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Lara Croft Returns In This Week’s Epic Games Store Freebie

Lara Croft Returns In This Week’s Epic Games Store Freebie https://ift.tt/EQ73rqH The Epic Games Store continues to give away a free game each week, and this week's offering is another nice find at a price that can't be beat. Every Thursday at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, Epic offers at least one free PC game (and sometimes even as many as two or three). All you need to do to claim the free games is create a free Epic account and enable two-factor authentication. You have a week to add the freebies to your library before the new one(s) take their place. At this point, Epic has given away hundreds of free games, and there's no sign that the program will stop any time soon. The company has also extended its freebies to Android devices, and you can claim a free game every week here as well . We keep this article up to date weekly to highlight both the current free games and next week's offerings. If you're looking for more freebies, you can check out our list of the 25 be...

Surgeon Simulator Dev Bossa Studios Lays Off A Third Of Employees

Surgeon Simulator Dev Bossa Studios Lays Off A Third Of Employees https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/screen_medium/1813/18138562/4242367-lostskies.png

Bossa Studios--the team behind I Am Bread and the Surgeon Simulator series--has reportedly laid off 19 employees. That is roughly one-third of the company's workforce, with 40 people left to make the cooperative survival-adventure game Lost Skies.

GamesIndustry.biz confirmed the firings at Bossa Studios, with co-founder Henrique Olifiers saying the cutbacks are because of a "perfect storm of events." Olifiers cited rising operational costs, funding decisions being pushed back in the industry, and big holiday games hurting indie titles. Bossa Studios hasn't released a new game in the past year, with Lost Skies planned for this year. It was unveiled at the Humble Games Showcase this past May.

"Resulting from this blue moon situation, we had to make the difficult decision to reshape the studio to reflect the position we find ourselves in at the end of this year, focusing all our efforts now on Lost Skies," said Olifiers. "This means we find ourselves in the heartbreaking position of having to let roughly one-third of the studio go--amongst them, some of our closest colleagues."

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