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Riot Games has announced that it’s “refocusing on fewer, high-impact projects” to move “toward a more sustainable future,” and that means layoffs: Roughly 530 employees, representing 11% of Riot’s total workforce, have been let go. In an email sent to employees, Riot CEO Dylan Jadeja said that the company has made “a number of big…
Ludicrously successful Pokémon parody survival game Palworld, which has sold four million copies in just days, has come under the microscopes of internet detectives who think its 100 Pokémon-like monsters go beyond parody into straight-up rip-off territory. The head of Palworld developer Pocketpair, Takuro Mizobe, said on X today that “slanderous” comments are being made…
Out of all the bosses added in Diablo 4 season 2, The Beast in the Ice was the most annoying one to kill. Not only did he have a lot of attacks you had to dodge out of before you could get a hit on him, he was also a pain to reach in the…
When Diablo 4’s Season of the Construct begins, everyone will have a robot spider crawling along beside them. In all the footage Blizzard has released leading up to tomorrow’s season launch, the little spider always looks like the Dwarven spiders from Skyrim. Despite what players had been hoping, it will always look like that, Blizzard…
With five million sales under its belt in just five days, Palworld developer Pocketpair all of a sudden has the kind of money most early access developers can only dream of. Unless Pocketpair starts lighting yen bills on fire in the street or makes a bad investment in Bored Apes, it should now have the…
There are famously only 22 countries in the entire world that Britain has not invaded at some point during its history. But now you can add Fortnite to that list, as the British Army has given up its plan to hold a livestreamed competition later this week between influencer-led teams on its very own custom…
The Azerothian Archives is a surprisingly deep event in World of Warcraft which has arrived with the 10.2.5 patch. It brings opportunities to earn new transmogs, mounts and pets, along with reputation to earn with old and new factions. The Archives creates a new flavor of archaeology with an excavation mini-game, tracking and spotting artifacts,…
Back in March 2023, CDPR’s then-CEO Adam Kiciński said the quiet part out loud on an earnings call, and referred to the studio’s Polaris project (a new Witcher trilogy) as The Witcher 4. Naturally the studio went into immediate damage control mode and denied the first Polaris game is The Witcher 4, but here’s what…
After a week of rumors, Embracer-owned studio Piranha Bytes, the developer of the Gothic, Risen, and Elex games, has acknowledged that it is in “a difficult situation” but says it’s still trying to find a way forward for its next project. Should it be unable to do so, the studio will be closed. Word of…
The phrase ‘Nothing’s certain but death and taxes’ needs an addendum—because the inevitability of Palworld having Pokémon modded into it is, statistically, more likely than both of those things. Medical science could outpace death given a couple hundred years. A post-scarcity society could move beyond the need for taxation—but the moment someone could send Pikachu…