Watch a tough-guy mouse blast the heads off dirty rats in the first gameplay trailer for Mouse, the shooter that adds a Tommy gun to a 1930s Mickey Mouse cartoon

We got our first look at Mouse back in May, and it was immediately intriguing: How could you not be at least a little curious about an M-rated FPS with a visual style clipped straight out of 1930s Disney animations? It was very barebones at the time, just some concept art and early animation clips,…

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Here’s what it’s actually like to play The Day Before, the zombie survival game whose developer folded days after it launched

The Day Before was one of the most-wishlisted games on Steam before it came out in early access last week. Players flooded into the servers—over 38,000 were playing concurrently at its peak—but very quickly began flowing out, either because they were unable to connect to the servers, which featured no login queues, struggled with crashes…

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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review

Need to know What is it? A Far Cry-like set in the world of James Cameron’s Avatar Release date December 6, 2023 Expect to pay $60/£50 Developer Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Düsseldorf Publisher Ubisoft Reviewed on Radeon RX 6600, Ryzen 7 7700x, 32GB DDR5 RAM Steam Deck TBA Link Official site Avatar: Frontiers of…

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Epic trumpets surprise victory in its lawsuit against Google: ‘A win for all app developers and consumers around the world’

The long-running lawsuit between Epic and Google has taken a surprising turn because, well, Epic seems to have won. After a brief deliberation, a jury has decided that Google has in fact engaged in anti-competitive behavior in order to establish a monopoly on Android app distribution and billing services. The full verdict, available via CourtListener,…

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D&D and Magic: The Gathering owner Hasbro announces the layoffs of 1,100 employees, calls it a ‘lever we must pull to keep Hasbro healthy’

Hasbro, the toy company which oversees D&D and Magic: The Gathering (under Wizards of the Coast), has announced sweeping layoffs just two weeks before the holiday season. The decision was announced yesterday in an internal memo by CEO Chris Cocks, who wrote: “While we have made some important progress across our organisation, the headwinds we…

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House Flipper 2 review

Need to know What is it? A casual building sim about restoring houses and selling them for profit. Expect to pay $40/£35 Release date Dec 14, 2023 Developer Frozen District, Empyrean Publisher Frozen District, PlayWay S.A. Reviewed on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060 Steam Deck TBD Link Official site You can see…

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