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In shocking news, X owner Elon Musk was sued by four former Twitter executives on Monday for unpaid $128 million severance payments and some other allegations. Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, former Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, former Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and former General Counsel Sean Edgett have also stated that they were fired without any hard reason. The lawsuit includes several claims against Elon Musk and the rebranding of Twitter to X. Know more about the news here.

Helldivers 2 sales keep on ticking up more than three weeks after launch, and even some industry analysts are dumbfounded.

Benjamin Franklin once said that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Had he been alive today, he almost certainly would have said, “oh, and the other certainty is people will keep modding Doom until the end of time.” Quite the forward thinker. Anyway, here’s id Software’s iconic FPS running on a toothbrush.

According to a notorious Rocket League leaker on Twitter, SamLeakss, Rocket League fans can expect a crossover with ATLA (Avatar The Last Airbender) soon. This Rocket League x ATLA crossover has divided the player base. Some gamers are excited to see ATLA, an older franchise, receive a breath of fresh air. However, other players think Rocket League are relying too much on collaborations to stay relevant.

David Walters has announced on Twitter that his “new helicopter game from 1992,” Thunder Helix, is launching on Steam Early Access on March 21.

One former Overwatch 2 developer has explained how wild the game's scripting situations can get, and how it turns into visual and gameplay bugs.

The Star Wars strategy title being made by developer Bit Reactor and published by EA is still in the works.

Developer Radical Forge has made a few layoffs as part of a "minor restructuring".

The director of Helldivers 2 says that he doesn't want fans to compare the Arrowhead shooter to Halo or any other games, as the world needs "less rivalry." 

Helldivers 2 game director and CEO of Arrowhead Game Studios Johan Pilestedt has weighed in on petty gaming rivalries, urging players to look for «compassion and union» over drama. 

Earlier this week in Scotland, dozens of families were disappointed by the Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow. While the bare-bones event left a lot to be desired, the actors put on the best show possible to try to show attendees a good time, and one has become a video game star.

A new set of screenshots for Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero seem to have sneakily confirmed that non-canon movie content is going to be appearing in the game.

MultiVersus has popped back up in the "Free Games" section of the Epic Games Store, which supports the rumours and fan theories that it could be re-revealed at some point this month.

MultiVersus fans are hopeful that we'll finally see the game re-revealed this month, and there's a surprising amount of evidence supporting that idea.

Playstack, the publisher of popular roguelike deckbuilder Balatro confirmed on Twitter that the game has been temporarily removed from some digital storefronts due to a sudden rating change. Apparently, the UK rating board PEGI changed the rating from 3+ to 18+ overnight due to “prominent gambling imagery” which prompted the sudden delistings. The problem here is that there is literally no gambling in Balatro.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2's current-gen update for PS5 and Xbox Series has been revealed to drop on May 24, with save data transfer also being confirmed.

Death Stranding is a sometimes meditative game about hauling cargo cross-country and trying not to trip up while doing so. But some fans are just now learning that its fiddly loop was actually inspired by a traditional Japanese occupation.

A new post from the official Kingdom Hearts Twitter account has some fans thinking that it's a new glimpse at Kingdom Hearts 4, but it's actually just an edited shot of Kingdom Hearts 3's secret ending.

HARVESTELLA producer Daisuke Taka will leave Square Enix at the end of April, he announced on Twitter.

X has been rolling out a number of new features over the last few months in its efforts to turn the platform into more than just being a microblogging website. With new features and offerings, the billionaire Elon Musk-backed app has looked to stay relevant among users. Now, X has introduced the live video feature in Spaces, enabling hosts to activate video during chat sessions. It has been introduced as just a new button from where the live host can share the video. There were several speculations about the Periscope service to make a comeback, however, the live video in Spaces is quite different. Know what the X live video feature is all about.

A fan of the Final Fantasy rhythm game, Theatrhythm, learned the hard way today that Square Enix didn't account for leap years.

With everyone's favorite animated mutants set to return in Disney Plus's X-Men '97 in just a few weeks' time, Marvel fans have been wondering which other iconic shows from their childhood could make a similar-style comeback...

Insomniac Games has announced that it is also being affected by layoffs at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and PlayStation Studios. 

Not sold on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and/or on the dark magics that make instant noodles work yet? Then good luck with that going forward, as Nissin just released an ad where a Catboy Sephiroth uses his ever-sexy voice to bully Cloud into slurping down on some Donbei Udon noodles — and he complies.

It turns out one Pokemon fan predicted Pokemon Legends Z-A two years ago, but no one was thinking quite on their level.

