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Bloomberg reports that, following EA’s layoffs and restructuring at BioWare, the studio now has fewer than 100 employees, down from more than 200 during the development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Meanwhile, at its peak, BioWare consisted of three studios and, conservatively, over 400 employees. Interestingly, Bloomberg’s sources say that the plan to “loan” BioWare…
Absurd Ventures, the game and creative studio started by Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser back in 2021, has shown a first-look image of characters from its upcoming Absurdaverse setting, and announced an in-development game set there. “A very first look at just a few characters from the ABSURDAVERSE. Prepare to meet some new kinds of…
I’ve enjoyed Sniper Elite’s steadfast devotion to shooting Nazis between the eyeballs or in the groin for years, but I’ve also found the series frustrating for nearly as long. From the original game in 2005 to the release of V2 in 2012, which put in place the formula for the four sequels and two VR…
EA has shared a community update stating it is investigating reports of “various issues” in the Legacy Collection re-releases of The Sims 1 and 2. Over on Steam, the games are both sitting at a “Mixed” score from user reviews, with complaints of crashes, bugs, and a general lack of quality or improvements. “We recognize…
I hope you’ve got your mop ready, because Killing Floor 3 has officially announced its release date. Tripwire Interactive’s zombie-blasting sequel will slop wetly on your PC in two month’s time: The studio revealed the game’s release date on its X channel, simply stating ‘The battle begins on March 25’. You might be able to…
PC gamers have been accustomed to the presence of physics in games since first launching a toilet at a Combine soldier’s head with Half-Life 2’s gravity gun. Yet while there are countless games that play with simulations of Newton’s laws of motion, few games engage with physics as a subject or theme. This is what…
Besiege, the physics puzzler about building rickety siege contraptions, has officially been pummelling castle walls for ten long years. To celebrate, developer Spiderling Studios has an “exciting year” planned for the decade-old construction sim with “community events & future updates” coming throughout the next twelve months. The first of these updates is already here, making…
If you want to get me invested in a dialogue-heavy game, there’s worse ways to do it than invoking Monkey Island’s insult battles. Techno Banter, freshly launched on Steam and GOG from Berlin-based indie outfit Dexai Arts does all that and a bag of chips, riffing off the man-about-town adventuring of the Yakuza series, and…
Palworld developer Pocketpair launched a new publishing business last week, following the gargantuan success of its Pokémon-inspired survival game. The response was, shall we say, enthusiastic, with Pocketpair’s comms director and publishing manager John Buckley stating he received 1,500 LinkedIn requests within 24 hours. Now, one week after getting into the publishing business, Pocketpair has…
The first thought that popped into my head upon dipping my toes into Defender’s Quest 2: Mists of Ruin is that they don’t make tower defense games like this anymore. The second thought was that my tea was suddenly stone cold and that the past four hours had mysteriously disappeared. This is pure videogame comfort…