It's basically Baba Yaga origin story, but most of the stuff already happened and your goal is to restore the balance of the forest.

You fight goblins, giant mushrooms, trees, bees, and many other unexpected things. You rebuild the hut, learn to use the cauldron and the broom, talk to your cat, utilize crows, collect frog statues, go fishing, kill everyone and be pure evil (so good guys are your enemies), save everyone (so bad ones are), and explore four different regions around your hut to slowly but surely make the forest fit your taste.

Tons of people misunderstood it as "running with the bow = it's far cry?" Fortunately, it's rather not.

What an upgrade!

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According to Insider-Gaming (Tom Henderson), after the annual loss of over a billion euros Ubisoft is shutting down several offices around the world and shrinking down many teams, including the one that works on Rainbow Six Siege... in total, about 380 people lost their jobs during these "structural changes".

Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake is still set to be released in time and the company has a lot of hopes for it. The preorders are record-breaking.

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Regions with payment limitations will no longer be able to rely on Steam Gift Cards. Their era is over.

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LOL, in Europe the average bullet will never make it through the house wall

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Google is trying to kill ad blocking (again), episode 451... technically, under the promise of "safety" Google yet again tries to make it harder to block ads. But many companies already adjusted.

At worst, you will now see some ads during to initial boot, not while surfing and switching tabs.

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XBOX was hit by the new internal announcement, stating that the profit margin of the gaming department is now at 3% (the healthy one is at least 20%). To counter that, Asha is planning the major reboot and restructuring.

About 1000 people will be fired this summer from the whole XBOX structure, according to the reports.

UPD: news outlets misinformed me — it's "down BY 3% Y2Y", not down to 3%.

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