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I’m glad the Lunar Remastered Collection scrubs the Austin Powers references, but I wish it went further in overhauling its wacky ’90s localisation

There is something about the Lunar series—a classic JRPG duology by Game Arts, first released for Sega CD—that makes them an endless wellspring of nostalgia. Despite being archetypical fantasy adventures (or perhaps because of it), many ‘90s kids have been looking forward to the Lunar Remastered Collection, which landed on Steam and consoles this week….

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Devolver’s financials show Cult of the Lamb is its best seller, earning more than $90 million with DLC a significant factor: ‘Gamers are spending more time on known IPs’

Over on Bluesky, industry analyst mauronl shared some info from Devolver Digital’s 2024 wrap-up for investors, including lifetime revenue figures for 10 of its games. Sitting at number one, with over $US90 million earned, is the folk-horror Happy Tree Friends dungeon-crawler Cult of the Lamb. Number two, with over $US80 million in lifetime revenue, is…

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Once promising developer Tequila Works is auctioning off the rights to its games, including 4 still in development

Last year, Spanish game studio Tequila Works announced it was insolvent, and closing, even after prior staff cuts and the cancellation of an unannounced project. This month a page appeared on the European auction site Escrapalia that lists the various intangible assets of Tequila Works—its videogame IPs, in-development titles, and the studio’s brand. The high…

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You don’t see the Havok logo much anymore, but the legendary physics middleware used in Half-Life 2 never went away—just the splash screens

Say the name “Havok,” and I instantly picture the yellow sawblade in the company’s logo. For PC gamers of the 2000s, that logo was a promise: Wonderful things await. But do younger PC gamers know what the name signifies? And do the rest know that the Irish middleware company, made famous through its use in…

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Scientists claim they’ve seen a ‘jaw-dropping’ new color, but you can only experience it by shooting lasers directly into your eyes

By very precisely shooting lasers directly into the eye (do no try this at home), researchers claim it’s possible to experience a color never previously experienced. The five people who have seen the color, which the team calls “olo,” say that it’s a blue-green hue, but more saturated than any blue-green ever seen before. As…

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Don’t worry, the fan-favorite Baldur’s Gate 3 bug that turns character portraits into moody glamor shots wasn’t fixed in the final patch

Fret not, Baldur’s Gate 3 fans, because your favorite bug is still in the game even after Larian’s “final” big patch. That’s right: The thing where your character portraits can render misaligned, or with the wrong background, or shirtless, is still around and still really funny. Not long after the patch released one fan that…

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