Overwatch 2 collaborates with Le Sserafim in its first in-game music event

Clockmaker developer Belka Games is teaming up with environmental campaigner dots.eco to launch a Save the Turtles event this November. 

2023 may not quite be done yet, but the game-of-the-year conversation is already beginning to heat up. Case in point, the Golden Joystick Awards, one of the longest-running video game awards shows with winners being voted on by the UK public, has announced their winners. The big winner was Baldur’s Gate 3, which walked away with “Ultimate Game of the Year” and six other awards. The rest of the winner’s field was quite divided, with only two other games, Final Fantasy XVI and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, receiving more than one award. Some games that seemed to be frontrunners earlier in the year, like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the Resident Evil 4 remake, only received a single trophy.

What is a birthday but a celebration that, despite all your struggles, you survived? It has been almost a year since the release of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, meaning it's been now a full year of apologies, paused expansions, and transformative patches. And yet it lives.

Pax Dei announced today that it will be hosting its first alpha test, giving players a peak behind the curtain at the upcoming MMO. Dubbed «Home Valley,» this test will focus on building and gathering and kicks off next week on November 14th.

Final Fantasy XI is still going after 21 years, though in a version of maintenance mode that still includes monthly refreshes and occasional special new content. Some of that new content is on the way, including a crossover Alliance raid with Final Fantasy XIV ’s Dawntrail expansion.

RuneScape is previewing its end of the year roadmap, with a new cinematic for the upcoming arrival of Vorkath, in “Battle for Forthinry”, the Christmas event with new additions, new Vorkath event, and updates on combat andvisual upgrades.

Now that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has a new developer, The Chinese Room, we're going through the whole rigamarole of teasers and reveals all over again, starting now and carrying on into 2024, and possibly beyond. I hope you're prepared. 

Microsoft is teaming up with Inworld AI to create game development tools for Xbox, enabling developers to create characters, generate entire scripts and quests, and more. The multi-year deal brings an AI design copilot and an AI character runtime engine to the forefront, both of them being totally optional to use and to varying degrees. Of course, the use of AI in art has been criticised by many for simply lacking originality, in addition to running the risk of fewer jobs for artists — a growing fear among many considering the alarming number of layoffs seen at game studios this year in an attempt to cut costs.

Xbox has announced a multi-year deal with Inworld to build AI dialogue and narrative tools at scale.

Today, Xbox announced it has signed a multi-year partnership with Inworld AI to take advantage of the company's generative AI technology alongside Microsoft's own Azure OpenAI service.

Overwatch is finally getting a non-binary hero, with the recently revealed Venture confirmed to use they/them pronouns. They will be a new damage hero, expanding the queer cast even further after other recent additions such as Lifeweaver and Baptiste.

For years, Microsoft employees have enjoyed a perk that gives them free subscriptions to Game Pass Ultimate, and that benefit was on track to be discontinued until Xbox boss Phil Spencer stepped in and saved the day.