After its ‘make FPS great again’ controversy, Splitgate 2 is relaunching with a humbler tone: ‘The goal is to grow over time, not aim for a massive splash on day 1’

Troubled team-based shooter Splitgate 2 is coming back earlier than expected: Rather than re-launching in 2026 as originally planned, developer 1047 Games says the beta servers will be taken offline on December 4, and a full-on re-release will follow later in the month. “Thank you to everyone who participated in the Splitgate 2 Beta!” the…

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Former Ghost of Yotei artist says she wasn’t fired because of a Charlie Kirk joke, but ‘because of a harassment campaign’ that nobody at Sony or Sucker Punch bothered investigating

Former Sucker Punch artist Drew Harrison was fired by studio parent company Sony in September, just one day after posting a joke about the murder of high-profile alt-right provocateur Charlie Kirk. In a new interview with Aftermath, Harrison says the firing, which ended a career of nearly 10 years at Sucker Punch, came about not…

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The first thing Bungie asked LucasFilm about its Star Wars-themed Destiny 2 expansion was: ‘What is the bad version of this?’

You know the emergency lights are blinking at Bungie when the developer starts putting out balance changes with triple digit percent buffs in a bid to lure Destiny 2’s dwindling playerbase back. That was the case with yesterday’s ability tuning blog, which saw the Hunter class eating especially well. (About time too.) Today, attention turned…

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Moonlighter 2 made me reckon with how ‘cozy’ a shopkeeping roguelite with a heavy helping of Hades can get

When Moonlighter released in 2018, it was to a fairly positive critical reception. Players seemed to enjoy the combination of cozy shop simulator and dungeon crawling roguelite, inspired by the Rogue Legacies and Stardew Valleys of the time. Some grumbled about a lack of depth and incentive to keep returning to the dungeon again and…

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