Author: Garry Smith
League of Legends MMO producer Greg Street has announced plans to depart Riot Games. In a Twitter thread, Street explained his reasons for stepping down. “A combo of personal and professional considerations led me to down this path. We experienced some devastating personal losses last year and I want to be closer to my surviving family,” he said. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Grand Theft Auto and Borderlands publisher Take-Two has confirmed reports of layoffs at the company, calling the job losses “necessary steps” as it seeks to “position the company for another extended period success.” Reports of layoffs at Take-Two first surfaced via Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who claimed the move would impact employees at Take-Two’s Private Division – the publishing label behind the likes of OlliOlli World and Kerbal Space Program – and other unspecified parts of the company. Take-Two acknowledged it had laid off staff – but did not confirm affected divisions or the number of employees impacted – in a…
Exactly one month after it announced its previous Xbox wireless controller variant, Microsoft is back with another, this one fully adorned in Xbox’s “signature” green. Officially, Microsoft is calling this latest controller release Velocity Green, which joins a line-up of other flat-colour variants including Pulse Red, Deep Pink, and Electric Volt. Feature-wise, it’s exactly as you’d expect from an Xbox controller, with textured grip for bumpers, triggers, and rear, along with a “hybrid” D-pad, Share button, and 3.5mm jack. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes…
Lince Works, the studio behind enjoyable stealth-action games Aragami and Aragami 2, has announced its imminent closure following what it calls a “particularly difficult” couple of years. Lince Works was founded in 2014 and released its debut title, Aragami’s first instalment, two years later. It proved successful enough that a sequel arrived in 2021, and the studio revealed it had started focusing on “brand-new adventures” in September last year. Now, however, in a message shared on Twitter, Lince Works has announced it will “effectively stop the development of new projects indefinitely, starting this April.” Read more Source – eurogamer.net All…
A bug in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is causing players to lose their save files, thanks to the latest patch. It’s unclear exactly what the cause is, but many fans on reddit (thanks Kotaku) are reporting the error after connecting to the Pokémon Go app or downloading the DLC. The reddit thread is full of players losing hundreds of hours of gameplay and shiny Pokémon, some from merely purchasing the DLC. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
The most recent episode of The Last of Us broke another viewership record for the series. As reported by HBO, episode eight was watched by 8.1 million viewers on its debut across “HBO Max and linear telecasts”. For those keeping track, that is a 74 percent increase from the show’s pilot episode. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Microsoft has claimed the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has significantly overcounted the potential impact of Call of Duty going exclusive to Xbox and PC. The CMA has been sceptical about Microsoft’s $68.7bn bid to purchase Activision Blizzard, most recently stating it could harm UK gamers, resulting in “higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation”. It believes players would abandon PlayStation for Xbox. However, based on a YouGov survey commissioned by Microsoft back in January and shared with Axios, just three percent of all PlayStation users would switch to Xbox if Call of Duty became exclusive. Read more Source -…
Sea of Thieves is – can you believe it? – five years old this month, and to celebrate its half-decade anniversary, developer Rare is ushering in a new quality-of-life-focused season all about reinvigorating the piratical multiplayer adventure’s core sandbox. Sea of Thieves’ Season 9 – which launches next Thursday, 16th March, just ahead of the game’s 20th March anniversary – is somewhat unusual in that it isn’t really built around one single flagship new feature. Instead, it’s tweaking, finessing, and refreshing the game as a whole in a bid to create a more coherent, enjoyable experience after five years of…
As part of today’s announcement showcase, Paradox has teased Life By You, a new game from former head of Sims and CEO of Second Life studio Linden Labs, Rod Humble. Little has been shared about Life By You beyond a brief teaser trailer, but it’s being developed by Paradox Tectonic, the Humble-run studio unveiled back in 2019. At the time of Paradox Tectonic’s establishment, Humble said the studio would focus on creating “open, fun, beautiful games which respect the players’ intelligence and enables their creativity, freedom, emotion, and sharing”, and we’ve now got our first look – albeit brief -…
As part of today’s announcement bonanza, Paradox Interactive has officially unveiled its long-awaited city builder sequel Cities: Skylines 2, which is coming to PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5 at some point “later this year”. Cities: Skylines 2 is being developed by Colossal Order and promises a “revolutionary” spin on the studio’s acclaimed 2015 original, giving players the tools to “build any kind of city they can imagine and follow its growth from a humble village to a bustling metropolis”. How Cities: Skylines 2 will differ from its predecessor in more specific terms, beyond a shiny new facade, is…