Jurgen Post returns as Sega Europe shakes up leadership

Nearly nine years after Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady is about to release Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. With only a couple of weeks left before the February 2 launch date, the London-based developer is pulling all the stops when it comes to sharing more information about the third-person action/shooter game.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is merely weeks away from launch and ahead of that, Rocksteady has teased ‘hundreds' of build possibilities for its lead characters. The details come from the game's official Discord server, where director Axel Rydby explained that the endgame portion was based around complete Mastery, forcing players to switch out builds based on rising difficulty. It's too early to tell whether one could easily plough through fights with an overpowered build they found in the early game, but the developer has promised eight loadout slots for easy access to gear — all of which trigger unique status effects and can be upgraded.

While Rocksteady has yet to outline its post-launch plans for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, rumors have circulated about what players can expect. Insider Miller Ross reported a seasonal approach for the looter shooter, but how is it structured?

It’s rumored that Sega has planned three more revivals, specifically for Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sakura Wars, and Panzer Dragoon. At The Game Awards 2023, Sega surprised fans with revivals of several classic IPs. These revivals are part of a new initiative by Sega to re-imagine these older properties and bring them to new audiences.

Shuji Utsumi has been named president/COO and CEO of Sega America and Europe.

Hopoo Games has released a new patch for Risk of Rain Returns, focusing on bug fixes. It addresses crashes relating to text rendering in specific languages, Huntress’s alternate secondary attack when playing online and Acrid’s bubble if it touched an allied Bramble’s head.

What is it? An update to the classic action-roguelike with a few new elements in the mix.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman may have gone through a huge crisis after being fired and re-appointed within days, but he is not letting any grass grow under his feet as far as his personal life is concerned. Social media is all agog about Altman marrying his partner Oliver Mulherin today. While no official word has come from any source so far, a few photographs are going viral on X/Twitter indicating the deed is done. These photos were reportedly shared by Mulhorin, but that is not confirmed. In fact, there is still no official confirmation about the marriage at all except what is going viral on the web.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink is getting an imminent demo, and has already outlined some post-launch content coming later this year.

On Jan. 3, Jake Johnson’s directorial debut, the Lonely Island-produced dark comedy Self Reliance, had a one-day debut in theaters ahead of its Jan. 12 release on Hulu. Those of us who showed up for the theatrical screening got a surprise bonus: a 10-minute Q&A that ran after the credits, styled as a fake talk show, In Bed With Lamorne, hosted by Johnson’s friend and New Girl co-star Lamorne Morris.

Echo has arrived and despite its smaller scale, it couldn’t help but shakeup its own small corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at least a little bit. Marvel’s first Spotlight series released all five episodes on Tuesday night, but it isn’t until the final moments of the series the show makes its own ripples. In usual Marvel fashion, the reveal came during a brief mid-credits scene.

The European Union's competition regulator said Tuesday it was looking into Microsoft's investment into ChatGPT developer, the CEO Sam Altman-led OpenAI to see if it merits further investigation under the bloc's merger rules. The European Commission said in a statement it was "checking whether Microsoft's investment in OpenAI might be reviewable under the EU Merger Regulation".