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PlayStation has a lot of live-service games in development. Part of buying Bungie was even to utilise its expertise, which led to the less-than-favourable internal evaluation of The Last of Us' standalone Factions game. But it's not the only upcoming Sony multiplayer release to be pushed back, as half of its 12 titles have now been delayed.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has halved the number of live service games it plans to release in the coming years, it’s confirmed.

There was a time when Valve could do no wrong, releasing hit game after hit game. While better known these days as the developer behind Steam, Gabe Newell and his crew got their start with the iconic Half-Life. Now, an update has been sighted, and the timing is quite suspicious.

PlayStation finally confirmed the rumors about a new PS5 model were true last month, unveiling a newer, slimmer model of its latest console. That model will be available to buy later this week, almost exactly three years after the launch of the original console, with a disc version and a digital version to choose from. It seems some retailers are preparing for a similar onslaught to the one that made PS5s very hard to find in 2020 as at least one listing for the console is already ready to go.

By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020.

Critical Role kicked off a new actual-play series in May titled Candela Obscura. Now its Darrington Press publishing imprint is ready with a tabletop role-playing game based on the same themes and mechanics. Starting Nov. 14, fans will be able to find Candela Obscura Core Rulebook for sale at their local game shop and online. But while the game may be embraced by fans of the program seeking episodic adventures set in the same fictional world, this initial release lacks either the depth or the novelty for much wider appeal.

Esports and gaming organisation 100 Thieves has announced another round of layoffs.

Serious question here: With all of the games that came out in October (seriously, it felt like we had at least a dozen major games releases), was it actually possible for anyone to have played all of them? That’s a question that can easily apply to the whole year, as well — could anyone actually play all (or even most) of the amazing games that came out this year? I mean, the obvious answer is no, unless they’re paid to, but that’s my point. With so many games that came out this year, even a gamer that is excited for and would like to play all of them will have to prioritize certain titles over others, as a form of triage. The reason that’s important is because I fear that some great or even good games haven’t received the fair shake that they should have this year.

With solid state drives being more popular than ever, the wholesale prices of the chips they use (NAND flash) have been slowly rising since the middle of summer. However, it looks like Samsung wants to ramp things up considerably, by adding up to 20% to the price tags, per quarter, over the first half of 2024.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Sega has said development of its first “Super Game” is progressing steadily.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is showing off a full-sized mockup of an unscrewed version of its Blue Moon lunar lander.

Apple is reportedly working on extensive upgrades across the AirPods line, with plans to completely overhaul the product in 2024.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is expecting one of the strongest seasons ever for PlayStation console sales this holiday.

One of Starfield's senior developers has been reflecting on the game after launch, revealing in a new interview that they reckon the space RPG could have benefited from going into greater detail on fewer planets. One of the reasons is that "some of the exploration stuff didn't come through as well as it could've."

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 fans have realized that the game is missing a villain they expected to return from the first game.

Fromsoftserve's Dark Souls Remastered graphics overhaul mod improves the game's draw distance so much that one of its bosses can be cheesed from a brand new spot.

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Media Molecule, the developer behind Sackboy, is apparently planning to lay off dozens of staff members and reduce its headcount by around 15 to 20%. As reported by GLHF, Media Molecule will be laying off roughly 20 employees to make its headcount from 135 to 115 which has already been discussed internally through meetings.

The Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be a mixture of new ideas and RPG systems that go all the way back to The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, according to Bethesda's former design director Bruce Nesmith, who was lead designer on The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and senior designer on Starfield. In particular, Nesmith reckons it will "absolutely" continue with Skyrim's approach to levelling and progression, whereby you improved skills by performing the associated actions. He also thinks the game will "probably" retain elements of the magic system he designed for Skyrim, which broke away from Oblivion and Morrowind in being simpler to understand and more immediately powerful, at the price of flexibility and inventiveness.

Prime Video’s Fallout series finally has a release date. After a year of tiny previews, Amazon announced Monday that the show will premiere on April 12, 2024.

Embracer's scythe continues to swing in the wake of a collapsed $2 billion deal, and the latest victim, reportedly, is Zen Studios. According to Videogamelayoffs, one of its sources at the Hungarian studio told it that 32 staffers at the Pinball FX studio were laid off last Friday.

Netflix is increasing the monthly cost of its subscription, despite an influx of subscribers over the past few months.

Netflix is on a roll to increase the prices of some of its plans in the United States and other regions. In pursuit of tackling issues related to password sharing, the company is going all out to secure maximum profit margins without hurting its user base. Netflix is now planning to increase the price for its Basic and Premium tiers in some regions, which could adversely impact the user base.

