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In a time where it seems more and more game developers are opting to sign lucrative exclusivity deals with the Epic Games Store (and thus angering a certain portion of gamers), the developer behind the indie horror adventure Darq has made the peculiar decision to turn Epic down. In a post to his Medium blog, developer Wlad Marhulets, the one-man team at Unfold Games, revealed what went into making his decision.

Less than a month before releasing the game, Mahulets finally shared a release date trailer, stating the game would come to Steam on August 15. Mahulets says it was three days later that an Epic representative reached out to him to discuss an exclusivity deal.

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Rainbow Six Siege is falling in line with its shooter peers by introducing a Battle Pass system.

As part of the new Operation Ember Rise content – which introduces two new Operators, Amaru and Goyo, and a reworked version of the Kanal map – the Battle Pass will will begin with a miniature take on the pass, called “Call Me Harry”.

According to a press release, the “Call Me Harry” pass will “focus on Dr. Harishva “Harry” Pandey, Director of Rainbow. By earning Battle Points, players will unlock tiers and unique rewards, and will get an exclusive Harry Chibi charm upon completion.”

The mini-pass will take place over 7 days and include 7 tiers, and will be completely free. A second pass will launch later this year, and will include the two-tier system familiar from games like Fortnite, comprising free and premium tracks.

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It’s been a tough week for Apex Legends, and an even tougher week for its development team, following strong player backlash during the game’s Iron Crown special event. After making some significant changes to how players could earn the new (and prohibitively expensive) legendary skins included in the event, Respawn took a moment to apologize for how it structured the event. A part of that process of making good appears to be reaching out to the Apex Legends subreddit, where things quickly heated up into verbal sparring between at least one Respawn developer and players.

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In an interview with Observer (via The Guardian), Game of Thrones author George RR Martin described the end of the show as “freeing,” and insisted that the controversy over the show’s ending, which many critics deemed lackluster, wouldn’t impact how he tackled writing the Winds of Winter and other A Song of Ice and Fire books.

“It doesn’t change anything at all … You can’t please everybody, so you’ve got to please yourself,” Martin told Observer.

Game of Thrones’ eighth season was criticized for both its unusually short length, and for how that quickened pace seemingly fumbled up character motivations that had been boiling for the prior seven seasons. Ironically, while the show was blitzing through character arcs and plot threads, GRRM says it was a key source of why he’s been taking so long to finish Winds of Winter, the next installment in his book series that sparked the show.

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Note: this is a spoiler-free review of all nine episodes of Mindhunter: Season 2, which premiered on Netflix on Friday, August 16.

It’s been a little under two years since the first season of Mindhunter landed on Netflix and gave viewers a deep dive into the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. It’s not hard to understand why the first season struck such a chord. The series has the benefit of being a prestige crime thriller where no less an authority than David Fincher is behind the camera on several episodes. At the same time, it also taps into the current fascination with true crime stories and the desire to understand what goes on in the mind of a cold, calculating killer. The protagonists may be fictionalized versions of real FBI agents, but the situations and the criminals are all too real. Despite some early momentum problems, Season 2 channels that same effective balance between Hollywood style and real-world stakes.

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Hearthstone is a much more agile game now than it has been in the past. This year alone we’ve seen a regular cadence of changes to the core game – nerfs, buffs, cards going to the Hall of Fame, as well as the introduction of a brand new esports program and brand new format for competitive play – Specialist. And right from the get-go, the Hearthstone esports team said that if Specialist didn’t pan out the way they hoped, they’d look at changing it. And that’s exactly what has happened – the team recently announced that Grandmasters season 2 would move away from Specialist and use a tweaked version of Conquest that introduced the ability for players to “shield” one of their four decks to prevent it being banned.

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Superhot, the action game where time moves only when you do, appears to be coming to the Nintendo Switch in the near future.

A dataminer by the Twitter handle of @itssimontime managed to discover an update file for Superhot was uploaded on Friday, even though the game hasn’t been officially announced yet.

SUPERHOT for Switch just got an update… but they haven’t even announced its release yet pic.twitter.com/tk1ZLeGZQv

— SimonTime (@itssimontime) August 16, 2019

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