Author: Valhalladidde

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The multiplayer soccer game Rematch came out strong in June, despite missing one major feature: Crossplay was not enabled because of “unforeseen technical complexities.” Two months later, it’s still not there, but developer Sloclap says it’ll be here soon.Word of the upcoming crossplay functionality came in the notes of the second major patch for Rematch that’s now available in Steam beta—although this patch, to be clear, does not include crossplay support. It does promise to fix a lot of other, more pressing problems, however, including “a number of major netcode-related issues” including tackles not registering and goalkeeper dive rollbacks causing…

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In a wide-ranging discussion over the state of the games industry, GI.biz spoke to former Sony Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden, during which his pet hate-topic of Game Pass came up. Layden, who loves nothing more than to profess doom for video games, implied that Game Pass profits could be the result of “financial jiggery-pokery,” then said that developing a game for the subscription service makes developers a “wage slave.” Layden has being laying into Game Pass for years, repeatedly criticizing the subscription model. Noting ballooning development costs and questioning whether console exclusives are a good thing in the first place, since…

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After five months of Early Access updates and playtesting, it is my pleasure to present the full release of Midnight Murder Club. Play Video I’m Eric Feurstein, Game Director on Midnight Murder Club from Velan Studios. First thing’s first, I want to thank everyone who participated in all the open betas, playtests and the Early Access phase of Midnight Murder Club. Without you all hunting each other in the pitch-black halls of the Wormwood Manor, we couldn’t have gotten the game to where it needed to be. And for anyone joining us for the first time. Let me be the…

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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube830k Rue Valley, a narrative RPG heavily inspired by Disco Elysium, has been confirmed for the Switch in addition to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. No release date has been set at the time of writing, but we’re keeping a close eye on this one. It looks pretty awesome; definitely a little more upbeat and comedic than what Disco Elysium offered, but still retaining some of the same DNA. Publisher Owlcat Games has also announced a collaboration with Movember, a leading men’s health charity, aiming “to showcase how the immersive power…

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A megacorporation’s research ship returns from a 65-year mission into deep space loaded with gooey alien specimens. But—and stop me if you’ve heard this one before—something goes wrong. The ship crashes on Earth, and just to complicate things, it crashes into a city run by a rival corporation.Now it’s a mad dash to search the shipwreck (and the cyberpunk skyscraper it crashed into) and capture all that profitable yet slimy alien cargo, which in the first few episodes of Alien: Earth goes about as well as you might expect.Speaking of expectations: I was not expecting this series to be good.…

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