Brace yourselves: Another Netflix price hike is here. 

Just one day after AMD removed Anti-Lag+ for Counter-Strike 2, to prevent any more players from potentially receiving account bans, there's now a new driver set that's stripped the feature altogether. That's a pretty drastic move but it's far better than incurring further wrath from the gaming community.

Though Harebrained Schemes' The Lamplighters League was just released and found solid critical success, publisher Paradox Interactive plans to cut ties with developer Harebrained Schemes following plans to write down development costs after slower-than-expected sales of the game. In a recently released press release, publisher Paradox Interactive announced that a "mutual agreement" was made between both parties and that Harebrained Schemes would separate from the publisher and return as an independent studio on January 1, 2024. This sudden news comes less than a month after the game's release. First acquired by Paradox Interactive in 2018, The Lamplighters League tactics strategy game was the developer's first project as an internal studio. Before The Lamplighters League, Harebrained Schemes worked on the recent Shadowrun and BattleTech role-playing games, which found great success among the rush of crowdfunding games during the 2010s. In a press release following news of the game's lackluster success, Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester stated: "The Lamplighters League is a fun game with many strengths. Even though we see cautiously positive player numbers in subscription services, the commercial reception has been too weak, which is frankly a big disappointment. Game projects are by their nature always risky, but at the end of the day we haven't performed at the level we should. It is painful but makes us more eager to roll up our sleeves and do better." For now, Harebrained Schemes will still be supporting The Lamplighters League with post-launch updates and patches. In early 2024, the developer will move on from Paradox Interactive and return to being an independent studio. For Paradox Interactive, this marks the second major developer shift in recent years following the reboot of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, which The Chinese Room is now developing. In our own full review, editor Ali Jones gave the game a positive review and stated: "The Lamplighters League might not stand fully toe-to-toe with the strategy juggernauts of recent years, but it's a plucky competitor - just as long as you don't get bogged down in its attempt to set itself apart from the games it's trying to emulate."

If you're super-excited for the release of Alan Wake 2 later this month, but can't quite recall the events of the first game (entirely reasonably seeing as the original version came out over a decade ago), Fortnite of all places might have the answer. Epic has whacked a free playable 20-minute Alan Wake recap episode that should serve as a refresher while offering a bit of spooky battery gobbling fun along the way.

Sony Interactive Entertainment could respond to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard with a major deal of its own.

I'll make no bones about it: I preferred Grand Theft Auto 4 to GTA 5. The latter is great and all but I never got over the more grounded and gritty take of GTA 4 and in particular its tragic central cast, defined and trapped by their lives in the criminal underworld. GTA 4 had two great expansions, The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned, both introducing their own protagonists and side stories. One of them was the biker Johnny Klebitz, who, unlike many of Rockstar's leads, ends his GTA 4 arc in a better place.

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After weeks of leaks and rumours, Intel has officially announced its 14th Generation of Core desktop CPUs, starting with a total of six new models. There's the Core i9 14900K, i7 14700K and i5 14600K, along with KF variants missing the iGPU component. Prices for each one are the same as the previous generation and you're getting a bit more clock speed, an update to the i7 configuration, and that's mostly it.

The Payday 3 Steam player count has fallen 90% in less than a month, while predecessor Payday 2 is currently experiencing a surge in popularity on Valve’s platform. After hitting an all-time high for concurrent players just after launch, during a recent period, Payday 3 has dropped to number 153 on the Steam most-played chart, well below Payday 2, as it seemingly struggles to retain around 10% of its peak playerbase.

Developer Tequila Works and publisher Riot Forge have released a new trailer for the upcoming Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story. Focused on the story, the trailer shows off playful moments between the two protagonists of the game, Nunu and Willump.

Recently, we told you that British developer Team17 may experience job losses following the CEO leaving the company. Sadly, it looks as though this may be the case after all, with the studio possibly losing a third of its staff.

Good news for all the prey animals out there: Starfield's latest dinky update will finally allow you to achieve a field of view roughly equivalent to your own. The 1.7.36 patch for Bethesda's spacefaring RPG doesn't make many changes—in fact, it makes barely any—but it does fulfil Bethesda's promise of introducing a proper FOV slider to the game instead of forcing you to go rummaging around in .ini files to change the setting.

After years of negotiations with various regulatory bodies around the world, it appears that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard is nearing completion. This, of course, will bring some big changes to the gaming landscape, as Activision Blizzard has several major franchises under its belt, including Call of Duty and Diablo.

