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Delta Force
Delta Force says its USB drive ban was a 'translation error' and it won't shunt you to the shadowrealm for keeping a thumbstick plugged in

By Joshua Wolens Published

News You'll safely eject this drive from my cold, dead hands.

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Yves Guillemot
Ubisoft buyout talks are reportedly progressing, but there's one small hitch: The Guillemot family wants to stay in charge, but Tencent isn't so sure about that

By Andy Chalk Published

news The Guillemots founded Ubisoft in 1986, and they're not ready to let go.

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Light of Motiram screenshot
Tencent's big new survival game looks like Palworld wrapped in Horizon Zero Dawn, but it does have an interesting premise: 'Why can't human beings kill God?'

By Andy Chalk Published

news Light of Motiram is set in a lush world dominated by mechanical beasts, and yes it looks very familiar.

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Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer of Ubisoft SA, at the company's headquarters in Paris, France, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The five Guillemot brothers have forged a common vision for Ubisoft which they founded in the 1980s in a sleepy northwestern French town, catapulting it into one of the largest stand-alone studios in the $200 billion global video games industry. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images
As Ubisoft struggles and shareholders sweat, Tencent and the Guillemot family are reportedly looking at a buyout

By Andy Chalk Published

news Nothing is carved in stone, but one possible outcome of talks would be to take Ubisoft private.

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Alan Wake, a writer in a snazzy black suit, gives his all during The Herald of Darkness music video from Alan Wake 2.
Remedy and Tencent enter into a $17m loan agreement that could lead to it owning a larger chunk of the Alan Wake developer

By Fraser Brown Published

News The studio says the deal will help support its self-publishing endeavours.

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BEUC legal officer Steven Berger trying to figure out how much an in-game item really costs
European Consumer Organization alleges game companies including Activision, Electronic Arts, Epic, and Ubisoft are 'tricking' consumers with premium in-game currencies

By Andy Chalk Published

news The org is calling on the European Commission to "stop the unfair practices" inherent in the sale and use of virtual currencies in videogames.

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The player wrestles with an alligator.
An FPS series that dominated Chinese net cafes in the '90s is being revived: I tried it, and wound up breaking all the bones in my character's body

By Joshua Wolens Published

Let's Delta Delta Force: Hawk Ops is a new entry in a series that last surfaced in 2009.

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Max Payne
6 months after a complete reboot, Remedy cancels the multiplayer game it was making with Tencent

By Andy Chalk Published

news Project Kestrel, originally known as Vanguard, has been canned so Remedy can focus on its other games.

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Nier art showing protagonist 2B lying on the ground.
Nier: Automata sells 8 million as Tencent cancels mobile game and Yoko Taro says you've already had the third one anyway

By Rich Stanton Published

news So Nier and yet so far.

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A mimic, a creature in Baldur's Gate 3, lurches in ambush at the player - a box with razor teeth and a putrid tongue.
Wizards of the Coast dispels rumours that Tencent wants to gobble up D&D like a tarrasque: 'To be clear: We are not looking to sell our D&D IP'

By Harvey Randall Published

News 5th-level Banish Rumour (Abjuration). Casting time: 1 Action. Components: Verbal, Material (A single public statement).

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