Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program

It’s certainly not an absence of demand that keeps “dead” games like Black & White or the original Civilization off the market. It’s usually red tape and nebulous barriers involving copyright law and intellectual property ownership-flavored headaches that get in the way. And even though GOG has a team working on its preservation program full…

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‘This is definitely my last TwitchCon’: High profile Streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment

Streamer Emily-Beth “Emiru” Schunk has released a statement criticizing ubiquitous streaming platform Twitch after she was assaulted at a TwitchCon meet and greet on October 17. This incident comes as high profile streamers, mostly women, have dealt with increasingly common incidents of in-person stalking and harassment by viewers. Streamer shenAndygans shared a video of the…

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It got a lot of love, but Arc Raiders ‘was absolutely not ready’ to release after its popular April playtest, says design director: ‘There were some bad bugs’

Sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is doing one last public playtest this weekend before its launch at the end of October, but quite a few players felt it was already good to go after its successful April playtest—or just wanted it to release ASAP so they could keep playing, perhaps more accurately. That Arc playtest…

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Don’t count on Arc Raiders ever getting a first-person mode: ‘Once you start being able to put your face right up against an asset, it kind of falls apart’

Arc Raiders looks great: My pals at PC Gamer think it’s the most exciting thing to happen to the extraction genre in a long time, and the huge numbers the server slam playtest is putting up at this very moment prove that they’re not alone in thinking so. For me, though, there’s just one problem:…

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The sleeper hit of the Fall might be this mad lad’s hyper realistic traffic management sim that uses real census data and a ‘distance-based gravity model’ to produce millions of NPC commuters

SimCity 4 is one of the most pleasant games I own—I can experience all the splendor of a modern metropolis with a fraction of the nuance, and for the first time in my life, feel what it’s like to drive on American roads that don’t piss me off. Up-and-coming “hyperrealistic” transit sim Subway Builder offers…

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‘Remember Beach’: Arrowhead has awarded thousands of ‘inexplicably dedicated’ Helldivers 2 players with a commemorative ‘Avengement Day’ after they ignored High Command to save a planet reminiscent of Halo Reach

Despite major orders to go and spend their lives elsewhere, an estimated 30,000 Helldivers 2 players took a liking to a planet with some oblique Halo references—Seyshel Beach—and decided to finish the fight. The socials team at Arrowhead congratulated the “small but inexplicably dedicated group of Helldivers” with, as befits a bloodthirsty star-spanning democracy, a…

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