'We wish to express our deepest regret': Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs

‘We wish to express our deepest regret’: Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs

Sebastian Wojciechowski, People Can Fly CEO, shared some disheartening news in an announcement on LinkedIn on Sunday. Not only is the studio indefinitely suspending two games it had in development, it is also scaling down its staff. Both are the result of negotiations with a publisher falling through and a lack of adequate resources and…

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Obsidian’s Avowed is going ‘classless’, ditching Pillars of Eternity’s crunchy stat-heavy builds in favour of Skyrim-like ability trees

I was downright gleeful when I learnt that Avowed—Obsidian’s upcoming first-person fantasy RPG—was set in the Pillars of Eternity world of Eora. If there’s one thing I’m perpetually a bit mad about, it’s that the Pillars games didn’t do much, much better than they did (If there’s a second, it’s that Tyranny somehow managed to…

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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag actor says Ubisoft threatened to sue him for blabbing about the remake that everyone and their grandma knows is coming

If I were writing the big book of maintaining morale, my number one rule for keeping the talent happy would be: don’t threaten to take them to court. But those mavericks at Ubisoft have always done things their own way. According to Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag voice actor Matt Ryan (who played protagonist Edward…

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Of all that’s wireless in this gaming life, gaming keyboards aren’t just entirely pointless they’re [expletive deleted] annoying

Dave James, cable guy (Image credit: Future) Yes, I have been testing gaming keyboards: But I’m also trying to lessen the environmental impact of my home PC setup, while still retaining access to the big ol’ RTX 5090 GPU. Gawd bless external GPU boxes and the Framework Desktop. Cable-clutter is a pain, and a very…

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Kingmakers, the game about bringing modern weapons to medieval battlefields, gets delayed just 5 days ahead of launch, and there’s no new release date

Just five days before it was set to launch into early access on Steam, the medieval-modern combat sim Kingmakers has been delayed—and, somewhat worryingly, it doesn’t have a new release target. The delay message focuses primarily on developer Redemption Road’s technical ambitions, which are very high: The studio says it “set out to push the…

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