The Blood Bowl update, using the tabletop game’s latest rules, will be a separate game called Warhammer Blood Bowl ‘free for all players who already own Blood Bowl 3’

Last year Games Workshop announced there would be a new edition of Blood Bowl, the tabletop game of frenzied fantasy football ferocity. Cyanide Studio’s digital adaptation, Blood Bowl 3, is getting updated too. Only instead of a patch, it’s a whole new ball game. “This new adaptation will be free for all players who already…

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Dispatch doesn’t let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because ‘less than 1%’ of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games

Aaron Paul’s performance as Dispatch’s Robert “Mecha Man” Robertson III could hit a lot of notes. Robert could be sarcastic and cynical, but surprisingly compassionate; his story offers romance and chances for heroism. But what Dispatch developer AdHoc didn’t offer was any opportunities to derail conversations by deliberately choosing to stay silent, something players could…

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Valve says New York Attorney General’s violent videogame fearmongering is ‘a distraction and a mischaracterization we’ve all heard before’

One of the really interesting things that leapt out at me about Valve’s response to New York’s lawsuit against it wasn’t really about the lawsuit at all, but about comments made by the state about the negative impact of violent videogames—the sort of thing that sounds like it was ripped straight from the headlines of…

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Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: ‘The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers’

Two weeks after the state of New York sued Valve for “letting children and adults illegally gamble,” Valve has fired back with a defense of its practices, saying it doesn’t believe the containers in its games constitute gambling under the state’s laws and expressing disappointment that the attorney general’s office would opt to pursue the…

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