‘Sad news’: Kojima leads developer tributes to the end of E3

I'm a bit late to the party with Anode Heart, a creature collector RPG that launched to near-perfect user reviews last month, and I'm kind of kicking myself for it. After dipping my toes in the free demo on Steam, I reckon this could be one of the most underrated Pokemon-likes of the year, in no small part because it's got a heaping helping of Digimon in its DNA. 

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Monster Hunter Now is celebrating the end of the year with «A Happy Hunting New Year» event. This festivity brings back some familiar monstrous faces while also offering increased monster appearance rates, ensuring that hunters worldwide will have plenty to do ahead of 2024.

 In one last hurrah before the holiday break, Digital Extremes is opening up its cross platform save functionality for all Warframe players — with a catch. It'll only be available till 5 pm Eastern time today — then it closes until January.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is finally out in theaters after several delays in getting to the big screen. Not only that, but it marks the final film in the DCEU as James Gunn and Peter Safran take over the reins from here on out. With so much riding on the possible final outing of Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry, you might be wondering just how it all signs off with the Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom post-credits scenes.

Despite being an independent studio, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has such a robust background in RPG development that it can afford to take risks other, less established studios simply can't. At least, that's the perspective of Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader creative director Alexander Mishulin.

The CEO of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, is officially stepping down from his role later this month, it’s been confirmed. 

Perhaps the most controversial executive in the history of the video game industry is stepping down by the end of the year. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has long been a divisive figure for his aggressive and abrasive style, but his image took an even worse beating when he was personally implicated in the workplace misconduct allegations that roiled Acti-Blizz back in 2021. Despite that, he hung on, negotiating the $69 billion sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft. Throughout the process Microsoft and Xbox boss Phil Spencer have remained mum on what Kotick’s fate may be once the sale was completed.

There's more left to come, even after DLC. The franchise's ninth generation began in 2022 with the release of. It more recently completed a two-DLC run of and. Together, the two parts comprise an expansion called. ends in a final battle against a second set of Elite Four trainers, wrapping up the paired DLCs and seemingly concluding the Gen 9 story for good.

Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters has reflected on his time at BioWare and explained why he decided to leave the studio earlier this year. 

Former Mass Effect lead writer has revealed that the Legendary Edition's success helped to convince him: "I don't want to do any more Mass Effect after this."

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