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  1. 1.Rockstar developer union could end up over 1,600 workers strong and encompass nearly all UK staff below senior management, IWGB claimMark Warren · As we've previously covered, a vote on recognition of a union made up of UK-based Rockstar Games devs is set to take place around GTA 6 's console launch on November 19th. The Independent Workers of G
  2. 2.Helldivers 2 boss can "absolutely see" making a game parody of generative AI, but it would need to be "quirky" rather than "doom-laden"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · Arrowhead's chief creative officer Johan Pilestedt can well imagine the Helldivers studio developing a videogame that satirises or parodies today's generative AI technology. The game in question would
  3. 3.There are no more Assassin's Creed remakes in development, because Ubisoft are focused on Hexe, Invictus and "projects you haven't heard about yet"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · Ubisoft have announced that they aren't working on any more Assassin's Creed remakes for the moment, despite learning a "tremendous amount" from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. Instead, it's all
  4. 4.Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod channels World of Warcraft with an adventure about undead former slaves fighting to reclaim a kingdomMark Warren · The opening act of a Baldur's Gate 3 custom campaign mod which injects an adventure set in the World of Warcraft universe into Larian's RPG has been released. The mod, Forsaken, is another ambitious b
  5. 5.Mouthwashing is getting a feature film adaptation from Sony and I need all of you to be normal about it whenever it comes outOisin Kuhnke · I quite liked that there video game Mouthwashing . It had a lot to say about how corporations take advantage of their workers, it played around with character perspective to let you in on certain narr
  6. 6.Phantom Blade Zero kicks off its launch with a day one patch that offers improvements to ray tracing and some bug fixes to bootOisin Kuhnke · If you've been hankering for some video gamey wuxia shenanigans, today seems like a good day for it, given that Phantom Blade Zero has now been released unto the world ( with a 145GB install size that
  7. 7."We didn't want the brooding hero out for revenge": How quiet lulls and a bird-sketching lead make Control Resonant a more introspective kind of action gameKaile Hultner · Like the repeating pattern effect afflicting its warped Manhattan, Control Resonant threw me for a loop. One minute I would be brutally slashing and smashing my way through hordes of inhuman enemies,
  8. 8.After the rough start that was last year's entry, Football Manager 27 is looking to bring you in with a few free days of play before the game's even outOisin Kuhnke · Football Manager 27 is still a good week and ahead out from launch, but if you're quick you can already get to playing it. That's because developer Sports Interactive have released a Launch Preview ve
  9. 9.It sounds like you shouldn't expect Destiny 2's campaign unvaulting to be ready until 2028, as Bungie tease their plans for the future of the seriesOisin Kuhnke · When Bungie announced that they would be ceasing to work on major updates for Destiny 2 earlier this year, it obviously felt like that was the end of that, and any future games were not guaranteed wha
  10. 10.The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel will be an Elder Scrolls game about the infinite mysteries of the Elder Scrolls, report with some plot hintage claimsMark Warren · As Xbox's execs continue to pine for game-related announcements to fill in the gaps between their rounds of mass layoffs , The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly set to gain the subtitle Sentinel soon. Tha
  11. 11.Celeste and TowerFall have been removed from the Xbox store in a move to "support the BDS boycott" against MicrosoftOisin Kuhnke · It's a good day to love Celeste! Earlier today it was discovered that Celeste had been removed from the Xbox Store while it remained on the PlayStation and Nintendo digital storefronts. Now, as shared
  12. 12.Queen's Domain is a brilliant King's Field-alike RPG that forces you to walk so you can learn to flyEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · FromSoftware's elderly King's Field games aren't really celebrated for their feeling of agility. They are glorious first-person trudgefests, a treacle-thick waltz of swinging and spellcraft, with play
  13. 13.Don't worry, GTA 6's cars can drive for ages before their fuel tanks need refilling, leaving me wondering why this motor management's been added at allMark Warren · Right, before you groan too hard, I promise that after I write this I'll take a break of indeterminate length from writing articles which amount to wondering aloud why a thing that's in GTA 6 is in GT
