One of my most anticipated shooters, which looks like Demon’s Souls in the Doom engine, finally has a release date right around the corner

Mohrta is an incredibly cool, cryptic, sci-fi/fantasy FPS that once again proves there might just be no limit to what you can do on the venerable Doom (or GZDoom) engine. In a new trailer, developers Scumhead and Osiol have revealed that we don’t have long to wait for the full game: Mohrta will release on…

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The guy who says ‘Toasty!’ in Mortal Kombat has left NetherRealm after more than 30 years with the team

NetherRealm audio director Dan Forden has left the studio after 15 years, where he’s worked since its founding in April 2010—although since NetherRealm was a rebadged Midway Chicago, it’s perhaps more accurate to say that he’s left after 36 years. Forden’s first game credit, for sound, is on the 1989 Midway arcade basketball game Arch…

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Meta Vibes is an officially sanctioned feed of endless AI garbage, and The Daily Show nails it in one: ‘You’re a fat little pig for internet video slop, and we here at Meta want to watch you eat yourself to death’

Meta has announced Vibes, a new feed of AI-created videos that will sit “at the centre of the Meta AI app” and force endless AI slop videos into your eyes until you can take no more. I just scrolled through it for a few minutes and saw meaningless junk including a toddler getting chased by…

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Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: ‘We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let’s try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings’

Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has unionized. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, representatives of the studio’s new Workers’ Alliance, as well as company president Ed Tomaszewski, announced the formation of the union and its voluntary recognition by studio management. The announcement comes as ZA/UM has finally started showing off its second game, the upcoming spy RPG…

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One of my favorite survival city builders is leaving early access this month, so here’s your chance to buy it before the price goes up

September sure was chock full o’ city builders, but wait, there’s more! October has a treat in store for all you aspiring mayors, too: survival city builder Farthest Frontier is busting out of early access and going full version 1.0 later this month. This is excellent news for two reasons. First, even from its earliest…

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Amnesia creator Frictional Games teases its next game, and it may be something new but it sure feels like SOMA

Frictional Games, the videogame horrorsmiths responsible for the Penumbra, Amnesia, and SOMA games, is teasing something new—and yes, as you might expect, it looks creepy as hell. The clip that appeared yesterday on YouTube, entitled Frictional_Next_Project.mp4, is actually the culmination of an ARG that, as laid out by Polygon, began last week with a small…

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