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Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has said that future Battlefield experiences are being developed by the biggest team in the franchise’s history.

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Today, Berlin-based developer Tarock Interactive announced Lost Legions as its debut title. This is another entry in the increasingly crowded open world survival crafting genre, but at least it has a decidedly different setting: the Roman Empire.

It's another Thursday on the Epic Games Store, which means it's another day of reveals and rotations for its free game selection. Unfortunately, this means anyone who missed out on Epic Games Store's addition of The Big Con (April 18-April 25) can no longer claim it. Instead, they'll be able to claim Industria and LISA: Definitive Edition over the next week, and come May 2, they'll rotate out for the newly announced EGS free game: Orcs Must Die 3.

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.

The Epic Games Store free games for the week of April 25 to May 2 are Industria and Lisa: The Definitive Edition. Epic Games Store users have new freebies to claim every week. Most of the time, Epic Games Store users are given plenty of advance notice when it comes to what free games they will be able to add to their digital libraries, but there are times when the launcher surprises users with an unexpected freebie.

According to everyone’s favorite dataminer Billbil-kun, the next two free games coming to the Epic Games Store are Industria and Lisa: The Painful Definitive Edition. The titles will be available from April 25 until May 2 and will replace The Big Con and Town of Salem 2.

Next week’s free Epic Games Store titles have seemingly been revealed ahead of an official announcement.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is set to visit India as his businesses seek new markets in the world's most populous nation, with electric carmaker Tesla -- suffering a sales downturn in the United States -- reportedly scouting factory locations.

When I was a wee lad, my grandfather, an avid gardener, walked with me down to the end of his immaculately tended botanical kingdom, and bid I look upon his favourite flowers, bright blooms of Geraniums. He was a humble man, but even he could not disguise his pride at how wonderfully full and rich their colours and forms had come in this year. “Does the fragile beauty of these blooms not fill you with tender hope for the future?” he asked. “No, Grandad,” I replied, “these flowers are mid.”

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups.

The famous maxim of «one shot, one kill» gets an upgrade in new puzzle/shooter hybrid. Published by Devolver Digital and developed primarily by Berlin-based creator René Rother, 's lo-fi greasy visual style frames a macabre story of revenge, as its mute masked protagonist murders their way up the ranks of a twisted smalltown cult. This telekinetic sniper – dubbed «The Girl» – is able to control each fired bullet from kill to kill, allowing for extended streaks that zigzag across gritty dioramas in a medley of blood.

Dead Space remake and Star Wars: Squadrons studio Motive is joining Electronic Arts’ wider Battlefield development team.

The Soulslike genre seems to only become more popular with each passing year, but looks like a game that could offer a genuinely unique experience even in a deluge of releases. Developed by Moon Studios, the company behind and, leaves the Metroidvania mode of its predecessors behind for an entirely different experience. It definitely doesn't abandon the focus on lush visuals that Moon Studios is known for, but it could end up being one of its defining features.

Devolver Digital has released a new video detailing the facts about the stylish sniper puzzle game Children of the Sun.

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A new has brought iconic actor Sean Bean into the latest entry in the series through The Undying Mission.

The former director of a new Battlefield game has criticised EA, after he recently left the company and saw the studio he co-founded closed.

Masters of the Air tells the story of the Eighth Air Force’s 100th Bomb Group, also known as the Bloody Hundredth, which used its fleet of B-17 heavy bombers to cut a swathe of destruction from the English Channel to Berlin during World War II. The nine-part Apple TV Plus miniseries, which airs its final episode Friday, is basically everything that baby Charlie — his nose pressed against the pages of obscure history books all throughout middle school — could’ve ever hoped for. But, now that it’s over, I think I’ve found a way to extend the experience just a little further thanks to B-17 Flying Fortress Leader, an excellent solitaire board game from Dan Verssen Games.

The Battlefield series has lost another high-profile figure in the form of Craig Morrison, who has left his role as studio creative director at EA‘s DICE.

Pokémon Go Fest will head to the Spanish capital of Madrid for this year's big European event, developer Niantic has announced.

Google Maps, a navigation juggernaut, has continually evolved its platform with advanced features since its inception. However, one basic yet crucial aspect was missing – directing users to the precise entrances of buildings or locations. Acknowledging this gap, Google is now incorporating a feature to address this common navigational challenge.

Electronic Arts has closed Ridgeline Games, the studio formed in 2021 to work on a future Battlefield single-player game.

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has left the EA studio he founded to work on the next generation of Battlefield games.

Professional MMA fighter Octavio Bergmann (Emilio Sakraya) is getting ready for one of the biggest fights of his career. His opponent is late, and that’s a problem: It’s actually the night of his daughter’s birthday party, and he promised to attend. However, as he’s entering the ring, he finds out that his ex-wife is filing for sole custody unless he can get to the party in the next hour. Octavio drops everything and runs to them — angering elements of the criminal underworld who bet big on his fight and will now chase him around Berlin to try and get him back to the ring.

