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Path of Exile 2 will no longer have its beta release this summer.

Shinji Mikami, the legendary developer behind Resident Evil and a string of other classics, has founded a new company.

The rather charming-looking Harold Halibut has landed itself a release date.

Ubisoft's open-world RPG Star Wars Outlaws has been rated in South Korea as adults only due to its inclusion of in-game gambling elements.

UPDATE 12.40am: As I was writing this morning's story, Capcom released a blog post regarding Dragon's Dogma 2.

Larian Studios won't be making any expansions for Baldur's Gate 3, but the developer isn't quite done with the game yet.

A third of staff are at risk of losing their jobs at Velan Studios, the company behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and shutdown dodgeball game Knockout City.

Surprising the audience at his GDC talk today, Larian's founder and CEO Swen Vincke announced the Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin developer won't be making any DLC or expansions for the game, and in fact will be leaving the Dungeons & Dragons world behind entirely.

Still Wakes the Deep, the promising-looking narrative horror game set on an oil rig, will launch for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 18th June.

Despite months in Steam Early Access and hundreds of positive player reviews, Stellaris Nexus is no more. Instead, the spin-off is taking the rare step of rebranding itself — dropping its Stellaris branding entirely — to launch with a new name.

Apple is facing another antitrust lawsuit — this time from the US government.

A new Easter egg in Stardew Valley's 1.6 update punishes players who make their way to a particular area earlier than they're supposed to.

Nintendo has been keeping a tight lid on the developer behind Princess Peach: Showtime! since it was announced last year.

Dreams developer Media Molecule has laid out new plans for its curation and community support, following layoffs at the studio.

The director of Baldur's Gate 3, Swen Vincke, was one of many to speak out on the recent mass layoffs within the video games industry at an industry awards show last night, blaming the job losses on corporate «greed» that had been «fucking this whole thing up for so long».

Assassin's Creed Jade, the upcoming major open-world mobile game set in Ancient China, will now likely arrive in 2025.

Blizzard has delayed the fourth season of Diablo 4 by a month, to a new release date of 14th May.

Arkane Studios co-founder Raphaël Colantonio has teased his next game at Wolfeye Studios.

YouTube has removed a seven-year-old YouTube video that featured Pokémon modded into Call of Duty: Zombies, at the request of The Pokémon Company.

A Sims movie adaptation is in the works from Margot Robbie's production company, to be helmed and co-written by Loki director Kate Herron.

The hacker who disrupted the North American Apex Legends Global Series finals has said he did it «just for fun».

Today, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth receives a new patch that promises to fix issues with its performance mode.

The dino-loaded Ark: The Animated Series has secured a release date, and if you are over the pond, it's now.

PocketPair's Palworld — a game that the internet dubbed 'Pokemon with guns' ahead of its early access release in January — has been a huge success for both the developer and Xbox.

Epic Games has discussed the future of Fall Guys, following today's announcement that its game assets, animations and characters are coming to Fortnite's UEFN creative mode.

Epic Games has shown off the future of its powerful Unreal Engine, including a first glimpse at Amy Hennig's Captain America and Black Panther game, and closer integration of the eye-catching MetaHumans tech into UEN, during this year's annual State of Unreal broadcast by the company.

Sea of Thieves is celebrating its sixth anniversary today, 20th March, and to celebrate, Rare has given an unprecedented look at the year ahead for its multiplayer pirate game, with 2024 bringing the likes of windy horns, roaming warships, and portable grappling guns that let you whizz around the place with giddy abandon.

At today's State of Unreal livestream, we were given a look at the upcoming Captain America and Black Panther game from Amy Hennig, or to give its official, newly-announced name, Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra.

Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy Entertainment has seen its revenue drop by 22.2 percent for the year.

Obsidian's espionage RPG Alpha Protocol is today making a grand return to PC on the GOG store, 14 years after its debut.

The Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios has announced a spin-off to its sci-fi horror game is in the works.

Rockstar Games has issued a fresh update for Red Dead Redemption 2 — the game's first meaningful patch in 18 months. But, to the disappointment of fans, there's sadly no new content and no sign of any visual upgrades for players on newer console hardware.

Pirates make everything better, so if Blizzard's announcement that World of Warcraft now has a standalone battle royale mode isn't enough to get your tootsies twitching with excitement, then how about this: it's called Plunderstorm and is all about the piratical booty.

Developer Respawn has addressed the recent Apex Legends hacks.

The 1.6 update for Stardew Valley has caused a massive spike of interest, resulting in a new record Steam concurrent player count.

Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection did not have a good debut. On its release, players were met with a myriad of bugs and limited servers for each platform, resulting in many asking for a refund. The collection currently sits with an «Overwhelmingly Negative» review average on Steam.

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints against EA, Jagex, and Miniclip for failing to disclose the presence of loot boxes in their adverts.

Bungie is reportedly in the midst of a creative leadership shakeup that has resulted in the studio replacing game directors on its PvP reimagining of classic 90s shooter series Marathon, with former Valorant game director Joe Ziegler now confirmed to be in the role.

Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced Onslaught, a new horde mode for the game. The offering is set to arrive for all players on 9th April, as a core component of Destiny 2's upcoming Into the Light update.

PlayStation's former head of internal game production Connie Booth, who departed Sony last October after nearly three decades, has joined EA to to oversee its action-RPG portfolio.

Stardew Valley's long-awaited 1.6 update — which creator Eric «ConcernedApe» Barone at one time warned wouldn't «be huge», a comical assertion in hindsight — is finally here on PC, and it's accompanied by some an absolutely gargantuan patch notes.

Much the same as last year, AI remains the talk of the town at GDC 2024. Roblox Studio has announced a new generative AI-based character creator. Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia unveiled a new AI-powered chip, sending its stock price skyrocketing. And behind closed doors, Ubisoft demonstrated something of its own to a small collection of the press: a partnership with Inworld AI to create a prototype for «Newly Evolving NPCs», or NEO NPCs as Ubisoft calls them.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has discussed the company's strategy of experimenting with generative AI, as detailed in today's announcement of NEO NPCs — a new prototype project from Ubisoft designed to let video game characters respond with custom responses to players' speech input.

Blizzard is overhauling the way it introduces new heroes into Overwatch 2 starting in Season 10, by making them free and immediately available to all players instead of locking them behind the game's premium battle pass or a progression grind, as was previously the case.

Amazon has released a new video teasing its upcoming Fallout TV adaptation, which appears to follow up an initial snippet seen last week.

Unity and Convai, a company which provides generative conversation AI software, will release Project Neural Nexus, a demo game which showcases Convai's «smart» NPCs and Unity's Muse Behavior tool, later this year.

Flat2VR Studios is a new developer dedicated to turning flatscreen games into VR experiences.

Here's something to tide you over until Bungie releases its rebooted Marathon: there's a freeware fan revival for the 1994 FPS known as Classic Marathon, and it's coming to Steam «soon».

Microsoft has revealed its next batch of Game Pass titles for March and into the start of April.

On Xbox, Final Fantasy 14 will have its own currency for service fees and optional item purchases.

Sand Land, the video game adaptation of Akira Toriyama's beloved manga series, now has a demo on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PS4, and Steam, ahead of it full launch in April.

Denuvo developer Irdeto has announced a watermarking feature for its anti-piracy software which will make it easier for developers to track down the source of leaks.

Something Wicked Games has reportedly laid off «most of» its staff, according to a handful of people impacted.

Valve has launched Steam Families — a streamlined, enhanced version of its existing household game sharing tools — and it's available for testing now in public beta form.

Songs of Silence, the upcoming strategy game from Chimera Entertainment, will launch in early access on Steam in May.

A new fan mod for Dark Souls 3 has been released offering a complete overhaul of the game that promises «a retelling of the Dark Souls universe».

GOG has announced a new partnership with Amazon Luna that'll let its customers play the games they own across a range of supported devices via cloud streaming, starting «soon».

AI may seem like something of a dirty word at the moment, but 62 percent of studios are using AI at some point during game development.

Dark and Darker is heading to Epic Games Store, having previously been removed from Steam, and following a drawn out legal dispute with Nexon.

Planet of Lana will be arriving on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation consoles next month.

Gotham Knights studio WB Games Montreal is supporting development on the forthcoming Wonder Woman game.

The poker-themed roguelike Balatro has sold 1m copies in its first month.

Official mod support for Cities Skylines 2 is finally ready to begin its roll out, developer Colossal Order and publisher Paradox have now said.

Animal Well — the 2D pixel art adventure from developer Billy Basso — will launch this May.

A hacking incident during the Apex Legends Global Series last night has caused wider concerns over Easy Anti-Cheat and whether it's safe to play games it's used in.

LinkedIn is planning to add a games section to its social media platform.

Production of the PlayStation VR2 headset has been halted, a new report claims, while Sony struggles to shift a growing pile of unsold units.

Leaked specifications for Sony's unannounced PlayStation 5 Pro console have been posted online, and show the upgrades present in the souped-up console expected to launch later this year.

Stardew Valley's forthcoming 1.6 update will allow players to drink mayonnaise.

As is becoming tradition, this is a quick public service announcement to make you aware of spoilers for Dragon's Dogma 2 now spreading online ahead of the game's launch later this week. Leaks have sprouted from early copies repeatedly being livestreamed online over the past few days, as well as details of the game's various trophies and achievements.

Star Citizen is pushing towards the «finish line».

Wales Interactive's co-op zombie survival game, Sker Ritual, is finally coming out of early access on 18th April 2024.

Sony wants to know what your favourite ever PlayStation game is, as long as it isn't Bloodborne.

Oh, look – Steam's gone and broken its own concurrent record. Again.

A modder who believes their uncredited work was included in Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection says the whole experience has been a «gut-punch».

Persona 6 will be coming to «multiple platforms», including Xbox and Switch / Switch 2.

Zenless Zone Zero, the next game from Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail developer miHoYo, is holding another beta test.

Innersloth has revealed some of the sus stars that will be bringing the Among Us animated show to life.

Helldivers 2 has sold over 8 million copies.