Best Buy and Target’s Prime Day equivalent sales are on now-
Amazon decided to stick a sale event in the summer with its Prime Day deals, which start this week on Tuesday, so naturally its competitors have followed suit. They can’t call their competing events “Prime Day,” of course, which is how we now have Target Circle Week and Best Buy Black Friday in July. Look what you’ve started, Bezos!
I’m just going to call all these sales “Prime Day,” even though that’s Amazon’s thing. It’s easier that way. So, as I was saying, Target Prime Day and Best Buy Prime Day have started, and already have some PC gaming deals to offer before Amazon’s official Prime Day kickoff.
That includes some gaming laptops, a few of which we’ve already noted in our hub of the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals.
Best Buy also has deals on PC gaming…
Former dev from sunken Sims competitor Life by You alleges the team had ‘the rug pulled’ from under them—despite outperforming the company’s internal metrics-
Life by You seemed poised to corner an untapped market—that corner being a version of the Sims not bogged down by over $1,200’s worth of DLC. As PCG’s Joshua Wolens noted during a preview, it was angled to be “Sims with the brakes cut”.
Unfortunately, that didn’t materialise. A mere month after delaying its early access without a new date, Paradox released a statement that the game would go unreleased forevermore. In the announcement, the company argued that “the road leading to a release that we felt confident about was far too long and uncertain.” Within a day, Paradox Tectonic—the division of Paradox making the thing—was shut down.
However, a former developer from Paradox Tectonic alleges a very different story. In a lengthy LinkedIn post, Willem Delvent…
GTA Online’s Halloween event makes a fan rumour real and gives one of its protagonists a last goodbye-
I’ll make no bones about it: I preferred Grand Theft Auto 4 to GTA 5. The latter is great and all but I never got over the more grounded and gritty take of GTA 4 and in particular its tragic central cast, defined and trapped by their lives in the criminal underworld. GTA 4 had two great expansions, The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned, both introducing their own protagonists and side stories. One of them was the biker Johnny Klebitz, who, unlike many of Rockstar’s leads, ends his GTA 4 arc in a better place.
An early twist in GTA 5 upset the apple cart: One of that game’s three protagonists, the psychopathic Trevor, finds a drug-addled Johnny and beats him to death. This has always been an unpopular twist, which perhaps indicates narratively it was a good one (boo!),…