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Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic confirms layoffs: ‘The landscape is shifting, and with it, so must we’

Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games has laid off an undisclosed number of employees, confirming reports of cuts shared by former employees on social media over the past week. “We’ve all seen in recent years how the games industry has been changing, resulting in studio and studio finding themselves in situations where to continue to exist, they…

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Arc Raiders’ latest mini update fixes a bunch of ratty exploits, including the zipline that set players free in Stella Montis, as Embark announces it’s stepping back from weekly fixes

Embark has given us one last Arc Raiders gift before the holiday season properly kicks off, and it’s barring us from getting to forbidden spots on the map; booo. I joke (kind of), this small update dishes out some fixes for maps like Stella Montis and Blue Gate, as well as notifying us of some…

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Here’s a game where you’re an underpaid astronaut salvaging space trash and building an orbital factory from it

A third-person, open world survival craft-em-up about underpaid space workers will release this week in Space Trash Scavenger. It’s an interesting looking one, with the conceit that it’s a world where every little planetoid and asteroid has its own little sphere of gravity, including your own self-directed and constructed mobile scavenging platform. The same kind…

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‘We have a new major number purely because I’m easily confused and not good with big numbers’ says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0

I’ve never been particularly number-inclined, and apparently I’m in good company, as Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has a similar issue. In a post announcing Linux 7.0 rc1, Torvalds is quick to point out that the major number release version doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the most exciting version of the Linux kernel yet. “We have…

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PlayStation Blogcast 346: Wish Granted

Email us at blogcast@sony.com! Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Google or RSS, or download here Hello, dear listener! Listen in to this week’s Blogcast for first impressions of Concrete Genie, a peek at next week’s new releases, and a spirited discussion about who would be on a hypothetical physical PlayStation currency. Enjoy the show! Stuff We…

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