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Snowy battle royale The Darwin Project will be closing all but its EU and NA East servers on January 5, developer Scavenger Studio announced today. The game won’t get updates, tournaments, or bug reporting. It’s a charming free-to-play game, and though I haven’t played in a while, this news paradoxically makes me want Read more

Voice actor Kenyu Horiuchi, who voices Metal Gear Solid’s Raiden in Japan, has tested positive for covid-19. The 63-year-old is asymptomatic, and thus, not showing signs of a fever or cough. Horiuchi also voiced Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in the Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

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The Brotherhood of Steel officially arrives in Fallout 76 on December 1. The game’s Steel Dawn expansion will include new story missions and player-vaults called camp shelters.

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The remastered version of early Telltale Games episodic adventure Sam & Max Save the World arrives on Switch and PC on December 2. It’s the same great game from 2006 with revamped graphics, restored audio, controller support, and more angry little rabbit creature than ever before. Or the same amount, only better. 

Destiny 2 is having a mini-live event sometime today to wrap up Season of Arrivals. Nobody’s sure exactly when it will take place or what it will entail but players are currently betting on somewhere between 7:00 p.m. ET and the when the game goes down for maintenance at 10:00 p.m. ET.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure won’t have online co-op when it launches on PlayStation 5 next week. The developers plan to patch that feature into the game sometime before the end of 2020.

British studio Codemasters is discussing a possible acquisition by Take-Two Interactive, the DIRT developer recently told investors. A final offer has yet to be made; Take-Two will reportedly have until December 4 to make a decision.

The Switch reached 68.30 million units sold worldwide as of September 30 of this year, surpassing the Nintendo Entertainment System’s 61.91 million global sales. The NES first launched as the Famicom in 1983 in Japan, where it was finally discontinued in 2003. The Switch went on sale in March 2017. 

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Godfall will only be a PS5 exclusive for six months. The game’s new launch trailer confirms at the very end that the loot slasher can come to other consoles after May 12, 2021.

The Steam version of Guild Wars 2 has been put on hold indefinitely, ArenaNet recently announced. The studio is instead focusing entirely on its next expansion, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons.

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