Author: Garry Smith

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has insisted the company is now “financially sound” after a tumultuous period in which 830 staff were laid off.In September 2023, the North Carolina studio behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine suffered a significant round of layoffs that saw 830 employees, about 16% of its workforce, lose their jobs.Separately, Epic divested music service platform Bandcamp and spun off most of SuperAwesome, a kid-safe technology company. These were acquired by Epic Games in 2022 and 2020, respectively. Around 250 people left Epic through the divestitures.At the time, Sweeney said Epic had been spending “way more money than…

Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games has confirmed the 2026 sequel has entered full development while revealing a handful of details about the action role-playing game.Eurogamer spotted the tidbits in CI Games’ latest financial report, where the publisher revealed Lords of the Fallen 2 (for lack of an official name) will have a “more commercial” art style and narrative, suggesting it wants the game to have more mainstream appeal.CI Games also promised gameplay improvements, more game mode options, and full “shared-progression” co-op alongside the “core” single-player campaign, all developed with “elevated production values” fueled by Unreal Engine 5.The publisher…

Palworld developer Pocketpair has signed a deal with PUBG company Krafton to develop a mobile version of the hit game.Krafton, fresh from acquiring Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks from Microsoft, has now inked a licensing agreement with Pocketpair to expand the Palworld intellectual property to mobile devices, Gematsu reported.Krafton’s subsidiary PUBG Studios will develop the mobile version of Palworld, which reimagines and adapts the core gameplay elements for mobile. No release window was mentioned.PUBG Studios is the development arm behind the phenomenally successful battle royale as well as its equally successful mobile versions. Indeed, PUBG Mobile has had over one…

Elden Ring developer FromSoftware has released patch 1.15 for the action game and its expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam.Patch 1.15 comes hot on the heels of Elden Ring’s big balance-changing 1.14 update, and thus does not contain any further balance changes or additional features. Check out the patch notes below, courtesy of publisher Bandai Namco.Elden Ring is one of the biggest video games of recent years, selling an incredible 25 million copies since going on sale in 2022. The Shadow of the Erdtree DLC…

Let’s go off script for today’s (typically multi-platform) daily deals. ‘PS5 Enhanced Pro’ logos have been surreptitiously appearing on products in the PlayStation Store, many of them unmentioned in Sony’s official announcements for said game-improving feature of its PS5 Pro console. When I began cataloging them all, the list blew out to 50+ items. That’s more than enough for a dedicated article, so let’s do that! Meanwhile, in our regularly scheduled daily retro news, I’m celebrating the 28th birthday of Tekken 2, a 3D fighter phenomenon. Though I owned and adored Virtua Fighter 2 on my Saturn, I was still…

All the DTI codes below have been tested as working at the time of submission. However, codes with unknown expiry dates may stop working at any time. Spotted a new code or one has expired? Let us know in the comments!Active Dress to Impress Codes (October 2024)Here are all the active Dress to Impress codes in October 2024 and the free rewards you get for redeeming them:D1ORST4R: Star bag and hair bow (NEW!)S3M_0W3N_Y4Y: Axe (NEW!)UMOYAE: Blue dress (NEW!)KREEK: Bear hatFASHION: Black and white dressLANA: White shorts, shirt, and legwarmersLANABOW: White bowBELALASLAY: Black jacket with pink halter topLANATUTU: White dressIBELLASLAY: Red,…

Castlevania veteran Shutaro Ida has announced that he will be stepping back from work on Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night 2 following his recent cancer diagnosis.The game developer, who worked on a long list of entries in Konami’s Castlevania series and more recently directed 2019’s Bloodstained, announced the news in a post on X/Twitter. He says he’ll be offloading some of his responsibilities with the rest of the team at developer ArtPlay now that he has begun his cancer battle.“I, SHUTARO, also known as Curry Boy and Curry Sage, have been diagnosed with cancer and have begun my battle with…

Throne and Liberty is off to a very strong start. The new MMORPG by NCSoft and Amazon Games has already rushed to number four on Steam, behind only Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, and that one banana game. At the time of this article, Throne and Liberty sits at around 292,116 concurrents, putting in the top half of the list of Steam’s ten most popular games. Its early performance is all the more impressive in light of mixed reviews, most of which have focused on its server issues and microtransactions.Disconnected from server? byu/stefansoul inthroneandlibertyIndeed, server issues seem to be the biggest…

All of the Anime Vanguards codes below have been tested as working at the time of submission. However, codes with unknown expiry dates may stop working at any time. Spotted a new code or one has expired? Let us know in the comments below!Active Anime Vanguards Codes (October 2024)Currently, there are no active and working Anime Vanguards codes in October 2024. We’ll add any new ones as soon as they become available!All Expired Anime Vanguards CodesHere is the list of expired Anime Vanguards codes that no longer work and can’t be redeemed anymore as of October 2024:TIKTOK50KROST10KSLAYERLATEUPDATESORRYTHXFOR1MLIKES70MVISITS300KPLAYERS100MVISITS800KLIKES25MVISITS10MVISITS600KLIKESAV500KLIKES400KLIKES300KLIKES200KLIKES100KLIKES10KLIKESAV50MILRELEASEDELAYHow to Redeem Anime…

Nearly two years ago, EA began teasing Project Rene, a new installment in the Sims series that most players assumed would end up becoming The Sims 5. However, in the wake of EA announcing that it did not have plans for The Sims 5 last month, a new set of screenshots from Project Rene have leaked, and the community is upset over some pretty big presumed changes that have been made since the game’s reveal.Over the past week, several apparent images from a recent playtest of Project Rene have leaked online, showing off some of the game’s new features for…