  14. 14.Atmosfar is a giddy aerial exploration game after the heart of No Man's Sky, but I'm already trying to escape itEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Oh hi there! Why yes, I am free to chat. Please excuse the wind noise, I'm currently tumbling to my doom in Atmosfar , after getting lost in a cloud bank and exhausting my fuel. This kind of thing hap
  15. 15.Can the SideWinder Game Pad, Microsoft's first game controller, work on modern PCs? I bought three of them to find outAmity Gilmour · 1996 gave us two incredible gifts. The first was me. The second, arguably more impactful on the course of human civilisation, was the Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad 1.0. Read more
  16. 16.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 intro cinematic is "not intended to reference or trivialise" real-world South Korean crowd crush, Activision say amid reported backlashMark Warren · Update: The BBC report that Activision have issued a statement apologising to the victims of the Itaewon crowd crush and confirmed that the news footage from the disaster in Modern Warfare 4's intro c
  17. 17.GTA 6 has a smell reaction system, which immediately joins Red Dead Redemption 2's dynamically shrinking horse balls on Rockstar's list of immersive symbols of excessMark Warren · Any reminder of Red Dead Redemption 2 's temperature sensitive horse testicles brings a smile to my face. In truth, I can't say I've ever zoomed in close enough to properly take in the spectacle of Ar
  18. 18.Cyberpunk trading sim Probably Stolen is about running a kiosk in a space station full of gangs, megacorps, and secret rogue cyborgsEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · I have so far not been shivved, shanked, brain fried, hazed, wasted, ironed, short-circed, flat-lined or even complained at in Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim , but I'm sure it's just a mat
  19. 19.Company of Heroes 3's Operation Torch DLC ships off to North Africa in November, for new missions based around the Allied landingsMark Warren · Atten-shun! Company Of Heroes 3's got new single-player missions inbound via a DLC set during the Allies' 1942 invasion of North Africa. You'll take charge of American forces through a campaign steepe
  20. 20."We are more concerned about the risks of moving too slowly": Epic get more specific about genAI use in Unreal Engine and Fortnite developmentMark Warren · Epic Games are, dunno if you've heard, on a bit of a genAI kick at the moment. It's been tough to notice unless you listen very hard. Tim Sweeney's lips have been sealed and no reports have spewed for
  21. 21.Subnautica 2 dev thinks early access teams should worry less about adding features that are "very ugly, incomplete, or prototype"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · Subnautica 2 creative director Anthony Gallegos has spoken about what Unknown Worlds have learned over their many years working in Steam early access, exhorting other devs to add new features "as soon
  22. 22.Hot Wax sets fire to the Tetris playbook with slow-burn puzzle mechanics and a dollop of eldritch menaceEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Over the past couple of weeks, I've been conscious of an eerie background humming and hissing. For a while I thought it was just tinnitus, brought on by one too many listens of Control's Ashtray Maze
  23. 23."We basically rewrote the entire State of Decay game": Undead Labs spent years trying to make State of Decay 3 into a full-blown zombie apocalypse MMOJulian Benson · State of Decay 3 was announced with a snazzy cinematic trailer all the way back in 2020 . The open-world zombie game was due to move to colder climes, where you would face undead deer and survive the
  24. 24."Creation without a creator": Pathologic 3's devs have refused to patch an invisible apple tree, and for a blissful moment, I thought they were lying to poison Google's AIEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Magnificent, depressing plague colony fable Pathologic 3 has received a sizeable game update that adds some new difficulty modes, a photo feature, and some new, worryingly folkloric methods of defeati
  25. 25.Leaked Mass Effect 5 trailer is being "re-scored" by one of the original trilogy's composers, so folks can get a taste of his musical vision for the gameMark Warren · One of the composers who contributed to the scores of the original Mass Effect trilogy has decided to re-soundtrack the Mass Effect Universe trailer which leaked following the game's cancellation and
  26. 26.Part idle game, part automation game, Moon Sweepers exploits the sickness in me that adores both Satisfactory and Cookie ClickerJulian Benson · When Edwin talked about Moon Sweepers yesterday he focused on the artisanal approach to space rock cleaning. Like the puritan he is, he wants to wipe away all the dust on the moon using a toothbrush.
