Steam keys for the unavailable disaster game The Day Before are being resold for up to $400, despite its servers' uncertain future

Steam keys for the unavailable disaster game The Day Before are being resold for up to $400, despite its servers’ uncertain future

The Day Before is 2023’s fastest-moving disaster—starting off as a top-wishlisted game on Steam after an alluring trailer, it only took four days after its (eventual) launch before the thing was taken down. Following that, the Discord server, YouTube, and even CEO‘s social media channels disappeared or were scrubbed. The developer’s response? “Shit happens.” (Image…

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5-star alert at Rockstar North’s Edinburgh HQ as emergency services respond to ‘structural damage’ caused by an exploding boiler

Seven Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) vehicles attended Rockstar North HQ in Edinburgh this morning, after an explosion rocked the building at around 5am local time. The fire crews spent around three hours securing the scene, with a cordon put in place around the building. No-one was injured during the incident. “We were alerted…

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A Review of Elland: The Crystal Wars

  While Dune as a franchise today seems fairly self-evident, historically the concept of sand worms and spice hasn’t lent itself well to adaptations. Such is the case with Elland: The Crystal Wars, a game that was cancelled at 95% completion, and is so obviously supposed to be a Dune video game that a few…

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Former Skyrim dev announces a vehicular free-running game where you launch a car through a claymation world using mouth-sound explosions, and that’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever had to fit into a headline

I had not realised that carkour—the theoretical act of performing parkour with a car—was something I wanted to exist until approximately 40 minutes ago, and now it has somersaulted to the summit of my own hierarchy of needs. Stuff all that nonsense about esteem and self-actualisation. I want to do backflips in a hot-rod. You…

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