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Phoenix Games has acquired live operations firm PopReach Games India.

Pokemon Unite is adding Falinks to its roster of playable characters. Since its 2021 release, developer TiMi Studio has included plenty of new content, adding Pokemon to change up the way the game can be played. Gamers have come to enjoy the variety in play style thatPokemon Unite offers compared to the mainline series while continuing to give players the aesthetic and Pokemon that they love.

Indie developers have contributed to a large bundle of games to raise money for Palestinian relief.

The Tribeca Festival returns this June, and it will once again feature official games selections and even a game-focused panel. This year, the selections are all promising indie games, including a successor to 2021’s excellent Before Your Eyes. The show will also feature a talk on the making of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

As a Linux user, finding games that run natively on your desktop can be challenging. Many popular games are developed primarily for Windows, leaving Linux users to rely on emulators or compatibility layers like Wine.

As the calendar continues its ceaseless onward march, Epic has announced its next batch of weekly Epic Games Store freebies, which this time look very much like Cold War shooter Industria and post-apocalyptic RPG bundle Lisa: Definitive Edition.

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Nintendo has broadcast its latest Indie World presentation, giving players a look at 17 upcoming indie games.

Looking at Schell Games' recent output, it's pretty easy to spot a common thread. There's the VR puzzle franchise I Expect You To Die, the VR adaptation of social deduction game Among Us, the VR jumpscare horror game Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire…

GTA 6 publishers Take-Two Interactive have announced that they're "rationalizing" their "pipeline" and positioning/restructuring/streamlining for growth by, you guessed it, laying off a load of people and cancelling a bunch of games. As detailed in a Security Exchange Commission filing, Take-Two are doing away with five per cent of the approximately 11,000 people who work for them, and have cancelled several in-development projects worth tens of millions of dollars.

Despite the rumors of an imminent Switch 2 announcement, Nintendo fans may have some disappointing news to deal with first before any update on the next-gen console. To be more precise, Nintendo has reportedly confirmed that it is set to miss a major gaming exhibition later this year.

Nintendo has reportedly confirmed that it won’t be attending Gamescom 2024.