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Microsoft reportedly add Arkane and their Blade game to the potential shuttering pile

There's a lot of whispers about studios shutting down around Microsoft and Xbox at the moment. They've been primarily fluttering between Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion, but this week has now seen State of Decay developer Undead Labs added to the list of "companies Xbox bought to build up Game Pass but are ultimately shuttering because they've done a bad job at making line go up." And now yet more reports have emerged, with what remains of Arkane potentially being put up on the choppin

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GTA 6 Fans Are Convinced The Game Has A Bodybuilding System, And Here’s Why

As the wait for GTA 6's next trailer continues, fans are poring over all the little details from the new batch of screenshots that recently went live. One piece of information that fans are now obsessing about is what they believe will be a system in the game that lets you get swoll. As relayed by GamesRadar, fans are convinced that a newly released image that shows main character Jason being less jacked than he was in a previous image is evidence that the game will have some kind of fitness/bod

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Hideo Kojima’s OD Is Reportedly Safe From Upcoming Xbox Cuts

Hideo Kojima's Xbox console-exclusive horror game, OD, is reportedly safe amidst reports and rumors of studio closures, layoffs, and game cancellations at Xbox loom. According to a report from IGN, a source familiar with Microsoft's Xbox plans has stated OD remains in development at Kojima Productions and will still be published by Xbox. Not much is known about OD, but it was announced during an Xbox showcase in June 2022, with only a few brief glimpses since. It is set to star three actors-- So

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Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts

I, uh, completely took apart a Steam Machine by accident. What began as merely wanting a closer look at its RAM setup ended up as a more-or-less full teardown, the heavily layered, almost Russian Doll-like structure of Valve’s teeny-tiny PC demanding a component be removed for a component to be removed for a component to be removed. Before I’d even noticed my screwdrivin’ arm getting tired, the Machine’s guts lay strewn across my desk – not too gorily to put back together, but in far, far more i

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Xbox Focusing On “Highest Priorities,” Claims It’s Not Cutting Back Overall Spending On Games

Microsoft has confirmed that it pulled out of funding Hitman developer IO Interactive's new fantasy game, and it's because the company is re-focusing its spending on the "highest priorities" for the business. Speaking to Bloomberg, a Microsoft spokesperson said Xbox is "taking a fresh look at where we invest so we're focusing on our highest priorities." Major changes are afoot at Xbox. The statement went on to claim that Microsoft is "not reducing our overall investment in games," adding that th

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IO Interactive announces layoffs after Xbox pulls out of Project Fantasy

IO Interactive has announced layoffs following the end of its relationship with an external partner … Source

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Ahead of next week's expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG

The studio says it remains "100% committed" to Project Fantasy, but its future is now very uncertain.

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Hitman, 007 First Light Studio Begins Layoffs As Its Fantasy RPG Project Suffers Setbacks

Hitman and 007 First Light developer IO Interactive is the latest in a growing list of studios suffering layoffs, this time, this time in relation to a franchise that it hasn't even launched yet. Project Fantasy, IO Interactive's first attempt at crafting a fantasy RPG, is still in development, but the end of a recent external partner relationship has forced the studio to make some cuts to its team. In a statement, IO says that these are short-term consequences, and that the proposed layoffs are

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The Verge: Microsoft weighing Arkane Studios closure, Marvel’s Blade cancelation

Xbox plans to announce a wave of layoffs leading to studio closures, spinoffs, potential mergers, … Source

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IO Interactive look set for layoffs as their external partner for Project Fantasy pulls out

Sigh. It's another one of those days, as layoffs are essentially imminent yet again, this time at 007 First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive. The studio shared a post earlier today regarding their as-of-yet not formally revealed Project Fantasy, in which they shared that their "relationship with an external partner… has come to and end." Read more

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Helldivers 2 Gets Closer To Modern Politics With Campaign To Build A Wall

Helldivers 2's latest campaign calls for Super Earth's finest to aid in the construction of a "Celestial Fence" to keep out the ongoing Terminid menace. It's up to the Helldivers community to help deploy what Super Earth Command has billed as a "flawless, updated, and entirely safe Terminid Control System wall" that will "permanently quarantine" the "fascist" Terminids. The Helldivers are tasked with defending construction sites, gathering necessary resources for the campaign, and holding the li

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Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.

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Microsoft Could Cancel Marvel’s Blade And Close Its Developer

A new report claims that Microsoft is considering cancelling the upcoming Marvel's Blade game and closing its developer. According to The Verge, Microsoft is considering closing at least five studios, one of which is Arkane, the developer of the upcoming Blade game. The report said Blade was originally set to launch in 2026, but was delayed to late 2027 and is over budget. Earlier in June, a report said Marvel's Blade was not canceled, despite it being a no-show at the Xbox Games Showcase. The g

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Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2

Last year, the art director behind titans of visual design like Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, Viktor Antonov, died at the age of 53. Prior to his death, in 2022 he co-founded Eschatology Entertainment with Dmytro Kostiukevych, Fuad Kuliev and Boris Nikolaev, who were yet to announce their first game formally. But today it's been revealed and it's called Guns of Eschaton, the "world’s first soulslike FPS." Read more

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I Thought Matching Colors Would Be Relaxing, But I Was Wrong

Think fast! You might think that you've got the memory of a vengeful elephant, but according to science, your ability to recall colors isn't so hot. Research has claimed that humans are terrible at remembering certain shades of color, and that's where this new timesink of a game is aiming to improve things. The goal is simple: Look at the Pantone swatch shown on your screen, try to match it as closely as possible, and see how well you do over a run. It's a concept that can easily gobble up hours

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The Last Hour of an Epic TO THE MOON RPG debut trailer, new screenshots

Freebird Games has released the debut trailer and new screenshots for The Last Hour of … Source

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I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted

The following sparkling insights about boss battle design are from Marcin Matuszczyk, principal gameplay designer on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and a former developer of Outriders and Horizon Forbidden West. He was speaking to an audience of budding Bowser-builders and Sephiroth-sculptors during a presentation at Digital Dragons this year. That said, gamedev panels can make dry reading for lowly laypeople, so for dramatic purposes, I would like you to pretend that the below is voiced by Mi

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The RAM Crisis Is One Big Price-Fixing Monopoly, New Lawsuit Claims

A class-action lawsuit has accused the three biggest memory manufacturers of colluding to fix pricing in the midst of an unprecedented increase of consumer RAM and storage pricing. Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix has been targeted in the lawsuit, filed on June 25 at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit claims that the three manufacturer form a monopoly and accuses them of undertaking "concerted anticompetitive behavior." It goes on to detail how all

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Before his death in 2025, Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov worked on one last game: A Wild West FPS soulslike that's 'coming soon' to Steam

Antonov's bold vision helped define games including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Weird West, and soon, Guns of Eschaton.

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Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX

Flexing ahead.

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