As well as the recent report that there have been multiple job openings at Retro Studios, according to VGC, the Texas-based game studio has added some high profile talent to its team of staff. As the studio focusses on the production of the eagerly awaited Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch, artists behind big franchises…
Today marks a monumental step for Guerrilla as a studio, as we announce our new chapter in the Horizon universe: Horizon Hunters Gathering. Play Video With the very first ideas that shaped the world of Horizon, we dreamed of players hunting machines together. We started with a small group of Guerrillas – including myself back…
Summer Nights event returns. We’ve been so lost in the Splatoon Raiders sauce for the past week that we had started to forget the sweet, sweet taste of Splatfests. Well, worry not, because we’re getting a reminder of their brilliance next month. Nintendo has today announced that the Summer Nights event will return to Splatoon…
Hello everyone! When I was much, much younger, I was awestruck by the cut scenes that were introduced with Final Fantasy VII, like when the Lifestream emerged to deflect Meteor. Or Squall and Rinoa’s famous dance at the ball in Final Fantasy VIII, which was also used to show off the capabilities of the PlayStation…
Yosuke Matsuda, the chief executive of Square Enix, has stated in a recent interview with The Financial Times that the coronavirus pandemic has caused “time to stand still” on production of the company’s new titles. The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have caused consumer video game spending to rise considerably, but it seems a number of…
After the unfortunate end to Destiny 2’s live service support, all of Bungie’s eggs are in a Marathon-shaped basket. The studio’s immediate future hinges on the extraction shooter, so this makes Marathon’s second season, Nightfall, all the more crucial. It launched yesterday and coincides with a free-play week for those on the fence. Season 2…
For a brief period in the early 2000s, RedOctane was a big deal. It peaked in 2005 as the publisher of Guitar Hero, leading Activision to acquire it the following year, but just a few years after that the ride was over: Amidst massive market oversaturation and flagging interest among players, Activision shuttered the whole…
Whether you see it as an advantage or a disadvantage, today of all days, one can’t help but deny there’s something… unique about the US thanks to President Trump. During this very AI-centric 24 hours for Trump—with his unveiling of the administration’s AI action plan and his talk at the All-In Podcast’s ‘Winning the AI…
I was doing pretty well in the Next Fest demo for Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown. I’d achieved a happy equilibrium, with all my villagers gathering and producing the necessary supplies for my hand-built hamlet’s steady growth. Lumberers were lumbering, quarriers were hauling rocks, and my orchard farmers were churning out apples: the basic fuel…
We are extremely delighted to announce and launch Spelunker World in North America today for free! More than thirty years ago, an 8-bit game Spelunker emerged — where the main character braved the depths of a deep and dark cave encountering bats and obstacles in the search for treasure. After the critical success of “Minna…