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Ubisoft's recent re-release of the original Heroes of Might and Magic 3 on Steam couldn't have gone much worse, as Ubisoft literally forgot to include the game files. The arrival of the turn-based strategy classic should have been an easy win for the publisher, offering an all-time-great game, bundled alongside its two expansions, for $10 ahead of a full remake slated to arrive next year. The only issue is when players forked over the cash and installed it, they noticed the "game" was only 23.49KB in size. As players soon discovered, Ubisoft had forgotten to include the actual game files for H

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In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out as especially egregious. Id Software, developer of Doom and Quake, was forced to lay off 136 people – more than half of its workforce. Read more