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Happy Holidays from 1886

Our last showing at PlayStation Experience was amazing, and a great opportunity to meet some of you. First and foremost, we wanted to thank you for all your support. It’s only a couple of months until the launch of our game and we’re really looking forward to having everyone play The Order: 1886. Tis the…

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Multi-billionaire Gabe Newell says the whole startup culture of pitching VCs makes no business sense: ‘A great way of destroying money and wasting peoples’ time’

Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation and the driving force behind much of the company’s unique philosophy, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev, a channel that’s more business-focused than games but, hey, this is Gaben. The full interview is yet to surface but a few shorts from the conversation have been released,…

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It’s downright nuts how good this fan remake of Fallout 1 in Doom looks, and I’m begging Bethesda to take note

Of the many things that keep me awake at night—tinnitus, climate collapse, the fourth coffee of the day, man’s inhumanity to man—none is more pressing than the continued and inexplicable absence of Beamdog-style Enhanced Editions for Fallout 1 and 2. I don’t ask for much: just versions of the classics that run out-of-the-box at modern…

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Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida told Clair Obscur devs to not call it a ‘turn-based RPG’ so people wouldn’t ‘overlook’ it

According to former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida, turn-based RPGs, particularly JRPGs, were so unpopular several years ago that he would tell indie developers to avoid using the term altogether in their marketing—even for a game like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Yoshida recalled giving the Clair Obscur developers this advice during a lecture at the Busan…

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A treehouse bundle in WoW costs a whopping $75, and while I know exactly who Blizzard’s made it for, that doesn’t mean I feel good about it

World of Warcraft’s player housing feature is great—the microtransactions involved? Not so much. To be clear: There’s a huge list of decor you can get in the game without paying anything other than your usual subscription, and the system has enough freedom that you can absolutely build your own treehouse, if you wanted. But it…

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