I recently stumbled on Erostasis, a brilliant and filthy cybernetic microgame in which you are a wiry meatpuppet created to, aha, satisfy the urges of an exceedingly backed-up bionic starship. Over the course of a very busy 20 minutes or so, you visit various self-aware ship systems and play out their kinks. The writing is clattery, theory-drenched and sensual, set to moaning electronica. The visuals are a gunky collage of seeming porno and industrial stock footage. It’s glorious. Probably don’t play it where members of the public can see.
Anyway, if I were to choose a polar opposite of that game it might be new metroidvania Mio: Memories In Orbit, which also takes place on a living ship and is as elegant and videogamey and serenely sexless as Erostasis is subversive and debauched. I really like the looks of Mio, too, for wholly different reasons, and I’m tickled pink that publishers Focus Entertainment have managed to email me about it while I’m still recovering from my Erostasis experience.

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, posted 21 hours ago / 958 ViewsNazara Technologies announced it has acquired UK-based publisher Curve Games for £21.7 million.
“Curve’s proven expertise in PC and console publishing makes them an ideal partner as we expand our focus beyond mobile into high-quality cross-platform gaming,” said Nazara Technologies CEO Nitish Mittersain.
“This acquisition deepens our capabilities, brings exceptional IP into our fold, and strengthens our mission in building Nazara as a global gaming powerhouse from India. Curve will also serve as a gateway to the world for Indian game developers.”
Curve Games’ executive chairman Stuart Dinsey added, “Joining the Nazara family is an exciting new chapter for Curve. Nazara’s ecosystem, access to emerging markets and long-term orientation make them a strong strategic partner. We are aligned in our vision of building a leading global indie platform, and we look forward to the next phase of growth together.”
Curve Games was founded in 2005 by Jason Perkins. It is best known for publishing 2016’s Human Fall Flat, 2016’s The Ascent, 2024’s Dungeons of Hinterberg, and more.
Thanks, GamesIndustry.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D’Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky. More Articles

Auli’i, who is of Native Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, Portuguese, Chinese, and Irish descent, revealed in a 2022 interview that she was described by casting professionals in Hollywood as “racially ambiguous.” She said, “People didn’t know my face, and when casting did see my face, they’d say, ‘You’re racially ambiguous.’ I’m like, ‘That’s a new term. I’ve never heard that one before,’ which left me even more internally confused because my identity has always been Hawaiian.”“Suddenly, all of these phrases were thrust at me: ‘Well, you’re white-passing, but you’re also racially ambiguous, so you can play Latinx, you can play Asian, you can play all of these different things.’ I was like, ‘I just want to play smart women. The bar is there,’” the Moana star added.

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First, what was the audition process like for Henry Creel? Since it’s not just a play but something in the Stranger Things world, was the process pretty secretive?

It was basically like a roller coaster. So I got the self-tape through, and of course, it was extremely hidden and confidential. All I knew about it was “Untitled Netflix play directed by Stephen Daldry.” I was auditioning for this character called George, who was Henry’s cover name at the time, and they had me doing one of the more intense scenes, like “Scary Patty.” And one of the other scenes we have called “Confessional,” where it’s cute and it’s fun, and it’s basically showing both sides of Henry.I did a couple of rounds of self-tapes in my home, just back and forth. My dad just did it, he and I, and we didn’t hear anything for six months, and we basically forgot about it. Then I got word back that they wanted me to have a callback. But this time, it was for “Conjureman,” who is this character, wildly different from Henry. And I went there, did that, and it was fine. That was with our Associate Director, Audrey [Sheffield], as well, who I later worked with and became great friends with, which was lovely, that you can look back on those memories and how crazy that was. Then a few weeks went by, probably about a month, and I didn’t hear anything. And then all of a sudden, these rounds of Henry recalls just started happening, and they were all in London, and I was busy moving out of Dublin. I just finished university and finishing Season 3 of Hope Street, and it was the craziest, most hectic, most exciting time, because you’re auditioning for Stranger Things, but also you have so much on your plate. It was honestly about a good three, four months of recalls, and you know, you auditioned to get into the workshop process, which was where you’d be given the script, and it would be locked away overnight.It was the hardest, most interesting thing, to not be able to work with the material at home and be free and feeling when you came in the next day. I think that’s what the goal was, obviously confidentiality, but also it geared us all toward this very fluid human response to the material. No one was coming in with choices they’d made last night. Everyone would begin with, What the fuck is gonna happen now? We had no idea. No idea how they were going to put it on stage. No idea who was cast, one by one in those workshops, we all got told we got the part, but you weren’t allowed to tell anyone else. I remember the day I got called in and told I got the part, and that was, like, super secret. Justin sitting me down and saying, “Hey, I hear that you’ve joined the team,” and how cool that was with all that work we’ve put in. By then, you’ve put so much work in, you’re so excited to do the play. Then from there, it’s just been the same exact roller coaster ride, up and down, and doing it again, same process. And just been crazy recreating it here in New York. It’s been a lot of fun.

