Nightingale developer admits its "not happy" with game's current state after disappointing launch

The PC and console market grew by 2.6% to $93.5 billion in revenue last year, according to a new report by video games date company Newzoo (cheers, Kotaku!) That’s good, right? Growth is universally a good thing, otherwise all those nice, dead-eyed men in suits wouldn’t keep saying it was. You can’t just lie about growth, that’s a business crime. However, here’s some slightly more worrying news, depending on how much you value new ideas: Of all the game time that gamers spent gaming in quantifiable Big Year for Gaming 2023, just 20% of that time was gamed on games other than the 66 specific games mentioned in the report.

It can be a little difficult to imagine Cyberpunk 2077 being in a completely broken state looking at the game we have on our hands now, but that was the case just a little over three years ago. With constant updates, a fantastic new expansion in Phantom Liberty, and an ungodly amount of money, CD Projekt Red managed to turn one of the biggest launch disasters in gaming into one of the best RPGs the industry has ever seen.

Over three years after a disastrous launch, Cyberpunk 2077's developer is now "finally happy" with the state of the RPG.

Dredge, the sinister fishing game from Black Salt Games and publisher Team 17, has donated $100,000 New Zealand dollars to the New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust as it celebrates its first anniversary and teases that there's more to come for the wonderful indie horror game.

The launch of the new Beach Properties DLC for Cities: Skylines 2 has sparked a significant wave of discontent within its player community. Despite eager anticipation for fresh content, many gamers are left disheartened as they delve into the first DLC for Cities: Skylines 2.

Some Pokemon GO players are currently unhappy with the lack of interesting rewards in the current World of Wonders Taken Over event. This latest Pokemon GO event has just started, and it will continue until March 31.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is going down incredibly well with critics and fans alike (aside from on PC where it sits at "Mostly Negative" due to performance issues and MTX). But fans have one big grievance that the community has been complaining about since the first game launched in 2012.

At the State of Unreal 2024 presentation, Epic Games announced a slew of new product information and details. Among them were the new tools coming to Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and confirmation that next year, the studio will launch its first season of Fortnite that's developed entirely in UEFN.

Cryptic Studios is in a period of transition under Deca Games after recent changes at parent company Embracer Group moved Cryptic under that division. While all of Cryptic’s MMOs will continue to get new content and updates, there will be Deca devs starting to “take over the creation of some of the content”.

Dragon's Dogma 2's director says we no longer need to call the original RPG a cult game due to its sales figures and popularity.

It's finally happening—around a year and a half after its early access launch, Overwatch 2 is removing all of its heroes, new and old, from its Battle Pass. This means that free-to-play players will soon be able to instantly access new heroes at the same time as those paying for the Premium Battle Pass without spending a penny.

Many Roblox fans have recently taken to social media to criticize the game's latest event. Called The Hunt: First Edition, the new Roblox happening has so far attracted criticism for everything from its steep progression curve to rewards, among other things.