Bethesda Game Studios reportedly suffered “significant” cuts during this week’s Xbox layoffs, which put 1,600 employees out of work across Microsoft’s gaming division as the initial wave of a sweeping reorganization scheme aiming to achieve 3,800 layoffs by the end of the company’s 2027 fiscal year. In the aftermath of Xbox’s bloodletting, the Bethesda Game…
A Bloomberg report says Obsidian Entertainment, which was recently hit hard by mass layoffs at Xbox, has cancelled projects including a sequel to Avowed and will instead begin working on a new Fallout game. A California WARN report shared by GameFile says 52 employees at Obsidian were let go in the layoffs, which Bloomberg says…
Less than three years after it went live on Steam, Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis is calling it quits. Square Enix said in an end-of-service announcement that the sale of Red Crystal in-game currency has already been halted, and the game itself will be taken offline on October 6. Square Enix apologized for any disappointment…
Here’s a question that haunts me: are there people out there who actually keep a Humble Choice subscription going across multiple months? As far as I’m concerned, Humble Bundle’s monthly basket of games is just a bundle by another name. If the games are good, I drop some money, snag the keys, then cancel. The…
Available digitally and on a Game Key Car-d. 2023 racer The Crew Motorfest will be getting a Switch 2 edition on 8th October, 2023, Ubisoft has announced. The third game in The Crew series takes the action to Hawaii, and was given 8/10 in PushSquare’s review, where it was praised for its handling, variety of…
Marvel Rivals will open the doors to the “most massive overhaul to the combat system since launch” that affects roughly 80% of its hero roster when Season 9 kicks off in a couple of days. There’s hero reworks, a massive change to Team-Ups, and a substantial ultimate charge nerf. The state of Marvel Rivals has…
If shopping on Amazon has become a bit difficult because you keep inadvertently adding knock-off brands to your basket, there’s now a Google Chrome extension to help. Shared on X by creator Josh Pigford, once added to your browser, Knockoff.shopping declares the name of the brand on the listing. That means you no longer have…
But expect the game to last a good while. Remarkably, Street Fighter 6 is already over 3 years old (just over 1 one year old on Switch 2, before you say “well, actually”), so it’s only natural that fans ponder whether a big update is on the horizon. Looking back, Street Fighter IV received its…
The Asus ProArt lineup is, in essence, the company’s range of fancy PC products for creative professionals—and my goodness does it contain some nice-looking stuff. Which is why I jumped at the chance to test out one of the latest additions, the Asus ProArt Mouse MD301. It’s certainly a handsome squeaker, designed to provide a…
Arkheron, a game that had an exclusive interview with the PC Gaming Show back in June, will finally be releasing in closed beta next week—per an announcement on the game’s Steam page. In case you’re unfamiliar, Arkheron is an isometric PvPvE battle-royale type squad-based ARPG (try saying that ten times really fast) wherein you climb…