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"I was forced to ship the game" - Glen Schofield blames Krafton management for The Callisto Protocol's problems
Glen Schofield, the game-maker best known for co-creating Dead Space, has blamed Korean company Krafton - the owner of PUBG - for the shortcomings of his horror game successor The Callisto Protocol , which it published.
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Epic Games reportedly delays Star Wars and Marvel shooter, as the Fortnite maker embraces "AI-accelerated development"
Epic Games has reportedly turned to gen-AI to finish up development on a Star Wars and Marvel crossover shooter, which has been internally delayed.
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No Man's Sky is somehow coming to mobile, and Hello Games says it's partly thanks to Light No Fire
Developer Hello Games has somehow managed to fit its universe-sized space sim No Man's Sky onto iPhone and iPad devices, and it's partly thanks to the studio's upcoming Light No Fire.
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Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii releases new AI-generated game, and he says it took 30 minutes to make
Dragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii has just released a new game that he says was made (or, rather, prompted) in about half an hour thanks to gen-AI.
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Arc Raiders player-numbers rebound with the launch of Frozen Trail and the game's 2.0 release, but they might be deceptively high
Arc Raiders has clearly managed to entice back lapsed players with its latest update, Frozen Trail, which upgrades the game to version 2.0. Many players see it as a re-launch of the popular extraction shooter, and the numbers back that up.
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Valor Mortis review
Valor Mortis plays a bit of a sneaky trick. For a while, it keeps it straight. 'Yes', it seems to say; 'I'm definitely a Soulslike. Look at my bonfire equivalents, my healing flasks, my corpse runs, even my early impossi-boss feints. Look at my cautious action, my fog gates, the oppressive air of melancholy that lingers over these fields of mud and blood'…
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Starfield seamless planetary landings are finally nearly a thing, thanks to one modder's tireless work
For many Starfield players, the need to go through a loading screen each time you want to land on a planet - rather than seamlessly travel through the planet's atmosphere like in No Man's Sky - was a big turn-off.
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Nintendo executive confirms company has "no plans to ditch physical games"
Bill van Zyll, VP and general manager for Nintendo in Latin America, has reiterated Nintendo's stance on physical media, confirming that the company has no immediate plans to move to an 'all-digital' future.
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Gears of War: E-Day server crashes and login problems are because of DDoS attacks, studio says
Gears of War: E-Day's servers have been struggling because they've been suffering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, apparently - so someone, or some people, have been deliberately trying to overload them.
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For the second time this year, Steam has set a major new concurrent user record
There's clearly no stopping Steam's continued growth. Valve's PC digital store and social platform set a new user concurrent record on Sunday, with a staggering 43,505,724 million users (via SteamDB ).
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The Blood of Dawnwalker's lead actor reminds us why AI will always struggle to replicate a human performance
Will de Renzy-Martin, the actor who plays lead character Coen in the English language version of The Blood of Dawnwalker, has reminded us of the value humans bring to a performance, versus AIs generating voice lines.
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Stardew Valley creator's new game, Haunted Chocolatier, is "more of an action RPG" than farming sim
Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, has given a new interview - and finally revealed a little more information about his upcoming title, Haunted Chocolatier. In a wide-ranging interview with GQ , which tackles topics ranging from creative burnout to the importance of 'cosy gaming', Barone also slips in some new information about what we can expect from his…
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DMZ for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 being released early, but Infinity Ward shoots down PvE hopes
In yet another surprising move for Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 4 studio Infinity Ward has announced that the game's extraction shooter mode, DMZ, will be released prior to the game's official launch. DMZ will be available starting 20th October for players who pre-order a copy digitally.
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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls reveals its Year 1 DLC roster, starting with Phoenix Cyclops on 2nd November
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has revealed its full Year 1 DLC roster, with Phoenix Cyclops, Thor (Jane Foster), Venom, and Jubilee all on the way.
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Escape the Backrooms is throwing an After Party with three new levels this December
Escape the Backrooms is adding three new levels this December, as part of a party-themed update called the After Party.
