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FF14's new Evolved jobs won't deal a 'huge amount' more damage than their Reborn counterparts, says Koji Fox
"I think it's going to be very negligible."
Cyberpunk 2077 lead wanted 2.5 update to be "more meaningful" than CDPR's last Edgerunners patch
And "believability and immersion" were key
Wardogs leads Newzoo's September PC revenue charts
Bulkhead's Wardogs topped Newzoo's September PC revenue charts, surpassing EA Sports FC 27. Read more
Project Titan's end 'immediately instilled a culture of humility' in the Overwatch team which has helped them see the last decade through
"Overwatch was born out of the ashes of a previous [game]."
Inside Buckshot Roulette developer Mike Klubnika's terrifically nasty horror universe of post-Soviet malaise
In Mike Klubnika's growing oeuvre of brilliantly deplorable games, the same elements tend to recur. First, smoking: deep, long drags to make the lungs burn and eyes water. Second, club music: hard and fast, accented with just a faint sense of melancholy. Third, guns: big and loud, usually aimed at you from point-blank range, ready to blow your brains out. Read more
Minecraft Has Been Updated To Ver. 26.60 On Switch 2, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
New experimental biomes! Blocks! Projectiles! Minecraft launched on Switch 2 earlier this week, and Mojang was quick to release a new update to make sure that everything is running as it should. The biggest additions this time around mainly fall into the 'Experimental Game Drops' category, with the Ice Cave biome, Ice Crystals, Icicles, and Frostbite Zombie all available. As ever, there's a huge list of fixes included in the ver. 26.60 update too, including a couple of Switch 2-specific tweaks — hello, improved split screen performance! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
"Creation without a creator": Pathologic 3's devs have refused to patch an invisible apple tree, and for a blissful moment, I thought they were lying to poison Google's AI
Magnificent, depressing plague colony fable Pathologic 3 has received a sizeable game update that adds some new difficulty modes, a photo feature, and some new, worryingly folkloric methods of defeating a murky embodiment of disease. Developers Ice Pick Lodge have also staunchly refused to remove an invisible apple tree, describing this apparently "famous" bug as a hallmark of a game whose "symbolic nature has almost overtaken its function as a product". This appears to be the last major update for Pathologic 3, so that invisible apple tree is staying in the game forever. I confess, when I first read the Steam blog in question, I doubted. The thing about invisible apple trees is that they are quite easy to confuse with apple trees that are simply not there. Pathologic in general is a house of lies: as Quintin Smith (RPS in peace) put it in his legendary Butchering Pathologic trilogy , "absolutely everybody has an angle, everyone's bending the truth and trying to twist you round their fingers." Pathologic 3 especially is a purgatorial time travel story that must be continually rewritten, a crock of festering rumours enclosed by an enormous, phantom theatre. As such, I read Ice-Pick's typically professorial account of the "invisible apple tree" with intense suspicion. Read more
Marvel's Ghost Rider movie adds rising Heated Rivalry star, and fans think they've already worked out who he's playing
Connor Storrie is in talks to join Marvel's Ghost Rider, but could he be playing Johnny Blaze's long-lost brother?
FF14's first Final Fantasy 7 crossover has just arrived, with one disappointment
The first iteration of the FF14 Keybound Brawler event lands in the MMORPG’s Gold Saucer today, focused on the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy.