The last decade of gaming on PC and other platforms has seen the increasing popularity of run-based games like , which offer looping gameplay cycles that make use of procedural generation and reward an overarching sense of progression and mastery. These games are sometimes interchangeably referred to as either «roguelikes» or «roguelites,» but the two terms actually have mechanically distinct definitions. Although both are usually capable of conveying the general meaning or idea of a genre in offhand descriptions, understanding the specific differences can help categorize games more accurately.

If you’re anything like us, you’re always on the lookout for the next big thing on Netflix. You might just be in luck: a taut 90-minute German-language thriller has suddenly leapt up the charts on the streamer.

Infinix Smart 8 review: Time and again, Infinix has rolled out competitive smartphones in the mid-range and budget segments with the promise of delivering on users' basic requirements and then some. So, even as we talk about its smartphone's capabilities, know that Infinix has gained its reputation for bringing high-performing gaming smartphones. Now, with latest handset, Infinix Smart 8, the company has brought new features and a special design and still managed to keep it in the budget segment. So, although it is a smartphone that falls under the Rs.10000 segment, it features a Dynamic Island-like feature called Magic Ring that provides as many as four functionalities. Additionally, the LED ring light and its textured plastic design will be a standout feature that should put it ahead in the budget phone market.

Barcelona Nonprofit Earth05 harnesses AI to tackle global water crisis; AI unveils secrets of memory and imagination processes, UCL Study finds; Generative AI: A catalyst for job creation and economic inclusivity, says experts; AI deepfake transforms South Park characters into real people, dividing fan reactions- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

The first look at Cillian Murphy's next movie, Small Things Like These, is here. As well as starring, Murphy is also producing, along with his Oppenheimer co-star Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck is on board as executive producer. 

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The  have been revealed. The episodes will air on Netflix. Berlin is a Netflix spin-off, with Berlin assembling a masterful gang in Paris for a 44 million euro jewel heist, revisiting his glory days before the events of Money Heist.

It’s finally time: the last new TV of 2023. Whether you’re at work or not, this week tends to be a pretty sleepy one, ideally with plenty of time to catch up on new TV.

AI regulation is necessary but not sufficient to stop Europe from being a tech footnote.

A year or two ago I interviewed an actual, practising witch, the wonderful Damien Crawford of Purgatory Dungeoneer fame, about how videogames represent magic. I badly need Crawford's thoughts on Emberstorm Entertainment's Reka, published by Fireshine Games, which has just been slapped with a Steam early access release window of Q2 2024.

Some people think that story-driven games are dying. If that’s the case, then no one told the developers of these upcoming titles!

One of the appeals of Stardew Valley is its chill soundtrack. Accompanying players while they farm crops, talk to neighbors, and go exploring, the musical score is such an integral part of the game that a Festival of Seasons tour was announced last month. However, demand has been so high that the developer has added in more dates.

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Unity has reportedly shed more jobs, as the company has laid off 265 workers today as part of a «company reset.» The move also terminates the partnership that Unity had been in with Weta FX, though crucially, Unity retains its ownership of the Weta Digital tools it purchased back in 2021.

Unity has confirmed plans to cut 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce as part of a company “reset”.

Unity are chopping 265 jobs - around 3.8% of their global workforce - and ending an agreement with digital effects company Wētā FX as part of a company "reset", following an awful year for the game engine provider. Unity also plan to close offices in 14 locations, including Singapore and Berlin, and cut costs at offices in San Francisco and Bellevue, Washington.

Only two years after acquiring part of Weta's VFX business, Unity is stepping back to focus on its core business.

Engine giant Unity is making more layoffs as part of a company "reset".

Unity has announced another wave of layoffs as it ends its agreement with Lord of the Rings VFX studio as part of a company "reset," according to its current CEO.

Unity is making further cuts to its workforce as it ends an agreement with Weta FX.

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A new trailer for Berlin, Netflix's upcoming Money Heist spin-off, has arrived – and it confirms the return of two more major characters from the original series. 

November of 2013 was a big one for games, with two major consoles launching opposite one another after years of discourse about the surely imminent demise of the console market.

The Lenovo Legion Go handheld gaming console was launched globally at IFA (Internationale FunkAusstellung Berlin) showcase event in September. Powered by the new AMD Ryzen Z1 series of processors, the Windows-based device is set to go on sale in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) markets this month. While there's been no official word from Lenovo over a launch timeline for the Indian market, the Lenovo Legion India Instagram page seems to have hinted at a regional release window for the handheld. The Lenovo Legion Go handheld could release in India next year.

India's push for local IT hardware manufacturing receives a boost as Noida-based Sahasra Group, a recent beneficiary of the government's production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, secures its first order to produce laptops for French electronics brand Thomson. Under the deal, Sahasra will manufacture budget-friendly and readily available Microsoft Windows 11 laptops for the Indian market.

Wooga‘s June’s Journey hidden object game has surpassed $1 billion in revenue. It’s a big milestone for Wooga’s owner Playtika.

Pokemon gave away a Van Gogh Pikachu promo card through its crossover event with a museum in Amsterdam and well, it could have gone better. The museum was mobbed with Pokemon fans eager to get their hands on the limited edition card, and its site buckled under the pressure on multiple occasions. Not to be deterred by that chaos, Pokemon's next TCG promo event has been revealed, offering people the chance to pick up an exclusive card free of charge and send another to a friend for the holidays.

