Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update V: European Cities

PS Store: December’s Top Sellers

Hello, and welcome to 2015! Let’s dive right into last year’s final PS Store top sellers chart: PS4 Games 1 Grand Theft Auto V 2 Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition 3 Battlefield 4 4 The Walking Dead: Season Two 5 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 6 Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes 7 Game of Thrones:…

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Halo Infinite support studio Certain Affinity lays off employees for the first time in 17 years, blames industry slowdown and ‘reluctance of third party investors to fund games or game companies’

Certain Affinity, which has worked as a support studio on games including Halo Infinite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, New World, and Hogwarts Legacy, has announced that it is laying off 25 employees, representing roughly 10% of the studio’s workforce. Word of the layoffs came in a message from founder and CEO Max Hoberman…

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MSI’s monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to ‘completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes’, apparently

There’s something to be said for throwing moderation out the window and going all in on excess. MSI seems to agree, as it’s just taken the wraps off the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z, a truly monstrous, water cooled, 8-inch screen emblazoned GPU that makes the regular RTX 5090 look downright pedestrian. It’s…

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Tarkov lead vows to make the upcoming Fragmentary Order the opposite of Arc Raiders, which he calls an ‘extraction shooter for casual people’

Fragmentary Order is the upcoming hardcore sci-fi extraction shooter led by Escape from Tarkov’s creator, Nikita Buyanov—he’s still working on Tarkov at Battlestate Games, though. But the extraction shooter has changed (in large part due to Arc Raiders) since Tarkov’s eight-year beta period beginning in 2016, and even its full 1.0 release at the end…

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Former Activision-Blizzard employee sues the company for none of the reasons you’d expect by now, accuses Bobby Kotick of saying it had ‘too many old white guys’

Activision-Blizzard has been the centre of a lot of controversy over these past few years. After a lawsuit went public, detailing “numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation” and a “frat boy” culture, plus claims from former CEO Bobby Kotick that the whole thing was just an “aggressive labour movement,”  the company finally settled…

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