Shape of Dreams’ demo shows off an ingenious roguelike that wields Risk of Rain-tier finesse with action MOBA chaos, and I think I might be in love

I’m a little staggered that I hadn’t heard of Shape of Dreams before—while it has updated and promoted its demo for Next Fest, it’s actually had a “prologue” available for a while, which has essentially been a sort of open alpha test for its devs. Click on that link, and you’ll find that while its…

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Inzoi’s wild karma system can turn cities into literal ghost towns that you have to cleanse, game director says: ‘If too many ghosts appear in the city, new Zois cannot be born’

Beautifully realistic life sim Inzoi is nearly here and we’re learning more every week about features as its game director Hyungjun Kim shares plans with fans. In a recent interview from the newest issue of the PC Gamer magazine, Kim goes even deeper into one of its less realistic elements, the karma system, where things…

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China taunts Taiwan with claim that chip foundry TSMC could soon become ‘USSMC’ or the ‘United States Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’

In a heartwarming (ish) exposition of solidarity with democratic expression, China tabled concerns earlier today that the Taiwanese government could be preparing to give away its chip industry as a “souvenir” to the USA and that Taiwanese citizens were thus concerned that chip foundry TSMC could become “United States Semiconductor Manufacturing Co”. According to Reuters,…

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Deadlock gets a massive map overhaul that shrinks its map from four lanes to three: ‘This has a large range of accompanying map-wide changes’

It’s been almost a month since Deadlock‘s last notable update, with Valve recently reducing the frequency of changes to its third-person MOBA to ‘improve’ its design process. That adjustment has resulted in a much more substantial update this month, however, with Valve completely overhauling Deadlock’s map. In a Steam post, Valve described these extensive layout…

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