An action/infiltration game in which the story changes every time you play. In the 1970s, extremist religious sect the Collective Justice Mission moves to South America to isolate themselves. You infiltrate the compound to check on a relative but soon learn that things may not be what they seem.
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GameStop Struggles Continue, As Company Lays Off 50 Managers - Report
Video game retailer GameStop has suffered another setback, it seems, as the company has reportedly announced a "GameStop Reboot initiative" that is resulting in dozens of layoffs.
A memo announcing the move leaked on Twitter. It states that more than 50 "field leaders" are losing their jobs. Those affected include regional managers, district managers, loss prevention managers, and HR staff, according to the letter (via Gamasutra).
The memo states that GameStop is looking to "reduce our cost structure and build efficiencies into our field leadership organization so that we can reinvest in the business."
It goes on to state: "These decisions are not easy, but necessary to help us reduce costs to enable revenue-driving initiatives that will help grow the business once again."
GameStop did not respond to GameSpot's request for comment, which was made outside of business hours.
Earlier this year, GameStop closed the ThinkGeek website, and folded that business into the wider GameStop umbrella. The company's share price of $3.84 today is close to the lowest its been in the company's history.
Physics-Based Multiplayer Adventure Heave Ho Swings Onto Switch This Month
Indie dev Le Cartel and publishing label Devolver Digital have announced that Heave Ho will be throwing itself onto Nintendo Switch later this month.
The game has up to four players attempting to simply reach a goal without falling to their deaths. Of course, as you can see in the trailer above, it’s not really as simple as it sounds. Players use outstretched hands to grip onto surfaces and their friends, grappling themselves around each level. You can hold hands, climb across dangling bodies and generally cause absolute chaos.
You can also customise your character with stylish accessories to add a bit of personality to proceedings should you want to, which would probably also help you to keep track of which character you’re controlling in the mayhem. We’ve got some screenshots for you to check out below.
The game arrives on Switch on 29th August and will be priced at £7.19 / $9.99.
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He Built A $1 Billion Open Source Company With No Headquarter
GitLab is one of the most innovative tech companies that’s disrupting the industry. First and foremost, it’s an open-source company that’s making Linus Torvald’s Git usable for everyone by offering it as a project and commercializing it as a product. But what’s really unique about GitLab is the way it runs the business. It’s a fully remote company with no headquarters. It has employees in 50 different countries and they work when they feel like working, from home. We sat down with the co-founder of GitLab – Sid Sijbrandij to talk about his unorthodox methods to build one of the most promising open-source companies. (Source: TFiR)
Ninja Leaves Twitch, Will Stream Exclusively On Mixer
Streamer Ninja, whose real name is Tyler Blevins, is ditching Twitch for rival streaming platform Mixer. The super-popular streamer announced the news in a fake press conference video today.
He stated that nothing will change in terms of content. "It's the same me, just a different platform," he said. Intriguingly, Ninja also said he plans to "get back in touch with my roots" as it relates to streaming. That's noteworthy because Ninja started out as a popular Halo streamer before going on newer titles; he is most recently famous for streaming Fornite. Microsoft's next Halo game, Halo Infinite, launches in Holiday 2020.
Master Chief even makes an appearance in the announcement video, which further suggests Ninja coming to Mixer may be related to Halo and specifically helping to promote Halo Infinite.
Ninja was far and away the most-followed Twitch user, with some 14.7 million followers. Microsoft is surely hoping that a portion of Ninja's audience moves with him to Mixer. Ninja's Mixer page is already incredibly popular, picking up 100,000+ subscribers in its first day.
Ninja is offering free subscriptions in August; that gets you 22 Ninja-themed emoticons and no ads. Just like on Twitch, Ninja said he plans to stream from 9:30 AM CST to 6 PM CST every single day.
Microsoft's signing of Ninja comes not long after the company laid off content creators and producers at Mixer and Insider Xbox, according to GameDaily.
