Bloodlines 2's disastrous $37 million write-down "lies fully" with Paradox, says its CEO, as the controversial VTM game flops It's no secret that Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has struggled since launch. With middling reviews (I scored it a 5/10 in my own Bloodlines 2 review) and an unimpressive 56% lifetime rating on Steam, The Chinese Room's take on the World of Darkness...

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A planets habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system have focused exclusively on their position in the Goldilocks Zone of their solar system, where their temperature determines whether or not liquid water can exist on their surface, and, more recently, what their atmospheres are composed of. Thats in part due to the technical limitations of the instruments available to us - even the powerful James Webb Space Telescope is capable only of seeing atmospheres of very large planets nearby. But in the coming decades, well get new tools, like the Habitable Worlds Observatory, that are more specifically tailored to search for those potentially habitable worlds. So what should we use them to look for? A new paper available in pre-print on arXiv by Benjamin Farcy of the University of Maryland and his colleagues, argues that we should look to how a planet formed to understand its chances of harboring life.

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The 21st century's Heart of Darkness.

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Following Dispatch discourse from week to week was certainly a ride. While I loved nothing more than reading up on 'why Waterboy is actually a villain,' or 'Beef is Shroud,' the fandom's edges really showed when it came to discussing thegame's two super romance options, Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. In the most extreme corners of social media, battle lines were well and truly drawn, and it got more than a little nasty for Blazer after the end of episode two. If you haven't played Dispatch yet and are spoiler sensitive, what are you doing? Go on, scram, and come back after you've experienced peak. Thank you.Read the full story on PCGamesN: Dispatch dev was "heartbroken" that you thought Blonde Blazer was a villain, and they found your Shroud theories "very funny"

It's no secret that Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has struggled since launch. With middling reviews (I scored it a 5/10 in my own Bloodlines 2 review) and an unimpressive 56% lifetime rating on Steam, The Chinese Room's take on the World of Darkness simply doesn't have enough bite. While Paradox has previously told us that it wouldn't personally develop Bloodlines 3 because it lies outside of its strategy game remit, it's now doubled down on that statement after confirming a SEK 355 (~$37 million) write-down on the game'sdevelopment costs.Read the full story on PCGamesN: Bloodlines 2's disastrous $37 million write-down "lies fully" with Paradox, says its CEO, as the controversial VTM game flops