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Stolen Animations

In the matter of those suspiciously similar Elden Ring animations found in the recently released post apocalyptic souls like Bleak Faith: Forsaken, it appears that sci-fi didn't steal from fantasy but was in possession of stolen goods.

Developer Archangel Studios have committed to replacing all stolen assets in their game.

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Void Crew

A new developer with absolutely no information about themselves on their website - just an email address inviting you to ask them questions and an outdated 2018 copyright notice giving us some indication of their age - has unveiled Void Crew.

A co-op space ship simulator which allows you (and friends) to walk around, customise and operate your vessel. The trailer has a decidedly comedic slant.

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Sta R Field

The Australian Classification board has rated Bethesda's upcoming NASA punk action roleplaying game Starfield, R18+ for "high impact" drug use.

Australia is world renowned for video gaming classification strictness and this decision would appear in line with previous ones but we reckon this game is a special case.

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Random Remnant

In gaming and quite possibly every field of commerce one often hears the claim that something truly unique is being sold, but today we saw one which may be real.

Post-apocalyptic souls like Remnant 2's developers have cranked the volume up on procedural generation all the way to the story level so no two players or single player on multiple playthroughs is likely to have the same experience.

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System Shock Delayed

The remake of the 1994 first person action adventure PC game System Shock has been delayed from March - which you may have noticed is half over - to May 30.

For the standard reason - they want more time to work on it.

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Stolen Sci-Fi?

Occasionally the sci-fi credential of upcoming games, films or series aren't completely clear until they release and one such is the recently released souls-like action roleplaying game Bleak Faith: Forsaken.

But it released and kind of bombed so our missing it seemed irrelevant until its developers were accused of stealing assets from last year's big hit, fantasy souls-like Elden Ring and earlier FromSoftware games.

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Healthy Humour

"Welcome director to Galacticare. We specialise in the most important and humane of all industries - privatised health care."

So begins the trailer for this newly announced comic cosmic "care" game.

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Skies Station

During last year's Summer of Gaming, one of the standout trailers was for novel post-apocalyptic survival crafting game Forever Skies.

In November they delayed their early access launch into this year so they could implement more features. They've just unveiled the first of those and it strikes us as pointless.

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Barotrauma 1.0

Having just remarked in relation to an unremarkable title we're commenting only because the present dearth of trailers, it's nice to see the flip side to that.

Barotrauma is a novel and incredibly successful (2.5 million copies sold) indie game we'd never heard of and probably wouldn't have noticed in a typical week. They've announced an early access exit this month.

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Marvel Success Flop

We have long expressed the view that tactical card roleplaying game Marvel's Midnight Suns might have been tailored for too niche an audience.

Now the verdict is in. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier hails it a critical success but commercial flop and reports Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick pointing blame at timing.

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