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‘It’s the end of an era’: Four years after saying the studio would keep its ‘identity,’ CD Projekt has fully absorbed The Molasses Flood, but it’s still working on The Witcher spinoff Project Sirius

Less than four years after being acquired by CD Projekt, The Molasses Flood is no more—at least as a “separate legal entity.” A message posted on the studio’s website (via Eurogamer) says that as of April 1, The Molasses Flood has been fully merged with CD Projekt Red. “As a result of the merger TMF,…

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How to heal and revive your teammates in REPO

If you’ve played any amount of REPO, you’ll want to know how to heal and how to revive your teammates. Given the amount of monsters that will inevitably swarm you during a run, keeping your health up and your teammates together is essential for that all-important valuable haul. There are bound to be some sacrifices…

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TSMC might have to fork over $1 billion to the US for allegedly breaking export rules after one of its chips was found in a Huawei processor

TSMC, the world’s biggest chip maker, could potentially be on the hook for $1 billion or more according to Reuters which cites “two people familiar with the matter… who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.” And although $1 billion isn’t make-or-break for TSMC, it’s hardly chump change, either….

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‘I’m still loving this game after 50 hours’: Lethal Company solo dev has been inspired by REPO to carry on work, ‘My energy level is suddenly very high’

Work on Lethal Company has slowed down a bit; it’s been four months since the last update. This is mostly due to the developer, Zeekerss, focus shifting to a new game and a creativity block. But it seems that playing the new popular co-op horror game REPO has helped them gain some inspiration. “I’m accepting…

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‘We are so back’: After a month of spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players

A month ago, The Bazaar launched in open beta. It was a disaster, alienating a faithful community that had been building up steam throughout the game’s closed beta period. It wasn’t just that players saw the new autobattler’s free-to-play monetisation as extreme, drawing pay-to-win accusations, but that the game’s creator—former professional Hearthstone player and streamer…

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Balatro scoops a BAFTA and Jimbo weirds it up on-stage: ‘LocalThunk is really rich now… he has shoes made of gold and he thanks you for making him that way’

Last night’s BAFTA Gaming Awards saw a range of gongs awarded to some of 2024’s standout titles, with the big winners being Team Asobi’s Astro Bot (best game) and The Chinese Room’s Still Wakes the Deep with three awards. Coming in hot for best debut, however, was our boy Balatro: PCG’s 2024 Game of the…

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New two-way brain-computer interface has returned motion AND sensation to a paralysed test patient: ‘Right now, we just know the results are significant and leading to functional and meaningful outcomes’

They keep trying to make neural interfaces happen, and I’m sceptical about 90% of the venture; as far as big tech is concerned, there’s a ‘closed’ sign on my grey matter, thanks. Still, the other 10% of brain-computer interface projects present genuine medical advancements worth getting excited about. A team of researchers at Feinstein Institutes…

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