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There are a million ways to deliver ore in Starminer, a real-time space strategy sim with zero-G physics - just beware your greed doesn't attract the aliens
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There are a million ways to deliver ore in Starminer, a real-time space strategy sim with zero-G physics - just beware your greed doesn't attract the aliens

Attention unidentified spacecraft, this is the USS Asteroid Paper Railgun. Please maintain your current heading and velocity. I am about to rotate 34 degrees and jettison a new early access space strategy game from my cargo hold. If my calculations are correct, the package should arrive in your airlock in precisely 14.7 seconds. If my calculations are incorrect – well, I'm not sure if Starminer simulates damage from loose storage modules, but it's probably better avoided. Read more

The first, cinematic look at Marathon season 2 paints it as the horror game it always should have been
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The first, cinematic look at Marathon season 2 paints it as the horror game it always should have been

Marathon is a horror game. Well, it should be, anyway (or I suppose in some ways it already is). The ever under-respected genre is not where Bungie's take on an extraction shooter currently sits, even if there are still qualities to be found in the likes of jump scares, a clingy, sticky tension, hints of something that went catastrophically wrong. I want more of these elements of horror, and oh lucky me, the first trailer for the game's second season looks like it will deliver on that front.

Yerba Buena, out today, is a Portal-esque puzzle platformer where your weapon of choice is copying and pasting physics
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Yerba Buena, out today, is a Portal-esque puzzle platformer where your weapon of choice is copying and pasting physics

The problem with Portal is that Valve only made two of them. Those are some dang good puzzle games! And they're not very long. I don't necessarily need more Portal exactly per se, I just want more of that style of puzzle platforming that's equal parts physical as it is clever. Hopefully, Yerba Buena, a puzzle platformer where you can copy and paste the physics and movement of one object to another, can deliver on that front. Read more

Unsanctioned GTA Online modding platform Rage:MP is shutting down thanks to a cease and desist from Take-Two
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Unsanctioned GTA Online modding platform Rage:MP is shutting down thanks to a cease and desist from Take-Two

As it currently stands, it's a bit unclear how Rockstar are planning to approach multiplayer with GTA 6. It seems that GTA Online will continue to run even after the impending sequel launches, but beyond that who really knows. What is clear is that Rockstar and their publisher Take-Two are still pretty committed to GTA Online and its ecosystem, given that they've now apparently sent a cease and desist to the popular modding and roleplay platform Rage:MP. Read more

Remedy's new CEO doesn't want to "change the DNA" of the Control studio, but he does still think their games "could give a lot more"
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Remedy's new CEO doesn't want to "change the DNA" of the Control studio, but he does still think their games "could give a lot more"

Back in February, Remedy appointed Jean-Charles Gaudechon as its new CEO following last year's FBC: Firebreak flop. This quickly raised some eyebrows given Gaudechon's tenure at EA, a game studio that's had its fair share of controversies over the years thanks to its business practices. After all, Remedy are meant to be this quirky, Finnish game studio that does things their own, weird way, such an appointment felt out of step. But, in a recent interview, Gaudechon made it seem like he's not a