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Simon “Stealth” Thomley, of Sonic Origins developer Headcannon, took to Twitter to accuse Sega of introducing “wild bugs” into the game. Headcannon was responsible for the well-received 2017 platformer Sonic Mania and assisted Sega with the development of Sonic Origins, which was released on multiple platforms this week. Sonic fans are disappointed with the amount of bugs in the new ports, spurring Thomley to write a series of tweets explaining his team’s involvement as “outsiders creating a separate project that was then wrangled into something entirely different”....

We also got word on when we’d see the programme launch - beginning in “some regions in Asia” from late September onwards. America and Europe will then see Stars arrive “in the weeks that follow”. Collectibles shown included 3D models of Ape Escape, Sony’s bizarre ChordMachine boombox, a PlayStation 3, Sony’s feline mascot Toro, the PocketStation peripheral. Sony announced PlayStation Stars back in July, as a free customer loyalty programme with additional benefits for PlayStation Plus subscribers....

Stanley Parable’s Ultra Deluxe Edition was first announced back in 2018, with an anticipated launch of 2019. That, obviously, never came to pass, nor did it do so the following year or, as developers Galactic Cafe and Crows Crows Crows have now revealed, will it do so the year after that. “Hopefully when we all reconvene this time next year for our latest Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe Edition update,” I wrote after the game’s 2020 delay, “it’ll be to discuss how awesome this fully released thing is, and not to bow our heads as it’s jettisoned into the following year....

The game was surprise announced last month. Now, in a new blog post, ConcernedApe has detailed its combat system. “Haunted Chocolatier has a greater focus on combat, so it needs to be very fun, satisfying, and engaging, while also appropriately fitting into the big picture,” he writes. Though the game’s art style is similar to Stardew Valley, the combat mechanics have been created afresh. Shields are included, which will allow players to stun enemies before attacking....

The option is all part of Capcom’s efforts to make its forthcoming fighting game the most accessible yet. A few simple button taps is enough to have your character performing all sorts of moves, determined dynamically by the A.I. based on character position and situation. The option is in addition to Modern Controls and Classic Controls, the former of which simplifies the number of buttons required to play the game....

Leaving that for just a second, it must be annoying having been part of the team that made the original Halo. Annoying in a way that being in the Beatles must be annoying. Whatever you do next, you know where the comparisons are going to lie. Even when you take a very different tack, like Alex Seropian, for example, who ditched the Master Chief for Stubbs the Zombie, a fascinating curio that has finally made the transition to modern machines, with a port that I’ve been playing on Switch the last few days....

The original story continues below. ORIGINAL 03/11/22: This is just a quick little public service announcement, as it looks like Subnautica will leave Xbox Game Pass this month. Its removal has not been previously announced by Xbox, as the departures of other games leaving its subscription service in October have. Still, the game now features on the ‘Leaving Soon’ section for the service. Eurogamer has asked Microsoft for clarification. This small slip-up follows the news that Sony has completely removed PlayStation’s Last Chance to Play tab....

Best known for its ever-popular Farmville, Words with Friends and CSR Racing franchises, Zynga will now become part of the Take-Two empire, though continue to make games under its own brand name. Zynga’s other big success stories include Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, Merge Dragons! and Zynga Poker. With Zynga tucked inside its trousers, Take-Two said it would become “one of the largest publicly-traded interactive entertainment companies in the world”....

According to Team Ninja, some of the code for those games was irretrievable. In an interview with Famitsu (thanks, Siliconera), Team Ninja brand manager Fumihiko Yasuda explained: “As for Ninja Gaiden Black and the original Ninja Gaiden 2, only pieces of their original data were still intact, and we couldn’t salvage them either. That’s also the reason why we chose Sigma.” Ninja Gaiden Black is a reworked version of Ninja Gaiden that came out in 2005....

Below we’ll explain all you need to know about every TFT item, including the latest new item, Neeko’s Help, as well as the item combos and a selection of what we think are the best items in the meta right now. If you’re looking for more Teamfight Tactics pages like this, meanwhile, our entry-level Teamfight Tactics guide is a great place to start, while our Teamfight Tactics tier list and best champions page dives into more details on strategies and top picks for success....

