Shadow the Hedgehog is in the next Sonic movie and all I can think about now is which Hollywood tough guy will voice him

After literal decades of middling-to-terrible 3D Sonic games, it seemed like an actual honest-to-god miracle that the Sonic movie and its sequel were so successful. Both movies got largely positive reviews, were praised for the performances of Ben Schwartz as Sonic and Jim Carrey as Robotnik, and made $300 million and $400 million, respectively. I…

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Embracer lays off 50 more employees and may soon close resurrected TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design, yet its CEO and board of directors still have their jobs and were ‘discharged from liability for the financial year’

There’s more bad news out of struggling gaming conglomerate Embracer: The company has confirmed that approximately 50 employees are being laid off from Chorus developer Fishlabs, and is also reportedly looking at closing TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design completely. Fishlabs is best known for the well-received “sentient starfighter” sim Chorus, but it’s also had a…

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Comedy TV show Taskmaster is getting its own VR game, and I can’t stop thinking about how Greg Davies looks like he should be a tank hero in Overwatch 2

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Taskmaster got its own VR game. The game show, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is about giving celebrities and comedians increasingly absurd tasks to fulfil—with very few clues on how to get those tasks done. Similarly, a lot of great VR games offer an…

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