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Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has suffered a wave of layoffs just months after insisting that the ongoing staff hemorrhage at parent company Embracer Group wouldn't affect the new Tomb Raider game or the studio's collaboration with The Initiative on the Perfect Dark reboot. 

What are legends if not memes plus time? Several Star Wars fans were recently shocked to discover that a number of running gags among the series fandom have crossed the threshold into a bizarre sort of canon. Apparently, they've been around long enough to bleed into the franchise itself.

Tales of Arise's producer wants to see older games in the series localized for Western audiences, but knows it isn't that simple.

Bethesda says it will be releasing regular updates for Starfield with a view to adding several quality-of-life improvements and community-requested features (including support for DLSS), but before that, the developer has pushed out a smaller hotfix that addresses some more critical bugs in the game.

This morning, popular game-engine creator Unity Software announced an update to its pricing and packaging plans, which will go into effect on January 1, 2024. The new pricing plan introduces a fee that activates and charges developers of high-performing games each time the title is installed by a user or player. The justification is that each time a game is installed, Unity Runtime is also installed. 

FromSoftware has released a new patch for Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, and though it isn’t the biggest, it does contain some much-needed buffs. Weapons like MA-J-200 RANSETSU-RF, LR-036 CURTIS, RF-024 TURNER, RF-025 SCUDDER, and more have increased attack power and reduced reload time.

If you’ve been playing Wayfinder recently, then you’re aware that Airship Syndicate has faced critical server issues and, in many cases, substantial player dissatisfaction. However, this Early Access MMORPG-Lite has been keenly addressing these concerns as they work to remedy the problems they face. In the latest series of Discord messages, the team provides an update on several issues, and pushes a compensation package live for current players.

Blackbird Interactive, the developer behind Homeworld 3, announced today that it has laid off more than 40 employees after several of its upcoming projects have been canceled.

It feels like you can make almost anything in Minecraft these days—the whole map of Fallout: New Vegas? Sure, why not. A whole custom D&D module? Just do it. Both officially licensed creations and fan-works are getting scarily good, and this latest stealth-drop from a Destiny 2 disciple keeps that trend going strong.

Wargaming is going metal with its upcoming Wargaming Metal Fest, with events across its games and featuring all new content featuring the legendary band Megadeth. 

From the looks of it, Sony has internally delayed a couple of first-party PlayStation 5 titles targeting a release during its current fiscal year.

Cast your minds back a few months and you'll remember the big PlayStation Showcase that was meant to amaze and delight everyone, showing us what we can expect to be playing in the near future. In actuality, this showcase was extremely disappointing for a lot of fans, lacking the massive blockbuster exclusive reveals that PlayStation usually reserves for a show of such magnitude. Well, it turns out there may have been a reason for that.

There is no shortage of video games released into the marketplace. However, if you’re strictly after exclusives, then you might actually see a bit of a delay on some PlayStation titles. This all stems back to a recent financial report made by Sony that is not starting to spread online. According to the report, there was some impact of changes in the launch dates of a portion of first-party titles. That doesn’t sound good, but we don’t know just what video games might have been pushed back.

Are you looking for a new video game to play this weekend? For some, we might be in a bit of limbo here. We can’t wait to play several great video games in the coming months. However, right now, you might be left without anything new per se. Fortunately, Ubisoft is opening up this weekend with several free video game titles to enjoy. Now these games won’t be free forever; instead, they will be available to download and enjoy this weekend. Likewise, you might be stuck with just playing one of these games as they can be rather lengthy experiences. 

The developer behind independent cozy MMO, Loftia, launched a Kickstarter campaign on August 1st to raise money to fund game development. The total raised has now hit over $450,000, and the team has revealed a number of stretch goal features that the additional funds will let them create.

Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be diverted.

Gunfire Games' widely-popular Remnant II has received its first big update, bringing major optimizations and "quality of life" improvements.

Just one day after the official release of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios released Hotfix #1 for the RPG. This update officially brings the version number of BG3 to 4.1.1.3624901. The hotfix focuses on bug fixes, performance updates, and preventing crashes and progression blockers.

DJ Dimitri Vegas will be joining Hitman World of Assassination, as the first Elusive Target created for the game in two years.

AMD Zen 2 platform has reportedly been vulnerable to a new "Zenbleed" bug, contributing to large-scale data theft and several potential attacks.

I suppose you could say changing the Twitter bird logo to an “X” makes complete sense. As the recognized icon for “make it go away,” X just about sums up the achievements of Elon Musk's social network so far.

With Star Wars Outlaws, Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft are promising to deliver the ultimate Star Wars scoundrel fantasy by putting players in the protagonist of the thief Kay Vess, who will be traversing the galaxy and crossing paths with a number of criminal groups and syndicates (including Jabba the Hutt and his followers).