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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...
 

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...
 

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,...
 

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...
 

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...
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  • The Quarry Dishes Some Teen-Horror Scares Today

    The Quarry Dishes Some Teen-Horror Scares Today

    The latest from the Until Dawn devs delivers some old-school teen-horror scares.

    Supermassive Games and 2K released their latest horror game today, The Quarry. This game, being tilled as a teen-horror narrative is out now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.

    This whole "teen-horror" is being used because the game follows a group of nine teenage camp counselors who find themselves in a typical horror scenario. You know...
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  • The Last of Us Remake Announced: Hits PS5 in September, PC Coming Later

    The Last of Us Remake Announced: Hits PS5 in September, PC Coming Later

    That's weird. They shrank his shoulders, made him look soft.

    Naughty Dog has officially announced that a remake of The Last of Us will be released on PlayStation 5 on September 2, 2022. This remake is officially being called The Last of Us Part 1. This remake has long been rumored to be in development but was not officially announced until today's Summer Game Fest showcase.

    This remake will feature better enemy AI that is now based off of the AI from The Last of Us Part...
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  • American Arcadia Extended Reveal

    American Arcadia Extended Reveal

    Big Brother is always watching.

    Out of the Blue, the studio that brought us Call of the Sea, just showed off an extended reveal trailer for American Arcadia today during Summer Game Fest.

    This trailer offers a more detailed look at the upcoming 2.5D platformer and first-person puzzler. In American Arcadia you will follow the stories of two characters, each with their own unique gameplay elements, whose lives are intertwined.

    American Arcadia is coming "soon"...
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  • Marvel's Midnight Suns Releases October 7

    Marvel's Midnight Suns Releases October 7

    The tactical RPG set in the Marvel universe has a release date.

    Firaxis Games, the studio that brought us the XCOM and Civilization franchises are in the home stretch now on Marvel's Midnight Suns. This new tactical RPG set "in the darker side of the Marvel Universe." will be available on October 7, 2022 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. A Nintendo Switch release is also coming, but it will happen at a later date.

    A new trailer for the game was shown off today during...
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  • Sci-Fi Horror Game Routine Gets a New Reveal at Summer Game Fest

    Sci-Fi Horror Game Routine Gets a New Reveal at Summer Game Fest

    This sci-fi horror title has come a long way since its initial reveal.

    Way back in 2013, a sci-fir horror title called Routine was first revealed. Since then, the development team at Lunar Software teamed up with Raw Fury to go back to the drawing board on a lot of what they had shown off. The radio silence ended today with a new re-reveal trailer for Routine that was shown off today during Summer Game Fest.

    Much like that initial reveal, today's trailer utilizes in-game...
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  • Aliens: Dark Descent Announced

    Aliens: Dark Descent Announced

    This has nothing to do with Amnesia.

    Tindalos Interactive and Focus Entertainment announced a new real-time action game for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC today. It's called Aliens: Dark Descent and it's a single-player, squad-based action title set within the Alien franchise. The game features an original story where players lead a squad of marines into battle against the titular aliens.

    The reveal trailer, seen below (if YouTube allows), follows a squad of Colonial Marines...
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  • Nightwing Shown Off in New Gotham Knights Trailer

    Nightwing Shown Off in New Gotham Knights Trailer

    A new character trailer shown off during Summer Game Fest.

    WB Games sand DC showed off a new character trailer for their upcoming open-world action RPG Gotham Knights. This new trailer shows off his acrobatic combat styles along with some of his different suit designs.

    Nightwing can use elemental melee attacks with "his signature escrima sticks and wrist darts," along with traversal moves like parkour, a grapple, and his glider named the Flying Trapeze.
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  • Outriders Worldslayer Co-op Trailer

    Outriders Worldslayer Co-op Trailer

    The co-op action game has a co-op focused trailer for the new expansion.

    Square Enix showed off a new trailer for Outriders Worldslayer, the upcoming expansion to the game that adds in a bunch of new content. While you can play solo, the game is best enjoyed with some co-op partners and that's what today's new trailer is ready to show off.

    Worldslayer will add new environments to explore, new enemies, and new features. It is set to be released on June 30 for Xbox One,...
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  • Guile is in Street Fighter 6

    Guile is in Street Fighter 6

    If America were a fighting game character, it'd be Guile.

    Capcom showed off a new trailer today for the recently announced Street Fighter 6. This trailer, shown off at Summer Game Fest 2022, features the first look at Guile, otherwise known as "America's hero" apparently. That's what the press release tells me and that's what I'm telling you.

    Guile is the fifth officially revealed character for Street Fighter 6. He will be fighting with and against others such...
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  • Depending on Who You Ask: Everyone or Nobody at DICE is Currently Working on Battlefield 2042

    Schrödinger's development team.

    Depending on who you listen to and who you believe, either a "skeleton crew" is left working on Battlefield 2042 development, or the entire team at DICE is still working on the game.

    Back in April, the idea that there were only a handful of people left working on Battlefield 2042 started to circulate online. When asked how many people were still working on 2042, DICE game designer Frederik Drabert said that "almost everyone"...
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  • Halo Infinite to Begin Testing Co-op Campaign in July

    Halo Infinite to Begin Testing Co-op Campaign in July

    Select players will finally get to play through Infinite's campaign with their friends.

    343 Industries announced that a beta for campaign co-op will arrive this July for Halo Infinite. Next month, select players will get an opportunity to test things out ahead of a public launch of the co-op feature later this year.

    The official Halo account says that the campaign co-op "flight" (ie: "playtest") will be available first to those enrolled as a Halo I...
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  • Techland Concludes 7 Years of Dying Light Development with New Definitive Edition

    Seven years of support, updates, and content comes to an end.

    June 9 marks the date in which Techland will officially bring to an end new, active development on the original Dying Light. Over the past seven years, the studio has released what can best be described as a ton of updates, improvements, and content for the zombie slaying game.

    On the 9th, a new and very ultimate edition of Dying Light will be made available. It's called Dying Light: Definitive Edition and will...
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  • The Cycle: Frontier Launches Today

    The Cycle: Frontier Launches Today

    PvPvE action in persistent maps.

    The pre-season for YAGER's first-person "extraction shooter" The Cycle: Frontier is now available through Steam and Epic Games Store. This is a free-to-play game that blends PvE combat with PvP in a sci-fi world that features persistent maps and seemingly seamless matchmaking.

    YAGER is calling this release the "pre-season" because the first season begins on June 22. When Season 1 launches on the 22nd it will offer up...
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  • Call of Duty Returns to Steam with Modern Warfare 2

    Call of Duty Returns to Steam with Modern Warfare 2

    The no-longer-annual franchise makes a return to Steam after several years of absence.

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will officially launch on October 28, 2022. This follow-up to the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Those of you playing on PC now have a choice between buying the game through Battle.net or Steam.

    This is some rather big news for Steam fans today because the Call of Duty franchise...
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  • Evil West Release Date Set for September 20

    Evil West Release Date Set for September 20

    Get ready to dive into the Weird Wild West this September.

    Focus Entertainment and developer Flyign Wild Hog just announced the release date for their upcoming dark fantasy, third-person action game called Evil West. We first heard about this one back at The Game Awards in the far-off time of December 2021. This take on the Weird Wild West will be out on September 20, 2022 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC.

    Pre-orders are available right...
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