Below, The Long-Awaited Roguelite, Is Finally Coming

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New Ghost in the Shell Anime Coming to Netflix

A new Ghost in the Shell anime is headed to Netflix by studios Production I.G. and SOLA Digital Arts.

Announced by Netflix, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 will arrive in 2020 and will be co-directed by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’s Kenji Kamiyama and Appleseed’s Shinji Araki.

This project was announced in 2017, the same year as the Scarlett Johansson-led film that had a underwhelming debut at the domestic box office.

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Why the Epic Games Store is a Threat to Steam

This week, Fortnite developer Epic Games announced and then launched a digital storefront housed in the Epic Games Launcher. Apparently that’s the trendy thing to do nowadays since Discord launched its own back in October, but the Epic Games Store feels like the first real threat to Steam’s dominance as the go-to place to buy PC games.

I’m not saying that Steam is certainly doomed, and even if Epic does manage to push it off the top spot it will likely take years. But this new store is in a unique position to do so. Thanks to Fortnite, there are millions of players out there with the store already installed, and Epic doesn’t have to convince or force a player base into using its store in the same way other developer-made launchers like Origin and Uplay did.

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Red Dead Online’s Economy Update By the Numbers

Yesterday, Red Dead Online got its first major update after being in beta for more than a week. In a post on their newswire, Rockstar said the changes were  “specifically geared towards creating a more balanced, fun and rewarding overall experience, across all modes and missions,” so of course, the big question is: does the update really do all that much to fix what so much of RDO’s early user base was complaining about? The short answer is yes, it makes a huge difference – even if it doesn’t fix all of the beta’s problems.

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