Footage of a canceled, 10+ year-old sci-fi Call of Duty developed by Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater studio Neversoft has leaked online

First spotted by CharlieIntel, two videos supposedly from a cancelled Xbox 360-era Call of Duty game called “Future Warfare” or “NX1” internally have been shared on Twitter. Their provenance has seemingly been confirmed by a former senior Neversoft developer who worked on the project. The first video was shared by an account with the handle…

Read More

Dark and Darker dev claims Nexon’s preliminary injunction has been dismissed, court rules that the game ‘cannot be considered an infringement of Nexon’s copyright or trade secret’

First reported by TheGamer, a member of Dark and Darker developer Ironmace has stated on the game’s Discord that they have achieved an early victory in staving off Maplestory publisher Nexon’s copyright lawsuit, with a South Korean court dismissing the publisher’s preliminary injunction. I’ve put a full timeline of the Dark and Darker saga below…

Read More

Mountain keeps, hobbit holes, and sick castles: Enshrouded players are hard at work with that excellent building system

New co-op survival game Enshrouded has been picking up Steam in the past few days, as the survival-crafting action RPG has not just pretty compelling combat but a really nice, rather in-depth building system. Per our predictions last year, Enshrouded’s impressive system of terrain alteration and building is giving rise to some truly delightful community…

Read More

Suicide Squad devs say despite being a live-service game it’ll respect players’ time because ‘We all love playing games, but we also have lives’

It feels like the internet’s already made up its mind about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, to the degree that I can’t imagine it receiving any kind of fair response when it launches on February 2. It’s become a symbol of everything wrong with live-service games, which is a reputation I imagine Rocksteady is…

Read More

Baldur’s Gate 3’s champion speedrunner just smashed two world records in as many days through the power of friendly fire, invisible bears, and throwing a guy off a bridge

Even after a standout AGDQ showing, prolific Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae shows no signs of pumping the brakes any time soon. Building on the strategies shown off at AGDQ, the runner brought BG3’s all-acts world record under 20 minutes before zipping through the megahard permadeath Honour mode in 21:17 for another world record the…

Read More