Indie studio behind upcoming underwater soulslike can only post through it after getting broken into for the third time

An update to the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo will improve the visual quality of Performance mode.

If you’ve been paying attention to the gaming world, you’ll know that a change seems to lurk in the shadows that’s slowly being brought into the light. Specifically, it appears that Xbox is about to announce a shocking change to their release strategy by going multiplatform with their exclusive titles. On this scale, such a thing would’ve been unheard of in past generations, yet they seem to be doing it, even announcing a “business update” tomorrow to highlight potential changes to their plans. The twist? It seems PlayStation will be jumping on this rocket, too, if their President’s latest words are anything to go by.

The next game from Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios has been delayed slightly.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the company has “no current plans” for layoffs, despite the launch of a strategy to reduce costs across the company.

At the end of last year, Wild Thieves by Monupon won the Very Big Indie Pitch: PC + Console Edition prize at Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan 2019. Hailing from Saudi Arabia (but with team members in Canada too), Monupon’s Nasir Assaf joined the competition in Amman, Jordan, and swept to victory after half a day of pitching.

An Elden Ring player has defeated Malenia without dodging any of her attacks, simply brute forcing their way through the entire boss fight.

Reikon Games, the developers behind cyberpunky top-down shooter Ruiner, have reportedly become the latest studio to lay off dozens of staff, with over half of the Polish indie said to have lost their jobs earlier this week.

Blizzard Entertainment's survival game, which it informally announced in 2022, was reportedly canceled over engine issues during its six years of development, according to a new Bloomberg report. This report follows yesterday's news that Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees across its Xbox, Activision Blizzard, and ZeniMax divisions. Alongside this news, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra also announced he was departing from the company, and we learned the aforementioned survival game had been canceled. 

Season 3 of introduces Nightmare Vaults, or larger dungeons you can unlock with special keys called Vault Sigils. These areas are filled with Construct enemies and bosses you can defeat for rare rewards. However, opening Vaults requires materials from world events exclusive to the seasonal content throughout Sanctuary.

Intel is bringing in some major AI performance improvements with its next-gen Panther Lake client CPUs while Clearwater Forest chips are in fabs.

In early 2023, it was revealed that Blizzard had been working on a completely brand-new survival game based on an original IP. It was later rumored that the game would be called Odyssey and would feature a "cartoony" art style similar to that of Overwatch. It was all very exciting, especially since Activision Blizzard is almost allergic to experimenting with new IP these days, but unfortunately, we'll never actually get to play Odyssey.

There are no plans to bring the popular VR social MMO Rec Room to PlayStation VR2, because the studio behind it can’t justify the cost.