  27. 27.Monarchs at Play is a 4X strategy city-builder about chaining hexagonal tiles that only takes an hour out of your dayOisin Kuhnke · None of us have any bloody time any more, do we? The economy being in the toilet is obviously part of that, but the other part is that we're all adults and now we have to do responsible adult things l
  28. 28.Discord know they replaced forums, so they're making your messages in discoverable servers searchable, which immediately raises one question: what about AI?Oisin Kuhnke · You might want to hold off on that horny posting in your favourite discoverable Discord server. The chat service announced today that any servers that are listed as discoverable, meaning anyone can fi
  29. 29.UK-based Rockstar devs will be putting their union recognition to a vote during GTA 6's launch next monthOisin Kuhnke · November is potentially going to be big for Rockstar Games, and not just because of that GTA 6 thing they're doing. As shared in a press release from the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB), r
  30. 30.A leaked trailer for Transformers: Reactivate shows off the only lick of gameplay we'll likely ever see of the cancelled co-op action gameOisin Kuhnke · Back in 2022, Gears Tactics studio Splash Damage revealed that they were working on a Transformers game . It was called Transformers: Reactivate , and at the time was set to be a 1-4 player co-op acti
  31. 31.Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is wrapping things up with one last big update that adds in new game plus and a throwback to the original gameOisin Kuhnke · Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is setting sail for quieter pastures. That's because the game's last big update arrived today, with Ubisoft explaining that there are only plans for quality-of-lif
  32. 32.Demanding 300GB to install despite its actual size of 145GB, Phantom Blade Zero makes me question what a gigabyte is worthAshley Schofield · We're not in a very cheap era for PC parts. A ( possibly manufactured! ) GPU shortage making cards that can actually run modern games near-inaccessible to the vast majority of people, combined with RA
  33. 33."This is a serious incident": Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs Warhorse hit by cyberattack targeting their systems and dataMark Warren · Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 developers Warhorse, who're also working on a Lord of the Rings RPG , have revealed that they've been targeted by a cyberattack aiming to access their systems and data. The
  34. 34.Street Fighter V temporarily delisted and online functions turned off due to issues caused by last week's PHP security flawAshley Schofield · Though Street Fighter 6 has been the most popular fighting game in the world for three years running, there are still dedicated soldiers playing Street Fighter V right now. Be that due to its much lar
  36. 35.Virtue and a Sledgehammer review – a haunting sci-fi drama about breaking walls, AI faces, and your heartJames Archer · It’s been well over a week since my final swing of Virtue and a Sledgehammer ’s righteous whacking stick, and I’m still finding it difficult to shift the game from my thoughtspace. Having tempted me i
  37. 36."Every piece is unified": Dark Messiah of Might and Magic returns with co-op, an Adventure mode, a level generator and New Game+ in the 64-bit Community EditionAshley Schofield · First announced back in March , Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Community Edition is a fan-made mod (for Dark Messiah of Might and Magic , obvs) that spruces up Arkane's 2006 RPG, including upgrading
  38. 37.STALKER 2's latest update expands its A-Life NPC simulation bubble, seemingly without a scary performance taxJames Archer · STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has a new update out, 2.1, which builds on the excellent 2.0 patch by upgrading that most beloved and contentious of STALKER series features: the A-Life system that gover
  39. 38.Life is Strange makers Don't Nod face layoffs and possible insolvency, French workers union STJV stateAshley Schofield · Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo, a French game workers union, have released a statement detailing the current status of Don't Nod, the studio behind Life is Strange and Lost Records: Blo
