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And there it is: Highguard is shutting down next week
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And there it is: Highguard is shutting down next week

The above headline will not be a particularly surprising one, but just to make sure it's absolutely clear, developer Wildlight have confirmed that their raid shooter Highguard will be closing its servers from next week, March 12th. The team confirmed as much in a post shared to the game's official Twitter account, where it went into (very little) detail about what's next. Read more

One of the Legend of Grimrock designers is making a spaceship puzzler inspired by System Shock
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One of the Legend of Grimrock designers is making a spaceship puzzler inspired by System Shock

Reconfigure is the new "puzzle-RPG-FPS hybrid" from Antti Tiihonen - co-founder of Almost Human, and one of the designers behind "bloody brilliant" dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock. Where Grimrock threw you into a mountain and challenged you to find your way out, Reconfigure throws you into a starship that is in the process of being, wait for it, reconfigured. The on-board robots are busy feeding spare components to the engine, as they seek to maintain acceleration towards some mysterious des

Bungie lay out their Marathon season plans, which yes, includes forced resets for everybody
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Bungie lay out their Marathon season plans, which yes, includes forced resets for everybody

It was a little under a year ago that Bungie showed off Marathon proper and told us all it was coming out in September, only for everyone who had a chance to play it essentially say "ruh roh Raggy," leading to an indefinite delay. And here we are now! Within spitting distance of the shooter launching, a server slam that felt like being stuck in an Nvidia graphics card behind us, and now a word straight from the mouths of its developers about what seasons will be like. Read more

It's time to pick up the reins, as the 13th century horse courier game The Legend of Khiimori is out in early access
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It's time to pick up the reins, as the 13th century horse courier game The Legend of Khiimori is out in early access

Are you ready to… horse around? What? No, that's not canned laughter, it's a live studio audience, it's funny! Anyway, on to the mane event! Which is the early access launch of a singular game (in our case, anyway) called The Legend of Khiimori, a game that sits perfectly in the centre of a venn diagram that reads "horse girls" on one side and "history buffs" on the other. Read more