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The ongoing regime change and reorganization at Xbox hasn’t given much cause for confidence in the state of its studios—particularly Arkane Lyon, which has stayed almost entirely out of the public eye since announcing Marvel’s Blade at the 2023 Game Awards. The studio was once again absent at this month’s Xbox Games Showcase, and the…
Diablo 4’s upcoming season was shaping up to be a big disappointment after the excitement around its latest expansion. Blizzard threatened to completely flatten the identity of the most powerful loot with a change that—while healthy in the long run—spoiled the fun of having ultra-rare items to chase in an action RPG. But after holding…
Lords of the Fallen 2, which had been set to launch this fall, has been delayed to early 2027, a pause that CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski said will provide “additional integration, iteration, and polishing time.” It will also, conveniently, move the game out of the immediate blast radius of Grand Theft Auto 6, which…
Electronic Arts’ president of enterprise development Laura Miele says the rise of artificial intelligence in game development can bring about “a real rise in creativity” by removing tedious grunt work and enabling faster development processes overall. Miele expressed her thoughts on the matter earlier this month during a Game Business Live showcase at Summer Game…
Grand Theft Auto 6 is still five months away (on consoles, remember, no PC release date yet) and preorders won’t be live until later this week. But that apparently hasn’t stopped numerous websites from promising eager fans that they can get early access to the game right now for a price. Lest there be any…
After an incredibly brief existence, Owlcat has completely rolled back a controversial new launcher from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. Introduced yesterday, the Owlcat Launcher was intended to be a pre-game space for collating news and updates about Owlcat’s various games. “Instead of searching across multiple platforms for updates, news, and announcements, now you can find…
After six years as an Embracer studio, Carmageddon: Rogue Shift developer 34BigThings is independent again. The studio announced today that original co-founder Valerio Di Donato has acquired full ownership of the studio, which will now be led by Di Donato, fellow co-founder Giuseppe Enrico Franchi, and new chief financial officer Daniel Giagnorio. Di Donato paid…
It’s looking like another grim summer for the videogame industry. Microsoft is eyeing up several studios to shutter, and the CEO of Epic Games says there’s a tidal wave sweeping over the AAA business, which I’m sure is fine. The next step in this macabre march comes from EA, which will reportedly be laying off…
Loving someone means putting up with all their flaws. In Final Fantasy 14’s case, that’s shrugging my shoulders and going “classic server tick moment” every time something that is definitely not supposed to happen does, in fact, happen. That’s been happening an awful lot more lately as I’ve been progressing through Dancing Mad (Ultimate), the…
Mostly what I do here at PC Gamer is wait for my colleagues to post about their tech issues in Slack and tell them to install Linux in response. Webcam broken? Linux. Frame drops? Linux. Distant relationship with your father? Linux can fix that. I am unfathomably, incandescently popular and no one wants me to…