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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: a train, a submarine, and a cat

Posted: 04 Jul 2022 07:06 AM PDT

Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter's #screenshotsaturday tag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye was caught by a train ride through endless winter, a submarine controlled by connecting cables, some striking art styles, and yes, another cat.

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Leaked Call Of Duty images suggest 2024’s game might be set in the Gulf War

Posted: 04 Jul 2022 06:31 AM PDT

What may be leaked images of multiplayer maps from 2024’s Call Of Duty and this year's Modern Warfare 2 have emerged online over the weekend. The concept art was posted to Twitter by RealiityUK, an account that’s since been suspended, but not before they explained that the images were discovered in Warzone Mobile test files (thanks Eurogamer). The images shared by RealiityUK are still up on ResetEra if you want to have a nosy.

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Sega commit to matching employee donations to reproductive rights organisations

Posted: 04 Jul 2022 04:46 AM PDT

Publisher Sega have joined the growing number of companies across the games industry to issue statements supporting reproductive rights, and have gone a step further than most by offering to match employee donations to non-profits supporting that cause. Sega’s decision comes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of the Roe v. Wade ruling last month, which had enshrined abortion rights at a federal level for almost half a century.

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Summer Games Done Quick 2022 nets more than $3 million for charity

Posted: 04 Jul 2022 03:44 AM PDT

Annual speedrunning event Summer Games Done Quick has raised more than $3 million (£2.5 million) for the charity Doctors Without Borders. SGDQ drew to a close yesterday with an All Remembrances run of Elden Ring on PC, followed by a shorter bonus Any% run of the game to cap things off. You can watch HYP3RSOMNIAC take on FromSoft’s latest in just half an hour in the video below.

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Ubisoft to turn off online features for some old games, meaning players lose access to their DLC

Posted: 02 Jul 2022 04:00 PM PDT

Ubisoft are switching off online services for several older singleplayer games, including Anno 2070, Far Cry 3, Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. For several of those games, that means that as of September 1st, "the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable," according to an Ubisoft support page.

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EA tweeted about single-player games and even their own devs were annoyed

Posted: 02 Jul 2022 03:19 PM PDT

I can't tell you how much I'd prefer to ignore brandter, in which corporate Twitter accounts pretend to be people with terrible senses of humour. Alas, in this instance I cannot. Yesterday EA tweeted a terrible meme and related it to single-player games, and in the process drew the ire of several current and former game developers at studios owned by EA.

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Final Fantasy XIV's next update will add a slice of Stardew

Posted: 02 Jul 2022 02:14 PM PDT

Final Fantasy 14's next patch, 6.2, is scheduled to launch in late August. Among its many additions will be a new "Island Sanctuary", a personal island where players can gather materials, build facilities and look after creatures. It sounds like a slice of Stardew.

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Blade Runner's superior ScummVM version is available directly via GOG again

Posted: 02 Jul 2022 01:24 PM PDT

You can once again buy the fan-created ScummVM release of 1997's Blade Runner adventure game via GOG. The fan version was removed from the store a little over a week ago when Nightdive Studios released their own Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, then swiftly bundled together with that remaster when people complained.

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