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Welcome to Gaming Dispatch, the weekly series where I bring you the most important news from the world of gaming. On this week's platter we have, among other things, Project Scorpio, Pillars of Eternity II, Nintendo Switch, Oculus lawsuit, and a rollercoaster through the Death Star. Pillars of Eternity 2 Obsidian Entertainment announced their sequel to the the Kickstarter success Pillars of Eternity , bearing the name Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire . As the last one it is being crowdfunded, albeit not on Kickstarter this time around. The new campaign is hosted on the “Fig platform” where backers can choose to either pledge in a familiar way as on Kickstarter, or they can invest in the game, potentially getting returns if the game is doing well. It would be an understatement to say that the campaign is going well as it reached its goal of 1.1 million dollars in under 24 hours. Shortly after the developers posted on Twitter that stretch goals are coming, and the team is enc...

Thanks to the wonderful thing that is Steam winter sale I got around to playing Life is Strange . A game that I’ve heard quite a lot about, most of it really good too. Despite that, and watching a little bit of a playthrough by Dodger on YouTube, I never got interested enough to play it myself, or continue to watch it. But as time went on, and especially after playing through Undertale that also gives you a great deal of choices, I thought I would give Life is Strange a shot. Developed by Dontnod Entertainment and published by Square Enix Life is Strange is an episodic adventure game. You play as the character Maxine Caulfield, more commonly known as simply Max. Max is an 18 year old girl who just moved back to her hometown of Arcadia Bay to start at Blackwell Academy following her dream of becoming a professional photographer. The story sets off in the middle of the semester, and what seemed like a normal day of school quickly turned into both a beautiful and terrifying j...