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For the first time, Geoff Keighley used his platform at The Game Awards to address head-on the plague of layoffs that have decimated the videogame industry over the past two years. “The sad reality is that over the past few years the gaming industry has suffered significant and unprecedented industry-wide layoffs,” Keighley said. “Those affect…
There are reasons to be cautious about Borderlands 4. Even if we forget about the execrable Borderlands movie for a second, since it’s not like Eli Roth’s going to be involved with the next game, Borderlands 3 was underwhelming and New Tales from the Borderlands didn’t win folks back. But between Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and…
Like Dark Souls 2, 3, and Elden Ring before it, FromSoftware’s next game will get a playable beta test sometime before release. Elden Ring: Nightreign, a co-op roguelike spin-off of the hit RPG, is due sometime in 2025. During a preview event last week, I went hands-on with a build that will likely be similar…
Quite possibly the biggest surprise announcement of The Game Awards, Elden Ring: Nightreign is a multiplayer-focused spin-off of FromSoftware’s giant open world RPG. Its debut trailer includes glimpses of a number of mechanics that look like they’re plucked from popular free-to-play live service games, including a battle royale-style circle enclosing the map and “hero” characters…
Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2 is in development and will hit early access in 2026. The announcement came during the 2024 The Game Awards, with a gorgeous trailer showing a considerably more varied color palette than what we saw in the brilliant original. Better still, this instalment will add co-op. While that early access launch…
The first game revealed at The Game Awards tonight is Ninja Gaiden: Deathbound, which marks the series’ return to its 2D platformer roots and the first entry in the series since 2014’s poorly received spin-off Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. Ragebound has an impressive pedigree: Blasphemous creators The Game Kitchen is developing in conjunction with Teenage…
It’s the end of the year, so of course thoughts are going to start moving on towards the future, to what’s coming down the pipe for the next go around the local shining celestial body. But we are also at the end of one whole generation of graphics cards and have just seen the very…
Along with a new gameplay overview video, developer Heart Machine has revealed a new early access launch date for Hyper Light Breaker, its co-op roguelike prequel to Hyper Light Drifter. Breaker will launch in early access on Steam January 14. There isn’t a ton we haven’t seen before in Breaker’s new gameplay trailer, but there’s…
Cruelty Squad developer Ville Kallio (who publishes under the name Consumer Softproducts) has announced a collaboration with Helsinki-based apparel company Ikono on clothing featuring art from the standout 2021 shooter. Pre-orders are open now, with an estimated delivery in February or March. Cruelty Squad is a surreal, abrasive, and one-of-a-kind shooter, an immersive sim all…
Former Destiny 2 and Marathon game director Christopher Barrett has sued Bungie and Sony over allegations that his former employers “deliberately destroyed” his reputation by falsely claiming that he had engaged in sexual misconduct in the workplace. Barrett says in his suit that the companies engaged in the “brazen scheme” to avoid paying him more…