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Since before Sonic Frontiers even launched, Sega made it abundantly clear that future instalments in the franchise would be building on the foundations laid down by the open world platformer, and with Frontiers having sold as well as it did, it’s safe to assume that the company is probably sticking to those plans. In fact, a direct sequel to Sonic Frontiers seems to be in development.

Sonic Frontiers 2 is reportedly currently in development at SEGA with the gameplay being a sequel to 2022's Frontiers gameplay-wise.

The latest mainline installment in theSonic franchise, Sonic Frontiers, is getting a direct sequel, according to recent claims made by credible insiders. This is likely to excite many Sonic fans, as a potential sequel to the 2022 open world 3D platformer could build upon the foundations of Sonic Frontiers and rectify the wrongs of its predecessor.

Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.

Botany Manor, a relaxing puzzle and adventure game developed by Balloon Studios, is now available as a day one launch title for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, and the highly rated interactive story Kona is also making a return to the service. Set in an expansive estate in 1890’s Somerset, England, Botany Manor is an immersive sim that puts players in the role of Arabella Greene, a retired botanist who continues to dabble in her passion and research. Many players will enjoy spending several relaxing hours completing Arabella’s botany research, growing rare plants, and filling out her botanical record.

A Sonic Frontiers modder has recreated the experience of playing the infamously long Desert Bus. The Sonic Frontiers modding community is incredibly dedicated, as fans have been creating many different experiences ever since its 2022 release. These mods range from adding in new characters to tweaking Frontiers' gameplay. Some of the most impressive mods are the ones revolving around its cyberspace levels, as fans have created both wholly original and nostalgic levels within Frontiers' engine. One ambitious, and incredibly hilarious, mod for Frontiers is one that recreates Desert Bus.

The Eminence in Shadow: Master of Garden is teaming up with the popular Japanese anime series Shangri-La Frontier. This dream team event kicks off on March 21st, 2024, at 1 pm JST. The Eminence in Shadow x Shangri-La Frontier crossover will also mark the first collaboration with an anime series for the game.

Sega is kicking off 2024 with a new Sonic Superstars update. Last year was jam-packed with exciting Sonic content, and this was capped off with the release of Sonic Superstars in October. In contrast to Sonic Frontiers’ open-world 3D approach, Superstars harkens back to the Blue Blur’s side-scrolling heyday with a 2D platforming experience that sees Sonic and his friends race to stop a trio of villains under the leadership of Dr. Eggman. Sonic Superstars added a few new tricks to the traditional, fast-paced Sonic gameplay, such as unlockable Chaos Emerald powers and co-op and competitive multiplayer modes.

What is it? A Far Cry-like set in the world of James Cameron's AvatarRelease date December 6, 2023Expect to pay $60/£50Developer Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft DüsseldorfPublisher UbisoftReviewed on Radeon RX 6600, Ryzen 7 7700x, 32GB DDR5 RAMSteam Deck TBALink Official site

A ton of new information about was revealed in the Ark Extra Life 2023 livestream, an annual event that celebrates the game and provides Studio Wildcard with an opportunity to present what they have been working on to the community. This year was no letdown, as while little info was revealed about , plenty of details on what is to come for the were announced.

Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is out fairly imminently, arriving on PS5 on 7th December. As a canon part of James Cameron's larger universe, an intriguing aspect fans can look forward to is the new creatures, characters, and storylines, which are already influencing other Avatar projects.

Short of somehow growing a Na’vi neural braid and jamming it directly into the base of James Cameron’s skull, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is pretty much your best option for taking a virtual tour of the stunning alien moon of Pandora. This open-world shooter serves up a mind bogglingly large slice of the fantastic fictional universe to explore, from staggeringly dense forest areas to picturesque open plains and properly intimidating mountain ranges both on land and suspended impossibly in the skies above. However, hidden amongst all that beauty is a disappointing amount of bloat, with copy-pasted enemy outposts and facilities that made venturing off the main story path far less rewarding than it has been in recent landmark adventures such as Elden Ring or the last two Legend of Zeldas. I still largely enjoyed the 25 hours I spent trying to fend off a resource-hungry human invasion, but I wish the environment itself had presented me with more compelling reasons to fight for it beyond its surface-level splendor.

Troubled developers Creative Assembly will double-down on their strength in making offline real-time strategy games, following their failed attempt to break into the competitive shooter market with extraction FPS Hyenas.

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UK developer Frontier has said it will refocus on making simulation games following the launch of real-time strategy game Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin.

UK developer Creative Assembly will refocus on making real-time strategy games following the cancellation of online extraction shooter Hyenas.

Future movies in the Avatar series may feature elements that have been created by Ubisoft for its upcoming Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora video game.

Shares in Frontier Developments fell by over 20% on Monday after the company delivered a disappointing trading update.

Frontier boss David Braben has said the company has experienced a «turbulent and difficult year» after Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin struggled to find an audience.

People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a different cultural background than their own, according to a study my collaborators Michael Baker and Françoise Détienne and I recently published in Frontiers in Psychology.

