Chaotic destruction sim Teardown breaks cover on its multiplayer update, revealing 8 player team deathmatch and support for modded servers

I haven’t paid much mind to Teardown since it was released back in 2022, so I was surprised to see what a strong run of post-release support the destruction-focused heist sim has received in the last three years. Over that time, a featured mods menu, a creative mode, new mini-campaigns, and a third-person camera have…

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RoboCop: Rogue City’s expansion will let you play as ED-209, but I’m more excited about having some guns I might use instead of the Auto 9

I mostly enjoyed RoboCop: Rogue City when it launched in 2023, by far the best of developer Teyon’s roster of licensed shooters based on classic ’80s action films. It did have one amusing problem as an FPS though, namely that RoboCop’s signature Auto 9 was so good it made virtually every other available weapon redundant….

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In the wake of Perfect Dark’s cancellation, Joanna Dark’s voice actor urges fans to help save the series: ‘Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you’

Perfect Dark was one of the biggest projects gutted by Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs, which is really saying something given one of the other canceled games is an MMO. The rebooted shooter was in under-wraps development for several years before a fantastic-looking gameplay reveal debuted just last year—and now that all that work is…

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CWA union derides Microsoft layoffs when ‘the company is prospering’: ‘We are living through a moment of profound corporate consolidation and disruption’

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced around 9,000 layoffs—many of which gutted teams and canceled games all over Xbox Game Studios—and it hasn’t gone over great with, well, anyone whose conscience is intact. The Communications Workers of America, a major media union with several locals within Microsoft, took the moment to address its disappointment with a…

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