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Former Disco Elysium devs are working on a spiritual successor at new studio Longdue, though Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov aren’t involved

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A spiritual successor to Studio ZA/UM’s RPG Disco Elysium is currently in development at the newly-formed Longdue. It’s set in a world “conceived by the leads” of the canceled sequel.

A representative of Longdue told us that “the studio isn’t ready to talk about specific names at the moment beyond the people mentioned in the press release, but they are looking forward to sharing more about the game and the studio in the future”. They did, however, confirm that Disco Elysium’s lead writer and designer Robert Kurvitz and art director Aleksander Rostov are not involved.

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Leak: AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D chips aren’t looking like a leap forward

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According to slides from an MSI presentation published by HardwareLuxx Today, the new chips can boast respectable multi-core performance from generation to generation, with an 8-core 9000X3D outperforming a Ryzen 7 7900X3D by up to 28 percent in Cinebench R23. But they can already offer a profit of just two percent Black Myth: Wukong And … Read more

A few hours with New Arc Line reminded me that setting doesn’t mean much in an RPG if the characters aren’t interesting

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When the trailer for steampunk RPG New Arc Line released in April, I was immediately taken in by its premise. To my shame, I’ve never gotten around to the social tensions and magic-meets-technology world of Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. A newer, shinier journey to a similar setting sounded like just the ticket. After … Read more

RCS texts on the iPhone aren’t encrypted now, but that could change

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The GSM Association, the organization that develops the RCS standard, announced Tuesday that it is working to enable end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages between Android and iPhone. E2EE prevents third parties, such as your messaging service or mobile operator, from viewing your texts. In the announcement, Tom Van Pelt, GSMA technical director, said the next … Read more

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