Scarlett Johansson made her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with the drama Eleanor The Great.The feature-length project was produced together with Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios but the It Ends with Us actor and director, who is in a legal battle with Blake Lively, wasn’t among the attendees.Instead, Johansson was joined by her husband, comedian Colin Jost, who looked lovingly and proudly at the actress as she addressed the audience inside Debussy Theatre on Tuesday.READ MORE: Denzel Washington skips Cannes event after paparazzi incidentScarlett Johansson has made her directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with the drama Eleanor The Great. (Lionel Hahn/Getty Images)The 40-year-old called it “really a dream come true” to be making her directorial debut at the famed French film festival, having spent a number of years living in Paris with her ex-husband, French journalist Romain Dauriac.”When you make a film that’s an independent film like this, no one’s doing it for the money — surprise, surprise,” Johansson said, according to Variety.”Really, everyone that came together for this film came together because they loved the story, the script so much.”It’s a film about many things: it’s about friendship, it’s about grief, it’s about forgiveness. And I think those are all themes that we can use a lot more of these days.”READ MORE: Jessica Simpson makes her first TV appearance in 15 yearsThe 40-year-old called it “really a dream come true” to be making her directorial debut at the famed French film festival (Lionel Hahn/Getty Images)Colin Jost looked on proudly as his wife gave a speech on stage to introduce the drama. (Lionel Hahn/Getty Images)When the Black Widow star got back to her seat, the celebrity couple shared a kiss.The movie stars acting legend June Squibb, 95, who was in attendance as well as Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy star Chiwetel Ejiofor and Breaking Bad’s Jessica Hecht.Johansson called Squibb “truly inspiring” in the title role of Eleanor Morgenstern.The movie tells the story of a 94-year-old retiree who, after the sudden loss of her lifelong best friend, moves from Florida to live with her daughter in New York, where she befriends a 19-year-old student.It’s been 12 years since Squibb’s last appearance at Cannes, where she was a part of Alexander Payne’s 2013 film Nebraska, a role which earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.When the Black Widow star got back to her seat, the celebrity couple shared a kiss. (Lionel Hahn/Getty Images)Two-time Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and his partner Georgina Chapman were among those in the audience. (Lionel Hahn/Getty Images)Two-time Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and his partner, Georgina Chapman, were among those in the audience and were seen talking to Jost while Johansson spoke with movie industry execs.The movie scored a five-minute standing ovation but has had mixed reviews from critics.For a daily dose of 9honey, subscribe to our newsletter hereScarJo, as she’s affectionately known, has been on double duty in Cannes, having premiered her new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme earlier this week.Her trip to France came just days after making Saturday Night Live (SNL) history by becoming the first woman to host the show for the seventh time.One of the skits involved teaming up with her husband, who co-hosts SNL’s Weekend Update with comedian Michael Che, to get revenge on Che for a rude joke he wrote at her expense last year.FOLLOW US ON WHATSAPP HERE: Stay across all the latest in celebrity, lifestyle and opinion via our WhatsApp channel. No comments, no algorithm and nobody can see your private details.

I think it might be time to stop letting Gearbox head Randy Pitchford tweet about his own games. Just last month, he accidentally shared the fact that Borderlands 4 was getting an earlier than expected release date ahead of an official announcement; he put that one down to time zones. This time his overly eager attitude towards posting hasn’t revealed any information about Borderlands 4 he wasn’t meant to, but it is something that could maybe, just potentially, be viewed as ever-so-slightly out of touch.