Japan: Famitsu review scores: Issue 1649

Japan: Famitsu review scores: Issue 1649

It is Wednesday which means that the latest edition of Japanese gaming publication Famitsu is now with subscribers. This issue contains a number of reviews including Ghost of Tsushima for PlayStation 4 and the free-to-play Ninjala for the Nintendo Switch. Here’s the full list of scores: Gesshizu: Mori no Chiisana Nakama-tachi (Switch) – 7/7/8/8 [30/40]…

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‘I was recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale’: Inzoi director admits he now sees ‘why so few companies have attempted to develop a life simulation game’

Inzoi director Hyungjun ‘Kjun’ Kim has not been quiet about how difficult developing a life sim has been. He’s repeatedly lavished praise on The Sims for seemingly achieving the impossible for the last 20 years, and called developing Inzoi “an entirely new frontier and a significant challenge” despite having over two decades of game development…

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Extended Play Sale: Huge Deals Through 5/25

Hi everyone! We’re EXTRA pleased to announce this week’s Extended Play Sale, featuring deals on extra content for games you love. That includes season passes for games like Far Cry 4 and Alien: Isolation, as well as deluxe editions (Game + Season Pass) of Battlefield Hardline and Evolve – just to name a few. Not…

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Eugh: Discord is scanning users’ faces and IDs in Australia and the UK to ‘experiment’ with age verification features

Some Discord users are now being asked to scan their faces or IDs to verify their age group when they attempt to view sensitive content. While some might call this a chilling advancement of the global surveillance apparatus, Discord says these new “features” are “an experiment” that only applies to users in the United Kingdom…

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League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

MOBAs are interesting videogames—imagine, if you will, a slot machine. Then imagine that slot machine takes forty minutes to do one pull of the arm, and also it’s yelling colourful and exciting swearwords at you in a language you don’t understand the entire time. That’s sort of what playing a MOBA with public voice chat…

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