Gaming collectible purveyor iam8bit is suing publisher Skybound over alleged fraud related to cat sim Stray

As reported by Engadget, videogame merch and physical edition company iam8bit is suing Skybound Game Studios over alleged fraud and breach of contract in their multi-year partnership, particularly relating to their joint work on distributing Stray, the 2022 3D platformer where you play as a cat exploring a cyberpunk city. Notably, Stray’s developer, BlueTwelve, and…

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The creator of popular animated short The Backwater Gospel is making an FPS inspired by ‘Half-Life and the golden age of narrative first person shooters’

Animator Bo Mathorne, creator of the 2011 animated short, Backwater Gospel, has revealed a new game project alongside developer Thomas Mygind: Skarven, a crunchy, lo-fi (but not too lo-fi) FPS inspired by narrative-heavy late ’90s/early aughts shooters like Half-Life. Skarven’s first trailer is all mood and light on action. The player approaches a lonely country…

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Cool Shirtz had one goal and one goal only when it came to creating the Minecraft collaboration: To design clothes people can wear ‘not just to represent the game, but to become it’

In the time it took to write and publish last week’s Character Select about the Very Cool x Minecraft collaboration, almost the entire thing sold out. Fewer than 10 pieces are currently listed on the website, and an even smaller number of each size, if any at all. So while I wait for my precious…

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Cool Shirtz had one goal and one goal only when it came to creating the Minecraft collaboration: To design clothes people can wear ‘not just to represent the game, but to become it’

In the time it took to write and publish last week’s Character Select about the Very Cool x Minecraft collaboration, almost the entire thing sold out. Fewer than 10 pieces are currently listed on the website, and an even smaller number of each size, if any at all. So while I wait for my precious…

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Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it’s a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long

As someone who’s spent an excessive amount of time micromanaging entire civilizations, the industrious little rodents of Whiskerwood have to be the cutest critters I’ve ever lorded over. The adorable cat-and-mouse city builder puts you in charge of a fledgling mouse colony filled with hardworking, skilled laborers who don’t seem to know they’re the only…

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Wreckreation developer puts its entire staff on notice as publisher THQ Nordic abandons it: ‘We simply cannot sustain the studio in its current form’

Three Fields Entertainment, developers of Dangerous Golf, Danger Zone, and most recently the Burnout-meets-Trackmania mashup Wreckreation, has announced that it has put its entire staff on notice of redundancy, as the studio explained it “will not see revenue from game sales for the foreseeable future.” In a statement posted to X, Three Fields’ CEO Fiona…

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Descenders Next gets a big multiplayer update as its developer apologises for taking so long with it: ‘We’re slowly working on getting the feel and flow of Descenders back into Descenders Next’

Extreme sports sim Descenders Next looked primed to be an impressive follow-up to Ragesquid’s 2019 hit, taking the fundamentals which made Descenders’ downhill biking such a thrill and applying them to snowboarding and mountain-boarding. PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott took it for a spin last year and came away delighted, stating the sequel” adopts all of…

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