My Summer Car, the absurdly detailed Finnish life sim about vehicle maintenance and drinking in your underpants, smashes into 1.0 after nearly a decade in Steam early access

Oddball Finnish life-sim My Summer Car has officially launched out of early access, after nine years spent tinkering with its engine and getting drunk on the sofa. As noticed by RPS, My Summer Car surprise launched its 1.0 version earlier this week.  Originally lurching onto Steam early access in 2016, My Summer Car defined itself…

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The Junji Ito collection brings eight new outfits to Dead by Daylight, letting you dress up its killers as cannibalistic supermodels and nail-toothed children

Multiplayer slasher and insatiable licensing vortex Dead by Daylight has absorbed yet more horror icons into its all-consuming spiral, this time the creations of legendary manga artist Junji Ito. Earlier this week, developer Behaviour Interactive announced the launch of the Junji Ito Collection, which lets players dress as characters from several of Ito’s most notable…

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less ‘like a gas pedal’

Parkour has always been a distinguishing feature of Assassin’s Creed. Hooded figures leaping between rooftops and flinging themselves into conveniently placed haystacks is one of the series’ most consistent visual motifs. But as the games have evolved from historical action-adventures to quasi-RPGs, on-foot traversal has become increasingly sidelined in favour of more elaborate stealth and…

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World of Warcraft’s most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough

World of Warcraft‘s latest patch has delivered on its promise of a compact, polished piece of mid-expansion gameplay—and has done a good job of keeping players entertained until new versions of timewalking rewards and Plunderstorm’s battle royale sail in as early as Tuesday. Released in mid-December, Content Update 11.0.7 delivers a solid, iterative improvement on…

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Lords of the Fallen studio embraces the DEI bugbear, says it will not include ‘any social or political agendas’ in its games

Lords of the Fallen studio CI Games says it will not integrate “any social or political agendas” into its games because doing so, it claims, incurs a “high risk” of commercial failure. The statement was made during a recent investors chat (via Strefa Inwestorów), during which CI Games was asked about its “stance on DEI…

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are ‘pretending to be Republicans’ to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had some biting words on Friday for tech executives who are fawning over US president-elect Donald Trump, accusing them of playing nice to push anti-competitive policy to the detriment of the rest of us. “After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to…

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Square Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fans

Square Enix has announced a new “group customer harassment policy” aimed at protecting its employees and partners from harmful behavior and actions taken by its followers and fans. “Square Enix believes that the feedback, comments and requests received from our customers are essential to the advancement of our group’s products and services,” the new policy…

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