This year’s ‘COD Next’ served up everything wrong with Call of Duty: Nonstop ads, manufactured hype, and a stagnant game

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Played an irresponsible amount of Megabonk. As cameras panned around the Las Vegas venue of COD Next, I tried and failed to identify anything real. There were the LED walls, which flanked attendees on all sides with larger-than-life Call of Duty logos. There were the hosts,…

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The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says one of CD Projekt’s big story points is actually based on a mistake, but ‘videogame people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity’

The first tease for The Witcher 4, back in 2022, was nothing but an image of a snow-covered Witcher medallion—but not a wolf. That led to an immediate question: Which school did it represent? There are several in the world of The Witcher, after all: Geralt’s School of the Wolf is the one we know…

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A surprise Steam update for Prototype broke the mods making the 16-year old game playable on modern systems—but could hint at a potential remaster

Prototype was a landmark release in videogame sweatshirts, featuring a permanently hooded, perpetually grumpy man harboring a mutagenic virus and powerful 2009-era angst. Admittedly, I’d be pretty cheesed off if I was left filled to the brim with bioweaponry against my will—until my nasty meat tentacles could fling helicopters around, anyway. All of life’s troubles…

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2 months after halting work on its latest project, Just Cause developer Avalanche is closing its Liverpool studio and laying off employees in Malmö and Stockholm

Not quite two months after Avalanche halted work on its 1970s smuggling sim Contraband, seemingly fallout from the massive wave of layoffs and cancellations imposed by Microsoft earlier in the year, Avalanche has announced the upcoming closure of its studio in Liverpool, and layoffs at its remaining operations. “In light of current challenges to our…

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The Star Trek: Voyager survival game will let you murder Tuvix all over again—so I don’t really care that it looks a little rough

Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown, the upcoming survival strategy game, just peeled back the curtain a wee bit more, giving us a new trailer that shows off the sci-fi romp’s main pillars, like exploration, combat and ‘what if?’ scenarios. The trailer appeared last week, but I was busy making friends with penguins in…

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