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What's on your bookshelf: Nyamakop and Relooted's Marcia Shange
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What's on your bookshelf: Nyamakop and Relooted's Marcia Shange

Hello reader who is also a reader! It's finally time for another edition of our thrillingly erratic column on game developers and their bestest books. This week, we're having our ears bent by Marcia Shange, chief operating officer of South Africa, Johannesburg-based developers Nyamakop, creators of puzzle platformer Semblance and the forthcoming postcolonial heist 'em up Relooted. Cheers, Marcia! Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf? Read more

Don't like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say "that most likely won't change"
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Don't like how often map conditions rotate in Arc Raiders? Sorry, but the devs say "that most likely won't change"

For all of their faults (the list may be endless), the interesting thing about live service games, when done well anyway, is the way they can change from day to day. There's an actual living quality to them that, even if I'll always prefer them, a singleplayer game can't capture as well. One such game that can change quite drastically is Arc Raiders, with its varying map conditions and events, swapping in and out at the whims of its developers. This rotation isn't something universally loved,

Prince of Persia creator shares his sympathies with The Sands of Time remake devs: "Artists put their hearts into their work"
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Prince of Persia creator shares his sympathies with The Sands of Time remake devs: "Artists put their hearts into their work"

Last month, Ubisoft pretty unceremoniously cancelled a bunch of games, the most notable of the bunch being that long gestating Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. This came as part of a major restructuring at the company, putting up to 200 jobs at their Paris HQ at risk, ultimately leading to a call for an international strike, and the firing of one Assassin's Creed designer. It's all a concerning mess, and now the creator of Prince of Persia and lead designer on the original Sands of

Square Enix's baffling murder mystery social game Killer Inn gets a quick, free-for-all playtest ahead of its release next week
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Square Enix's baffling murder mystery social game Killer Inn gets a quick, free-for-all playtest ahead of its release next week

In a few months time we'll be approaching the anniversary of Square Enix realising that actually, their commitment to releasing certain games only on particular platforms isn't that good for them after all. These following two years will supposedly have been a time of internal change for the studio, with that translated externally via the Final Fantasy 7 Remake games releasing on more than just PlayStation. Perhaps they're finally making smart choices! And then last year, instead of finally sh