Payday 3 is leaving Game Pass just as it started getting good and it doesn't make sense

You’d be forgiven for entirely forgetting Payday 3 even came out, but it was, in fact, released last year. The game is coming up on its one year anniversary on September 21, and a lot has changed since that disastrous launch.From the moment of its release, Payday 3 has been available on Game Pass for PC, console and cloud. And it’s barely lasted a year, because come September 15, the game will be leaving the subscription service. Games enter and leave the Game Pass roster all the time, but things are a little different in this case.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings In Payday 3’s case, the tumultuous launch months have given way to a series of major updates that tackled matchmaking, core game mechanics, skill adjustments, unlocks an…

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Alan Wake 2's composer says the Lake House DLC has left him "crying constantly", a "damn ugly snot cry" at that, which can only be good news, right?

Alan Wake 2 has one more piece of DLC due out this October, and working on the soundtrack has left the game’s composer a bit moist.When Remedy announced that it would be releasing a couple of pieces of DLC for Alan Wake 2, I was ecstatic considering just how good that game was. The first piece, which was a mini-anthology type thing about a couple of characters from the base game (and one not so much from the base game that I won’t spoil for those that haven’t got to it yet). The second and final piece of DLC, titled The Lake House, is due out next month sometime, and the game’s composer Petri Alanko has shared that working on it has left him “crying constantly”, though of course didn’t spill any beans on what the DLC will be like.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage c…

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To action, Helldivers 2 players, the latest Major Order tasks you with choosing where a space station that "could change the course of the war" gets built

Helldivers 2’s Galactic War has taken a fresh twist, with the second Major Order to deploy since the last patch helped bring some fresh faces back to the ranks of Super Earth being a pretty big one. There’s an “interplanetary battle station” to be built and it’s up to you to choose where.Yep, it looks like players securing the supplies to build a big base in one of July’s MOs is finally going to result in them actually getting one. You love to see it.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As Helldivers 2 community manager Twinbeard wrote in the announcement of this latest order, defeat in the last one “demonstrates [the] dire need for an interplanetary battle station”, continuing: “Today, after intense research, construction of the Democracy Space Statio…

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"Myself and Murray, we might only have one more Tekken": Tekken 8 leads speak on uncertain future of Tekken team

In an interview with VG247 on the past and future of the Tekken series during its 30th anniversary, Tekken 8 executive producer Katsuhiro Harada, via translation from producer Michael Murray, has stated that the pair might have just one more Tekken in them before handing off the reins to someone else.This comes in response to a question asking Harada what his hopes are for Tekken’s future. You can read the full interview here for his thoughts on other topics including how it feels for Tekken to be the last remaining 3D fighter, and why Tekken has lasted so long while other IP have faltered.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “It’s really hard to tell. Myself and Murray, we might only have one more Tekken, thanks to age and how that plays out in Japan…

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