Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th September)

Prince of Persia’s creator reacts to Ubisoft’s cancellation of The Sands of Time remake: ‘Having a project killed is a brutal experience’

Short of someone actually inventing a magical time-manipulating dagger, we now know that the long-awaited remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will never see the light of day. Developer and publisher Ubisoft revealed it killed the project, alleged to have been nearly complete, in the latter half of January, as part of…

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“The Unmistakable Stench Of Bullsh*t” – No, Golden Axe Doesn’t Feature Screams From Death Row Inmates

Did you fall for this one? Back in 2013, Twitter user VGFGamers posted with supreme confidence that “all of the voices in arcade hacking-and-slashing game Golden Axe were performed by American prisoners on death row.” Three years later on the same platform, vipgamesaus repeated the same claim almost word-for-word – and this has been reproduced…

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Pearl Abyss announces Crimson Desert has sold more than 2 million copies in less than 24 hours, promises to ‘work to make improvements quickly’

Crimson Desert’s launch hasn’t been met with universal acclaim, as frustrations with the hypermanic open world’s bizarre control scheme and design oversights like its bafflingly restrictive inventory system have earned an early “Mixed” rating on Steam. Those complaints, however, don’t seem to have slowed its launch day sales. Just over 16 hours after its Steam…

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Warner Bros. wants to transform franchises like Superman into ‘always on’ live-service style games—which is somehow different from what its been trying for years

Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav has set out the company’s plans for the future, and, surprise surprise, there’s yet more live service stuff on the horizon.  The company’s latest ambitions were revealed in an earnings call yesterday (thanks, Eurogamer). Zaslav states: “We recognize that we can do a better job of managing and maximizing the…

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