When Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, the game director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and secondary director on Cyberpunk 2077, left CD Projekt Red in 2021, he did so under a dark cloud, accused of workplace bullying. A four month-long external investigation cleared him of any charges but the taint of the accusations linger still.
A new firmware update has come to the Nintendo Switch 2, bringing the handheld console to version 21.0.1. This update fixes a hugely frustrating bluetooth connection issue, and brings other much-needed improvements too.
Katsura Hashino, director of Metaphor: ReFantazio and the Persona games at Atlus, wants to create "JRPG 3.0" as the next evolutionary step of the genre.
You might not immediately recognise the name Santa Ragione, but the independent Italian studio has been creating boundary pushing, award-winning games for over a decade and a half now. It launched into space for 2013's mesmerising ambient puzzler Mirror Moon EP, it took to the Italian countryside for 2016's politically minded Wheels of Aurelia, it fled all manner of horrors in the ancient Sardinian town of 2022's Saturnalia, explored post-Covid trauma in the blistering Italian sun in 2023's Mediterranea Inferno, and it's about to venture into even stranger, darker territory with Horses, an unsettling first-person narrative horror adventure set on a farm whose livestock consists of naked masked humans. But the excitement of Horses' long-awaited arrival on 2nd December has been tempered by more sobering news. After a series of confounding decisions by Valve, Horses is effectively banned from Steam. And unable to reach a significant portion of the PC market, it's highly unlikely to recoup its development costs - meaning Horses very well might be the studio's final game.
It's been 18 months since developer Santa Ragione - the hugely acclaimed studio behind the likes of Saturnalia and Mediterranea Inferno - unveiled its unnerving first-person narrative horror Horses. And after a bit of a delay, it finally has a release date, and is launching via the Epic Games Store, Humble Store, GOG, and Itch.io on 2nd December. One storefront is conspicuously absent from that list, however, with Santa Ragione today confirming Horses has effectively been banned from Steam..jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach has been rated for PC by the ESRB, suggesting a release is on the way soon.
One of the biggest challenges The Chinese Room faced when taking on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 was, simply, the name, and the expectations that came with it. If the game was called Bloodlines 2, players would expect a sequel to the scruffy but ambitious - and fondly remembered - Troika role-playing game from 2004. But The Chinese Room, which inherited the troubled project from Hardsuit Labs, knew immediately it wouldn't be able to make that.
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Microsoft has teamed up with rubber footwear brand Crocs to give us some of the most, errm, eyecatching shoes on the market.
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Momentum is picking up on Netflix's Assassin's Creed TV adaptation, with the first cast member announced.
Developer 1047 Games has announced Splitgate 2's current beta will come to an end next week. A relaunch for the game will then take place later in the month.
Remember Beyond Good & Evil 2? The Ubisoft game last seen publicly at E3 2017, coming up on seventeen years of development? Well, believe it or not, it's still actively being worked on. In fact, Ubisoft is hiring new staff to work on it.
Nintendo Switch Online members can now get their hands on four more games..png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Embracer is selling off yet another two studios from its expansive portfolio, following years of acquisitions and layoffs as part of a lengthy restructuring programme.
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