Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma review

One might assume that if you fell out of the sky, crash-landed through the roof of a shrine, and woke up with amnesia to a flying, talking sheep with horns listing your divine duties, you might get a day off. You might want to relax and recuperate. You might take a moment for yourself. Need…

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MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it’s probably not great that the studio’s chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned

The pre-release saga of MindsEye, the debut game from former Rockstar Games stalwart Leslie Benzies and his Build a Rocket Boy studio, has taken another strange twist. As noticed today by Eurogamer, Build a Rocket Boy’s chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both left the company, just a week ahead of MindsEye’s release….

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Old School Runescape private server development is paused ‘indefinitely’ as Jagex says it has more important things to work on

I hope you weren’t too excited about the prospect of private servers for Old School Runescape, because Jagex has announced that Project Zanaris—the OSRS “community servers” initiative announced in 2024—has been paused “indefinitely.” And it sure doesn’t sound like it’ll be restarted, as developers previously working on the project “have been redistributed across Jagex or…

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Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts ‘senior management positions’ because after all the other layoffs, ‘the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size’

Less than six months after laying off an estimated 70 people, Smite 2 developer Hi-Rez Studios has made another round of cuts. But this time, rather than rank-and-file employees, the layoffs are focused on “senior management positions” near the top of the company’s food chain. The layoffs were first reported week by former Hi-Rez designer…

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