Following call in September by the STJV Back in September,open worldpublisher Ubisoft put out a 3-days-weekly return to office mandate for their entire staff worldwide - a decision that French Video Game Workers Union (STJV)said was"made without any tangible justification or any consultation with the workers’ representatives". In response, the STJV called on staff in France to hold a three-day strike beginning yesterday, which the union reports to be underway with the participation of more than 700 workers, viaLe Monde....

Here are all 46 possible Archetypes to choose from Looking for a list of all Archetypes in Metaphor ReFantazio?There is a huge roster of Archetypes inMetaphor ReFantazioto choose from -a total of 46altogether. This includes standard Archetypes and more advancedRoyal Archetypes, which you can unlock as you progress through the game. To plan your Archetypes ahead, or to simply see what’s on offer, we’ve gathered a list of all Metaphor ReFantazio Archetypes in one conclusive list....

Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #492. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 16th October?Connections can sometimes introduce challenging puzzles, more convoluted the more you look at them. If you’re in this situation, we have you covered with a collection of clues below....

Solid foundations You might have caught this one duringDay Of The Devsearlier this year. It’s stuck with me since because the developer Tanat seemed like a rad dude, and also because there’s nothing I cherish more than taking a bad pun and just absolutely going to town on it, marrow and all.Building Relationshipsis about buildings forming relationships in a Love Islandy scenario, though without the reality TV framing you might find in say,Crush House....

The ghosts of FPS past, present and future “Do you have a ping of 1000 or something,” my opponent asked, during my inaugural bout ofStraftat. Ah yes, this is it, that sense of unpleasantly intimate sheepishness.That’s the withering late-90s chatbox scorn I’ve been missing, in this age of glossy live service multiplayer. I hid under a stairwell in order to meditate upon my response, then laboriously typed: “No, I just suck....

(Deftones reference) So maybe it’s just me, but there’s a sense of intense freedom and adventure toKeep Driving’s Steamdemothat belies its prosaic, tractor-tailing subject matter. The opening minutes are oddly silent, untilWestkust’s Swirlblasts out from your radio as soon as you drive off toward your first destination - your mate’s house, to hang out and play console games. It comes on strong and sweet; a rush of wind through an open window on a warm morning....

New Steam demo introduces clerics and rogues The existence ofKnights In Tight Spaces, sequel toFights In Tight Spaces, implies the existence of an unknown quantity or perhaps, aninfinityof follow-up games that rhyme with both of those. Frights In Tight Spaces is the obvious horror spin-off. Sleights In Tight Spaces would be an urban pick-pocketing sim. Fights In Trite Spaces is about arguing with people on social media. Ah, you could spend a whole article, indeed, a series of articles, just fleshing out the iterations....

Every sci-fi RPG needs its body horror Borg equivalent Archetype Entertainment and Blur Studio’s spaceRPGExoduswasannounced back in December, and was broadly notable for a couple of things: 1) Matthew McConaughey plays a character, and 2) the game’s story is woven around time dilation during faster than light travel, with star-hopping adventurers prosecuting a fight against evil Celestials over hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Now, it is notable for three things, the third thing being a cosmic blubber-spire of gurning faces who want to eat your ship and soul....

It’s safe up here Ah, what a pickle I’ve gotten myself into. I need to climb down from this table if I’m ever going to meet up with my teammates and finish the game, but the stupid zombies cannot get me if I stay up here. It’s an absolute gherkin, I tell you. A real cornichonundrum. The steel pipe in my right hand is doing a decent job of whittling them down, and the torch in my left lets me see the expressions of impotent rage on their flaky faces....

32 people are out of work Riot Games are cutting more jobs at their studios, the company announced today. This is the second time in a year the League of Legends developer has laid off workers. Chairman and co-founder of Riot, Marc Merrill, made the announcement yesterday, claiming that by cutting these jobs the company was “evolving League” and “investing heavily in solving today’s challenges”. A total of 32 people have lost their jobs, mostly workers onLeague of Legends, according toa figure the developer gaveto our sister site Eurogamer....

Asmongold slapped down for racist tirade Content warning for hate speech in the paragraphs ahead. All this builds on decades of Israeli containment of and intervention within Gaza, which a United Nations special rapporteur hasargued is a form of apartheid. The UN have repeatedlycondemned Israel’s killing of civilians, together with the atrocities carried out by Hamas, who are stillholding a number of Israelis hostage. Back in March this year, another UN special rapporteurarguedthat there are “reasonable grounds” for defining Israel’s current operations in Gaza as genocide....

Stuck on the Wordle word for October 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis a tough test of word acumen, but luckily we’re here to provide you with the tips you need. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

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