Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 developer is trying to figure out who put the edgy Guitar Hero gag in the game it made, promises to remove it in the next update even though players want it to stay

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 developer is trying to figure out who put the edgy Guitar Hero gag in the game it made, promises to remove it in the next update even though players want it to stay

Iron Galaxy, the studio that made the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake, says it is investigating how an amusing, some might say slightly edgy, reference to Guitar Hero and developer Neversoft ended up in the game. It also committed to removing the image in question, even though players are now asking the…

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Guild Wars 2 review (2012)

Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Guild Wars 2 review – PC Gamer issue #245 (UK, November 2012) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and newly taken screenshots. By Chris Thursten (Image credit: ArenaNet) Players gather on the staircase leading down…

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EA pinky promises to ‘maintain creative control’ in its post-buyout era, but the list of ‘cultural values’ it plans to keep doesn’t mean much at all

The $55 billion buyout of EA—the largest leveraged buyout in private equity history—has plunged the future of the corporation into uncertainty. It’s gotta find some way to deal with the $20 billion of debt its buyers have lumbered it with, and some fear that its new owners—featuring Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment fund and Jared Kushner’s…

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Valve’s Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation

The Half-Life 3 speculation mill has been running hot over the last few months. G-Man’s voice actor Mike Shapiro rang in the new year by posting a video in which he refers to “unexpected surprises” in the staggering voice of Half-Life’s dimension-hopping villain. Before that, evidence that Valve was working on a “Project White Sands”…

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