Rumours and official news of an animated Final Fantasy 9 series have been a thing for years now, but the project simply vanished at some point, with rumblings pointing to it being binned altogether. In late 2025, new information suggested it was back on track. Now, its comeback has been officially confirmed.
The world is a rather miserable place right now, but at least video games are cool. In the face of endless layoffs and AI slop, plenty of studios and small developers continue to find success, and sometimes we even come across particularly wholesome bits of news such as this one.
Crimson Desert is big. So big, it turns out, that this open world game requires not one but three loading screens. The first is a simple bar loading shaders and the like; the second whisks you away to a blocky realm with a twinkling star sitting on its horizon, a strange and tantalising lead-up for a game that bills itself primarily as a high-fantasy action romp. The third sees the gruff, Scottish-accented hero Kliff walking along a kind of geometric gangwalk towards a door of celestial white light. Kliff's destination is ostensibly the game world, Pywel, yet his entry into it is framed as something more profound - like stepping into heaven.
With Bungie releasing details on Marathon's upcoming ranked mode, which will be added in a matter of days, some have responded with confusion around how it actually works. To help, Bungie has released a truly dire resource to help: a maths test.
Last month, Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary. The franchise, a video game and pop culture juggernaut, has endured for generations thanks to its games that celebrate connection, companionship, and competition. But across the series’ lifetime, one game in particular stands out as an intriguing outlier. And it's one The Pokémon Company didn't even make.
Valve has updated Counter Strike 2's reloading mechanics. While that doesn't sound particularly exciting on its face, this change may have a massive impact on the way in which players engage in extended firefights. These Counter Strike veterans will now have to work off years of habit in order to save themselves from running out of ammo.
Karyn Kusama is slated to direct the first two episodes of Amazon's Life is Strange TV series.
Marathon's Cryo Archive saga has reached its final stage, with one more step required until players can delve into the game's fourth and final map. While this last task is not a wild puzzle requiring many minds to crack like we've seen in the ARG, it may prove quite the time sink. Players must wipe out up to 500m UESC robots.
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Pearl Abyss' shares dropped by nearly 30 percent soon after reviews for Crimson Desert went live last night.
Crystal Dynamics has announced another wave of layoffs. This is the fourth round of layoffs in 12 months for the Tomb Raider studio.
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered studio Aspyr has said no AI was used for the game's newly-released content.
Award-winning indie game Kena: Bridge of Spirits will make its 
Vampire Survivors' much-anticipated deck-building spin-off Vampire Crawlers has landed itself a release date.
Red Storm Entertainment - the storied game development studio behind the Ghost Recon game series - has reportedly been shifted to a tech support role by Ubisoft. As a result, 105 developers have lost their jobs.
US age ratings body ESRB has said it won't follow PEGI's example in Europe and begin factoring in elements like paid random items when determining the age rating for a game.
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