The back of English-language Pokemon cards has finally been fixed after 25 years.

Developer Deck Nine is laying off a fifth of its staff.

Deck Nine Games has confirmed that it’s laying off 20 percent of its staff as a result of being affected by “the games industry’s worsening market conditions.”

Marcus Lehto, Battlefield game director, and renowned Halo co-creator, has announced his decision to part ways with developer and publisher EA of his «own accord.» 

Pokemon Legends: Z-A was announced earlier today, a new game in the Legends series set in the Kalos region. It's managed to do what many thought Game Freak couldn't and instill a bit of excitement and optimism in the Pokemon community, though that excitement has been dampened a little bit for some after Nintendo revealed the game will be set entirely within Lumiose City, the capital of the Kalos region.

As if the gaming industry wasn’t going through enough already, one of the studios behind the beloved Life Is Strange series, Deck Nine Games, issued today’s latest round of layoffs. The studio’s announcement was issued on the heels of others today, like PlayStation, and yesterday with developer Supermassive.

Technology, as storied author Ursula K. Le Guin noted in a prescient 2005 post, is not limited to high-tech hardware but also encompasses the likes of paper, furniture, medicine, and much more. I would go further and argue that some outwardly high-tech hardware should not be classified as technology, and I will now point any naysayers to the GameScent Automated Gaming Scent Atomizer, a $180 AI-powered box that will fart out smells designed to match whatever game you're currently playing.

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has been a huge success financially and critically, bringing the adored classic trilogy to modern systems, but if you've been playing on the Epic Games Store, you've been playing a different version to everyone else.

Pocketpair, the developer of the hugely popular Pokémon-inspired survival game Palworld, has apologized for “unintentionally” fixing a fan-favorite bug in the game’s latest update.

Staff at developer Supermassive Games are facing redundancy in the near future.

The long-awaited Stardew Valley update 1.6 release date is set for March 19 on PC, developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has announced.

Supermassive Games has announced that it’s entering a consultation period as part of a reorganization, which it anticipates will end in staff layoffs.

Another musician has revealed they're working on GTA 6, and this time it's rapper Schoolboy Q. 

The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology studio Supermassive Games is the latest developer to suffer layoffs. In a new report by Bloomberg, the developer revealed to staff that 150 employees were “at risk” of redundancy. Roughly 90 staff members will be laid off, with an email informing employees earlier today.

Baldur's Gate 3director of publishing Michael Douse has asked members of the role-playing game's (RPG) community to «please stop» disrespecting developers at Larian Studios over upcoming plans for official mod support. 

The announcement of an Epic Mickey remake has Kingdom Hearts fans hoping that we might get a Wasteland world or cameo from Oswald in Kingdom Hearts 4.

After the previous concurrent player capacity was raised for the busy weekend, Helldivers 2 servers are once again getting buffed to support players buying the game in droves.

New screenshots posted on the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Japanese website show that big improvements have already been made to fix the "banana" Super Saiyan hair.

In a move to enhance user experience, X has unveiled a comprehensive search filter feature, set to redefine how premium iOS users navigate the platform. This latest feature, as announced by X designer Andrea Conway, will empower users to effortlessly sift through posts based on criteria such as date, language, location, and more.

Baldur's Gate 3 has plenty of difficult sections that players will just about crawl through, but you'll struggle to find one as universally dreaded as the Gauntlet of Shar. Affectionately dubbed the "Shar Olympics" by fans, this section of the game has you taking on a variety of fiendish puzzles and challenging encounters that really can have you questioning whether you like Shadowheart enough to deal with the dungeon's tomfoolery.

Helldivers 2 is the new must-play shooter in town, and it turns out the engine it was built on is already extinct. 

The Mother games are a highly celebrated RPG series, containing the likes of both Mother and EarthBound. There’s also Mother 3, a really good RPG from what I’veheard, that still hasn’t made it to the west.

It’s been confirmed that Ubisoft’s recent side-scrolling metroidvania Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is set to receive more content in free updates, the first of which is set to arrive “soon.”

Since Bethesda announced the studio would be teaming up with AMD prior to Starfield‘s release, the two have barely left each other’s sides. As well as optimizing the game for Team Red’s hardware, there’s now a chance to win some PC hardware from the tech giant that’s themed after the game.

If you’re one of the many players who logged into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 today and found out you’re now level 1, you aren’t alone. Social media users everywhere reported their accounts have been reset. The official Call of Duty Updates Twitter account has already responded, stating the developers are working on a fix.

Last week, we asked you to shine a light on gaming best friends using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:

Riot Games has slapped an official title on its League of Legends fighting game spin-off, previously codenamed Project L, and the fan base isn't too fond. 