A 1987 NES Game Just Sold For $9,000 After Sitting In An Attic For 30 Years
If you happen to have any old Nintendo games stored away in your attic, you might want to dig them out and check what their value might be today. You might just end up being $9,000 better off.
Scott Amos of Reno, Nevada recently found an old, 1987 NES game in his attic after looking through his childhood possessions. The game in question was Kid Icarus, still in the bag it came in with the receipt also correct and present. The receipt tells us that it was bought in December 1988 for $38.45 (just over $80 today according to an online inflation calculator), but has been completely forgotten about ever since.
Speaking to the Reno Gazette Journal, Amos says, “All the family has been trying to come up with a hypothesis. [My mom] thinks she put it there and never got it back out, and then it ended up in the attic.”
It just so happens that Kid Icarus finds itself at the rare end of the scale for sealed NES games, resulting in something of a jackpot for Scott and his family. The game was put up for auction online at Heritage Auctions, where it just sold for a mouth-watering $9,000.
A screenshot of the auction at Heritage Auctions
If we had a sealed copy of a game like that we’d struggle to give it away for any kind of money, but what an amazing find. As we said above, it might be a good idea to get searching those attics and garages!
Steam Proposes Linux Kernel Changes To Improve Game Performance
The game distribution company, Steam, has proposed changes to the Linux kernel to gain access to extra core functionality they need to improve performance of gaming on Linux. Steam recently released the first build of Proton 4.11, a WINE based tool that can run Windows games on Linux. They observed that the performance can be significantly improved if the proposed changes are made to the kernel. Steam has built a Linux-powered gaming platform that competes with Windows 10 and game consoles like PS4 and Xbox One. (Source: Tom’s Hardware, Steam, GitHub)
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point-and-click inspired by the classic adventure games. It smuggles you out of your comfort zone and throws you into the middle of a Cold War spy intrigue ? where there?s an even bigger game being played?
Pokemon Go surpasses 1 billion downloads worldwide
Newsbrief: Niantic’s mobile AR game Pokemon Go has officially been downloaded more than 1 billion times since its launch a little over three years ago, according to a Japanese trailer spotted by Serebii.
At least half of those downloads came during Pokemon Go’s first few months out in the wild. Niantic previously said that the game cleared 500 million downloads back in September 2016, just months after its mid-July launch.
While the back half of its now 1 billion downloads took a bit longer to collect, more recent posts from Niantic suggest that the game still maintains a strong following. While Niantic has been quieter about numbers since, the developer did note last year that new features and in-game events helped it boost active player counts by 35 percent in just a few months.
EA expects The Sims 4 to deliver net bookings on par with Apex Legends
Electronic Arts ran a week-long promotion in May that gave The Sims 4 away for free on its digital game store Origin. Now, EA says that the promotion led to 7 million downloads of the base Sims 4 game, a push that comes in the same quarter as a 55 percent year-over-year jump in add-on purchases.
The Sims 4 was, alongside Apex Legends, one of the notable earners called out in Electronic Arts’ most recent financial reports.
Put in context, EA expects The Sims 4 to bring in net bookings on the same level as its battle royale game Apex Legends moving forward, saying that it expects both games to “each deliver net bookings in the $300 million to $400 million range” in the future.
While the May promotion saw the base game given away for free, it’s likely the arrangement sought to create more potential buyers for the troves of paid add-on content EA-owned Maxis has released for the game in the 5 years since its first release.
Those add on packs, broken down into $40, $20, and $10 tiers based on the amount of in-game content offered, require the base game to use and, though optional, amount to about a $560 purchase for those who pick up the current library at full price.
“I think we’re doing really, really well attracting Sims players,” notes EA CEO Andrew Wilson in the Q&A. “As we said, we did the promotion in the last couple of months and brought in 7 million new Sims players that we expect will engage in that community on a platform that is really tailored to user-generated content, creativity and customization.”
