MediaMolecule Dreams Up a Special #25YearsOfPlay Celebration

Eagle-eyed streamer spots that Roberta Williams’ portrait in King’s Quest 4 is based on her author photo on the back of the game box: ‘I never noticed it before.’

Ever had that feeling that something’s been staring you in the face for years and you simply never realised? Like the fact that Simon Pegg is in Band of Brothers. Or the fact that Andrew Scott is also in Band of Brothers. In fact, I get this feeling pretty much every time I rewatch Band…

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Yakuza Kiwami 3 is where ‘The Kiwami line will come to an end,’ which might be for the best given how badly it’s been handled

Yakuza Kiwami 3 and its tie-in game, Dark Ties, release tomorrow, and that might be your lot, at least insofar as Kiwami games go. In a recent Japanese-language livestream spotted and translated by fans on Reddit (and verified by PCG’s crack international cadre), RGG studio boss Masayoshi Yokoyama declared that “I think Yakuza Kiwami 3…

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Valve comes out swinging against New York lawsuit with rare public statement: ‘The type of deal that would satisfy the NYAG would have been bad for users and other game developers’

Two weeks after the state of New York sued Valve for “letting children and adults illegally gamble,” Valve has fired back with a defense of its practices, saying it doesn’t believe the containers in its games constitute gambling under the state’s laws and expressing disappointment that the attorney general’s office would opt to pursue the…

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