Embracer says it has left rumoured Savvy deal behind

What happens to the player Paladin of Diablo 2 after slaying the Prime Evils with the band of heroes? Here we take a deep dive into the lore of Carthas, the Paladin of Diablo 2 and the religion of Zakarum. In an ever darkening world, it is all the more important to remember the events which transpired that lead to the bleak present we face today. Just as it is important to remember those who exemplified true heroism in the face of evil.

Elisabeth Pellen, who most recently worked as Skull and Bones’ creative director, has left Ubisoft Singapore and headed to work at Ubisoft’s Paris HQ. Pellen was the game’s third creative director to date, responsible for the game's current overall state.

No matter the company or the “field” they are in, there are always certain “constants” that they try to achieve. The biggest one is that they desire every year to be good, profitable, memorable, and a “banner year” for the company in some form. This can be especially true in the gaming space, as companies need to perform well every year to prove they can go up against their competitors and maintain their slice of their market. For 2023, there’s little doubt that Nintendo has had a year for the record books, and not just on the gaming side of things.

The thing about gaming history is that you often don’t know what’s really happening behind the scenes unless it’s being told to you after the fact. For example, if a company is struggling, you don’t know about it until it is shuttered or bought out by a bigger publisher. And when a company is riding high, you’ll hear about it because of all the projects they’re putting out thanks to the capital they now have. Atlus is an excellent example of that, as they’re booming and getting ready to release games like Persona 3 Reload. But it wasn’t always that way.

Maksym Yanchyi, lead Xbox programmer on Stalker 2, lets out a deep sigh. It’s not the first time Mak, as he’s called by his colleagues, steadies himself before revealing the horrifying difficulties the developers of one of the most anticipated shooters of 2024 face on a daily basis. Right now he’s talking about Russian hackers and their ongoing attempts to breach GSC Game World’s security systems, the constant harassment, and even death threats that have come from the theft of personal information.

Volition Games has shut down as part of Embracer Group’s ongoing restructuring. The studio, which has roots going back to 1993, is behind the Saint’s Row series, Red Faction, and Summoner.

Volition Games, the studio behind Saints Row and Red Faction, has been permanently shut down due to the "restructuring" policy adopted by parent company Embracer Group.

Volition Games, the studio behind franchises such as Saints Row and Red Faction, has been shut down effectively immediately. 

A year after the underwhelming release of the Saints Row reboot, and just two months after celebrating 30 years of operation, Volition has been closed.

Far bet it from me to complain about Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case introducing more incongruous eye candy, after my previous conniptions over Hot Hipster Poirot with his ankle-grazer trousers and his sexy egg-shaped head, but tick tock, it's himbo Hastings o'clock. Released on Steam this week, The London Case takes young Poirot to, err, London, charged with protecting a famous painting along with a representative of the insurance firm. Naturellement, the painting is stolen from an apparently locked room under everyone's silly noses, and thus begins Poirot and Hastings' first puzzle caper together (for who else is our insurance representative?).

What exactly is involved when a publisher decides to partner with AMD for a game? An increasing number of titles have been doing it, and many have noted this seems to result in those games only featuring AMD’s FSR upscaling tech (rather than NVIDIA’s DLSS) at launch. It was true with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and will also be the case with Starfield. That said, it’s just been revealed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will have FSR and DLSS despite being an AMD partner game. So, what’s the deal here?

Before we begin, I'd like to make it clear I have nothing against Call of Duty players. For the most part. However, the period during which I was all in on the series is one I look back on with frustration. For a chunk of my gaming life, I played nothing but FIFA and Call of Duty, and I'm still catching up with some of the fantastic games I missed all these years later.