Video Games
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Private equity firms reportedly took a brief look at buying Microsoft’s gaming business. The eye-catching valuation tells us less about a deal that nearly happened than about how difficult Xbox would be to value on its own.
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Seventy missions, four playable factions and branching campaign paths give Dawn of War IV a bigger promise than battlefield spectacle alone.
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Namco’s 1995 racer is more than a footnote beside Ridge Racer: its three-course Championship mode captures an arcade-era idea of replayability that still feels strikingly modern.
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Amanita Design’s anger at an AI-made tribute to Machinarium is about more than an ugly imitation. It exposes the gap between borrowing a game’s imagery and understanding the work that gives it meaning.
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A busy games audience and financially strained studios can coexist. Paris Games Week’s central paradox is that enthusiasm for games does not automatically make the business of creating them sustainable.
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No stamina bar, no inventory cap, and soon no platform divide: Luma Island is built to let its players focus on what they came to do together.
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A promised free add-on for Katana ZERO now comes with a startling comparison: its developer says it has grown to the size of a full sequel, with more than 30 new soundtrack tracks.
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A pair of straightforward re-releases brought Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 back into the charts. For one developer who helped build them, that success has a sharp edge.
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A doomed freighter is frightening enough. Mouthwashing makes the situation worse by leaving its mutilated captain alive—and dependent on the crew he has condemned.
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