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Time could be running out for Arkane
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Time could be running out for Arkane

The famed immersive sim studio just got an extra month to find a new buyer, but will likely close if there are no takers.

Factorio's final major update has rolled off the assembly line, adding "the things we wanted to do for 2.0 but didn't have time for"
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Factorio's final major update has rolled off the assembly line, adding "the things we wanted to do for 2.0 but didn't have time for"

In one of the happier endings to occur in games this week, impossibly enormous resource management sim Factorio has just released its last-ever major update – version 2.1 – on its stable branch. As previously heads-upped by developers Wube Software, 2.1 doesn’t make any big new additions to its planets or tech trees, but does sneak in more than 30 quality of life improvements and minor new features for both the base game and its Space Age expansion. Including, they say, "the t

BioWare staff "should be given the first opportunity and the federal support" to buy the studio and keep it running, says Canadian political party leader
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BioWare staff "should be given the first opportunity and the federal support" to buy the studio and keep it running, says Canadian political party leader

Hope. It's in short supply at the moment. Regardless, I hope that something a Canadian politician's proposed in a post scoring easy likeability points at the expense of EA's recently installed owners comes to pass, no matter how unlikely it is to do so at this point. Rather than being unceremoniuously shuttered, leaving the world staring down the barrel of a future without new games from a storied studio, BioWare should be handed over to its staff with backing from the Canadian government. Rea