  40. 39.Steam Frame kernel updated with external CD-ROM drive compatibility just one day after a user asked Valve for itAshley Schofield · Even with the importance of physical media ownership in the current era of digital product ephemera, it's often unlikely your PC will actually be able to play the CDs, DVDs or Blu-Rays you have around
  41. 40."Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale": Journey composer shares 20 minutes of music created during talks to work on BioWare's recently cancelled RPGMark Warren · The gradual drip of details about and glimpses at what BioWare were looking to cook up with the cancelled Mass Effect 5 continues, this time thanks to a composer who was in talks to come aboard to put
  42. 41.Boltgun 2 and Warhammer Survivors devs Auroch Digital say they're laying off 25% of their staff in now-deleted postsAshley Schofield · Not long after releasing boomer shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun II and right before Warhammer Survivors launches in November, developers Auroch Digital have unfortunately given a public statement co
  43. 42.The GameMaker engine series behind Undertale, Hotline Miami and Spelunky is going free for commercial use on PCEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Here's some upbeat news to end the day on (unless one of the other awful people working here posts something diabolical, once I'm done) - you'll soon be able to publish games created using the latest
  44. 43.With Xbox cuts not done, Microsoft offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 workers across the company in latest attempt to get rid of staffMark Warren · Update: According to Vertical Slice and The Verge , an unspecified number of Xbox staff are among those who've been offered voluntary buyouts by Microsoft. Original story follows: Staff at Microsoft c
  45. 44.Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-rangeMark Warren · How could someone do this to you, fruit, meat, and other foods on the shelves of this shop? You've been forced, in a horrific crime against the companies responsible for you, to reveal some details ab
  46. 45.220,000-signatory petition to "save Mass Effect" doesn't mention BioWare, suggests giving Mass Effect 5 to somebody elseEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · The word "BioWare" does not appear in a recent Change.org petition asking EA to "save Mass Effect ", which has gained around 220,000 signatories as of writing. The nearest the petition gets is an allu
  47. 46."IT FLIPS UP," Fallout New Vegas modders yell after releasing a funky Pip-Boy based on cancelled entry Van Buren's design docsMark Warren · One of the days last week was October 23rd. It's the date in the Fallout universe when the bombs dropped and has morphed into a time for yearly community happenings plus, in Bethesda's case, usually s
  48. 47.Clean a whole planet with a toothbrush in Moon Sweepers, the PowerWash genre's latest crime against perfectionistsEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · I don't much go for PowerWash Simulator -likes, but there is something appealingly unwholesome about a game in which you have to wipe the dust off an entire moon. Using a toothbrush. True, you can upg
  49. 48.This week in PC games: Run a shady cyberpunk boutique in Probably Stolen, autobattle Viking towns in Northgard Battlegrounds, and trash homophobic robots in Virtue and a SledgehammerJulian Benson · I've been tricked. Deep within the fine print of the Health and Safety and Wild Eldritch Creature Control License Edwin convinced me to apply for is a stipulation that I alternate shifts of Maw care w
  50. 49.32-year-old "ellipsoid" horror game Ecstatica gets a PC re-release today, showing us an alternative timeline in which polygonal 3D never became dominantEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · One of my favourite hobbies is digging up older pieces of gaming tech or software know-how and asking myself: "man, what would the world have been like, if every GPU were made out of Gorgonzola?" Or l
