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Auroch Digital has begun a redundancy consultation affecting around a quarter of roles, citing market conditions. Work on Warhammer Survivors and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 continues, and the studio is asking others to hire affected staff.

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Dédale 🕳️
First-person cave diving horror
€4.41 / $4.24 (-15%)
Steam link 👉 https://t.co/YbVaHAR8jq

▪️ Crawl by dragging your mouse, hand over hand
▪️ Memorize the maze map, your life depends on it
▪️ Control your breathing to fit tight gaps
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Jailbroken PS5s can now run Steam games locally. Playden, an early-alpha homebrew launcher built on a Wine port, already runs Portal and Left 4 Dead 2. Catch: it needs your real Steam login, and Valve doesn't support third-party clients.

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No official word from Sony yet. The staff email Aftermath saw cites "challenges in the market" and the next project's team needs, and promises more details next week. It lands the same month as the Echoes of Sekigahara expansion.

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Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch

'According to an ex-Sucker Punch employee, 26 people have been let go.'

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Rockstar has reportedly started sending GTA 6 review code to media outlets, per insider NateTheHate. The review embargo is said to lift November 18, a day before launch. Rockstar hasn't confirmed it yet.

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Phantom Blade Zero made the 12-game Ultimate Game of the Year shortlist before it's even out. It's up against 007 First Light, Big Walk, Crimson Desert, PRAGMATA, Resident Evil Requiem and more. Voting closes Oct 30, winners Nov 11.

#GoldenJoystickAwards #GamesRadar #EndyNews

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Phantom Blade Zero reviews update: OpenCritic is now 92 with 100% of critics recommending it, and Metacritic holds at 88 from 33 reviews. IGN 9/10, GameSpot 8/10, GamesRadar+ 4.5/5, Eurogamer 3/5. Launches Oct 29 on PS5 and PC. #PhantomBladeZero #SGAME #EndyNews

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GTA VI now has its own coffee. Miami roaster Vice City Bean teamed up with Rockstar on "Leonida", a limited Colombia and Ethiopia blend, and its Miami shops got GTA 6 branding too. Online orders ship in the US only.

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Mass Effect fans made it to Times Square. A Save Mass Effect billboard from @WeAreMassEffect and @kalaelizabeth is running all day today at 1560 Broadway, 15 seconds every hour at :35.

Photo: @kalaelizabeth

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Sony says it's investigating after PSN users found strangers' child accounts in their Family Management lists, some with sign-in ID changes they never made. Worth checking Settings > Users and Accounts > Family and turning on 2FA or a passkey.

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nicklovin99's early access mod enRAGE adds a nemesis system to 2018's Red Dead Redemption 2: strangers you wrong get names, tempers and life stories and may come for you, while eight outfits run camps, promote officers and go to war.

#RedDeadRedemption2 #Modding #EndyNews

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Just before the BioWare closure, ex-exec producer Mark Darrah warned that EA's $700M savings target meant cuts: "I don't see how you get there without closing some things down. It also could be that Mass Effect is on that list." #MassEffect #BioWare #InsiderGaming #EndyNews

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Game Pass is landing on a phone bill. From November, eligible US customers on T-Mobile's new T-Mix plans can pick Game Pass Ultimate or Premium as a plan perk, the first time Game Pass has been part of a US wireless plan.

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GSC's first major update since 2.0. Using mods? GSC recommends disabling them if you run into performance or stability issues. #STALKER2 #GSCGameWorld #Steam #EndyNews

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Fans hoping EA sells Mass Effect may be in for a letdown. The series' former technical director said on stream: "EA never actually sells anything. They just shut things down and sit on their licenses." #MassEffect #EA #GamesRadar #EndyNews

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Square Enix's first HD-2D Final Fantasy just edged past FF7 Rebirth's 40,564 on Steam, though Rebirth reached PC a year after PS5. Only FFXIV has gone higher (95,150), and FF7 Revelation could take the crown in April.

#FinalFantasyResonance #SquareEnix #GamesRadar #EndyNews

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Night City is packed again. Update 2.5, Edgerunners 2 on Netflix and a 70% sale pushed it to 187,215 players, still short of the 274,526 Phantom Liberty peak. CDPR's Paweł Sasko is now asking fans what to fix next.

#Cyberpunk2077 #CDProjektRed #GamesRadar #EndyNews

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Cyberpunk 2077 launched in 2020 without co-op. NightCoop, a free fan project by Twenfys, lets friends play the whole campaign in the host's world: everyone brings their own V, story choices go to a majority vote and cutscenes play in sync.

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Mass Effect fans just blew past 200K on the Save Mass Effect petition, with over 205,000 signatures this morning. The goal has been raised to 300K as fans keep pushing EA to fund the series or license it to another studio. #MassEffect #BioWare #GeekCulture #EndyNews

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Rockstar took the GTA VI hype to El Clásico. Pitchside boards at Camp Nou ran "Coming November 19" during Barça vs Real Madrid tonight, in front of one of the biggest TV audiences in club football. Launch is 24 days out.

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