Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes 'some pretty big changes' to the game's enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam
September 28, 2026
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Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes ‘some pretty big changes’ to the game’s enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam

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Hyper Light Breaker, Heart Machine’s 3D follow-up to moody action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter, smashed into Steam early access earlier this month. But the initial response to it has been less than stellar, with players complaining about specific issues like frame rate drops, lack of keybinding, and problems with the parry system, while generally being divided…

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Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Patrick Hickey, Jr.

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Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Patrick Hickey, Jr. who is displayed on card number 3258, from the Superstars of 2019 Collection. Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage…

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Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs at Activision Blizzard and Xbox, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra leaves the company, and the studio’s survival game has been cancelled

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As if 2023’s historic volume of gaming layoffs wasn’t enough, 2024 is starting in the exact same vein—studios including CI Games, Behaviour Interactive, and Riot Games have all let people go in January, and now it’s Microsoft’s turn. A message from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer to employees (via The Verge) says 1,900 employees are…

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Even after ZA/UM’s messy breakup, the writing team still has a cadre of sad communists—but you won’t have to play Zero Parades as one if you don’t want to

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Disco Elysium is, and you know I mean this as a compliment, perhaps the most commie goddamn game I’ve ever played. The melancholy Marxism comes off it in waves, and no wonder: so many of its now-departed writers were some flavour of radical, with lead writer Robert Kurvitz describing aspects of the game’s story as…

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The director of all six Sharknado movies has a new film, and it’s a Dave the Diver live-action short

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I’ve got some exciting news for fans of Sharknado, Sharknado 2: The Second One, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, and The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time. Anthony C. Ferrante, the director of all six Sharknado movies (and the upcoming Sharknado prequel, Sharknado Origins, coming soon to probably-not-a-theater)…

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The Video Game Life – by Chris Tang

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Living in Hawaii was a blessing in many gaming ways – the Asian influence there provided Japanese bookstores with import game magazines and school friends who had software from Hong Kong and Japan. However, gaming retail in Hawaii was unlike the rest of the USA, as national big box stores such as Wal-Mart and Target…

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You can tour the entirety of Silent Hill 2 in Roblox now, but the creator recommends playing the real thing first: ‘This is not the best way to experience Silent Hill 2’

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My sincerest apologies to all the Silent Hill 2 fans out there, but the closest I’ve ever gotten to playing it was today via Roblox. Creator Shapic2 has ported every inch of the classic horror game’s levels into Roblox and you can explore them with other block people for as long as you’d like. There…

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