  51. 50.Mass Effect 5 was named Universe partly because it let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous entries, technical director saysMark Warren · In case you missed it, an internal trailer for the new Mass Effect game which BioWare were working on prior to EA shutting them down hit the net late last week. It offered a peek at what the studio we
  52. 51.The Sunday PapersJames Archer · Sundays are, again , for running taxi duty for relatives visiting from overseas. If I had a nickel for every time I had an early morning Gatwick run in tandem with a Sunday Papers post, I’d have two n
  53. 52.Abelina is a strange, platforming romp through a natural afterlife from a former League of Legends animator and the composer of Zach Cregger's Resident EvilOisin Kuhnke · I have no particular thoughts on what the afterlife may look like, namely because if there is one, and I'm allowed to hang out in it, I don't want to be disappointed. What if I have the expectation th
  54. 53."System Shock and Deus Ex, they were RPGs. People called them RPGs": Gloomwood's publisher isn't too keen on using the term immersive sim despite it being oneOisin Kuhnke · You know, I think at this point in my life there is a non-zero chance I will die before anyone is able to settle comfortably on what defines an immersive sim. I'm not going to even try to! The idea is
  55. 54.HELENA : Cloud District is a megastructure photography game laser targeted at my interests, and it's out next weekOisin Kuhnke · Yes, I'm doing it, I'm writing about a megastructure game for the second time this week because come on, HELENA : Cloud District just looks stunning, don't it? Admittedly there's a chance you've not h
  56. 55.Paralives' first major update slips to next year, but when it comes you can expect some pretty meaty improvements for all of its main featuresOisin Kuhnke · Since launch back in May of this year, life sim Paralives appears to have been trucking along nicely, with the dev team offering up fairly regular updates with all sorts of tweaks big and small. Certa
  57. 56.I've got egg on my face because Steam's Personal Calendar feature has apparently been a test this whole time and is only now actually a fully fledged componentOisin Kuhnke · I'll be honest folks: I didn't know that Steam's Personal Calendar feature was still technically in testing. I've been using it here and there to keep track of what's come out recently or what's comin
  58. 57.Mass Effect 3 ending discourse ignored the RPG's scale, ambition, and exuberance, including that of its oddly great co-opJames Archer · Ah, come on, it was fine. Better than fine. We can argue for another fourteen years about whether BioWare should have redone the ending or not, but Mass Effect 3 was really a compendium of endings, a
  59. 58.What are we all playing this weekend?Julian Benson · After months of umming ahhing over paint colours, covering our living room wall in little swatches of testers, we've finally got exasperated with the entire process selected Cherry Caramel. I would be
  60. 59.Factorio's final major update has rolled off the assembly line, adding "the things we wanted to do for 2.0 but didn't have time for"James Archer · In one of the happier endings to occur in games this week, impossibly enormous resource management sim Factorio has just released its last-ever major update – version 2.1 – on its stable branch. As pr
  61. 60.Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · Open world ecosatire Future? No Thanks! has been updated to remove some AI-generated voices, after lead developer Paolo "Molleindustria" Pedercini belatedly disclosed his usage of the technology earli
  62. 61.BioWare staff "should be given the first opportunity and the federal support" to buy the studio and keep it running, says Canadian political party leaderMark Warren · Hope. It's in short supply at the moment. Regardless, I hope that something a Canadian politician's proposed in a post scoring easy likeability points at the expense of EA's recently installed owners
  63. 62."This was not a Creative Assembly developed game": Total War boss points the finger at external partner for Shogun 2 Complete Edition disasterEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Last week, Creative Assembly and Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2's remastered Complete Edition from Steam , after an avalanche of complaints about technical problems and some AI-generated art. Now, To
