Author: Garry Smith

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The head of Amazon Game Studios, Mike Frazzini, has stepped down.As reported by Bloomberg, Frazzini reportedly told his team on Friday that he was leaving to “focus on his family”, although Frazzini himself has yet to issue a personal statement on the decision. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

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Humble Bundle has raised over £15 million ($20m) for humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine.”Our all-for-charity Stand With Ukraine bundle has ended,” the organisation tweeted yesterday, when the bundle was removed from sale as scheduled. “Together, we’ve raised over $20 million for humanitarian relief efforts in #Ukraine! Thank you all for your support!!!”Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

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Valve’s springtime Next Fest is barely over, but already it’s turning to the summer edition of Next Fest, which will take place from 13th-20th June 2022.”Mark your calendars for the June 2022 edition of Steam’s multi-day celebration of upcoming games!” Valve said. “From 13th – 20th June, players get to try out free demos from all sorts of upcoming games on Steam, giving developers a chance to start building an audience and gather early feedback.”Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to…

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Konami’s new PvP multiplayer mystery game, Crimesight, will release on 14th April 2022.”Crimesight pits players against one another as one assumes the role of the ‘villain’, who carries out a murder, and another becomes the ‘target’, the villain’s future victim,” Konami explains. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

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It was a pair of nail clippers that got me. In a game about seeing a person’s life through unpacked items, there’s so much that can strike you. Those clippers came out of a box in the bathroom, and I chucked them in a junk drawer alongside some perfume, a shaving razor, and a couple of hairbrushes.What surprised me was just how clear the clippers looked – how clear everything looked. It’s vital to the game that this bundle of pixels needs to be recognisable as nail clippers at a single glance. The way the pixel art stays out of…

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There are ambitious mods, and then there are ambitious mods like Skyblivion, which, since the project’s inception in 2012, has been steadily working toward remaking the entirety of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion using Skyrim’s engine – and mod team TESRenewal has now shared a fresh look at its progress as part of a new video development diary.The Skyblivion team has been steadily documenting its progress on YouTube since 2013 – hosting everything from livestreams of asset creation to developer interviews – but, as the project nudges ever-closer to completion, it’s embarked on a series of development diaries, showcasing different…

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When I think back on my time with plucky cyberpunk beat-em-up Anno: Mutationem, the first thing I think of is that I wish they’d included a pronunciation guide for that mouthful of a faux Latin title. But the second thing that comes to mind is attitude. From the colorful, retro chic art style to the endearing, ass-kicking protagonist, this is a world with a strong sense of identity that knows from the first minute how it wants to make you feel – even though the story told there sometimes seems a bit more lost.The streets of futuristic Skopp City are…

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer wants to assure developers that game sales still remain an important factor, even with its Xbox Game Pass subscription continuing to dominate. Speaking with fellow Xbox exec Sarah Bond during a GDC Fireside Chat, Spencer said: “I often get asked by developers ‘if I’m not in the subscription am I just not viable on Xbox anymore?’. It’s absolutely not true. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

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75 percent mechanical keyboards are a popular emerging category, offering nearly as many keys as a tenkeyless (no numpad) keyboard in a much more compact footprint. If you prefer a smaller keyboard, for ergonomics, portability or just aesthetics, but you can’t live without the arrow keys and Function row that’s necessarily excised on even the best 60 percent and 65 percent size keyboards, then 75 percent could be just right. In this article, we’ll share our absolute favourite 75 percent mechanical keyboards. After hundreds of hours of research, building and testing, we’ve narrowed down dozens of the best mechanical keyboards…

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It’s the crossover I didn’t know I needed, but now it is all I can think of. Yes, Bloodborne Kart is actually going to be a thing, so colour me excited.Bloodborne Kart is coming from game dev Lilith Walther, the brains behind the PS1 inspired Bloodborne demake (check out our Ian giving this demake a go below).Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.

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