Arashi: Castles of Sin – Final Cut delayed to December 5

According to Visceral Games' story producer Chuck Beaver, the audience for single-player horror games was big, but not big enough back in 2013.

Destiny 2 maker Bungie is among the latest video game studios to be hit with layoffs. First reported by Bloomberg, the downsizing is part of a wide restructuring across Sony Interactive Entertainment, with no official numbers available yet. Based on social media posts from affected workers, the communications, social media, and publishing departments at the studio were hit the hardest. Sony acquired Bungie in January 2022 in a $3.6 billion (about Rs. 29,973 crore) deal, enabling them to function independently and push forward the former's plans for more live-service games. The studio is also delaying its upcoming titles — a Destiny 2 expansion called The Final Shape and a reboot of Marathon, Bungie's first-person shooter title from 1994.

Destiny 2 The Final Shape has been touted as the finale of the light versus dark saga that has been raging on within the world since the inception of the game.

2023 has seen a worrying amount of developers and publishers in the games industry being hit with layoffs, and Bungie now seems to have joined that ever-increasing list. In a report published by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, it’s been stated that the company – which was acquired by Sony last year in a deal worth $3.6 billion – has let go an undisclosed number of its employees.

[UPDATE] According to a new article posted on Bloomberg, Bungie has internally delayed Destiny 2: The Final Shape to June 2024, whereas Marathon is now slated for 2025.

Remember Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones? The pirated-themed naval combat title was set to release earlier this year in March but faced a delay, adding to the various others since its official reveal in 2017. In its first half fiscal year 2024 earnings report, the publisher announced it’s launching in Q4 of 2023-2024.

With 2023 starting to get wrapped up, all eyes are slowly moving to 2024, where we’ll get new games to be hyped about. Whether it’s big AAA titles or games that hope to start new franchises, there is already plenty to look forward to. For example, Ubisoft shocked many people when it announced Star Wars Outlaws during several gaming special events in June. The game will be an original story starring the smuggler Kay Vess, but it’s set during the period of the original movies. The game looks good and seems to be rather expansive with what you can do in it. However, its release date was only given as “2024.”

Steve Sinclair, who previously worked as creative director on the studio's flagship MMO, Warframe, is now taking the mantle of CEO of Digital Extremes. This comes after long-time CEO and Founder of Digital Extremes, James Schmalz, steps down from his role.

The upcoming horror film has been delayed to June 2024.

Mission Impossible 8 has been delayed almost a year, from June 28, 2024 to May 23, 2025.

A new Shop rotation has occurred, which means new cosmetics! Become a femme fatale — or a dashing devil — with this newest Rogue set: there's beauty in every sin when it comes to Mother Lilith! Beauty In Sin in the Diablo ShopThe cost of this set is 2,800 Platinum, or approximately $24.99 While we don't know for certain when this package will rotate out of stock, what we do know is that the shop refreshes happen daily at approximately 10 am PDT, so stay tuned — we may have new cosmetic options soon! Premium Currency in Diablo 4

The London Final Fantasy Fan Fest has kicked off this morning with an impressive keynote speech that has finally unveiled one of the two jobs expected for the upcoming Dawntrail expansion. A few months ago during the Las Vegas Fan Fest, players around the world were teased a bit of information that there would be two new jobs added with the inclusion of the new expansion. At the time, speculations were all over the place as players came up with various theories — it didn’t help that FFXIV director Naoki Yoshida wore a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt at the time of said announcement which then prompted players to try and line up the letters like some kind of nerdy anagram. From Corsairs to Time Mages, all kinds of speculation arose. Carefully observant Warriors of Light may have noticed a tease of the potential melee job when watching the Dawntrail trailer, but it wasn’t enough detail to solidify good guesses.