In Baldur’s Gate 3, decisions matter, but players have discovered a way to avoid some negative consequences of recruiting the Drow Paladin companion Minthara by transforming her into a sheep. Be warned, there are some spoilers ahead for events in the game’s first and second acts, so new players should read with caution.

Telltale Games has laid off an unknown portion of its staff, in an unfortunate deja vu moment for a handful of its employees. 

Whether it's wild animals, creepy criminals, or angry neighbors, Ring cameras have recorded all kinds of crazy footage over the years. But might the same home security cameras be able to capture evidence of extraterrestrials visiting Earth? 

Thirty years is a long time to spend doing anything, let alone trying to cover an industry as wide-ranging and fast-moving as videogames. Needless to say, the landscape has shifted quite a bit since 1993, when a multiformat magazine dedicated to ‘the future of videogaming’ landed on newsagents’ shelves for the first time. Edge’s mandate hasn’t changed a great deal since then, but it’s rare you get to celebrate such a milestone (much less so in print media), so issue 390 sees us take time out from considering the future of interactive entertainment to look back on some of the highlights of the past three decades.  

The first proper Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer gameplay has leaked ahead of an official reveal later on Thursday.

The upcoming Exynos 2400 might be the last Samsung SoC that comes outfitted with an AMD GPU, with the latest rumor claiming that the Korean firm wishes to develop its own custom solution. Earlier, it was reported that both companies had renewed a licensing agreement, but the terms may only have been valid for a limited time.

In Fortnite’s goal to become “multi-game ecosystem” and a creative platform, Fortnite will soon require age rating for all first and third-party content. To make this happen, Epic has formed a partnership with the International Age Rating Coalition, or IARC. If you fashion yourself a creator on Fortnite, this new regulation takes effect starting on November 14.

It took a few hours for me to really “get” Starfield, but I’m now in love with Bethesda’s biggest, sprawling-est space RPG. Between my adventures with exploration society Constellation and all of the factions in the Settled Systems vying for my help, there are lots of stories to explore. But narratively, the real star of the show is Starfield’s new game plus mode. Some of its mechanics get in the way, but the way it handles the main plot is worth the hassle.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Mortal Kombat 1’s release has made for an interesting time in the franchise’s longstanding history. With this new game, we’ve seen the return of many iconic characters from its more experimental era. With the Kameo system included, MK1 truly feels like a love letter to fans of the classic Mortal Kombat 3D era.

The Pokémon Company has apologised to fans after scalpers besieged the Van Gogh Museum earlier this week, buying up most of the Pokémon Center x Van Gogh special edition products and almost immediately selling them for heavily inflated prices on online auction sites.

One skilled Starfield player has turned the RPG's lockpicking mechanic into a game all of its own.

Epic Games will lay off around 830 employees, or 16% of jobs at the company. The Fortnite maker says it has no plans for further cuts and cites slimmer margins from its shared revenue as part of the decision.

Epic Games is reportedly laying off around 16% of its workforce.

Epic Games is laying off 16% percent of its employees, impacting about 870 people, the Fortnite maker announced on Thursday. The company also announced that it’s divesting Bandcamp, an online audio distribution platform it acquired last year, and spinning off most of SuperAwesome, a kid-safe technology developer that it acquired in 2020. The layoffs news was first reported by Bloomberg.

SEGA Sammy has today announced the cancellation of Creative Assembly's HYENAS and other unannounced titles.

PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has shared praise for Sony's PS3 project PlayStation Home in newly revealed documents part of the court case concerning Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. While talk surrounding the Metaverse has somewhat died down as of late, Ryan believes PlayStation Home was an early interpretation of the concept, and was even «10 to 15 years ahead of its time».

By Monica Chin, a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom's Guide and Business Insider before joining The Verge in 2020.

Lies of P patch notes 1.2 are here, and the main focus is making the game just a little bit easier, nerfing some of its toughest boss fights and buffing your carry weight and parries. If you’ve been playing the ‘Pinocchio does Bloodborne’ fairytale soulslike, and finding some of its encounters to be a bit too challenging, this Lies of P update should make your life a little more bearable.

A short forever as only 6 years after being launched, players are now receiving a SEGA Forever End of Service announcement! Back in June of 2017, SEGA announced their inventive idea of SEGA Forever, bringing the iconic classic games you grew up with to your mobile. The app launched with 5 games faithful to their original predecessor, with new releases trickling in every few weeks.

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty launches today, and if you're planning on making a return trip to Night City, be cautious, as you can miss out on the expansion's main quest entirely if you mess up an early mission.

After a report claimed a ransomware group had breached all of Sony's systems, the company is now investigating.

