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‘It runs awful. It looks awful’: Monster Hunter Wilds performance issues put a dampener on its record-breaking concurrents as it settles into an early Mixed rating on Steam

I’m now over 100 hours into Monster Hunter Wilds, yet between a respectable rig and a CPU upgrade a few hours into playing, I gotta say: The game runs kinda bum. That seems to be the most commonly shared sentiment among the game’s negative Steam reviews right now too, with the first few hours of…

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Dispatch being ‘basically a live-service game for a month’ did gangbusters, but leads say don’t expect to copy it and get the same result

It feels like everyone I know’s gone batty for Dispatch, AdHoc’s superhero management sim that picks up Telltale’s choose-your-own-adventure torch and runs with it to, so I hear, great success. A particular triumph? Its episodic release structure, which even won over our Fraser Brown—noted episode-sceptic—quite quickly. Indeed, the game’s executive producer Michael Choung said the…

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Nintendo is now the richest Japanese company in 2020

Financial analysis firm Risk Masters is reporting that Nintendo is now the richest Japanese company in 2020. The tragic ongoing coronavirus pandemic and subsequent worldwide lockdowns have seen video games companies and technology firms make incredible gains with consumers staying at home and looking for entertainment. Nintendo also released Animal Crossing: New Horizons at the…

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