We got a trailer for Don’t Starve and Mark of the Ninja developer Klei’s next game, Rotwood. It’s a hack-and-slash dungeon crawler for up to four players in which you fight corrupted beasts, gather what remains and create a safe haven. Tactical Breach Wizards! This turn-based strategy is from Tom Francis, maker of the excellent Gunpoint and Heat Signature. This is The Invincible, a new philosophical sci-fi adventure game due out in 2023....

As announced tonight during The Game Awards, Tunic will arrive for PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 16th March. There’s no word yet of its PlayStation arrival. An isometric Zelda-like set in a world where its foxy hero does not belong, Tunic leans heavily into player exploration and lets you discover mechanics and items organically, at your own pace and with no hand-holding whatsoever. Back in July, I chatted with the Tunic team, including creator Andrew “Dicey” Shouldice, about the game’s mammoth development and of its already burgeoning demo speedrun scene....

Daggerfall Unity - GOG Cut is available for free on the GOG store and brings together a plethora of mods all in one package, as spotted by Kotaku. The original game was released back in 1996, but this release makes the game far more playable. “Play a reimagined version of the all-time RPG classic from The Elder Scrolls series. Daggerfall Unity - GOG Cut brings this amazing experience to modern gamers....

Lego Bricktales is a diorama-based construction puzzler from ClockStone, the maker of the popular Bridge Constructor series. You journey across five different LEGO-themed biomes and use a brick-by-brick building mechanic to solve puzzles. Expect plenty of physics-based puzzles, such as building cranes and gyrocopters. In each diorama, there are LEGO Minifigures you need to help. In doing so you’ll unlock new skills and discover new construction spots with their own sets of bricks....

We’ve put together a The Last of Us Part 1 collectibles guide for the game, one that will take you all the way through the main story, pointing you towards every Artifact, Comic Book, Firefly Pendant, Shiv Door, Toolbox, Training Manual and Safe Code in the game. We recommend going chapter by chapter, taking a look at each collectbiles page as you go. You’ll need to collect everything in order to get the Platinum Trophy, so get busy hunting!...

But that was shareware: finding stuff for free. Or, at least, that’s what it represented to me - I now realise I might have been part of the problem. But I was a teenager! I was broke. That’s why I got sucked into Dope Wars with all of my other MSN Messenger buddies in 1998, buying and selling drugs at very competitive market prices (in a game!), and how I found an RPG called Dink Smallwood, which I remember vividly to this day....

Produced using Unreal Engine 4 and developed by Polish studio Bloober Team - previously responsible for Observer and Layers of Fear - this game is somewhat different from other excursions into the horror adventure genre, by virtue of its use of third-person perspective camera angles, harkening back to the original Resident Evil. However, what separates this game is a unique feature that appears at points throughout the story - a dual viewport display....

Sony has dragged its heels when coming up with what was once rumoured as a Game Pass rival, but perhaps that perception is part of the problem. The new PlayStation Plus doesn’t have the drive or disruptive purpose of Game Pass. Instead, it’s merely a merging of the existing services PlayStation had in Plus and Now, which partly explains the incoherence as the two are smashed together in something of a muddle....

Chatting to IGN, The Quarry director Will Byles broke down how exactly one goes about making a game with so many variables, and the impressive work from the actors. “We write it like a movie screenplay… actors are used to a 100-page script [on a feature film], the script for this is over 1000 pages. [The actors] can get very alarmed,” Byles revealed. “We have to shoot 50 pages a day, which is unheard of....

But when it comes to The Sinking City, these are very much not normal circumstances. The H. P. Lovecraft-inspired horror adventure returned to Steam yesterday - and it didn’t take long for the developer to warn potential customers not to buy the game. In a tweet, Ukrainian developer Frogwares said it had not created the version of The Sinking City made available to buy on Steam this week. “We do not recommend the purchase of this version,” it said....