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Valve introduces new guidelines for selling season passes on Steam PC giant Valve has updated its guidelines for selling season passes on Steam.  Per new guidance on Steamworks , developers and publishers have to commit to a release date when advertising upcoming content such as season passes on a game’s store page. If companies are not able to “clearly communicate” when this upcoming content will be landing, Valve says they should not be selling or allowin…

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Hyper Light Drifter maker Heart Machine cuts staff The developer of Hyper Light Drifter, Heart Machine, has made cuts to its staff.  In a statement to Game Developer , the studio said that a “portion” of workers had been made redundant. In addition, Heart Machine said that staff would be paid severance and provided healthcare for some time.  The studio added that it would be crediting staff that had been laid off – a surprisingly…

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Image: NintendoThis month is a special one for Donkey Kong Country, marking the 30th anniversary of the game’s release across several regions. So, to celebrate, a group of ROM hackers has got together to create three new ROM hacks for those who consider themselves experts at the game, which are all inspired by unlockable modes from later Donkey Kong Country releases. The first of these hacks, Challenge Edition, is influenced by the hidden difficulty mode from Donkey Kong Country 2, which was activated in that game by using a cheat code. It removes the game’s DK barrels and warp barrels,…

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[embedded content]Subscribe to Time Extension on YouTube2.1k Update [Thu 21st Nov, 2024 16:00 GMT]: Claymatic Games has revealed the first trailer for Platypus Reclayed — its upcoming remake of Squashy Software’s cult classic shooter Platypus — which will be launching next year across PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. The trailer is exactly one minute long and provides our first proper look (outside of screenshots) of the all-new widescreen high-resolution visuals, as well as a bunch of the new assets that Flack has had to painstakingly recreate from scratch. Original Article [Mon 17th Jun, 2024…

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