Too similar to Rockstar’s, apparently. Rockstar Games, the juggernaut behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise, is fiercely protective of its IP and image, and so is its parent company, Take-Two Interactive. So much so, in fact, that the latter has filed a trademark dispute over Remedy Entertainment’s new logo, revealed back in April 2023. As…
When I play Hearts of Iron, field hospitals are an icon I add to my divisions that gives me a bit of my lost manpower back after each battle. That’s it. War Hospital, however, takes us down into the sickbeds and surgical clinics of the First World War’s Western Front in a way that emphasizes…
GSC Game World’s long-awaited Stalker 2 has a new release date, and yes, it’s another delay. Instead of arriving in the first quarter of 2024 as planned, the studio announced today that a “final release date” has been set for September 5. GSC acknowledged that the latest delay is disappointing, but said the need to…
“That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen”. Yesterday, Ubisoft launched a rebrand of its subscription service, Ubisoft+ Premium, and brought its Classics package to PC. Clearly, the company sees this as a step into the future of gaming as its director of subscriptions, Philippe Tremblay, told GamesIndustry.biz that players need to become “comfortable” with…
Seamus Blackley is now more often found posting photographs of the beautiful sourdough loaves he bakes, or his recent Quixotic quest to make chocolate from scratch. But Blackley’s long and extremely distinguished career in tech will probably always be defined by his role at Microsoft in the late ’90s and early ’00s when, alongside others,…
In this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, the crew discusses our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League preview (we played several hours at a recent event), our very highly-rated Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review, and we circle back to our video game release calendar to highlight the 2024 games we’re most excited for that don’t have solid release dates…
Legend reborn. Remember Steel Empire for the Sega Mega Drive? What about the GBA release? 3DS? Well, whichever one you’ve experienced, if any, you’ll be happy to know that an updated version dubbed The Legend of Steel Empire is about to drop for the Nintendo Switch on January 23rd, 2024. Boasting updated visuals and improved…
The BBC and Minecraft are teaming up again, announcing a new collaboration between Mojang’s staggeringly popular sandbox and the Beeb’s snappily named BBC Studios Natural History Unit. This time, the partnership is based on Planet Earth 3, the latest in David Attenborough’s long, long line of increasingly elegiac nature documentaries that showcase the beauty and…
It’s been almost 30 years since Lara Croft took her first snowy steps in the mountains of Peru. In about 30 days, PlayStation players will get to re-experience Lara’s first three globe-trotting adventures, with a fresh look and feel in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. How did we get here?…
“I still have all my working files”. System 3’s Last Ninja series was so successful during the late ’80s and early ’90s that it eventually comprised three games and generated an appetite among fans for more adventures. Sadly, that never came to pass – although that wasn’t for want of trying. The drive to make…