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director says that reaching a Metacritic score of over 90 was one of the development team's goals when crafting the second part of Cloud's story. 

It took Steam's most wholesome dwarf game one year to shift 500,000 copies, though releasing a roguelike spin-off hit the same milestone in one week. 

Elden Ring's director says both himself and FromSoftware at large don't feel pressured by other games in the 'Souls-like' genre.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's End of Z DLC shows us Goku insulting Uub for the first time in decades, only it's now been turned into a bit of a quick-time event.

Helldiver 2‘s popularity has drawn in players from around the world ready to spread democracy across the galaxy. Unfortunately, Arrowhead’s servers weren’t prepared for just how popular the game was going to be, which has led to frustrating issues.

February 14 was only a week ago, and Hollow Knight fans around the world united in disappointment when there was no news in sight of Silksong. When Nintendo announced their Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, I had very little faith in even seeing the slightest news on our beloved game. However, while we didn’t receive any news of Silksong, don’t put on your clown noses just yet,  Metroidvania fans were given a wonderful surprise, a long awaited sequel to the most beautiful beloved game Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights, only this time called Ender Magnolia, Bloom in The Mist.

The latest Nintendo Direct featured a slight change to its graphics, and Switch 2 hopefuls think it could mean an announcement is on the way soon.

The review embargo for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth lifted today, and although it's still very early, the Remake sequel is currently the highest rated game in the series' since 2000's Final Fantasy 9 on Metacritic, the video game industry's foremost review aggregation site.

Just when I thought I would fall asleep reading Matthew Perry's memoir on my phone, I made the mistake of checking my Twitter and saw this post talking about how Google is "sunsetting" or, in other words, killing Gmail. At first, I was like, "Oh, I am not surprised. Google does it all the time." but then it dawned on me that Google's email service is one of the flagship products, and the company would not go ahead and just shut it down. A rebrand, maybe, but even that is not happening.

The full name of the upcoming League of Legends fighting game has been revealed, and it’s 2XKO. Riot Games unveiled the game’s new identity on social media on Thursday, alongside new social channels on X, formerly known as Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's creative director, Tetsuya Nomura, has asked players not to spoil the game's story, especially when it comes to the "vital" moments.

Gearbox's founder has seemingly teased an unannounced Borderlands game, and some fans think a reveal is right around the corner.

[UPDATE] The official Dead Island 2 Twitter account has confirmed the news.

Disney Dreamlight Valley players take a trip to Monstropolis on February 28. The free Monsters, Inc. content for Disney Dreamlight Valley, which includes Mike and Sulley as villagers, launches for free on all platforms

The Hollow Knight community is trying something drastically new for the upcoming Nintendo Partner Direct Showcase: expecting nothing for Silksong. 

Iconic pop sensation Lady Gaga has announced that she'll be coming to Fortnite Festival. 

Yulia Navalnaya's account on Elon Musk's X social-media service was briefly suspended, a day after it was used to help her challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin over the death of her husband. The widow of opposition leader Alexey Navalny accused Putin of killing him in a video posted on her X account on Monday. That came as she announced she was taking over Navalny's role as opposition leader after his death in a remote Russian prison colony on Friday.

Helldivers 2 has a new patch that takes direct aim at some of the game's biggest issues - including matchmaking - and the head of developer Arrowhead Game Studios is confident you're going to have an easier time getting online after the update.

FromSoftware has announced via Twitter that the expansion to Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree will be getting its first substantial trailer tomorrow. It will go live at 7am PST, 10am EST.

Even getting to the Extraction Point at the end of a Helldivers 2 mission is challenge enough, but when one player found their route off-planet blocked thanks to an enemy tank, they turned to the power of parkour to make their great escape.

The new Lara Croft image that was released last week doesn't reflect how she'll look in future Tomb Raider games, its developers have revealed. 

The ballooning popularity of Helldivers 2 has been both a blessing and a curse for Arrowhead.

The Pokemon Company is celebrating Pokemon Day next week with a special broadcast. 

A PlayStation shooter from 15 years ago has been given a new lease of life as its developer adds new trophies for PS5 and PS4 players.

Helldivers 2 struggling with player capacities is nothing new, but its game director has a refreshingly new take on new players spending their hard-earned money on the game.

Need for Speed Unbound is back with a second year of live service.

The next Pokémon Presents showcase will be arriving next week and promises «exciting Pokémon news.»

Tabletop RPGs, including D&D, are to thank for Helldivers 2's brand of player-driven comedy.