Elite Dangerous studio Frontier Developments announce layoffs and "organisational review"

Mass Effect fans are using the game's annual day of celebration to send a message to BioWare after it laid off several employees last month. 

Bungie has addressed its community for the first time since news earlier this week that it was laying off as many as 100 employees.

Following a report by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier about layoffs at Destiny 2 developer Bungie, CEO Peter Parsons has tweeted and confirmed the same. “Today is a sad day at Bungie as we say goodbye to colleagues who have all made a significant impact on our studio.

Quantum Error developer TeamKill Media has taken to Twitter to respond to community criticism and subpar reviews of its cosmic-horror journey.

represents a major attempt to bring the world of Pandora to life in a video game, a task made difficult by the high bar that James Cameron's films have set in rendering a planet full of life and detail. Developed by Massive Entertainment, is publisher Ubisoft's second foray into the franchise, following up on 2009's Screen Rant participated in a hands-on preview that showcased several key aspects of gameplay and exploration from across multiple story missions in the new title.

James Cameron’s Avatar franchise has always felt like a very natural fit for the realm of video games – honestly, the movies already kind of feel like games – and yet, It’s never really worked out. Ubisoft made a weak attempt at making an Avatar game back in 2009 and, until now, that’s been about it. Well, Ubisoft is taking another crack at it with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a new large-scale open-world adventure from The Division developer Massive Entertainment set to launch in December.

Since its gameplay reveal earlier this year, it’s been hard to shake the idea that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is essentially a Far Cry game with a sci-fi setting. That’s not an incorrect assumption for several reasons; this is a wilderness-set first-person game with plants to harvest, animals to hunt, outposts to assault, and items to be crafted. But during a recent two-hour hands-on I discovered that Frontiers of Pandora has a more interesting set of ideas built atop that Far Cry skeleton. I certainly never expected to put the controller down and be thinking more about Mirror’s Edge and Horizon: Zero Dawn than I was about the classic Ubisoft formula.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

A few days before the launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive issued a warning about the game's performance—specifically, that it might be a little less than ideal, especially on lower-end hardware. Sure enough, this was our experience: «random fps dips, slowdowns and hitches, and sometimes complete freezes that lasted a few seconds,» along with graphical glitches and outright crashes. The bigger the city, the worse the problems.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games has apologised for the recently-discovered Cuban flag found in the apartment of Miles and Rio Morales. Spotted by Reddit user TheHouselessTurtle, the flag is a clear mistake, since the Morales family is of Puerto Rican descent, rather than being from Cuba.

Developer Massive Entertainment is hard at work on its upcoming project Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a first-person open-world adventure set against the backdrop of James Cameron’s universe. We recently got to seea new gameplay trailer for the same, and rumours suggest that gameplay previews are coming within next week.

Zen Studios has become the latest studio owned by Embracer Group to be hit with layoffs.