EurogamerDevelopers at Ubisoft Barcelona - which works on Rainbow Six: Siege following recent company restructuring - have gone on strike. Read more
EurogamerHello! Eurogamer's week of features celebrating the intersection of queer culture and gaming continues today as Kaan Serin explores how the acclaimed Haven found new meaning when it introduced the option to gender swap its leads two years after launch. To catch up on everything you might have missed this year and in Pride Weeks past, you can visit our Pride Week hub. Read more
EurogamerArkane Studios, the developer behind the Dishonored series and the upcoming Blade, is among the studios Microsoft is currently considering closing down. That's according to a new report from The Verge, citing sources familiar with the plan. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunOn top of the reports that Xbox are planning mass layoffs, yesterday brought the news that Xbox are backing out of funding deals and considering closing studios, yet they insist this isn't a sign they're scaling back how much cash they're pumping into making games. At the same time, a new report claims that the layoffs wider Microsoft have planned are projected to affect less than 2.5% of the corp's overall workforce, not that that'll soften the blow by any stretch of the imagination. Read more
EurogamerIt's that time of the month again: Sony has begun sending out a new PS5 system software update for users of both the base model and the PS5 Pro, and (like previous updates) it appears to be rolling out in via a phased release. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunEremite Games are making a survival game set in the bleak fantasy world of their Bestest Best roguelite city-builder Against The Storm. They've announced the project with a brief video snippet of a two hooded adventurers, stalking through some rainy woodlands towards a log cabin. From this I deduce that the plan is to support co-op multiplayer. Possibly also cabin-building. Certainly, an abundance of menace. Read more
GematsuArcade Archives 2 Lady Bug will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2, … Source
PC GamerNot that I'm holding my breath.
GematsuFalcom has released a two-minute trailer and new TV commercial for Kyoto Xanadu, featuring new … Source
GematsuNintendo has released the version 1.7.0 update for Mario Kart World, which adds two new … Source
GematsuPublisher Shueisha Games and developer Magnus Games Studio have officially revealed open-world survival crafting RPG … Source
GematsuPublisher Good Smile Company and developer Chime Corporation have released the third official trailer for … Source
PC GamerWe can even become an endgame crisis ourselves, which sounds neat.
GameSpotWallpaper Engine has been a popular wallpaper tool on Steam for the better part of a decade since its release. However, the tool's application wallpaper was apparently hijacked by bad actors months ago who used it to infect users' machines with malware as the desktop wallpaper program ran in the background. Now, Wallpaper Engine's application is going to be permanently removed from the program over those malware concerns. In a statement on Steam, the program's developers stated that users have a
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GameSpotShortly after developer Papergames announced the addition of Valko--a new love interest in the mobile action dating sim Love and Deepspace--the backlash from fans has spilled into the real world. Now, Papergames is reversing course by canceling Valko's debut and pledging to focus on the five other love interests who are already in the game. "We recognize that we moved forward with the introduction of Valko before we were truly ready," reads the statement posted to Love and Deepspace's Instagram
Rock Paper ShotgunSometimes I feel that my taste in media is a bit hard to pin down, given that I like shows like Twin Peaks and manga like Chainsaw Man, two series where their similarities mostly stop and start at featuring governmental figures. Enter Green Suits, a game whose dev describes it as those two things fused together, throwing in JRPGs, platforming, and a "drama-based combat system," to make a concoction that feels catered to me personally. Read more
PC GamerIt's an unconventional idea, but I'm willing to withhold judgement.
PC GamerShawn Layden is a man with opinions, and now that he's out of the game he doesn't mind sharing them.
GameSpotThe Protect Our Games Act--a piece of legislation endorsed by the Stop Killing Games movement--has been voted down at the California State Senate. However, one of the most noteworthy incidents from this legislative battle was a comment made by an Entertainment Software Association lobbyist who claimed that Minecraft and Call of Duty private community servers are "illegal." Jennifer Gibbons, the ESA's vice president of state government affairs, told lawmakers that community servers for Minecraft