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Zero Tolerance heads to current gen

Retro Faith0
In their next release under the 'classics' brand, QUByte are going fragging with Zero Tolerance. The 1994 Sega Mega Drive title is released today on Switch, Xbox and PlayStation. There will also be two physical versions released courtesy of Strictly Limited Games. QUByte describe the game in their press release as 'an old school arena shooter that will bring back the felling of adrenaline to the player while taking out
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Amazing fan-made LEGO Star Wars diorama based on game

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Within the new LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga game, the episode selection screen shows dioramas of key locations within each film. One LEGO fan has carefully reconstructed the Episode II Attack of the Clones diorama into a real-life LEGO re-creation - and the result is outstanding. Despite being the worst of all nine Star Wars films, one cool and highly recognisable scene was the chase between Obi-Wan and Jango
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Epic Games and Fortnite raise £110m for Ukraine

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Epic Games, in conjunction with Xbox, has announced that $144m (£110m) has been raised for humanitarian aid relief for the victims of Ukraine. For the past two weeks, all proceeds generated from in-game sales in Fortnite have been donated to charity organisations, including Direct Relief, Unicef, the UN World Food Program, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and World Central Kitchen. This follows previous donations in the game industry
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UK game industry worth over £7bn

Retro Faith0
A new report from game industry experts UKIE has calculated the UK games market grew by 2% in 2021. Game sales were expected to fall after hitting record heights during the pandemic, but sales reached 7.16bn despite lockdowns being eased. The annual report looks at how much has been spent by UK consumers on game software, game hardware, and game culture (such as toys, movies, and books). Sales were also
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Indie News

ID@Xbox has been a massive Indie success

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The ID@Xbox program has been a massive success for Indie developers. Microsoft has announced that so far, they have earned more than $2.5 billion since it started nine years ago. Indeed, most of that revenue has been in just the past three years alone. The Content-Creation GM, Chris Charla, said "These are staggering numbers, and it speaks to the power of independent developers." ID@Xbox allows small, independent developers to self-publish
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Pac-Man is back, man.

Paul Morrison0
In case anyone out there isn't tired of paying to own Pac-Man on yet another system, Bandai Namco are wheeling out the pensioner pizza once more... well, 14 times more in their upcoming release, Pac-Man Museum+. Yes, this new pac-age features 14 ghost-gobbling games but curiously, no Ms. Pac-Man. You do, of course, get the classic arcade original, along with many of the usual suspects including Pac-Land, Pac-Mania and the
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CAPCOM FIGHTING COLLECTION

Ben Honebone0
Capcom's recently announced 'Fighting Collection' will feature ten classic arcade games, and while Capcom is no stranger to bundling games from its arcade heyday into extortionately priced collections for modern platforms, this particular one does have some notable features and inclusions.The three big draws here are the inclusion of 1996's Red Earth, previously unreleased outside of the arcades, all five games from the Darkstalkers series, currently unavailable after 2013's Darkstalkers
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The Quarry – First Look

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Supermassive Games has had a lot of success with its interactive horror genre during the past few years. First with Until Dawn and then with the Dark Pictures Anthology series. Now the studio has revealed The Quarry, a brand new horror game being published by 2K. Yesterday's teaser showed the back of a police officer questioning camp counselors, whose car swerved off to the side of the road after witnessing
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Tunic – New release

Sparky0
Tunic is an isometric action-adventure game that's part Zelda, part Soulslike, all fox.  It's been on my radar for a number of years now, but finally, the release is imminent.  Hopefully, it will eventually be released on all platforms, but for now, Microsoft has a timed exclusive.  Playing as an anthropomorphic fox, you explore the gorgeous world, fighting enemies and interacting with parts of the world. Structured similarly to Zelda,
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