Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box Has Been Rated For Switch

‘People like to hate EA, I don’t know why’: Split Fiction’s Josef Fares says he has a good relationship with his publisher, but ‘nobody believes’ him

EA doesn’t have the best reputation. Whether it’s being awarded with the title “worst company in America” multiple times, its role in the downfall of previously beloved developers like BioWare, its love of microtransactions, or continually heralding the demise of singleplayer games, it hasn’t earned much goodwill. Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares, whose team just…

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‘We encourage you to live with your choices, but if you want to change it, you can:’ Supermassive explains why it’s adding a flowchart to its narrative horror with Directive 8020

Space is the final frontier, and for Supermassive Games, it’s also a new one. With Directive 8020, the latest entry in The Dark Pictures anthology, the studio finally takes to the stars. But even as it grapples with a shape-shifting alien and the constant, imposing doom posed by the void of space, Supermassive is finding…

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Run-And-Gun Classic Contra Has Been Ported To SNES

“Take THAT, VRC2!”. ROM hacker @infidelity_nes has ported the Famicom version of Contra to the SNES. The talented hacker has already performed the same trick with Mega Man and Metroid. Read the full article on timeextension.com “Take THAT, VRC2!”. ROM hacker @infidelity_nes has ported the Famicom version of Contra to the SNES. The talented hacker…

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‘We begged for more information, more details … all flatly declined’: former Blizzard community development manager tears into Bobby Kotick over Overwatch 2’s Steam launch

Activision-Blizzard’s transfer over to the growing empire of Microsoft has been a bit of a drama, to say the least—but it’s all over now, its curtains called with the departure of the company’s former CEO Bobby Kotick, exiting stage right. Kotick has been a controversial figure in gaming, quickly building up a reputation as a…

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Share of the Week: Hitman 3

Last week, we asked you to move through the world as Agent 47 and share dramatic moments chasing targets in Hitman 3 using #PSshare #PSBlog. From moody portraits to witty disguises, here are this week’s highlights: Agent 47 peers out into the rain in this share by SuperMario_1990. Disguised as a detective, Agent 47 tries…

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Squadron 42 looks like it cost the millions it should have, but we’re not sold on it yet

Over a decade after announcing Star Citizen, mastermind Chris Roberts has finally declared that its Squadron 42 singleplayer campaign—just a piece of the bigger Star Citizen “persistent universe,” which has raised over $600 million in crowdfunding—is feature complete and entering the “polish” phase. No release date has been announced, and polishing may take “some time,”…

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