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Steam News · Aug 14, 2018
Sumo Digital has acquired Brighton-based developer TheChineseRoom, creator of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. Sumo, currently working on Crackdown 3, made the announcement earlier today. This was followed by a blog post from TheChineseRoom’s co-founder, Dan Pinchbeck, in which he explained the move. “Following the studio’s closure in summer 2017, we wer...
Steam News · Aug 14, 2018
Sumo has bought The Chinese Room. The Crackdown 3 developer said it had acquired The Chinese Room, the studio behind Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther, from founders Dan Pinchbeck and Jessica Curry. Brighton-based Pinchbeck is on board as creative director of The Chinese Room, while Curry will continue her career independently as a composer, Sumo said. Pinchbeck added he's now workin...
Steam News · Mar 15, 2018
After the darkness and dormancy of winter life restarts, almost as if the punishing frosts, snows and winds had never happened. The season of spring starts to take hold, colours reappear, foliage regrows and landscapes transform to offer different looks, feels and opportunities for interaction. This can be truly impactful when it manifests in video games. Where winter revealed the bones of landsca...
Steam News · Jan 25, 2017
Classic FM is a long-serving radio station that's operated in the UK since 1992. As its name undoubtedly suggests, it tends towards classic music and, in-line with its 25th anniversary celebrations, is set to launch a dedicated videogame music show this year.  Scheduled to run for six weeks from April 22 onwards, the show will command the broadcaster's 9pm-10pm Saturday evening slot...
Steam News · Jun 23, 2016
General Performance Graphics settings have been tweaked to improve performance. We have also fixed a bug that would change some settings upon loading after the initial run. SLI performance We have identified an issue with NVIDIA SLI setups related to cloth meshes in the game, which were causing GPU stalls during geometry updates. This is now fixed. 21:9 Ultra-wide resolutions We have now added sup...
Steam News · May 12, 2016
Steam News · Apr 14, 2016
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is Now Available on Steam! Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.
Steam News · Apr 1, 2016
has at last been confirmed for PC after a long stint on PS4. We suspected it was on its way: the first hint was Rapture's appearance in a SteamDB listing—an entry that was updated as time wore on. All but confirming things, a recent AMD Radeon driver update listed Rapture support. Now we have the news direct from The Chinese Room: everybody's coming to the PC. What we don...
Steam News · Mar 28, 2016
, which came out last August, would be exclusive to the PlayStation 4. Say what you will about walking simulators, but I thought Dear Esther was a powerful piece of work, and I was looking forward to seeing what the studio could do with that success to build upon. But then a few months ago came hope: The game turned up in a SteamDB listing, and then a month after that, the entry was updated with b...