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Dev Offering Refunds, Planning Lawsuit Over Kickstarter Physical Edition Fiasco

Dev Offering Refunds, Planning Lawsuit Over Kickstarter Physical Edition Fiasco https://ift.tt/6Mo78m4 Kickstarter disappointments and disasters are not uncommon in the realm of videogames--and sometimes, even when a campaign is successful and a game is released, there will still be issues with fulfilling backer promises like physical goodies and stretch goals. One such campaign experiencing these woes is Chained Echoes, a 16-bit style RPG that has received excellent reviews and a generally positive player reception. By all metrics, this game would easily go down as a Kickstarter success story--if it wasn't for backers who purchased a physical copy of the game not getting what they bought after years of delay. Creator Matthias Linda partnered with German limited-edition publisher First Press Games to create physical copies of Chained Echoes for for PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. While certain tiers of the Kickstarter were promised physical goodies like an artbook relate...

Pokemon Sleep Players Are Cheating By... Not Sleeping

Pokemon Sleep Players Are Cheating By... Not Sleeping https://ift.tt/dujn7G2

Pokemon Sleep is barely a week old, and players are already finding exploits that let them skip the need to sleep at all.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that Pokemon Sleep is a game that just tries to promote healthy sleeping patterns, but as it turns out, it's a typical mobile game that has things like premium passes and quests to complete. At the moment, if you connect the new Pokemon Go Plus+ accessory to the game, you can unlock a unique quest in Pokemon Sleep that will net you a Snorlax wearing a nightcap. To get it, you need to track sleep using your Pokemon Go Plus+ for seven days--unsurprisingly, a lot of players don't want to do this, so they're skipping sleeping altogether.

As explained by players on the unofficial Pokemon subreddit TheSilphRoad (thanks, Eurogamer), Pokemon Sleep needs you to record at least 90 minutes of sleep a day, so to side-step this players are simply manually changing the dates on their phone to trick the app into thinking it's a new day. All you need to do outside of that is leave your Pokemon Go Plus+ somewhere with the sleep mode on for the required 90 minutes, then once it's done, turn it off and on again, and change the date on your phone. Easy peasy, though the point is obviously to encourage you to sleep.

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