Microsoft Shutdown Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games
The company valued at over $3 trillion just closed several game studios.
Arkane Austin, the studio behind Redfall and 2017's Prey, has been shutdown by Microsoft. Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within series and the multiple award-winning Hi-Fi Rush, has been shutdown by Microsoft. Alpha Dog Games, the studio behind the mobile game Mighty Doom, has been shutdown by Microsoft. Roundhouse Studios will not be shutdown but will instead be absorbed by The Elder Scrolls Online...
Arkane Austin, the studio behind Redfall and 2017's Prey, has been shutdown by Microsoft. Tango Gameworks, the studio behind The Evil Within series and the multiple award-winning Hi-Fi Rush, has been shutdown by Microsoft. Alpha Dog Games, the studio behind the mobile game Mighty Doom, has been shutdown by Microsoft. Roundhouse Studios will not be shutdown but will instead be absorbed by The Elder Scrolls Online...
TikTok Ban Signed Into Law by President Biden
Owner ByteDance has 270 days to sell off TikTok.
On April 24, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that also included a bill that could ban TikTok in the United States. This ban can only be averted if the China-based company that owns TikTok, ByteDance, sells off the popular social media app before the 270 day time limit is up.
This gives ByteDance until January 19, 2025 to sell TikTok. An additional 90 day extension could be offered by President Biden if...
On April 24, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that also included a bill that could ban TikTok in the United States. This ban can only be averted if the China-based company that owns TikTok, ByteDance, sells off the popular social media app before the 270 day time limit is up.
This gives ByteDance until January 19, 2025 to sell TikTok. An additional 90 day extension could be offered by President Biden if...
Ubisoft Pulls Licenses for The Crew, Makes the Game Completely Inaccessible to Buyers
From the same company trying to sell you a $130 version of Star Wars Outlaws.
From announcing a $130 edition of Star Wars Outlaws to pulling game licenses from those that bought The Crew, Ubisoft sure is on a roll this week.
The Crew was Ubisoft's open-world racing game that was pulled from sale back in December 2023. As of March 31, 2024, Ubisoft shut down the online servers for The Crew. This effectively made the game unplayable across all platforms, including: PC,...
From announcing a $130 edition of Star Wars Outlaws to pulling game licenses from those that bought The Crew, Ubisoft sure is on a roll this week.
The Crew was Ubisoft's open-world racing game that was pulled from sale back in December 2023. As of March 31, 2024, Ubisoft shut down the online servers for The Crew. This effectively made the game unplayable across all platforms, including: PC,...
Tim Sweeney Called Valve 'Assholes' in Email to Gabe Newell, Valve COO Says 'You Mad Bro?'
Tim Sweeney is always mad.
The antitrust lawsuit against Valve from Wolfire Games got a little spicy this week. To quickly get you up to speed: Wolfire claims that Valve uses its position with Steam to control game prices and muscle out competition. Though the initial lawsuit against Valve was dismissed, Wolfire amended their suit in May 2022 and the legal battle was back on.
It may have taken almost two years, but we are now starting to see some of the documents that...
The antitrust lawsuit against Valve from Wolfire Games got a little spicy this week. To quickly get you up to speed: Wolfire claims that Valve uses its position with Steam to control game prices and muscle out competition. Though the initial lawsuit against Valve was dismissed, Wolfire amended their suit in May 2022 and the legal battle was back on.
It may have taken almost two years, but we are now starting to see some of the documents that...
900 People Laid Off Across Multiple PlayStation Studios
Multiple studios across all SIE regions impacted.
Sony just laid off about 900 people across multiple PlayStation studios around the world. These 900 or so laid off employees account for roughly 8% of the total workforce for Sony Interactive Entertainment.
President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan, announced the layoffs to the public today. The public statement came after an email was sent to all employees informing them of the layoffs. From Ryan's...
Sony just laid off about 900 people across multiple PlayStation studios around the world. These 900 or so laid off employees account for roughly 8% of the total workforce for Sony Interactive Entertainment.
President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan, announced the layoffs to the public today. The public statement came after an email was sent to all employees informing them of the layoffs. From Ryan's...
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Tips And Tricks For Finding Diamonds In Minecraft
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Tips And Tricks For Finding Diamonds In Minecraft
Minecraft is a Java-based sandbox video game developed by Markus "Notch" Persson and managed by Mojang AB as a division of Microsoft Studios. A player in Minecraft may navigate, interface with, and alter an interactively created map consisting of one-cubic-meter-shaped bricks. Crafting is a technique in gameplay where users construct new objects by assembling materials according to particular procedures. Diamonds are employed to manufacture several of Minecraft's most valuable objects, such as dia...
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Is Ubisoft Planning a Return to Steam?
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Is Ubisoft Planning a Return to Steam?
Recent behind the scenes changes suggest this may be a possibility.
In 2019, the final Ubisoft game on Steam was released. That game was Trials Rising. Since then, if you were a PC owner and a fan of Ubisoft's output, you were only able to purchase their titles from their first-party Ubisoft Connect or through everyone's favorite storefront, the Epic Games Store. As the months turned to years, it seemed like Ubisoft's return to Steam just wasn't going to happen.
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Death Stranding Surpasses 10 Million Players
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Death Stranding Surpasses 10 Million Players
That's a lot of connected strands.
Kojima Productions announced that since its release in November 2019, over 10 million people have picked up and played some amount of Death Stranding. This milestone comes about just as the game is celebrating its third anniversary since it was initially released on the PlayStation 4.