I’ve played Ticket to Ride with my wife on numerous occasions, and I’ve never felt that Ticket to Ride was a good two-player game. The small box games, like Ticket to Ride Berlin and Ticket to Ride Amsterdam are great with two, but the larger games just don’t work as well, especially if someone is on one side of the board, and the other person on the other.

The Drop is an Elusive Target mission in Hitman World of Assassination where Agent 47 needs to head to the club in Berlin to kill Alexios Laskaris, played by famous DJ Dimitri Vegas. The entire location has been reworked though, making Silent Assassin runs so much harder.

A decade after a wave of bankruptcies all but wiped out the German solar industry, the sector is looking to reestablish itself in the face of stiff competition from abroad.

Upland has raised $7 million in funding for its virtual land metaverse based on Web3 technology.

Rocket League's player-to-player trading system will be turned off in December. For someone like me, the news comes as a mild disappointment—I got my favorite set of wheels in a trade with a friend, but I haven't used the feature in years—but for Berlin-based designer Laurids «Vicegold» Düllmann and a few others, the announcement means losing a job.

After Season 5 arrived, many fans were left wondering about the The Spanish series, also titled “La Casa de Papel,” follows a group of individuals assembled by one mastermind, the Professor. Adopting codenames of different cities in the world, they band together to rob the Royal Mint of Spain. But will they be returning for another heist in season 6?

Merge Mansion developer Metacore announced this year that it is expanding following its signature game hitting new heights of success. The mobile game perhaps best known for its cinematic ad campaigns and central merging mechanic recently surpassed 50 million in downloads. The company opened a new location in Berlin, where it will continue to help expand the game as Metacore looks towards the future.

Classic WW2 real-time stealth-tactics series Commandos is being revived for a sixth entry, Commandos: Origins, and it's coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S sometime next year.

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Today, CD Projekt RED shared several Cyberpunk 2077 news during its Investor Day. First and foremost, the base game has sold 25 million units to date, while the recent Phantom Liberty expansion sold three million copies just in the launch week.

IO Interactive may be hard at work on the newest James Bond game Project 007, but their upcoming 25th anniversary celebration will largely focus on the series that fans most associate the Danish developer with, Hitman.

The Hitman series soon turns 25 years old, but Agent 47’s unwrinkled face doesn’t carry the “what am I doing with my life?” stress that normally accompanies such a birthday. Developer IO Interactive is instead celebrating with both new and returning events coming to the stealth infiltration mega package that is Hitman: World Of Assassination.

After 146 days, a landmark deal is going to soon be signed by the Writers' Guild of America, after it got several concessions from the producers and moguls running Hollywood. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) remains on strike as of this writing.

G2 Esports, the Berlin-based esports organization, and Herman Miller, the world-famous furniture designer, are collaborating to produce a limited edition G2 Esports Embody Gaming Chair. Only 250 units will be produced, and they will go on sale September 26, 2023.

Roblox has acquired Speechly, a Finnish AI start-up specialising in voice moderation technology, for an undisclosed amount.

First-person shooter titles are one of the staples of the video game genre. And due to that, it’s easy to see why there are so many coming out in 2024.

We had a lot of good things to say about last year's Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni. It wasn't perfect, but it vacuumed, mopped, and even emptied its water into a tank. Today, Ecovacs promises to improve on an already good product with the Deebot X2 Omni.

Two years after announcing voice chat was coming to Roblox, the gaming company has acquired a voice tech startup, Speechly, offering voice chat moderation, real-time transcription and Voice API that lets companies add AI voice technology and voice interfaces to their products and experiences.

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

We're thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of «Playing the Edge.» Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today!

It has been long rumoured that Xiaomi may unveil its new budget range smartphones very soon which is called the Xiaomi 13T series. There are several leaks surrounding the Xiaomi 13T Pro, however, we know very little about its standard version which is the Xiaomi 13T. Recently, a tipster leaked a video that showcased the design of the upcoming Xiaomi smartphone and it looked pleasing.

Retribution, the Liam Neeson-led thriller that released theatrically in August 2023, is making its way to Premium Video on Demand (PVOD) this month.

Nintendo's mobile racer is coming to the end of its development cycle.

Samsung's new extra-big, extra-high-resolution TV is its largest 8K TV and one of its biggest consumer-available screens in general, only available in a massive 98 inches.

If you're an out-of-towner having trouble booking an Airbnb in New York City, you can probably blame Local Law 18, which just went into effect.

BERLIN—Among the many displays of hardware at IFA here, one featured tools that looked a lot grimier than most: the Repair Café.

BERLIN—Contrary to some industry expectations, the European Union’s energy-efficiency mandates have yet to unplug the 8K television format in the EU. But that ultra-ultra-high-definition variant continues to face other obstacles, most of which don’t stop at this side of the Atlantic.

Soon you’ll be able to use your Samsung’s SmartThings app to control your LG refrigerator and your LG ThinQ app to change the channel on your Samsung television.