Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a French Persona, with an impressive combat system that I should love, but which I actually hate

Clair Obscur is not a JRPG, but developer Sandfall Interactive has certainly been taking its cue from some of the greats—Final Fantasy, for sure, but Persona even more so. This stylish, confident RPG, with its strikingly strange locations and flashy turn-based battles, really should be right up my alley, but after three hours of it…

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You might mock Microsoft’s new emoji button in Windows 11 but as someone that’s explained how to quickly access emojis and special characters too many times, I get it

PC Gamer’s staff recently had an intense debate about whether a solitary thumbs up emoji was passive aggressive or not. Turns out, we have roughly a 50/50 split, which means one in two thumbs up at PC Gamer is taken as an insult. This is the sort of modern day communication issue you can expect…

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Rockstar buys Video Games Deluxe, presumably to make future releases even more deluxe, and the GTA series has now sold over 440 million copies

Rockstar Games has announced the acquisition of Video Games Deluxe, a studio based in Sydney that it’s been working with for some time. The personal relationships involved go back even further: Video Games Deluxe was founded by Brendan McNamara, who led Team Bondi in the creation of LA Noire before allegations about poor working conditions…

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Space Marine 2 dev acknowledges its FOMO events are ‘a source of frustration and stress for everyone’, says it’ll fix things and isn’t trying to make ‘a full live service game’ by stealth

Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 made a bombastic first impression late last year, winning over 40k fans with its uncompromisingly chunky super soldiers and a linear campaign that got straight down to business. Since release the game has seen a regular cadence of minor updates, most recently the addition of a datavault in early February…

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