.gamesradar.com/games/metal-...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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George R. R. Martin is teasing a potential Elden Ring movie or TV adaptation:
www.ign.com/articles/geo...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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An employment tribunal has found Star Citizen's developer discriminated against a disabled employee, after firing them due to a return-to-office policy:
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/clo...
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My weekly indie game round-up newsletter went out yesterday! ✨
A round-up of each day's notable indie game launches + indie game news/reveals/trailers. Paid + free content. Subscribe to get it directly to your inbox! 👇
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The man responsible for the cancellation of two Nintendo live events has admitted to death threats, after apparently getting angry at losing in Splatoon 3, and is facing a potential jail sentence:
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/27-year...
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AAA mobile ports of Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding, and Assassin's Creed Mirage have reportedly bombed - with fewer than 3,000 people apparently paying for the latter:
mobilegamer.biz/those-assass...
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The original Resident Evil trilogy is coming to PC, DRM-free:
www.gog.com/en/game/resi...
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The Living Computers Museum in Seattle is permanently closing, after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's estate opts to auction off all of its priceless computer archives:
www.geekwire.com/2024/seattle...
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Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed launches on September 24, with a new Collector's Edition revealed:
www.vgchartz.com/article/4615...
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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Expanded Edition announced for consoles + PC - bringing 39 new games and tons more retrospectives and preservation content.
This continues to be probably the best preservation title ever, lovely stuff:
www.gematsu.com/2024/06/atar...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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The Pokémon Company has disqualified several entries in its Pokémon card art contest over AI, with entrants and observers continuing the squabble over which entries may or may not be AI - a bleak look at what AI has done to art communities:
www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-disq...
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Pokémon developer Game Freak has released Pand Land - a new, free-to-play marine RPG on mobile in Japan:
www.siliconera.com/pand-land-is...
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Palworld's lead creator says that Nintendo did not follow-up with its legal threat, and suggests he tries to "avoid creating new things":
www.gamefile.news/p/palworld-p...
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Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has surpassed 20 million copies sold since 2017 - making it probably the best-selling game in the series:
www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/06...
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The developer of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for Switch seems to be Forever Entertainment - known for remakes of Panzer Dragoon, House of the Dead, and Front Mission 2:
www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/06...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮 games industry guy
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The Satellaview was real! It was a Japanese-only add-on for the SNES/Super Famicom that downloaded exclusive digital games via sattellite broadcasts.
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Life is Strange x Insert Coin clothing range announced:
www.insertcoinclothing.com
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The #NintendoDirect will air tomorrow at 7am PT/3pm BST.
Lasts 40 mins, focusing on Switch games - there will be no mention of their next console:
www.youtube.com/live/kX3BkD5...
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Cyber Citizen Shockman Zero, an action-platformer first released on Nintendo's Satellaview in 1997, is coming to consoles on July 5:
www.gematsu.com/2024/06/cybe...
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Embracer has shut down Pieces Interactive - the studio behind the recent Alone in the Dark reboot, with its staff assumedly all laid off. There is not yet an official announcement, but the studio has confirmed the news by posting this image on their site.
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Until Dawn's movie adaptation has announced Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo and Odessa A’Zion for its cast:
deadline.com/2024/06/unti...
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Hidetaka Miyazaki says that FromSoftware staff also want a Bloodborne PC port:
www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
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Resident Evil Village has surpassed 10 million copies sold - the fastest game in the series to hit this number:
www.gamesindustry.biz/resident-evi...
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