Approximately 2,555 days after a ‘day one’ giveaway, people are finally receiving copies of a game they won 7 years ago

An elephant never forgets, and neither does Level-5 apparently. After originally being slated for release all the way back in 2018, football RPG Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road is actually coming out (for realsies!) on November 13. Presumably under full confidence in its original release date, the developer held a giveaway around seven years ago for…

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British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski’s dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament

Remember LawBreakers? I have to be honest: I didn’t. Or rather, I didn’t until the game was suddenly resurrected in—of all places—the UK Parliament. If you suffer from the same defect of memory I do: LawBreakers was Cliff Bleszinski’s ill-fated competitive FPS from 2017—the first game the developer made at his studio Boss Key Productions…

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Civilization 7’s latest update brings a sweeping balance pass and a broadside of naval mechanics, while Firaxis offers Blackbeard for free as a ‘special thanks’ to players

Firaxis’ attempt to right the ailing vessel that is Civilization VII continues, with its latest update bringing a major balance pass for all civs, plus a bunch of new systems designed to enhance oceanic play. And if you’ve already picked up Firaxis’ latest and most divisive entry in the series, you have the opportunity to…

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‘The world became stupider’ when Internet Archive’s Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: ‘We survived, but it wiped out the library’

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in 1996. And one aimed at its library has reportedly had a major effect, according to what its founder told Ars Technica. Internet Archive might be…

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Where to find mushrooms in Arc Raiders

Mushrooms are oddly one of the trickiest foods to find in Arc Raiders, but what Scrappy wants, Scrappy gets. By this point, you’ll have already been sent to track down everything from lemons and apricots to prickly pears, olives, and a cat bed, yet somehow mushrooms—fungi you’d have thought would overrun old buildings in the…

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As if being a gas station attendant in Roadside Research wasn’t stressful enough, I’m also an alien who has to research humans while trying not to poop goop everywhere

If there was an award for grossest sounds per minute, I’m positive that the Roadside Research demo would take it. It’s like any other shop/restaurant/venue simulator on the surface: buy goods, sell goods, make customers happy, make a profit. Except every step I take causes an unsettling squelching noise to ricochet through my ears, and…

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