Following a particularly fun and delightful bug from the week prior, Destiny 2 was recently beset by something far less entertaining: a possible DDoS attack from an unknown source. According to player reports on Reddit and other Destiny 2 community hotspots, the game has been suffering from a wide array of connectivity issues both minor and major, up until the point that the whole thing became wholly unplayable for a period of time.

Payday 3 is bare-bones at launch, but I still can’t stop playing it. As I perfect my heisting strategies and flesh out my character build, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m playing a promising early-access build of a game that will be excellent in a few years’ time.

After two weeks of chaos, Unity Create president Marc Whitten has a message: “I’m sorry.”

In an open letter to its community, Unity has revealed its reworked free structure and controversial runtime fee changes. Under the new structure, the Unity Personal edition will remain free and incur no runtime fee. The new cap before the fee starts has been increased from $100,000 to $200,000, and no game with under $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject to the fee. Interestingly, the new Runtime Fee will only apply to the next version of Unity that is shipping in 2024. Already shipped and current in-development projects will not be subject to the fee unless they upgrade to the 2024 version of Unity. In the post, Marc Whitten, leader of the Unity Create team apologized for what has transpired in recent weeks.

Nearly three years after its launch, Cyberpunk 2077's devs have finally patched out one of its most infamous memes.

Less than 18 months after it acquired Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Mythforce developers Beamdog, Embracer Group has reportedly laid off more than two dozen staff at the studio. Mere days after the release of its nostalgic co-op shooter, no less.

If you have logged onto Disney Plus recently you may have noticed that the popular GroupWatch feature has been completely removed from the site.

Marvel's Avengers is gearing up to be delisted from digital storefronts at the end of the month, and Crystal Dynamics is giving players one last chance to pick it up digitally before it's gone for good.

From the looks of it, legendary development studio id Software is working on a new version of its proprietary game engine - id Tech 8.

Marvel’s Avengers has seen its biggest price drop yet, in advance of the game being delisted later this month.

To celebrate 2023's World Cleanup Day, publisher Secret Mode has confirmed that indie Loddlenaut – a game all about clearing up the pollution left behind by evil megacorps – will release on 16th November 2023.

Foamstars – Square Enix's upcoming 4v4 party shooter that's essentially Splatoon but with foam – is running an open beta test at the end of this month.

Payday 3 developer Starbreeze has confirmed the upcoming heist shooter will not have the controversial DRM system Denuvo.

For fans of Payday 3, we knew a while back that this game would receive Denuvo DRM. Developers and publishers have used this popular DRM software for several years. It’s also a relatively solid DRM to prevent piracy from taking video games and spreading them online. However, typically, we do see the Denuvo DRM removed well after the games have been released into the marketplace. That’s not too surprising as, at this point, the game has likely sold as many copies as possible and is marked down for those who might want an official copy of the game. 

Dead by Daylight is the horror game of every all-things-spooky fan’s dreams, offering thrilling multiplayer gameplay and a cast of iconic slasher characters to play as. Behaviour Interactive is constantly adding new features to the game, from killers and survivors to themed maps. The developer recently posted another possible update hinting toward a rework of one of Dead by Daylight‘s most hated maps. If you’ve played through the Decimated Borgo’s Shattered Square map, then you know how annoyingly big, dark, and imperfect it can feel in DBD.

Just weeks following the launch of Immortals of Aveum, developer Ascendant Studios has laid off approximately 45% of its team, according to a report by Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter and testimony from some of the impacted employees. Ascendant CEO Bret Robbins explained the layoffs in a Twitter post as “a painfully difficult, but necessary decision that was not made lightly.”

California-based Ascendant Studios has laid off 45% of its employees.

Developer Ascendant Studios—which recently released Immortals of Aveum—has announced that it is laying off around 45 percent of its team. Studio CEO Bret Robbins made the announcement over social media platform X, calling it a difficult but necessary decision.

There must be an almost erotic thrill to eliminating an entire currency at the click of a button. That's what is going to happen in Destiny 2 at the end of November when Season 23 launches. Bungie today announced that it will be completely deprecating Legendary Shards, which are a material used to pay for all sorts of items in the game. Unlike previous material deprecations, the studio also said that it will not be offering anything by way of compensation. Legendary Shards are just going to be gone.

Nearly half of the development team behind the EA-published Immortals of Aveum has been laid off.

Earlier this summer, Nintendo revealed WarioWare: Move It, a new game set in the long-running «microgame» series. Ahead of its release later this year in November, Nintendo released a new trailer for WarioWare: Move It during today's Nintendo Direct. In it, we learned more about its various microgames and what a «Form» is.