  64. 63.Woim is the earth-guzzling, self-bisecting sokoban pick-me-up I needed after a week of games industry disastersEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · While ladling city-builders into the Maw's feeding trough this week, I remarked that being a worm must really suck. Then came the closure of BioWare , layoffs across other EA studios , further depress
  65. 64.Arkane survival negotiations reportedly seeing "several forms of takeover" considered ahead of November deadline, as Marvel's Blade production nears endMark Warren · Update: A Microsoft rep has told PC Gamer that the company have "extended the consultation period by one additional month as we explore options, including finding a partner to support [Arkane] through
  66. 65.Helldivers 3 "only makes sense" if it’s so unlike Helldivers 2 "that both games can exist side by side", says Arrowhead boss, discussing their new prototype gameEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Arrowhead Game Studios will only make a Helldivers 3 if it's lightyears apart in style from Helldivers 2 , or if Helldivers 2's playercount falls through the floor. This is my takeaway, at least, from
  67. 66.Half-Life 3 speculation reignited by Valve dev mentioning three sweet little rumored codenamey letters amid technical chat about video game noisesMark Warren · Wake up. There's Half-Life 3 chatter occurring again. This time because, about an hour into a panel about sounds in video games, a Valve composer has uttered three eyebrow-raising letters. HLX. In an
  68. 67."What if Larian had shut down after Divine Divinity?": Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare in favour of "AAA veteran" start-ups and AI "magic beans"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · Breaking up established game development teams in favour of "AAA veteran" start-ups and "magic bean" technologies is like "setting fire to millions of dollars of property and equipment", in the words
  70. 68.Cyberpunk 2077's new dual wielding has already been modded to include shotguns and rifles, provided you're down to get "janky and wildly overpowered"Mark Warren · It was only ever going to be a matter of time, but I'm still surprised just how quickly Cyberpunk 2077 modders have taken pistol dual wielding mechanic the RPG's Edgerunners 2 update has just added in
  71. 69.A Line Held Tight is a charcoal visual novel about a miner's strike in the 32nd century and choosing your relationships wiselyOisin Kuhnke · We've had about roughly four decades of games as we generally know them now, and yet somehow, so often their stories feel so limited in scope. I'm not talking about a lack of big, bold ideas, in fact
  72. 70.Robot smashing catharsis game Virtue and a Sledgehammer is out next week, but there's an experimental visual novella prologue you can play right nowOisin Kuhnke · Virtue and a Sledgehammer looks like a satisfying game. There is perhaps no more wonderfully chunky and impact frame friendly a weapon than the reliable sledgehammer, and when put into a game with a d
  73. 71.An internal Mass Effect 5 trailer has reportedly leaked, offering you a glimpse at the sequel you'll never get to playOisin Kuhnke · Yesterday, only a couple of months after EA went private after having been acquired by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, equity firm Silver Lake, and Jared Kushner's Affinity, it was announced th
  74. 72.Dispatch celebrates its first anniversary with commentary and storyboard modes for every single episode, if you've got the deluxe edition anywayOisin Kuhnke · I'm going to park my feelings of unease at the fact that it's somehow already been a year since Dispatch came out, as developer AdHoc Studio have revealed some pretty neat sounding additions to the ga
  75. 73.Even at their most chaotic and conflicted, BioWare were the heart of the western computer RPGEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Life... is strength. The gears of this world are tuned for a quick death. Doomity-doom-doom! We is all doooooo-oooomed! The Guardian says for me to be cheerful, and to not repeat what he says all the.