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GTA 6 leaker CyberLeek is back with another video and this time, Lucia's naked
GTA 6 leaker CyberLeek is back with another video, this time with a naked Lucia taking a parachute jump off a rooftop.
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Phasmophobia confirms 30 million sales as its Crimson Eye Halloween event returns
Phasmophobia has sold more than 30 million copies across PC and console since it launched in Early Access in 2020.
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Squadron 42 opens for Steam wishlisting ahead of a planned Q2 2027 release
Squadron 42, the single-player spin-off of Star Citizen , can now be wishlisted on Steam ahead of its planned Q2 2027 release.
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"We have to go a different path" - Krafton thinks PUBG Ded.Net's pulpy gameshow hyperviolence and roguelite twist can make it the next big battle royale
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is arguably one of the most important games to release in the past decade. If H1Z1 built the foundation of the battle royale genre, PUBG certainly shaped it into the form that remains hugely successful today. We would not have seen the battle royale craze of the late 2010s without it, and millions of people around the world…
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GTA 6 leaker CyberLeek is now reportedly threatening to release a full, playable build of the game
A GTA 6 leaker has reportedly threatened to put out a complete, playable build of the game, start to finish.
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Strange Scaffold announces Gods With Badges, a tactics game where you decide when to switch off your bodycam
Strange Scaffold, the studio behind I Am Your Beast and El Paso, Elsewhere, has announced Gods With Badges, a narrative tactics game about the power police hold over life and death.
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Silent Hill, Gravity Rush director's Bokeh Game Studio is reportedly casting for a new horror game
It looks like Bokeh Game Studio, founded by Keiichiro Toyama, who directed the original Silent Hill and created Siren and Gravity Rush , is working on another horror game.
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Arc Raiders could eventually be split into PvE and PvP, says executive producer
Arc Raiders could eventually be split into PvE and PvP modes.
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Konami is already thinking about the next wave of Silent Hill games
Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto says Konami is looking at "a number of projects" after the first wave of new Silent Hill games.
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What we've been playing - "It's pure video game popcorn movie stuff"
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Dom enjoys being back in Gears of War, which they should with a name like that; and Bertie ekes every last drop he can get out of The Blood of Dawnwalker before saving his family.
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After modders removed Skate's live service bits, devs draw the line with tools that "bypass our systems to unlock paid cosmetics"
EA and Full Circle - the developer behind the new early access Skate game (skate.) - don't have a problem with modders and "creativity from players," but they're drawing the line with mods that aim to unlock paid microtransactions and unreleased content.
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As Xbox and PlayStation sales reach new lows, analyst says the "US hardware market has not been in a more precarious position since the early 80s"
PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles are more expensive than ever in most markets, thanks largely to memory components being gobbled up by AI data centres. Now, analyst Mat Piscatella worries the console market, at least in the US, hasn't looked this dire since the early 1980s, which was maybe not-so-coincidentally when the industry absolutely collapsed.
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Gears of War: E-Day reportedly courts over 1.7m Xbox Game Pass players and makes over $37m since launch
Gears of War: E-Day's sales are reportedly lighter than you might expect from one of Xbox's flagship names, but pure sales numbers don't paint a complete picture of the bloody shooter's performance. A sizable chunk of revenue actually came from Game Pass subscribers paying for the game's Premium Edition upgrade.
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Rockstar HR manager claims he had "little interest" in staff's union membership status as fired GTA dev union-busting trail heats up
One of the witnesses in the ongoing Rockstar Games vs Garland & Others case has said he had "little interest" in evidence of unionisation efforts he was sent by an anonymous employee, prior to the developer laying off a substantial number of union Discord members.
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It's official: Forza Horizon 6 delayed to 2027 on PS5, and the game's first expansion has been announced
The reports were correct : Forza Horizon 6 has been delayed to 2027 on PS5. The PlayStation version had been expected this year - the PC and Xbox versions launched in May - but it will now launch in January.
