Niantic is delaying the end of Pokemon GO support for 32-bit Android devices to “investigate player concerns”

UK games collector raided by police after purchasing £10,000 worth of hardware, including old dev kits, disposed of by Sega

Preserving videogame history is no easy feat. Besides the ephemeral nature of digital downloads these days, a significant obstacle over the decades has been the interests of corporate entities as they seek to protect their intellectual property. For example, a London-based collector was raided by the police last year after he purchased dev kits reportedly…

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What’s in your FPS rotation?

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. I can’t think of a time when I was solely obsessed with a singular…

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With its new game, Hello Games is literally promising the world. Is the developer of No Man’s Sky about to make the same disastrous mistakes all over again?

It was exactly 10 years ago that Hello Games first announced the project that catapulted it to enormous mainstream attention: No Man’s Sky. To call the following decade turbulent for the studio would be something of an understatement.  For years, it got to ride the highs of working on one of the most hotly anticipated…

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Eric Barone’s been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk’s ‘tech tree’ idea isn’t awful: ‘What if someone did a Balatro treatment… a chess roguelike?’

PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon recently sat down with Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone to discuss everything from Jojamart to his next game, Haunted Chocolatier. One question was what Barone himself is playing, and the man is as old school as it comes. “Well recently I’ve been playing chess which is a great game,” says Barone….

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Bloodlines 2 studio The Chinese Room has bought its own independence, but also laid off employees for the second time in two months

As reported by Game Developer, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has bought its own independence from former owner Sumo Digital, but laid off an undisclosed number of employees in the process, bringing its total headcount to 55⁠. The management buyout was done with the help of venture capital funding, and…

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