EA morale hits a new low amid AI push and BioWare closure
"Morale has been terrible," says one anonymous employee
Valve acknowledges Steam's AI problem as Next Fest exposes thousands of "low-quality games"
"Rather than limiting developer access," Valve wants to improve its store
Sleeping Dogs director says "adding layers" to the game story is "not an easy task"
Sleeping Dogs director Timo Tjahjanto on why the game adaptation is taking so long
James Gunn explains why some DCU movies like Clayface are standalone and some are "part of a larger narrative structure"
James Gunn has talked about the DCU's long-term plan
COD Modern Warfare 4 uses real news footage from South Korean tragedy, is urged by families to remove it
A brief shot in the game's intro shows archive footage from the Itaewon crowd crush
SNK's 1989 Dino-Themed Shmup Staves Off Extinction (Again) With A Brand New Arcade Archives Release
Previously included as part of the 'SNK 40th Anniversary Collection'. After last week's detour into the world of F1 with Ace Driver Victory Lap , Arcade Archives creator Hamster is taking players to a land time forgot! SNK's dinosaur-themed shmup Prehistoric Isle is coming to Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on Thursday, October 29th 2026, bringing back an assortment of terrifying, previously extinct creatures to outmanoeuvre and do battle with as the pilot of an aircraft tasked with exploring a series of mysterious shipwrecks in the Bahamas. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Leaked Mass Effect 5 trailer is being "re-scored" by one of the original trilogy's composers, so folks can get a taste of his musical vision for the game
One of the composers who contributed to the scores of the original Mass Effect trilogy has decided to re-soundtrack the Mass Effect Universe trailer which leaked following the game's cancellation and BioWare's closure . Sam Hulick's aim, aside from making this year's N7 Day a tiny bit less depressing if he can deliver as planned, is to share some of his "musical vision" for the RPG. Read more
Nintendo Apparently Has A Policy To Prevent Game-Key Cards Getting A Full-Cart Reprint
According to a Canadian retailer, that is. After Nintendo seemingly introduced smaller cartridge size options earlier this year, many of us wondered whether our favourite Game-Key Card releases might get a proper full-cart physical reprint down the line. Well, according to Canadian retailer Video Games Plus, that might not be possible (thanks for the heads-up, Nintendo Wire ). In a now-deleted post on social media, VGP said the following: "As we’ve stated many times, we’d actively try to get existing Game-Key Card titles reprinted as full-on-cart versions, but at the moment, there’s a Nintendo policy preventing that.” Hmm . Read the full article on nintendolife.com
First Xbox COO Helen Chiang leaves company after three months in the role
Xbox's first COO Helen Chiang has left the company after only three months in the role. Read more
The Rings of Power season 3 first reactions say it's "better than ever"
The first reactions are in for The Rings of Power season 3
Dead by Daylight studio says removed characters like Chucky, Pinhead and Michael Myers have an ‘open invitation’ to return
Expired licences means some characters are removed "despite our best efforts"
Rockstar Games employees have locked in a union vote next month, and it'll take place over Grand Theft Auto 6's release window
A date has been locked in for Rockstar Games employees to vote on whether to recognise their developer union. If successful, it will become the largest recognised union across the entirety of the UK video games industry. Read more
Anbernic Boldly Highlights PS4 Emulation in New RG DDS Demo Showcase
Pre-orders still open for powerful new handheld. Developer Anbernic released a new demonstration video highlighting its newest handheld hardware, the RG DDS ("Dual Dream Screen"). The portable emulation console opened pre-orders last week , ahead of a currently planned shipping date of December 10. Continuing its bold/foolhardy (*delete as applicable) reputation of spitting in the face of fear, Anbernic's showcase highlights not only the RG DDS' Nintendo 3DS emulation (minus the 3D, of course) but also boldly demonstrates its PS4 emulation capabilities, comically choosing, of all titles, Activision's 2015 release Transformers: Devastation as its KILLER APP. Read the full article on timeextension.com
Part idle game, part automation game, Moon Sweepers exploits the sickness in me that adores both Satisfactory and Cookie Clicker
When Edwin talked about Moon Sweepers yesterday he focused on the artisanal approach to space rock cleaning. Like the puritan he is, he wants to wipe away all the dust on the moon using a toothbrush. He says you should take pride in your work, stick one spacesuit-clad middle finger up to the machines and say 'Fuck off, robots. Let me show you my art!" as you get down on all fours and brush away moon dust. I've taken a different approach. Read more
Interior Night studio head Charu Desodt appointed chair of BAFTA Games Committee
Interior Night studio head Charu Desodt has been appointed chair of the BAFTA Games Committee. Read more