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Steam review bombs can be harmful, says Mecha Break dev, but it had a positive takeaway after Chinese players hammered the beta: ‘We underestimated players’ passion to get into our game’

Mecha Break hit some turbulence when its open beta period started earlier this year. The mecha battler’s online beta dropped in late February and thousands of Chinese players couldn’t access the game due to server issues. Their response was a Steam review bomb. Hundreds of reviews trashed developer Amazing Seasun for not being more prepared…

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GameStop announces plans to sell off French and Canadian outlets, while its CEO yells about ‘Wokeness and DEI’ in bizarre, self-defeating promotion

Video game retailer GameStop has announced plans to “pursue a sale” of its operations in France and Canada, in the latest setback for the company’s international business. According to a brief press release posted to the GameStop website (via the Toronto Star) the move comes in the wake of an “evaluation of its international assets”….

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Phantom Blade Zero finally shows off its interconnected game world, with exploration ‘guided by 8 authentic hand-painted Chinese ink wash maps’

In a PlayStation State of Play video today, Phantom Blade Zero developer S-Game has finally shown off glimpses of a game world it’s largely kept secret up to this point, with eight individual maps that “seamlessly connect into a single world.” In my demos of the game over the last year and a half, S-Game…

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