The European Union's antitrust regulator has approved the proposed $7.5bn acquisition in another step towards its final completion. The acquisition was cleared without concessions during the regulator's preliminary review.
An official statement published to Artifact's Steam page reads that, while the team were "reasonably satisfied" with the extent to which they had achieved their game-side goals, Artifact just wasn't able to draw in enough active players to justify investing further development resour...
2021-03-05 12:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostA new report from Bloomberg has claimed that Nintendo's long-rumoured "Switch Pro" will begin production sometime in June, and will contain a new 7-inch Samsung OLED screen - a marked upgrade from the 6.2-inch and 5.5inch...
2021-03-04 19:13:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe as-yet undetailed acquisition deal means that Epic Games now own the entire Tonic Games Group, which includes Fall Guys studio Mediatonic. In an official statement, Mediatonic have called the deal "a huge move for Fall Guys" and will allow them to accelerate their plans to ...
2021-03-03 12:25:52 +0000 UTC View Post
How to make your iPad EVEN MORE flexible & have incredible ergonomics!
2021-03-02 16:38:54 +0000 UTC View PostChief Studios Officer Laura Miele told Polygon that the decision was influenced by a combination of pandemic pressures and the fact that EA's recent acquisition of Codemasters will be delivering at least one racing title by the end of this year - tho...
2021-03-02 12:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostA new report published by the Board of Los Angeles Convention and Tourism Development Commission (what a name) has listed E3 2021 as a "cancelled live event", and that the Board are instead "working" on a 2022 and 2023 license for E3.
Fresh off the back of Anthem Next's cancellation, a new report from Bloomberg has suggested that EA have allowed BioWare to drop all planned multiplayer elements for Dragon Age 4. The game will reportedly now be an exclusively singleplayer RPG, rather than the...
2021-02-26 11:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe admission comes courtesy of Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan, who told The Washington Post that high demand mixed with "supply chain issues" are what has caused the widespread shortage of PS5 units since the console's launch in November 2020.
The hotly-anticipated title has now been delayed out of 2021 and publisher Paradox Interactive have officially pulled development responsibilities from studio Hardsuit Labs - instead a "new studio partner" will finish up work o...
2021-02-23 17:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostReforged was a laundry list of controversies when it released last January, but one of the biggest was that its multiplayer component merged with the original Warcraft 3 and wiped out two decades of features for fans who didn't even buy...
2021-02-22 17:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Experiments are happening! We'll be piloting a show on our Warcraft channel, and then potentially doing industry news content.
2021-02-22 16:19:10 +0000 UTC View PostLast night's Nintendo Direct was packed full of announcements but one of the biggest was that Skyward Sword, which first released on the Wii in 2011, will head Switch on July 16th. It'll have updated visuals, reworked controls to make it playable in handheld...
2021-02-18 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe upcoming presentation, set to air today at 2pm PT/5pm ET/ 10pm GMT, will mark the first full Nintendo broadcast since September 2019 - that's nearly 18 months. Nintendo have stated the show will include 50 minutes of information on available games and ...
2021-02-17 13:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostThat's according to the game's publisher Victure who outlined that the game, which aims to tell the story of the 2004 Second Battle of Fallujah, isn't attempting to make "a political commentary" of any kind. Victure CEO Peter Tamte says the g...
2021-02-16 16:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post![[EARLY ACCESS] The Lore You Missed In Shadowlands](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/6/se/lj/4e9b88-019e8426-0958-73ef-95a1-46c6b4b6c165.jpg)
Hey everyone! This is our next lore video - it's a little less 'grand scheme' and a lot more 'here's the breadcrumbs Blizzard left us', but it's full of some wild stuff and can drive a LOT of speculation.
2021-02-15 19:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA new community blog posted to the official Stadia website states that players can expect a stack of games from a wide variety of genres "over the next few weeks and months." A "sampling" of upcoming games confirms things like FIFA 21, ...
2021-02-15 14:39:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaking the source code to Gwent earlier this week, the hacking group promised that more substantial information would be sold at auction. According to cyber intelligence firm Kela, this looks to have been the case.
- A data bundle containing source ...
2021-02-12 15:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe showrunners apparently flicked through their Game of Thrones rolodex to find their leading duo. Pedro Pascal will play Joel - he was Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones and he's also in some quaint little indie thing called The Mandalorian. Bella Ramsey will play Elli...
2021-02-11 11:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostRiot Games and their CEO, Nicolo Laurent, are currently facing a sexual harassment lawsuit from Laurent's former assistant - who is seeking damages for nine issues including sexual discrimination, hostile environment harassment, and failure to pay wages. The lawsuit has requested...
2021-02-10 14:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostAndrew Spinks took to Twitter to detail being inexplicably locked out of his Google accounts since mid-January, and to criticise Google for doing nothing beyond giving him "the runaround" since he brought the issue to their attention.
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Here we have it: Tailoring, a kickass shield to go with the swords we're about to ship out (see https://www.patreon.com/posts/vlog-loot-tease-47326917 ) and the creature sticker!
The schedule for these is getting better and better - all printed...
2021-02-09 15:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Updates from the field!
2021-02-09 15:29:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe remake of Ubisoft's 2003 classic Prince of Persia: Sands of time was originally slated to release in January 2021 before being pushed to March - this latest delay does not include an updated expected release window.
In their earnings call, AB quashed hopes of these games appearing this year. They did, however, confirm a Call of Duty aimed for Q4 2021, more remasters coming this year (Diablo 2? Crash Bash?) and that multiple F2P Warcraft mobile games are now in 'advanced development'.
According to photographer Clayton Haugen, the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Operator named Mara is infringing on his copyright. He developed a character named Cade Janus for a short story and hired model Alex Zedra to play her for a photo shoot. Allegedly, Infinity Ward hired the same model and same ...
2021-02-04 13:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostEmbracer Group have acquired Gearbox, port studio Aspyr Media and mobile publisher Easybrain for a maximum of $1.3b, $450m and $865m respectively. They also noted that Aspyr are working on a $70m AAA licensed project - rumoured to be Star Wars KOTOR remakes.
Announced late yesterday, Phil Harrison has confirmed that Stadia will move from focusing on exclusive, first party content to hosting and supporting third party content. According to Kotaku, this includes selling Stadia's tech to publishers as a product for them to use. Their 150+ devs will be let g...
2021-02-02 14:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostWith various insider references to a Switch Pro (or Super Switch), the ageing Switch is almost certainly being replaced - the question is just when, at this point. Nintendo said they aren't planning an announcement 'anytime soon', which might as well be a hard confirmation compared to t...
2021-02-01 16:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostRumour has it that Microsoft is prepping for another Bethesda-like acquisition in the coming years. As to who it could be... the crazy one is Take-Two, trying to get the purchase in ahead of Tencent, who are also rumoured to want Take-Two.