Inkle reveals a surprise collaboration with Google in The Forever Labyrinth, ‘an art-filled quest through time and space’

Inkle, the developer of highly-regarded narrative-focused games including 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault, and A Highland Song, has unveiled a new game developed in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture: A free, browser-based “art-filled quest through time and space” called The Forever Labyrinth. “The Forever Labyrinth is a highly-replayable run-based narrative adventure, with lots of characters…

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Devolver Digital’s new CEO is its old CEO

Devolver Digital has a new boss: A trading update (via Game Developer) reveals that Douglas Morin has stepped down as CEO of the company, and will be replaced by Devolver co-founder and executive chairman Harry Miller. Morin, who took on the role of CEO in 2021, “played a vital role in Devolver’s IPO,” Devolver said…

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Gary Bowser, charged with paying Nintendo a sum he’ll never be able to afford, talks about his life after prison: ‘The sentence was like a message to other people’

Canadian programmer Gary Bowser was charged with severe fines and jail time after a Nintendo lawsuit accused him of “conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and to traffic in circumvention devices”—piracy, to unspool the legal speech—in 2020. Bowser was a member of Team-Xecuter, a group of hackers who had facilitated the use of various ROMs (read…

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Fake Palworld mobile apps could lead to data leaks or fraud, Pocketpair warns: ‘There is no Palworld application for phones’

The Pokémon-with-guns-and-forced-labor survival game Palworld looks like the sort of thing that would be very enjoyable on a mobile device: On your morning commute, during a walk in the park, or maybe just sitting outside in your garden, if you happen to live someplace that isn’t currently drenched in snow and cold.  Alas, it is…

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Palworld has now sold a staggering 19 million copies, an unstoppable rise that means it’s got a bigger population than the Netherlands

It’s official: Palworld has a bigger population than 127 literal countries, including Senegal, Somalia, the Netherlands, and Chad. That’s according to Pocketpair’s sales statistics and this Wikipedia list of countries by population, anyway, with the news that Palworld has now sold a soul-boggling 19 million copies around the world. That’s 12 million on Steam and…

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The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one’s sure where the bosses are

A new documentary from German games sites Game Two and GameStar has shed some more light on the disastrous development of The Day Before, and boy howdy, it’s worse than you thought. Game Two says it spoke to 16 former Fntastic employees, one of its former “volunteers,” and seven staff from The Day Before’s publisher…

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Penny’s Big Breakaway makes me wish I’d spent more time playing platformers before Penny’s Big Breakaway

Despite passing through an intense Sonic the Hedgehog phase when I was around nine years old, I wouldn’t say I gotta go particularly fast. Over the ensuing two decades I’ve rarely sought out the classic pastime of accelerating a cartoon mascot to inhumane speeds. I’ve been content leaving platforming to speedrunners, kaizo enthusiasts—really, anyone who…

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