The “restructurings” continue. After a year plagued by layoffs at studios big and small, Ubisoft has today confirmed that its ‘restructuring’ efforts are continuing into 2025, with a further 185 employees laid off across the company’s European studios. As reported by VGC, the layoffs come as a product of “restructurings” at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm…
Moons, give me strength… Sega has filed trademarks for Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Arcadia in Japan — and plenty of Dreamcast and GameCube fans are going wild worldwide. The trademarks — one for the game’s English name, and the other for its Japanese name — were made on 16th January, and then made public…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been a public figure for decades, but has enjoyed an outsized profile in recent years, not a little of which is down to his decision to acquire Twitter for $44 billion in 2022. In the end, that deal was almost forced on Musk after the courts got involved, but you…
Category: Games January 27, 2025 How Tails of Iron 2 Builds Upon Its Predecessor with Brutal Combat, Powerful Magic, and More Jack Bennett, lead designer and co-founder, Odd Bug Studio Summary Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter releases tomorrow, January 28, bringing players back to its medieval, anthropomorphic world. The story follows Arlo, heir…
I remember the FSR 3 launch. While AMD’s version of Frame Generation was a boon for those of us not on Nvidia GPUs, the supported games list was made up of, err, two entries. Hopefully that won’t be the case with FSR 4, however, as according to a reliable source of leaks, when it comes…
Everyone knows Apollo is just awesomely cool, right? Not the Greek god, even though he is the god of archery, but NASA’s moon landing missions of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It’s so cool that one British watch-making company has decided that the ultimate way to show your love for all things Apollo is…
Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth has finally ambled its way over to PC, and it’s landing with—hold your breath—moderate to solid success! Please imagine me firing some party poppers at your leisure. As seen on the game’s SteamDB page, Rebirth has thus far enjoyed a peak concurrent player count of around 40,000, which is none too…
More than a touch better. Atari has announced that RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic is finally being updated to support touch controls on the Nintendo Switch. In addition, the new update will also implement the ability to modify cursor movement speed, add in new visualisation settings, and introduce expanded tutorials to allow for a smoother transition for…
As PC Gamer is wont to do, we’ve been posting a lot about how our device of choice has won the console war. I would like to unilaterally, with authority that I do not have (and have not asked for), state that we’ve lost. Catastrophically, because the PlayStation 5 has randomly received Patch 8 of…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Kogado Studio Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, X68000 (Image credit: Kogado Studio) The mysterious snack-hoovering gap between holiday celebrations and getting back to normal is a great…