The creator of Sonic the Hedgehog is questioning what games like The Legend of Zelda or Armored Core 6 have over Sonic Frontiers in a recent interview. 

James Cameron’s Avatar franchise has always felt like a very natural fit for the realm of video games – honestly, the movies already kind of feel like games – and yet, It’s never really worked out. Ubisoft made a weak attempt at making an Avatar game back in 2009 and, until now, that’s been about it. Well, Ubisoft is taking another crack at it with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a new large-scale open-world adventure from The Division developer Massive Entertainment set to launch in December.

Since its gameplay reveal earlier this year, it’s been hard to shake the idea that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is essentially a Far Cry game with a sci-fi setting. That’s not an incorrect assumption for several reasons; this is a wilderness-set first-person game with plants to harvest, animals to hunt, outposts to assault, and items to be crafted. But during a recent two-hour hands-on I discovered that Frontiers of Pandora has a more interesting set of ideas built atop that Far Cry skeleton. I certainly never expected to put the controller down and be thinking more about Mirror’s Edge and Horizon: Zero Dawn than I was about the classic Ubisoft formula.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Zen Studios has become the latest studio owned by Embracer Group to be hit with layoffs.

Frontier Developments have announced the fourth and final faction coming to their Warhammer RTS Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin. The Disciples Of Tzeentch are a clan of magical chaos demons that specialise in long-range attacks, and they'll join the Stormcast Eternals, Orruk Kruleboyz and the Nighthaunt when the game launches on November 17th.

Frontier Developments have announced that they'll be undertaking an "organisationl review" of the company after "disappointing financial performance and more challenging industry conditions". The news came yesterday in a note to investors, signalling yet another wave of industry layoffs.

Elite: Dangerous maker Frontier Developments is making layoffs.

2023 continues to be an extremely difficult year for the video game development industry, with yet another wave of layoffs announced.

Cambridge, UK-based Frontier Developments is the latest major game developer to announce layoffs and spending cuts.

F1 Manager, Elite Dangerous, and Planet Zoo developer Frontier Developments has sanctioned layoffs as part of an organizational review.

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It might be an unpopular opinion, but I normally despise this trend of VRMMO/isekai-adjacent anime. There are only so many times I can watch the same story about a “regular guy” who dies in his sleep and wakes up reborn as an overpowered character in an MMORPG or a dating sim or what-have-you. And I promise — I’m not being unfair here, they’re all the same story, and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.

Sonic Frontiers players are having so much difficulty with the Master Trials rematches against Giganto and other bosses that they're spamming the pause button and stomp moves to get through them.

I recently had the opportunity to check out the first episode of Shangri-La Frontier, a new anime about a VRMMORPG. Now, this genre in particular has gotten a bit saturated in recent years due to the success of Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, and even Ready Player One. However, the art style of the trailer piqued my interest, and the press release indicated SLF would have a bit more of a focus on world-building and game mechanics.

During yesterday's State of Play broadcast, Ubisoft debuted a new Avatar Frontiers of Pandora trailer, detailing the game's story.

Getting around in Starfield isn’t quite as easy as you might expect, and there is quite a few menus and restriction players will need to consider when making a quick trip or jumping to a whole other galaxy.

While the upcoming Sonic Superstars is still a little over a month away, Sega has revealed new level music to give fans a taste of what’s to come. Sonic the Hedgehog has always been known to bring fresh sounds from a myriad of genres that give life to gameplay — funk, rock, dance, ambient and more have always found their way into Sonic titles. While long-time fans may not have always positively received every Sonic game that’s ever been released, it is generally agreed upon that the franchise’s music always delivers on sweet sounds.

Perhaps you had lost track of Mythbusters co-star Adam Savage since the show wound down in 2018. Well you’re in luck, because he’s been spreading the joy of art, design, and engineering on YouTube via his channel, Adam Savage’s Tested, for some time now. Would you believe one of the best series of videos that he’s put out in ages features none other than the role-playing game du jour, Bethesda Game Studio’s Starfield?

Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora is due to launch December 7th, and Ubisoft have now detailed the graphics features that will set the PC version apart. The list includes raytraced reflections and shadows, "extended graphics settings" and an in-built benchmarking tool.

Sonic the Hedgehog fans now have two more dates for their diaries courtesy of tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live, with both Sonic Superstars and Sonic Frontier's big The Final Horizon content update now sporting release dates.

There might be a brand new 2D Sonic game coming before the end of the year, but Sega isn't done adding to the last 3D one just yet. As promised, Sonic Frontiers will be getting new story DLC before the end of 2023. The very first trailer for the free update debuted at Gamescom, showing Super Sonic staring down a bigger mech than he has encountered in Frontiers before with his supporting cast behind him, Dr. Robotnik included.

Facing calls to put guardrails on artificial intelligence development, a group of tech companies including Alphabet Inc.'s Google and OpenAI Inc. are creating an industry body to ensure that AI models are safe.