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Star Wars Zero Company adds new difficulty options that can bring it closer to XCOM
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise something obvious about Star Wars Zero Company. The fate of its eponymous crew - short of cash, betrayed by the shifting sands of circumstance in a tumultuous wider world, scrambling to just about get the job over the line - is really a lot like that of its developers at Bit Reactor. Furloughed for about a month before the game was released, those staff have clearly hustled and scrapped and fought to the last. And so Zero Company the game bears the signs of its development. In places it feels a little patched together, a little under-ready, a game that launched into the world like a roguish pilot might launch a half-repaired starfighter. The windscreen's rattling, warning lights are flashing, one particularly hirsute engineer is deeply unimpressed at the decision to take off, and nobody knows where that ominous groaning noise is coming
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Lucasfilm wants to do more Star Wars games like Zero Company and Galactic Racer: 'We’ve tried to be more flexible about who we’re willing to take pitches from'
Not every Star Wars game has to be a big-budget blockbuster to be successful.
Variety
Role Model Shouts Out Jake Shane and Renee Rapp, Channels Chuck Timely on Final North American Tour Date: Concert Report
Without stretching the metaphor too far, Chuck Timely’s hourglass was closer to running out than he might have thought: While the second of two Los Angeles dates of Role Model’s “Chuck on Tour jaunt in support of his third studio album — titled (naturally enough) “Chuck Timely the Hourglass” — was scheduled to be […]
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Voice Of Goku Responds To AI Stealing Her Voice: ‘I can’t Forgive Them…It Makes Me Really Angry, It’s No Different Than Theft’
A union representing gaming and anime voice actors has issued guidance on the issue after many high-profile voice actors spoke out against generative AI
Variety
Michael Douglas Says Marvel ‘Wouldn’t Let Me’ Quit After Asking Studio for ‘Ant-Man’ Character to Be Killed Off
Michael Douglas reached his limit playing Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man) after two Marvel movies, but the studio refused to grant him his wish when he asked for the character to be killed off. The Oscar winner was asked during a recent Happy Sad Confused interview if the stories were true about him wanting to […]
Variety
Jaafar Jackson on Playing His Uncle in ‘Michael,’ Losing the Original Third Act and the Upcoming Sequel: ‘My Job Is to Come Prepared’
Two years before a frame of “Michael” was shot, Jaafar Jackson wrote down a list of goals. One was to beat “Bohemian Rhapsody” and cross $1 billion at the worldwide box office. He did both. Antoine Fuqua’s film, which opened April 24, became the first biopic in history to surpass $1 billion worldwide and Lionsgate’s […]