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May was a remarkably busy month for high-profile game releases, which could explain why Luna Abyss' launch went relatively unnoticed on PC and current-gen consoles. It's a sci-fi bullet-hell shooter that seemed to review pretty well, but despite that, the entire development team at Kwalee Labs has been laid off.
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Housemarque is a team with a long history of creating games for a certain type of audience. The Finnish studio, which started out making smaller, arcadey titles, has grown to be among the most prestigious PlayStation first-party studios. But despite the expanding scope of its games, its philosophy about its niche genre never changed.
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SanDisk has today unveiled Optimus GX PRO 850P, a series of officially-licensed NVMe SSDs for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. The SSDs, which users can insert into their console to expand its storage, also work with PCs.
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An employment tribunal has ruled against Rockstar Games' request to remove blacklisting claims from the ongoing legal dispute over alleged union busting at the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio.
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Roughly two years ago, Warframe received a delightful dose of heartbreak in the form of Jade Shadows. Digital Extremes' free-to-play sci-fi shooter has a history of 'intermission' quests - smaller stories that helped fill the space between larger narrative beats; smaller portions of intrigue, and fresh gameplay loops to indulge in.
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Action RPG Black Myth: Wukong broke records on its release in 2024. It attracted the biggest concurrent peak player count of any single-player game in Steam history and established itself as the most-viewed game on Chinese live-streaming platforms on its first day of release. Developer Game Science would go on to announce its Chinese mythology inspired action-RPG had sold over 10m copies just four days after its launch.
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With Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced right around the corner and Codename Hexe still brewing (mostly) in secret, Ubisoft is finally saying goodbye to last year's Assassin's Creed Shadows. Its very last content update has now been released, and while its focus is on wrapping up Naoe and Yasuke's storyline, it's a big one, leading directly into next month's pirate remake.
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Last weekend, Behaviour Interactive delivered a strong showcase for Dead by Daylight teasing major visual overhauls and more. Alongside the arrival of Friday the 13th legend Jason Voorhees, the updates have pushed the asymmetrical online horror game's popularity on Steam past previous levels.
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Epic Games has detailed some of the features in its next generation Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 6 - and one of the ideas it's testing is the ability for players to move their Fortnite skins into other Unreal Engine games, and for other Unreal Engine games to put their skins into Fortnite.
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Guild Wars 3 developer ArenaNet has released a mission statement after the game's sudden and celebrated debut during Summer Game Fest earlier this month. The main points? No pay-to-win, no subscription fees, and the goal of evolving the MMO genre.
Squeamish sorts can rest assured that Death Stranding's live-action movie adaptation won't have the same level of violence as director Michael Sarnoski's previous films, but it will, he says, still honour the video game's "bleak and barren post-apocalyptic environment".
Disappointment ripples across the Stop Killing Games movement today after the European Commission delivered its verdict on the recent parliamentary hearings around online game preservation, and how the EU intends to help - or not - the movement going forward.
World of Warcraft dataminers may have discovered the next big reveal for Classic WoW - just months before BlizzCon, where a major announcement for the game has been teased..png?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Ray tracing and faster load-times be damned: the DualSense controller is the PS5's most impressive innovation. And while the controller does work on PC, Sony only supports its feature package when connected using a cable.
Epic Games has revealed a new tool for Unreal Engine 5.8 which allows generative AI large language models (LLMs) to plug into and communicate with the engine directly, using its tools while being directed by text prompts.
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