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What we've been playing - "The dev team all moved to Hawaii to make this one, and you can tell"
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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What we've been playing - "Gosh I had a really fun 30 minutes with Marvel Tokon before PSN went down"
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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The big Final Fantasy 7 Revelation interview
Director Naoki Hamaguchi on iterating Rebirth's "perfect" combat, avoiding "stale" RPG systems, and rethinking fast travel for the sake of player agency.
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Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden wants to save games by bringing back double-A - and he has a plan
"We keep making more of the same thing; bad habits are hard to stop."
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Blizzard's calling time on Overwatch's hero customising Stadium mode, and I may well be the only person that's sad about that
Be still my aching Reinhardt.
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What does the next 10 years hold for Pokémon Go? More mechanics, better gyms, and "multi-generational play"
"We've been thinking about the next 10 years of Pokémon Go for the past several years."
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007 First Light's secret best character was a perfect way for IO Interactive to celebrate British writing and "restrained emotion"
"Not necessarily the stiff upper lip."
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Now Playing | Forbidden Solitaire is a wonderful reminder games are powerful cultural artefacts that demand to be preserved
Ban this sick filth!
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Now Playing | Netflix's games strategy might be a mess, but Oxenfree studio's ingenious new chiller-thriller shows it has a secret weapon
Call me.
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What we've been playing - "He takes great joy out of my suffering"
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 needs its own version of Black Ops 7's Classic mode or it risks sidelining its oldest and most loyal fans
You gotta be skiddin' me.
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Dragon's Dogma 2 devs on the big fast travel U-turn, and wanting to "win back the trust" of RPG fans with the Dark Arisen DLC
Putting the cart before discourse.
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As Criterion rebrands on its 30th anniversary, are its beloved racing franchises like Burnout falling away in the rearview mirror?
"Battlefield is our focus right now."
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What we've been playing - "I can't sit and do nothing other than melt into my sofa"
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
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Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both
"I don't want to sound like a Sony fanboy but after 32 years, forgive me."
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"A hammer blow for games retail" - Experts weigh in on PlayStation's discless future, and the impact it will have on traditional game stores
"A code-in-box has none of the things that made physical worth choosing."
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"How much innovation can the end-user handle?" - Shawn Layden explains why he said Sony should have made PlayStation Portable 2 rather than PS Vita
"How much change is enough?"
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"This is all about control" - industry experts speak on Sony's move away from discs, and what this means for the PlayStation 6 and the cost of games
"Sony will be looking for all the ways it can reduce the cost of its next-gen console, and this is an easy win."
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Wishlisted | Bibidi Bibidi! is a wizardly card battler with real magic in its veins
Add it to your whist list.
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What we've been playing - "As a result, I lost all my best clothes and my Switch 2"
A few of the things that have us hooked this week.