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The ill-starred Perfect Dark reboot had ‘entire chapters’ completed before cancellation, says Joanna Dark’s voice actor, who ‘did not see it coming… it was devastating’

One of 2025’s grimmer themes seems to be a perennial one for the games industry: mass layoffs. One of the very worst examples came in July, when Microsoft laid off around 9,000 people in total, alongside shuttering several studios and in-development projects, perhaps most notably the Perfect Dark reboot being co-developed by The Initiative and…

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This Portable PlayStation Uses Real PS1 Hardware

PS1 motherboard was “cut in half, folded like a book”. Only last week, we reported on a portable PS1 that was built into a Japan-only controller. This is an impressive achievement, but it’s one that was built around emulation and not original hardware. For all of the PS1 purists out there, we advise you to…

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam: ‘It’s not a Bloodlines game’

A decade after Bloodlines 2 was pitched to then-new Vampire: The Masquerade owner Paradox Interactive, we’re finally able to sink our fangs into the undead sequel. Unfortunately absence has not made the heart grow fonder, and it’s currently sitting at Mixed reviews on Steam. The consensus among the user reviews, even the positive ones, is…

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According to David Fincher’s new Xbox ad with an extremely late ’90s/early 2000s vibe, you can escape capitalism by buying Xbox games

David Fincher was a music video director with clips like Madonna’s Vogue to his name before he became a feature film director in the 1990s, responsible for movies like Seven, Fight Club, and The Social Network. His new commercial for Xbox and Samsung called Wake Up, co-directed with Romain Chassaing, will probably end up somewhere…

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PS Plus: Free Games for April 2015

Brace yourselves, people! We have another great lineup of games coming to PlayStation Plus this month. With shooters, puzzle games, platformers, and more, we have a little something for everyone this April. To start things off, allow us to present Tower of Guns on PS4 and PS3. It’s about a tower filled with guns. And…

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