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Publisher tinyBuild and developer tinyBuild Riga have launched the public beta for recently announced multiplayer survival shooter DUCKSIDE for PC via Steam.

Atari has announced the revival of the Infogrames brand, relaunching it as a publishing label.

After huge success with Kill It With Fire Casey Donnellan Games and tinyBuild have revealed will bring multiversal spider-squashing to Early Access later this month.

Kill It With Fire 2, the science-fiction-inspired sequel to the first-person spider-hunter game, will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on April 16, followed by a full release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC at a later date, publisher tinyBuild and developer Casey Donnellan Games announced.

tinyBuild has announced DUCKSIDE, an open-world survival crafting game for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

TinyBuild and DogHowl games have revealed the after a successful Closed Beta period for the PvPvE horror shooter.

Recent leaks claimed that Sloclap’s Sifu would be free with PlayStation Plus in March, and that has now been officially confirmed. Sony has confirmed that the acclaimed kung fu brawler will be one of four new titles that will be free-to-claim for subscribers of PlayStation Plus tiers for next month.

Ever wanted to bring some guns to a swordfight? Well, Redemption Road Games and tinyBuild are allowing players to do just that withKingmakers.

Publisher tinyBuild and developer DogHowl Games will host a closed beta test for multiplayer extraction horror first-person shooter Level Zero: Extraction, formerly Level Zero, for PC via Steam from March 15 to 18, the companies announced. Sign-ups are available now.

Kingmakers has too much going on to easily summarise, but I'll try. Really, though, you should just click below and watch the trailer, which will surprise and delight you with its twists and scope in a way my words will not.

Publisher tinyBuild and developer Redemption Road Games have announced Kingmakers, a third-person shooter / strategy game in which players travel back in time to a war-torn medieval era with an arsenal of modern weapons to change the course of history and save the future. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2024.

I'm kind of fascinated by what happened to Hello Neighbor. The original, a stealth horror game against a creepy AI that learned your likely movements, was hugely popular in alpha in 2016. The series was acquired by TinyBuild in 2020, and since then there has been a heroic number of spin-offs. There's one set in an amusement park, a multiplayer game called Secret Neighbor in which one small child is actually a large adult man in disguise, a direct sequel called Hello Neighbor 2, and a VR game called Search And Rescue. I think everyone got a bit of Neighbor fatigue there, lads.

The first Streets Of Rogue was an RPS favourite when it launched back in 2019 (we literally couldn't stop playing it), and we've known for a while now that its sequel, Streets Of Rogue 2, is due to arrive later this year. Ahead of the game's launch, developer Matt Dabrowski has started releasing a series of dev diary videos detailing his design process and how it's all coming together. The latest is about how he creates the game's proc-gen open worlds and biomes, and it's a fascinating watch if you've ever wondered how its particular blend of randomised chaos works behind the scenes.

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Versus Evil, the publisher behind The Banner Saga and Pillars Of Eternity 2, among others, has been closed down and its entire staff laid off. Versus Evil were bought by tinyBuild in November 2021.

TinyBuild has shut down indie publisher Versus Evil.

Publisher tinyBuild has announced that its subsidiary, Versus Evil, is being shut down. Taking to social media platform X for the announcement, Versus Evil will be closing its doors after publishing titles for 10 years.

tinyBuild subsidiary Versus Evil will shut down, the company announced.

Versus Evil announced its own closure on social media today.

Layoffs at publisher TinyBuild have been reported, following lower than expected performance during the financial year so far.

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First-person spider-hunter Kill It With Fire VR will launch for PlayStation VR2 on November 7, publisher tinyBuild and developer Casey Donnellan Games announced.

A number of big name investors and publishers have signed-up to the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX next month.