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Credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment The Epic Games Store's string of New Year's gifts continues. Following Skald: Against the Black Priory, the promising puzzle game Viewfinder from Scottish studio Sad Owl Studios has become temporarily free on the Epic Games digital store. Viewfinder is a unique, single-player, first-person puzzle adventure where you solve problems by manipulating reality using photographs. The player is equipped with a special Polaroid camera: you can take photos and then embed images from photos, drawings, screenshots, or postcards directly into the game world as fully-fledged 3D objects. These "photographic" structures create new geometry, open passages, solve puzzles, and allow you to progress through levels. Viewfinder debuted in July 2023 on PC and PS5,...

Credit: The Chronicles Of Myrtana Team Independent Polish enthusiasts from The Chronicles of Myrtana Team have announced the release date for the expanded edition of their global mod, "The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos," for Gothic II. According to the published teaser, "Archolos 2.0" will launch next year as a global update. Version 2.0 will include an optional hardcore mode, new locations, storylines, quests, random events and minigames, and over a million combinations of customization items. Among other things, the modders of the Mod of The Decade Edition are preparing reworked locations and enemies, gameplay improvements and fixes, balance adjustments, and "many surprises." The story centers on the once-thriving city of Archolos in the kingdom of Myrtana, which finds ...

Credit: Rockstar Games The recently released browser version of the cult open-world crime action game GTA: Vice City from Dos.Zone Team has attracted the attention of franchise rights holder Take-Two Interactive. According to the document sent through EBRAND, the copyright holder's claims relate to the use of the game's name, logos, visual materials, and the game logic itself in a browser-based format, which, according to Take-Two, may facilitate the circumvention of technological protection measures and violate copyright and trademark law. The order requires DosZone to shut down the site and remove all content related to GTA and other Take-Two projects, and the developers have already fulfilled the key demand: when attempting to access the Vice City browser page, a message is no...