You can just bypass Fable’s ‘complex, nuanced’ reputation system with enough gold | Gaming
Fable – Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life – YouTube Watch On — Fable – Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life At last, the Fable reboot has shown off…
Read moreStarseeker: Astroneer Expeditions blasts off into early access today, with a full planet ready for you to explore | Gaming
A little bit of space travel, anyone? Last time I checked in on Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, the sort of spin off of regular ole Astroneer, it had only just…
Read more“My worry is that generative AI is poisoning the well” – Take-Two’s former head of AI shares his concerns on the current hype cycle | Gaming
Back at the start of April, it emerged that Take-Two had laid off its AI team as part of a restructuring initiative. Layoffs are, sadly, not a new occurrence. Layoffs…
Read moreTapestry is a painterly grand strategy multiplayer war game where you plot your victory at the start of every match | Gaming
Grand strategy games are often these slow, methodical things that require you to take your time, a genre that feels better suited solo. But how about a game that…
Read moreThe Resuscitation of Xbox | Gaming
I’m not sure it’s entirely fair, but it’s right there: if the new leadership of Xbox just wrapped up their ‘Charm Offensive’, the next phase looks to be the ‘Harm…
Read moreDog Man: Bark in Action Expands The Comic Book Adventure | News World
Dog Man Bark in Action – coming later in the year Dog Man is preparing to leap back into action later this year, as publisher Mindscape and developer Floor 84…
Read moreHalo: Campaign Evolved Is a Fascinating Preview of the Series’ Unreal Engine Future | Gaming
Here’s the full Halo: Campaign Evolved preview from John. The iconic single-player campaign from Halo: Combat Evolved is being remastered once again, this time arriving for Xbox Series machine, PC…
Read moreAfter fans’ decade-long search for Shadow of the Colossus’ final secret, creator Fumito Ueda says he feels “so fortunate” people want to be in his worlds | Gaming
It’s been six years since PlayStation nuked its forums, taking with it one of video gaming’s most legendary communities – a team of dedicated secret-hunters convinced Fumito Ueda’s Shadow of…
Read moreUbisoft are reportedly laying off up to 380 staff, as the Assassin’s Creed publisher closes two studios and restructures another | Gaming
Ubisoft are reportedly continuing the ruthless cuts they’ve been insitituting in various stages since that start of this year, with the latest round seeing the publisher’s Winnipeg and Belgrade studios…
Read moreDrums, cash grants, and bubbling capybaras: How Latin America’s game dev creatives are outgrowing outsourcing | Gaming
Easily missed among last week’s Summer Game Fest advert marathon was the Latin American Games Showcase: an exhibition that, at over eighty games strong, dwarfed the Keighley-fronted main event, yet…
Read moreDog tries to shoot PC gamer, but their rig (and RAM) takes the bullet instead: ‘It would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn’t been there’ | Gaming
Neighbour shot my PC through the wall from r/pcmasterrace It’s not every day you hear about a PC incidentally saving someone’s life. It’s even rarer that you hear about a…
Read moreXbox announces business ‘reset’ amid reports of layoffs | Gaming
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is preparing to reset Microsoft’s video game division after years of decline. According to Bloomberg, the move will result in major cuts across the division shortly…
Read moreXbox says hardware pricing boom represents “great” opportunity for games streaming | Gaming
Xbox’s newly anointed chief strategy officer, Matthew Ball, has said that the current spike in hardware pricing represents an opportunity for games streaming. Speaking at The Games Business Live, the…
Read moreHeroesCon returns to Charlotte Convention Center this weekend | News World
In taking its name literally, the Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find comic book store will once again bring together artists and enthusiasts for Charlotte’s annual comic book convention this weekend…
Read moreXbox Reportedly Planning ‘Significant’ Layoffs, Budget Cuts for Marketing, and More | Gaming
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has outlined plans to “reset” the business amidst reports of “significant” layoffs and budget cuts, according to a report Bloomberg published earlier today. The story says…
Read more“We made a series of mistakes”: GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game | Gaming
Retro-focused game sellers GOG have apologised after sending out a newsletter featuring runes which have long served as Nazi symbols. The symbols appeared in the subject for an email promoting…
Read moreResonance: A Plague Tale Legacy devs learned to make melee combat on the job | Gaming
Give me a game where I can hoof an enemy over the side of the cliff like a cut price Leonidas, and I’m happy. (It seems I’m not the only…
Read moreHere are our PS Plus Premium and Extra games for June | Gaming
Summer might be right around the corner, tempting us out toward sun, sand, and sea, but that isn’t stopping Sony from releasing a strong list of PS Plus Premium and…
Read moreXbox CCO Matt Booty says he’s seen The Elder Scrolls 6, ‘it looks amazing, and it’s coming along well’ | Gaming
Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls 6 in 2018, which was eight long years ago. The gap between Skyrim’s release and that announcement was only seven years. It’s been long enough…
Read moreLayoffs Coming to Xbox Next Month, Report Says | Gaming
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…
Read moreThe Guild Wars games have always been set in a world abandoned by the gods, in new MMO Guild Wars 3, you’ll see why they left | Gaming
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…
Read moreYet more layoffs reported at Ubisoft, this time in San Francisco | Gaming
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…
Read moreXbox CEO Says Current Margins ‘Cannot Continue’ In Public Letter To Staff | Gaming
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…
Read more“Even dry and lost places can flourish with a little care”: Waterful is a gentle, beautiful puzzler about drawing rivers that makes me yearn for something overwhelming | Gaming
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…
Read moreWayback Whensday: Early Comic Strips and Consumer Culture – The Daily Cartoonist | News World
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…
Read moreXbox warns of a ‘reset’ as it prepares for layoffs | Gaming
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…
Read moreWhile you’re waiting for Valheim 1.0, why not try this map that transforms it into a massive RPG? | Gaming
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…
Read moreI hope Assassin’s Creed Hexe is as silly as 1666: Amsterdam | Gaming
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…
Read moreFrontier quietly announces a “brand-new” Planet game and everyone’s trying to guess what it might be | Gaming
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…
Read moreMicrosoft just gave Xbox a big update after Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Games Showcase — it adds an amazing feature I’ll use all the time | Gaming
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…
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