  76. 74.Captivating cosmic megastructure adventure game Hypnos leaves early access next week, offering up a world I'm desperate to dig into furtherOisin Kuhnke · I just love me a megastructure, I do. I'm not entirely sure why, to be honest. My best guess is that growing up in a major city with concrete pillars looming over me higher into the sky than I care to
  77. 75.Xbox reportedly mandate four days a week in office for staff close to Microsoft's Washington HQ, up from three day requirement brought in last yearMark Warren · Xbox have reportedly informed staff that, from the start of February 2027, those within commuting distance of Microsoft's Washington base will have to come into the office four days a week. This follo
  78. 76."It just seemed arbitrary, and not very smart": EA was never a responsible owner for Bioware, but the developer never seemed to learn from their mistakesJulian Benson · 19 years after buying Bioware, Electronic Arts have closed the veteran RPG developer . But as saddening as this is, bringing an end to series such as Dragon Age and Mass Effect , EA have never had an
  79. 77.Resident Evil makers Capcom reveal data breach has affected over 11 million Capcom ID accounts, warn against potential phishing emailsMark Warren · Resident Evil , Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter publishers Capcom have revealed that a data breach has seen a third-party gain access to information associated with more than 11 million Capcom ID a
  80. 78."We made a very difficult decision": Australian indie showcase Freeplay reject antisemitism claims after delisting a Jewish sponsor who was allegedly accused of being a "zionist"Edwin Evans-Thirlwell · The organisers of Australian independent games showcase Parallels have rejected accusations of "prejudice" and say they've received "violent threats", after a Jewish developer had her sponsorship of t
  81. 79.While EA shuts down BioWare, developers of The Sims, Skate, and Battlefield say they've also lost their jobsJames Archer · Apparently the cliché "when it rains, it pours" also applies to corporate feculence. In addition to shutting down storied RPG makers BioWare , EA are reportedly cutting staff at The Sims developers Ma
  82. 80.Mass Effect 5 was aiming to offer a "level of autonomy and choice" that could vault it into orbit with Larian and CD Projekt's top RPGs, former dev says post-cancellationMark Warren · Following EA's decision to shut down BioWare , the game that would've been the fifth entry in the Mass Effect series is being dumped out of an airlock, never to become a finished article that'll reach
  83. 81.EA is shutting down RPG veteran Bioware "to align talent and investments where we see the greatest opportunities for players and long-term growth"Julian Benson · Venerable RPG studio Bioware announced on it is shutting down after more than 30 years of making RPGs. The studio is responsible for making the original Baldur's Gate , Neverwinter Nights , Star Wars:
  84. 82.Cyberpunk 2077's Edgerunners 2 update adds two new quests, handgun dual wielding and the ability to pimp your mantis bladesMark Warren · A beefy new Cyberpunk 2077 update arrives tomorrow, October 22nd, fresh on the heels of the second series of the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime which dropped earlier this week. It's dubbed update 2.5 and
  85. 83.A puzzle game where you must avoid doing the most awkward of things: facing someone while riding an elevatorJulian Benson · You know when you follow someone into the elevator and when they turn around to face the doors, you choose to stand still and instead meet their eyes? No, of course you don't. Everyone knows that when
  86. 84.I keep embarrassing myself in front of the nature gods in handpainted 2D roguelike Talaka, whose colourful, combative demo is out nowJames Archer · One of the most memorable demos I played at Gamescom Latam 2026 was that of Talaka , a watercoloured 2D action-roguelike that - like many games at the São Paulo-based show – leaned deeply into Brazili
  87. 85."I want room to make a wrong turn": Following Samson dev's bankruptcy, its founder is considering how AI might factor into new studio plansMark Warren · Over the weekend, Swedish reports revealed that Samson studio Liquid Swords have gone bankrupt less than a year after releasing their debut crimebrawler. Founder and former Just Cause lead Christofer
  88. 86.Dawn of War 4 clearly loves the Warhammer 40K strategy games that came before, but it misses that they loved to reinvent themselvesJulian Benson · I may have set my expectations for Dawn of War 4 too high, but it's a series that, to my mind, never retreads the same ground. It's therefore been disappointing to feel, having played it across two it
