Like a Dragon creators won’t buckle to mainstream western tastes: ‘people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be’

The Yakuza series has spawned well over a dozen games since it debuted in 2005, and I haven’t included any of the substantial remasters in that figure. As prolific as Ryu Ga Gotoku is, they’re also remarkably consistent: the same bonkers mix of melodrama and absurd humour is threaded through every one of these games,…

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CD Projekt winds up Cyberpunk 2077 fans with fifth anniversary post, then cruelly breaks their hearts: ‘We’re not teasing anything’

Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10, 2020, which means that the fifth anniversary is just over a week away. Despite that age, and the fact that it’s a singleplayer RPG with no live service grind, its peak concurrent player count today on Steam—and only Steam—was nearly 44,000. That’s genuinely astounding, especially when you consider that…

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Routine review

You know it’s going to be a bad day when the automated company machine spits my ID badge straight into a forgotten gap under the printer and I have to not just crouch, but really get down amongst the dust and dirt to pick it up. Need to know What is it? Imagine Alien: Isolation…

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Hela: A Co-Op Adventure for Every Kind of Player

Category: ID@Xbox December 2, 2025 Hela: A Co-Op Adventure for Every Kind of Player Norbert Litwiński, Marketing Manager at Windup Games Summary Cozy co-op adventure in a magical world inspired by northern Sweden. Innovative Shade System lets solo players tackle puzzles and traversal challenges designed for multiple characters Launching in 2026 on Xbox Series X|S….

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