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In a move sure to speed up the development of games and improve sales, Microsoft will reportedly lay off Xbox employees in July. It will also apparently cut budgets in…

If you’ve played Guild Wars or its sequel, you’ll know that the land Tyria is a godless place. It didn’t used to be, but more than 1200 years before the…

On the same day as Ubisoft announced it was closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and proposing further changes in Barcelona, it’s now believed dozens of staff have been…

As Summer Game Fest draws to a close, it’s a fitting time for reflection. Not just on the cool games we saw announced (and there were a bunch), but also…

Waterful is that most appropriate and disquieting of things, a “nature-builder”. It’s a soft and colourful chillout game in which you cut rivers through procedurally generated landscapes with a…

Skip to comments F. Opper Happy Hooligan, 1903 In the late nineteenth century American newspaper owners and comic strip artists transformed European traditions of visual humor and graphic narrative into…

Microsoft’s Xbox division will be hit with significant layoffs next month, according to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks, with…

Stepping into a new world in Valheim is an exhilarating feeling: a massive realm surrounds you, wild and untamed in all directions, just waiting for you to grab your hammer…

There have been so many Assassin’s Creed games, and so many games inspired by Assassin’s Creed, that it’s easy to forget that Assassin’s Creed used to be Weird. Or…

Frontier Developments has just announced Planet Zoo 2 and the first Jurassic World Evolution 3 expansion, but the developer is already hard at work on its next “construction and management…

This past weekend was quite an exciting time to be a fan of Microsoft’s Xbox, with the big Xbox Games Showcase towards the end of Summer Game Fest celebrations bringing…

For years, lovers of exquisite sprite designs have clamoured for Vanillaware to bring their action RPGs and strategy games to PC. Games like time-rewinding mecha soap opera 13 Sentinels: Aegis…

Ubisoft has carried out another round of cuts as part of its seemingly endless restructuring process, sources have told GamesIndustry.biz. It is closing its studios in Winnipeg and Belgrade and…

The Marvel source material cards are the main reason why I am excited about Magic: The Gathering’s collaboration with Marvel Comics. These are reprints of popular Magic cards featuring borderless…

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When I talk to other journalists and random bus stop strangers about the idea of divesting from Microsoft and Xbox – worth doing for many reasons besides the company’s…

Though the Steam Controller broke Valve’s storefront, and the Steam Machine otherwise stealing the show, I’m most looking forward to Valve’s VR headset, the Steam Frame. Until its release date…

“The way we think about it is tension and release,” explains Hope. “We could probably change the settings so it’s just unrelenting and completely menacing, but I don’t think that…

One of the most popular ways for Steam users to charge their store wallets is through the purchase of gift cards. For years, Steam has allowed players to purchase gift…

I have sacrificed many an hour to the altar of Vampire Survivors and its kin. Deep Rock Galactic Survivors, Nimrods, Brotato, TerraTech Legion, Soulstone Survivors. I could go on. So…

Valve have stopped producing physical Steam Gift Cards for retailers, meaning once the current stock runs out you won’t see them anywhere out in the wild. Valve say this is…

America loves a fad, and American capitalism causes any craze to be commodified. Mania has been monetized many times over the past century. Everything from Davy Crockett to Elvis to…

It appears the jury is still out as to whether Microsoft’s seismic $68.7 billion merger with Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard represented good value for money.  During an on-stage…

Sassy Chap Games’ Date Everything won Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game and the Gayming Fan Favourite Award at this year’s Gayming Awards. The ceremony, held at The Vermont Hollywood theatre in…

Muramasa: Revenant Blades is the newly announced action RPG from Vanillaware, a highly respected Japanese studio founded in 2002 and terminally aloof to the existence of personal computers. Until now:…

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the industry should prioritise reducing hardware production costs rather than focusing solely on developing the “most premium, high-performance consoles”. Speaking to Fortune, Sharma observed that…

That company that makes the games about the plumber man, elf boy, and half-donkey half-gorilla held one of its “Directs” today, and lo and behold was the surprise showcase…

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is getting a Dark Arisen DLC expansion that introduces a chilly new mountainous area, in which there are flaming castles, some awful emaciated dragons, and ice…

Today, as part of the June 2026 Nintendo Direct, Square Enix revealed that we’ll be getting our first HD-2D Final Fantasy game later this year. Named Final Fantasy Resonance, the…