Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake Development Possibly Kicked Off Late Last Year – Rumor

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We’re still only in January, and 2024 has seen numerous layoffs, from studios like CI Games of Lords of the Fallen fame to bigger companies like Riot Games. The Embracer Group laid off a significant portion of Lost Boys Interactive, part of Gearbox Entertainment, this month after closing 2023 by shutting down Free Radical and reportedly laying off developers 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks.

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Palworld, the survival game where you recruit adorable Pokémon-like creatures and send them to fight or work, has been out for four days and is already a massive hit. On Monday morning, the Early Access version of the game reached over 1.5 million concurrent players on Steam, making it the most-played game on the platform and marking the third highest number of concurrent players on the platform of all time. The statistic doesn’t even include players who downloaded the game via Xbox Game Pass, meaning its overall active player base is likely much larger. According to its developer, Pocketpair, the game sold over 5 million copies in three days.

Details about a potential reveal window for the leaked Xbox controller codenamed «Sebile» have been given additional substance by an industry insider. The Sebile controller was just one part of a larger court document that leaked during Xbox's battle with the FTC over the $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which has since been finalized in Xbox's favor. A cylinder-shaped disc-less Xbox Series X and several years of Bethesda's development plans also appeared in the leaked document.

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