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"There’s always a night when Rome burns": South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was "unsustainable", at least in hindsight
Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox , having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determined to ditch as part of multi-round mass cuts this year. Now, South of Midnight creative director David Sears has suggested that an eventual pulling of the rug was something he feared throughout the game's development, to the point where he seemingly doesn't think he'd have funded it if he'd been in the shoes of Xbox execs. Read more
Upcoming Final Fantasy 14 update should massively cut down on dungeon queue times
Region queueing's open for business.
Godzilla Minus Zero is so loud that it gave one viewer a health warning
Godzilla Minus Zero is about to make a lot of noise
It looks like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 had fewer active players at launch in the US compared to last year's Black Ops 7
It's been speculated for a while that Call of Duty may be losing its lustre. Although we don't have concrete data with detailed statistics for each game released in the last several years, there's an observable trend in player numbers that's hard to ignore. Read more
"Go play GTA 6, we need to detox": Wardogs studio Bulkhead is taking a month-long break
I don't need telling twice
The WoW Forever launch update tweaks controller support and about 100 other things
The new WoW Forever update, the last before launch touches on each class, race, and perfects controller functionality for those who prefer a pad.
New Avengers: Doomsday artwork has surfaced, revealing an interesting detail about where Magneto's loyalties lie
Marvel fans have noticed that the Avengers: Doomsday artwork reveals a key detail about the X-Men storyline
Matt Reeves teased the Two-Face actor's true identity in The Batman 2 months ago, and nobody noticed
Matt Reeves might have teased a different actor playing Two-Face from the start
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation might be the trilogy's biggest, but Remake was hardest to make, lead says
Remake had a bigger job – setting up what would follow
'It Only Gives Us More Strength to Keep Going' - the Unofficial Sega Neptune Has Hit a Roadblock
"These complications ended up draining our financial resources". The team behind the GF1 Neptune , an unofficial recreation of Sega's unreleased Neptune console , has issued a statement which discusses the current state of the project. The statement – posted on the GamesCare Twitter account – says the company has been getting "many emails" asking when the console will eventually become available. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Stardew Valley update 1.7 may be "largest" yet, ConcernedApe says – and come "sometime next year"
"You guys are in for a real treat"
The Rings of Power showrunners explain season 3's unusual multi-episode release strategy
Exclusive: The Rings of Power season 3 creators JD Payne and Patrick McKay explain why it's releasing in large episode chunks
South of Midnight director says he wouldn’t have funded it if he was Xbox, and he knew ‘Rome would burn’ eventually
Funding games like it was an unsustainable practice, David Sears says
Cyberpunk 2077 canon ending was kept vague in Edgerunners 2, but may be revealed in "comic books"
CD Projekt Red also won't reveal if that is V. in Edgerunners 2
Users pull $3.6 bn from Binance as it reopens following $6.3 billion mega-hack - FBI says North Korean hacking group 'TraderTraitor' to blame, North Korea says nuh-uh
Plenty of users still happy to deposit their funds into the cryptocurrency exchange nevertheless.
"Zero AI" Pokémon Epsilon Emerald Gets A New Trailer Just Days Before Release
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itch.io will soon let you filter games with genAI disclosures out of your search results on the site, after admitting it was previously "critically lacking"
itch.io has unfortunately, much like Steam, long had an issue with genAI content being uploaded in droves, drowning out perfectly good games made by human hands. The apparent standard method against this, voluntary genAI disclosure, has been itch's primary tool to combat this wave of low-quality slop, but hasn't worked out too well; itch revealed a few days ago that ' the number of game pages being created per-day has doubled in the past two months '. Now, in attempts to further combat this, beyond just game assets requiring a genAI disclosure to upload as they have for two years, itch will be expanding the mandatory disclosure to tabletop games, books, comics, and soundtracks, as well as adding a 'no AI' filter directly into the search function. Read more
Expanding Horizons: How Wuthering Waves Won Over a Global Audience Through Sustained Live Support
Wuthering Waves is now more than two years old, but somehow, it’s bigger and more …
Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Is Coming Physically To PC & Consoles Next Month
🤝 Don't want to see ads? Become a premium member for $3 a month and support an independent publication today! Thief: The Dark Project originally launched on PC back in 1998 and was met with great reviews and offered a unique stealth experience that became one of
Remedy revenue soars by 226% following release of Control Resonant, the developer's fastest-selling game ever
Remedy - the developer behind the recently released Control Resonant - has released a scorcher of a quarterly financial report. It shows that following Resonant's release in September, the company's revenue surged by 226 percent, bringing in €39.6m in Q3. Read more
Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40K TV show has a "very cool and unexpected" premise, according to Mike Flanagan
The show is in development for Prime Video
New Book Celebrating 45 Years of the ZX Spectrum Smashes All Kickstarter Goals, Receiving £112,000 in Pledges
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder. Publisher Golden Slumbers Ltd. has announced an upcoming Kickstarter campaign for a new book celebrating 45 years of the home computing icon: the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The crowdfunding campaign launches next month, on October 1. Titled "The Rubber-Keyed Wonder", the new book is a companion piece to the 2024 documentary of the same name, produced by Gracious Films and directed by Anthony and Nicola Caulfield. The book, which will launch in time to celebrate the ZX Spectrum's 45th anniversary, is written by author and gaming historian Kim Justice, who previously penned Arcade Decades - '80s Edition for Numskull Publishing. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth currently have huge price drops on the Switch 2 eShop
Each game is at least 80% off, with Rebirth on sale for $7.49 / £7.49
Days Gone studio's next PlayStation exclusive to be revealed and released in 2027, according to new report
Sony's Bend Studio, perhaps one of its lesser discussed development houses, has apparently been deep in development on its next title. The game is reportedly set to be announced in 2027, and released in the same year. Read more