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Lamplighters League is light stealth, heavy pulp style, and XCOM gun battles

Screenshot showing character lining up a shot in Lamplighters League
Purnima, the sniper you can recruit, is an assassin who refused to do a job for the evil Council because it involved a child murder. Now, as part of your team, she will kill a gazillion goons. Strange times. (credit: Harebrained Schemes / Paradox Interactive)

Lamplighters League is a modern XCOM-style turn-based strategy game with a Weird War-ish, Indiana Jones-like feel, a light stealth element, and it's made by the folks who made Battletech and the Shadowrun Returns series. If you pay for Game Pass, or you see this game at any price that feels reasonable (including its debut $50), that should tell you enough about whether to try it. I think you should.

I wanted to get that out of the way because I have some nits to pick with Lamplighters League, some technical and some tactical. But I don't want to lose sight of how excited I am to have a meaty new tactics game to sink into, especially one based on an original, if heavily referential, world. If you're a fan of tile-based movements, two actions per turn, home bases full of upgrade potential, and engaging little interactions between your troops, you don't get that many solid games like this per year, so take note of Lamplighters League. The number of years between XCOM titles is getting longer, not shorter—we need some reserves.

Read more | Source: Ars Technica


Gary Wang, an FTX Founder, Says Sam Bankman-Fried Steered Misuse of Funds

Gary Wang, one of three key witnesses in the trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul on trial for fraud, has pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate. Wang has revealed that Bankman-Fried steered the misuse of funds. This trial raises questions about the management of funds in the crypto industry.

Read more | Source: The New York Times


Meta's plans to beat Apple's Vision Pro include cheaper headsets and no controllers

Meta's logo with a red and blue background
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge

Meta is looking down the road at a follow-up to the Quest 3, which is releasing this week, and plans to take cues from Apple's Vision Pro while it races to mainstream its VR tech. The company's Quest headset marketing plans have changed in response to Apple's Vision Pro announcement earlier this year. Part of the plan is to release a VR headset without controllers to get the cost down next year.

Read more | Source: The Verge


Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has made two short-lived attempts since August to set up a payment system for iOS users, to avoid Apple's 30% App Store cut

The Chinese developer behind the popular mobile game Genshin Impact has attempted, and failed, twice to create its own micropayment system for iPhone users since August. These attempts were made to avoid paying the 30% App Store cut demanded by Apple. This highlights the ongoing tension between app developers and the tech giant.

Read more | Source: The China Project

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