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Blood Bowl’s videogame rights have been acquired by Slitherine and at this point I’ll take any change as a good sign

Slitherine, the publisher of the Panzer Corps series as well Warhammer 40,000 games like Battlesector and Gladius, has picked up the rights to publish the Blood Bowl series of fantasy sports parodies. The publishing rights used to belong to Nacon, who filed for insolvency back in February. That resulted in the death of Greedfall developer…

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‘They refuse to offer a meaningful alternative’: Game preservation leader agrees that piracy is the only preservation option for a discless future

Sony drove another nail into the coffin of physical videogames today, announcing that it’d cease production of PS5 discs in 2028. The future of the leading videogame console is total digital licensing, and according to the director of the Video Game History Foundation, that means the future of preservation, for the moment, must be piracy….

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Windrose might get wind

As a survival game, Windrose is an extremely forgiving one. Your weapons and gear never degrade. If your pirate ship sinks you can rebuild it with a mere 20 pieces of wood. You can’t die of hunger or thirst, and your NPC pirate crew, well… they can’t die at all. It’s such a streamlined survival…

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‘There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you’: The best city builder of 2023 is getting a survival game set in the same world

Ever play a game set in a world so intriguing and enjoyable you wish there were other games, even of a different genre, that took place in the same setting? Eremite Games, the studio that created roguelike city builder Against the Storm, has announced just that. “There’s something we’ve been dying to tell you,” the…

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