Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has outlined what's coming up in its next Expedition Window, launching on 28th April, revealing "we're doing things a little differently", changing up how players earn Skill Points. Read more Read more ›
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EA has shared early first details for the next instalment in its Battlefield series, confirming the multiplayer shooter will be returning to the modern era for its next outing, and that the unpopular Specialists system has been jettisoned for good in favour of more traditional classes. That's according to Respawn head and Battlefield boss Vince Zampella who, in conversation with IGN, teased a back-to-basics approach for the series' next outing... Read more ›
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With the first anniversary of Cities: Skylines 2's disastrous launch approaching, publisher Paradox Interactive has announced further delays to the game's DLC as developer Colossal Order focuses its efforts on completing the "crucial" assets editor. Colossal Order initially delayed Cities: Skylines 2's DLC last November, amid significant criticism of the game's performance. As a result, its Beach Properties Asset Pack was moved from its original 2023 release date to Q1... Read more ›
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nDreams, the VR-focused developer behind the likes of Far Cry VR and Synapse, has confirmed restructuring and redundancies that could affect up to 17.5 percent of its workforce. The UK studio, which was founded in 2006, currently consists of four teams - nDreams Studio, Orbital, Near Light, and Elevation - employing around 250 people between them. That means upward of 40 staff could lose their jobs as nDreams' redundancy process... Read more ›
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Lego Fortnite, the survival crafting experience found within Fortnite itself, is getting ready to welcome players to an all-new mode known as The Lost Isles.This is only the second Lego Fortnite expansion that includes a battle pass (the first being Star Wars in May).On its debut, the Lost Isles will introduce players to five new blocky environments to explore: Beach, Plains, Jungle, Mountains and Floating Islands. While the beach is... Read more ›
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Yes, Valve is still working on an anticheat for its new shooter, Deadlock.A developer for Deadlock - the hero shooter Valve wouldn't admit existed even after it had hit a concurrent player peak of over 16,000 last month - first confirmed on the game's Discord server that it was working on anticheat back on 11th August.Since then, the development team has dropped several updates saying it "certainly considers [cheating] a... Read more ›
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A new DF Direct Weekly arrives today and it's essentially two hours of myself, Oliver Mackenzie and Alex Battaglia revisiting the Mark Cerny reveal for PlayStation 5 Pro in the light of broadcast quality footage made available to the press after the event. It's a chance to reassess the introduction of the new hardware by being able to actually see the difference, with the blurry haze of YouTube compression artefacts... Read more ›
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Which is it? Which is the game you absolutely shouldn't miss? This is precisely the wrong question, I think, but it's taken me a long time to arrive at that decision. For my first few hours, my first few days, it felt like exactly the right question. It felt like the only question.UFO 50 is a collection of 50 new games that look like very old games - games that... Read more ›
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Police have arrested nine Italian nationals thought to be selling counterfeit retro games and consoles for a video game trafficking ring estimated to be worth almost £42m (€50m / $55.5m).The pirated material included 12,000 counterfeit "Nintendo, Sega, and Atari" consoles holding 47m fake versions of retro games like Mario Bros., Street Fighter, and Star Wars.As reported by the BBC, Turin police confirmed the devices - which were using non-certified electronics... Read more ›
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Sony's recently appointed joint CEO Hideaki Nishino says consoles will remain at the "core" of the company's business going forward, but it will still continue to offer titles on other platforms as well.Nishino - who serves as CEO of the company's Platform Business Group - recently took part in an interview with Japanese publication Nikkei. Here, the company executive was asked to summarise the value of PlayStation consoles within Sony.In... Read more ›
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Nintendo has now formally confirmed the end of its regular support for Splatoon 3, in a statement celebrating "two ink-credible years". Fans had suspected such a statement from Nintendo, now posted to X, following the conclusion of the game's climactic Grand Festival event held over the past weekend. Released in September 2022, Splatoon 3 has enjoyed a similar two-year window of post-launch content updates seen by its predecessor, Splatoon 2.... Read more ›
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Bungie's former chief in-house lawyer, Don McGowan, reckons it's a good thing that Sony is "inflicting some discipline" on the Destiny 2 studio, and helping management "run the game like a business"."To be clear: I'm not talking about the layoffs, I'm talking about forcing them to get their heads out of their asses and focus on things like: implementing a method of new player acquisition; not just doing fan service... Read more ›
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Don't be fooled by Sulfur's cutesy little goblin demons. Behind their simple, cell-shaded good looks, these are vicious little creatures intent on sinking their fangs into your weak and tender flesh. They are undeterred by your priestly garb and assortment of guns and wakizashi sword, and will leap, poke and shoot at you with savage abandon the moment they clap their beady yellow eyes on you. But these attacks are... Read more ›
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Alan Wake 2's composer Petri Alanko has teased some pretty emotional-sounding stuff for the game's upcoming DLC, The Lake House.In a handful of social media posts shared over the weekend, Alanko said he was editing vocals for the DLC, calling it "by far the hardest thing I've ever run into". And why is that? Well, it is because the composer is being constantly brought to tears by his work."It's a... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy series producer Yoshinori Kitase has said the forthcoming third part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy won't "betray the fans of the original".Kitase commented on fan conjecture around how much the story will change from the original, as part of an interview with Anime News Network, alongside Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi and battle director Teruki Endo."We've always kept the original in mind, and I... Read more ›
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Earlier this year I met with Pokémon Go senior vice president Ed Wu to get a sense of where Niantic's ground-breaking mobile hit was heading, as the developer begins planning the app's path to success over a second decade. Fans had long expected the game to eventually implement Dynamax - the mechanic that powers up Pokémon to enormous size and strength introduced in Switch games Pokémon Sword and Shield. Niantic... Read more ›
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"Things– things are good," Miles Jacobson tells me, before a pause. "We've taken on a lot, with FM25."It's early August, late in the afternoon on a Friday, and it's clearly been a long week for Jacobson, head of Football Manager developer Sports Interactive. The studio celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, the same year it aims to reinvent the series with the most significant changes for two decades, but it's... Read more ›
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Just days after we learned that Flappy Bird is set to make a return later this year courtesy of the fan-made Flappy Bird Foundation, the original developer says he has "no relat[ion]" to the game.In a tweet posted to X/Twitter earlier today (15th September), original developer Doug Nguyen publicly distanced himself from the project and its leader, confirming he has played no role in the game's revival."No, I have no... Read more ›
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Diablo 4 has reportedly earned Blizzard around $150 million from in-game microtransactions since it released in June 2023.That's according to senior product manager, Harrison Froeschke, who stated in a since-nuked LinkedIn account that they had led the "monetisation strategy of the store cosmetics, pricing, bundle offers, personalised discounts, and roadmap planning which have driven over $150m [microtransaction] lifetime revenue".Froeschke's LinkedIn account has now been removed from public view, but not... Read more ›
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Marking the game's biggest upgrade since its launch, Crytek's online FPS, Hunt: Showdown 1896 is retooled and even retitled for today's hardware. Fundamentally the game migrates to CryEngine 5.11, complete with a suite of visual upgrades, DirectX 12 support, and most crucially, a release for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S. At last, this means that consoles receive real time lighting via SVOGI - Sparse Voxel Octree Global Illumination... Read more ›
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The first time I crawled into a vent in Star Wars Outlaws and the camera changed from third to first-person, I thought to myself, "why can't the whole game be like this?". The level of detail to the scenery, props and the many alien life forms that inhabit the games' multiple planets is incredibly impressive and it makes the areas you explore feel alive and, most importantly, in-keeping with the... Read more ›
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