After spending some time as a PS4 exclusive, Death Stranding eventually found its way to the PC in mid-2020. In September 2021 Death Stranding Director's... -
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Destiny 2 Telesto 'Bug' Intentionally Added for Mysterious Community Puzzle
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Destiny 2 Telesto 'Bug' Intentionally Added for Mysterious Community Puzzle
I see stars above...
Destiny 2 is really no stranger to its fair share of bugs and issues over the years. This was never more evident than in the fact one of the game's weapons, named Telesto, was almost always unintentionally breaking or breaking something else within the game. It has been disabled and reenabled countless times. There is even a Telesto Report website that lists off every time the weapon has had a bug.
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Online Co-op Finally Added to Halo Infinite with Winter Update
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Online Co-op Finally Added to Halo Infinite with Winter Update
The newly released update also includes the Forge Beta, mission replay, and more.
The WInter Update for Halo Infinite dropped today and with it has come some highly anticipated features that many fans say should have been included at launch. New features added to the game today include online co-op, the ability to replay missions, the Forge Beta, and other content that developer 343 Industries say is free to all players.
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Evil West Co-op Trailer
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Evil West Co-op Trailer
Why slay vampires alone when you can do so with a friend?
A fresh look was just provided for upcoming third-person action game that has you slaying vampires and other nasties in the Old West. Evil West by Flying Wild Hog will allow players to either go at it alone or partner up with a buddy to tackle the story through online co-op.
According to today's video and release, Evil West will allow you to invite a friend for evil slaying for a portion of the game or for every... -
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Gears of War Netflix Movie and Adult Animated Series Announced
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Gears of War Netflix Movie and Adult Animated Series Announced
Netflix will work with The Coalition on these projects.
Netflix announces that they are partnering with The Coalition to create a Gears of War movie. This film will also be worked on first followed up by a new "adult" animated series.
The official announcement came earlier today through Twitter and the official Netflix account. The announcement was short and did not provide much in the way of details about either of these two major projects. ... -
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Mass Effect 5 Gets Another Mysterious Teaser on N7 Day
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Mass Effect 5 Gets Another Mysterious Teaser on N7 Day
Another mystery to solve is upon us.
It's N7 Day once again, which means BioWare is celebrating all things Mass Effect. Among some of their celebrations was another mysterious piece of concept art for Mass Effect 5 or whatever the new sequel ends up being called. In addition, they released a video that suggests that there is more than meets the eye, or even the ear. The art, which you can see here, seems to depict what looks like a section of a mass relay being built or even rebuil... -
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Pwn Some n00bs While Eating Nuggies in Your McDonald's Gaming Chair
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Pwn Some n00bs While Eating Nuggies in Your McDonald's Gaming Chair
I do not regret that headline one iota.
McDonald's, the fast-food place most closely associated with a clown, is making a gaming chair. It's no ordinary gaming chair. It is, the McCrispy chair. McDonald's, at least in Great Britain, is offering one lucky winner of a Facebook competition the chance to place their buttocks onto the off yellow and black padding of the McCrispy gaming chair. This is all being done to celebrate the launch of a new "chicken burger" that just also... -
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New World Gets a Fresh Start and New Servers
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New World Gets a Fresh Start and New Servers
The MMO opened up some new servers for players to experience the reworked early game.
Amazon Games just opened up a number of fresh, brand-spanking new servers for their MMO, New World. The new servers will allow players to get a fresh start on these "Fresh Start" servers that have no established players or economy.
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Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion in Copies Sold
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Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion in Copies Sold
It took just ten days.
It was only a week back that we shared news of how Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 pulled in $800 million in its first three days of sales. Already, this was a record-smashing sales figure for the franchise that has been around since 2003. Now, Activision says that Modern Warfare 2's record-setting ways are far from over.
In the ten days following its release on October 28, 2022, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has surpassed the $1 billion (USD) in... -
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Resident Evil Village PC VR Might be Happening
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Resident Evil Village PC VR Might be Happening
Data miners have mined the data to discover some PC VR secrets.
In early June, Capcom and Sony announced that Resident Evil Village would be coming to PlayStation VR2. It was expected that PC users would again lose out on a VR option for a Resident Evil game, just as the case was with Resident Evil 7's PlayStation VR exclusive release.
Now, a Redditor going by LitheBeep took the time to dive into Village's files following the release of the Winters' Expansion DLC and found... -
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Final Fantasy 16 Development is Nearly Complete
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Final Fantasy 16 Development is Nearly Complete
Square Enix says that the game is "about 95%" complete.
In an interview with Famitsu (translated by IGN), Final Fantasy 16 director Hiroshi Takai says that the development of the upcoming RPG is going well. When asked about the current status of the game, Takai says that the team is "about 95%" done with development.
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Modern Warfare 2 Composer Ditches Call of Duty Due to Challenging 'Working Dynamic'
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Modern Warfare 2 Composer Ditches Call of Duty Due to Challenging 'Working Dynamic'
Schachner issued this brief statement after fans began asking where the soundtrack was.
The music composer for both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Warzone, Sarah Schachner, says that she will no longer be composing music for the franchise due to a challenging "working dynamic" with the audio director.
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PSA: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is Free
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PSA: Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is Free
Play the previous Warhammer game before the new one is out.
Fatshark announces that the PC version of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is currently available for free on Steam. The game will be yours to keep so long as you claim your copy of the game between now (November 3) and Monday, November 7.
Vermintide 2 is a four-player co-op title similar in gameplay approach to games like Left 4 Dead and Warhammer: Vermintide. You and some pals will face off against plenty of vermin big and... -
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