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Astroneer studio announces its next game, ‘a multiplayer voyage of discovery’ in deep space

Seemingly lost amidst the Nintendo Direct excitement of actual Silksong info, not Bloodborne 2, and specs for the Nintendo Switch 2 is word of a new game from Astroneer developer System Era Softworks called Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, “a multiplayer voyage of discovery, cooperative expeditions, and camaraderie” in Deep Space. “The heart” of the new game…

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Japanese devs aren’t facing the same layoff crisis because their executives are paid an order of magnitude less, ‘they didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend,’ and their teams are smaller, says industry expert

In an interview first published in Edge Magazine issue 428 and shared online via its Knowledge newsletter, former Tencent Games business development director and inaugural Game Awards Game Changer Amir Satvat offered his take on why the now-yearslong games industry layoff crisis has been so uneven in its geographic distribution. There’s been a lot of…

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Facebook Working on Virtual Assistant Called ‘M’

David Marcus, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, revealed on Wednesday that America’s number-one social network is currently developing a genderless virtual personal assistant called “M.” This new AI will be located within Messenger, the company’s stand-alone chat client. So far there’s no indication when—or if—this virtual assistant will be released to the Facebook…

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Marathon creative director shoots down rumored merge with Destiny 2: ‘Please don’t believe everything you read online’

Have you heard the rumor that Bungie is looking to somehow merge Destiny and Marathon into a single series? I’ll admit that I hadn’t, until Marathon creative director Julia Nardin took to X to say flat-out that it’s not true. “As someone who’s worked on both Destiny and Marathon, I can confirm that the ‘leak’…

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