About 15 pounds per square inch at sea level. Developer G.Rev may not be all that familiar to those who weren’t fully immersed in the shoot-’em-up scene of the early noughties. A boutique independent, it was assembled by former Taito employees who previously contributed to the likes of RayStorm and G-Darius. G.Rev’s most famous work,…
Path of Exile dev Grinding Gear Games bit off more than it could chew when it promised to maintain Path of Exile just like it had always done, even while it was dealing with the Path of Exile 2 launch. But reality is a killjoy and the studio has been reassessing things, resulting in a…
Earlier today we reported how Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling tech went from an idea popping out of CEO Jensen Huang’s head to a SIGGRAPH keynote in just two weeks. Now it turns out it took rather longer to develop the AI model for Nvidia’s frame generation technology, fully six years in fact. Again, the revelation comes…
Stealth games typically prioritise avoiding causing a stink, but usually in a figurative sense. Keeping a low profile as you skulk around some elaborate mansion or military base is often essential to survival, as you evade or quietly eliminate guards to prevent the alarm being raised. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, however, makes being sniffed out…
Need for Speed fans are in for a long wait before getting behind the wheel of a new game from the series. Developer Criterion Games, which has handled EA’s venerable racer for years, has now shifted entirely over to work on EA’s next Battlefield title. In a statement to Eurogamer, Battlefield’s three-star general Vince Zampella…
Including Bayonetta 3’s director. Following reports that PlatinumGames — the studio behind the Bayonetta series, Astral Chain, and who helped Square Enix on NieR:Automata — had lost several key directors and creators back in December 2024, former vice president Hideki Kamiya appears to have confirmed that at least five directors have left the company. Earlier…
Coming to Xbox, PS4/PS5, PC, Atari VCS, and Switch. Atari has revealed that it will soon be releasing a brand new game in the Breakout series, from the developers of the Bit.Trip series, Choice Provisions. Breakout Beyond is described as “a vibrant new reimagining” of Atari’s 1976 arcade game and is a reworking of an…
Destiny 2: Heresy is set to launch today (February 4), concluding the Light and Darkness Saga and flinging players into the Dreadnought as part of its 3-player game mode, The Nether. One thing it won’t have a lot of however, is voiced dialogue. As part of the January 30 This Week in Destiny blog post…
Le brick, c’est chic. Atari has announced that the 1976 brick-breaking arcade classic Breakout is making a comeback. Breakout Beyond is being developed by Runner3 team Choice Provisions and sees the classic’s vertical orientation getting flipped on its side. As you can see in the reveal trailer above, the Pong-like paddles now slide up and…
Category: Xbox Game Pass February 4, 2025 Coming Soon to Game Pass: Avowed, Madden NFL 25, and More Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass Welcome back, friends! Happy to be here with more news, games, and updates. Speaking of news, we had lots of it in the 2025 Developer_Direct – with a little…