Splitgate studio 1047 Games is working on something new: ‘If you’re a fan of games like Titanfall or Black Ops 3, we would love to hear from you’

PCGamesNIt should probably come as no surprise, but now it’s official: Splitgate studio 1047 Games is working on something new, and it’s invoking some pretty big names from the past to get people’s attention. Word of the new game came near the end of the recent Splitgate: Arena Reloaded season 2 update. “We have always…

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Infamous World of Warcraft guild exploits its way to a world first in new Midnight raid until Blizzard says its instant 300 million damage doesn’t count

The first World of Warcraft Midnight raid race is on and Blizzard has already had to disqualify one group of players for breaking the rules. While players from around the world race to gear up and take down the boss Chimaerus in the recently released Dreamrift raid, a guild known as RAoV QA Strikes Back…

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Fortnite producer asks for patience as developers ‘pick up the pieces’ after massive layoffs: ‘We cannot even fully understand what kind of impacts this will have on the game for the rest of the year and likely beyond’

Yesterday’s layoff of more than 1,000 employees at Epic Games was driven in part by behind-the-scenes issues with Fortnite: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said that “despite Fortnite remaining one of the most successful games in the world, we’ve had challenges delivering consistent Fortnite magic with every season.” Very roughly, 20% of Epic’s workforce was let…

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The best non-Hitman game from Hitman’s devs wouldn’t have happened if it didn’t blow EA execs’ minds and ‘low expectations’ with a hocus-pocus demo powered mostly by dreams

These days, we indelibly associate IO Interactive with the Hitman series, but back when the studio was young we… well, we associated it with the Hitman series. It’s been making Hitman for a while, starting with its first game, Hitman: Codename 47, all the way back in 2000. But after releasing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin…

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The companions in Owlcat’s new Mass Effect-inspired RPG stand ready to have heart-to-heart chats, drag you into their sidequests, and blow a lot of stuff up

Over the past eight years, Owlcat Games has built a reputation for making some of the best modern isometric RPGs (after a bit of patching, at least!), including Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. And though it’s clearly not giving up on that genre any time soon (there’s a follow-up to Rogue Trader on…

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‘Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers’: New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5

DLSS 5 is contentious, to put it lightly. Though execs from the likes of Capcom and Bethesda seem on board with the new generative AI rendering tool, some of its employees didn’t even know it was going to be announced (admittedly, the logistics of informing all employees does make my head spin, not to mention…

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