  89. 87."AI is a technofascist, anti-human and anti-art project", says creator of lefty tech satire Future? No Thanks!, before explaining why he used it anywayEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Prominent capital-p Political game developer and left-wing academic Paolo "Molleindustria" Pedercini has revealed that he used generative AI tools for aspects of recent ecosocialist satire Future? No
  90. 88.Further Xbox layoff rounds reportedly planned for this month, November, and January, while a Game Pass overhaul is in the worksMark Warren · Further rounds of layoffs as part of Xbox's ongoing efforts to eventually have fed 3200 people into the furnace are reportedly planned to take place during this month, November, and January. The compa
  91. 89.MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ review - superlative playing power with familiar Windows handheld caveatsJames Archer · Welcome to my review of the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, a handheld PC that went on sale four months ago. And if you think that’s bad, tell it to the 2025-spec Lenovo Legion Go 2 I’ve left, neglected and unappr
  92. 90.Subnautica 2's next major update adds "the scariest region we've ever done", together with frog mechs and a very welcome tweak for dashingEdwin Evans-Thirlwell · Bracingly moist open world survival game Subnautica 2 is embarking on the "voyage to early access 2.0" - this being developer Unknown Worlds' excitable term for the next round of updates, which will i
  93. 91.Reel out garbage from a flooded planet and make number go up as satisfyingly as you can in the incremental fishing game Selkie's Salvage&Co.Oisin Kuhnke · The wonderful thing about video games is that they can take something that is, quite frankly, terrible, and turn it into an experience where you can't help but think "just five more minutes." Incremen
  94. 92.I have seen the future of sports games and it is called just volleyballOisin Kuhnke · Earlier this year, I embarked on a pivotal journey, one that I'm sure upon finishing will change me for good: I started watching Haikyu!! It's my first sports anime (when you're a chubby little muffin
  95. 93.Dig through an infested planet with your giant drill-city and try not to die while you do it in the roguelite city-builder CitaDrillOisin Kuhnke · You've heard of the drill that will pierce the heavens, so introducing: the drill that is attached to an entire city that will pierce the earth. That's the concept for CitaDrill, a roguelite city-buil
  96. 94.I know you probably don't have mushroom in your backlog, but fungus looter shooter Mycopunk is now out in 1.0 and looks like the opposite of a shiitake timeOisin Kuhnke · And lo, mushrooms! This is what I imagine an old timey tour guide might say while on a hiking trail, but we aren't on one of those, so get that wonderful fungi image out of your brain. No, today is th
  97. 95.Steady yourself, Mortal Shell 2's Rotten Autumn update comes packed with 15 new dungeons, a photo mode, an alternative soundtrack, and a neat pumpkin helmetOisin Kuhnke · How's your autumn going? Mine's fine so far, I've switched back to hot beverages, as much as every cell in my being screams to ask for ice. But I reckon that sounds better than the autumn Mortal Shell
  98. 96.The demo for city-flattening fighting game Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered is a roaring good time, no nostalgia requiredAshley Schofield · Despite being a lover of the King of the Monsters, I was unfortunately too young to experience Pipeworks Software's Godzilla trilogy of 3D kaiju-fighters back its PS2/Gamecube-era heyday (there was a
  99. 97."It doesn’t have to always be triple-A": Galactic Racer and Zero Company’s success has Lucasfilms wanting more smaller-scale Star Wars gamesAshley Schofield · Star Wars: Galactic Racer has been fucking everywhere recently, seemingly both due to its actual quality as a game and also due to vast swathes of people falling in love with little mole guy Biddy Bla
  100. 98.Games with loot boxes and other "paid random items" re-rated PEGI 16 as new rules come into force, hopefully cutting down on kids gambling somewhatAshley Schofield · I'm strongly of the opinion that loot boxes , gacha mechanics and whatever other form of gambling remains present in games is a scourge that ought to be wiped out. Absolutely no game is better for hav
  101. 99.The latest game event to fall afoul of US visa rules is a live concert for horse girl racer Umamusume: Pretty DerbyAshley Schofield · Umamusume: Pretty Derby has turned out to be one of the most popular games in the world, partly due to being a gacha game and partly due to making pretty girls out of very real Japanese racehorses (wh
  102. 100.Abiotic Factor's second year of updates confirmed to include official mod support and a DLC taking science to the tropicsAshley Schofield · Following its 1.0 release last July, Half Life-esque sci-fi survival game Abiotic Factor has been having a pretty good run of post-early access updates. That run of is set to continue through to 2027,
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