Nine-year-old cult visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has been abruptly pulled from Android for its ‘depiction of sensitive themes’

Google has removed Doki Doki Literature Club from its Google Play Store due to perceived violations of its Terms of Service. The cult visual novel surprise-released on the storefront in December following its initial PC release in 2017. It’s since been ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and iOS. Doki Doki Literature Club was a phenomenon…

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20 years after Kojima announced a Metal Gear Solid movie was happening, Sony announces a Metal Gear Solid movie is happening

Just because a deal is reached to get a movie made doesn’t mean it’ll actually get made. We’ve seen it happen a bunch of times with videogame adaptations, like Just Cause, which was announced in 2011 and Splinter Cell, which was in development way back in 2005. Neither film ever materialized. Enter Metal Gear Solid….

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Rust 2 Steam page appears, Facepunch immediately starts messing with fans about whether it’s legit: ‘Now you’re all questioning yourselves, is this real? Maybe?’

Rust went into full release on Steam eight years ago, but its early access debut goes back to 2013—13 whole years ago. In videogame terms, that means it should’ve had at least three sequels by now, but so far? Nothing. Is that about to change? I have no idea, but an all-caps post on Reddit…

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Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse developers are trying really, really hard to make sure you know it’s a metroidvania without using the word ‘metroidvania’

Despite the first trailer for Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse looking very much like a classic exploration-focused platformer, the involvement of Dead Cells developer Evil Empire had some folks going into a “Oh god, I hope it’s not a roguelike” panic. Konami tried to assuage those fears with the label “2D exploration action game,” which only highlighted…

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