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The last couple of years have seen some blockbusters deals in the games industry. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is obviously the biggest of them all, but Sony’s buyout of Bungie is up there too, and even (relatively) smaller deals, like NetEase’s purchase of Quantic Dream or Nacon’s takeover of Daedalic, can’t be overlooked. And…
Valve recently announced that Steam will allow games made with assistance from generative AI tools so long as it’s disclosed. If game developers tell the truth, we ought to be seeing a lot of disclosures in the near future. In a survey of over 3,000 game developers from the organizers of the Game Developers Conference,…
Here’s one I made earlier: I was searching for Joker enjoyer meats guitarist from Jared Leto’s band. (Image credit: Bungie) I’ve had an article in my drafts titled ‘All MMOs need a barber shop’ for several years now. The likelihood of that piece ever getting finished inched further away this afternoon, with Bungie announcing that—after…
It’s official: Barbarians and sorcerers won’t rule Sanctuary in Diablo 4’s next season, at least not using the same builds that absolutely crushed season 2. On a developer stream today, Blizzard said tomorrow’s patch notes will include fixes to the bugs that fuel the strongest builds in the game, as well as changes that elevate…
When I first saw footage of medieval city builder Manor Lords a few years ago I added it to my Steam wishlist before the trailer had even finished playing. That’s how good it looked. I wasn’t alone, either. Manor Lords has occupied second place on Steam’s top wishlisted games for at least a year, where…
Ara: History Untold maybe could’ve used a better title—it makes me think of a Las Vegas show, like the Luxor hotel’s King Tut Experience—but it’s interesting: a historical grand strategy game from Microsoft-owned developer Oxide Games (maker of Ashes of the Singularity) with ambitions to deliver “an evolution” in the genre. A lot of what…
MachineGames gave us our first real look at its long-awaited Indiana Jones game at today’s Developer Direct showcase, confirming the title—Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—and revealing details on the setting and story, and—this is the important part—a release target of later in 2024. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was first announced in early…
At today’s Microsoft developer direct, we finally got a good, long look at RPG powerhouse Obsidian’s upcoming game, Avowed. The studio gave an eight-minute presentation of the first person spinoff of the Pillars of Eternity series, including an early game quest, a breakdown of its new combat system, and a fall 2024 release window. That…
During Microsoft’s Developer Direct event on Thursday, developer Ninja Theory announced Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is out May 21st. “Senua is on the trail of the Vikings who’ve been enslaving her people,” says writer Lara Derham. That brings her to Iceland, where she’ll be fighting “giants who’ve plunged the lands into chaos, which in turns…
The seemingly endless litany of layoffs that’s plagued the game industry through 2023 and into 2024 continued today as two more studios have confirmed cuts to their workforces: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has let 40 employees go, while Lord of the Fallen publisher CI Games has reduced its workforce by 10%. The CI…