Rockstar parent company Take-Two has escalated its hunt for the people behind the numerous Grand Theft Auto 6 leaks from two weeks ago. The publisher has filed a request for another subpoena, though this time it's asking the court to withhold the details from the public and keep it sealed..jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Orbitals' twin protagonists Maki and Omura have this adorable little habit. When they leave behind a tool – a ground-pound backpack or hacked microwave oven – they'll often say goodbye to it. Or sayonara, rather, if you're playing Orbitals in Japanese (as well you should; subs over dubs any day).
CD Projekt Red, as influential as it is, has said it cannot do anything to guarantee a PlayStation 5 disc-based edition of The Witcher 4 when the game is released in 2028. It is, joint joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski said, at the mercy of Sony's manufacturing factories.
Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations, an expansion-sized DLC, was released in July, in the same week Microsoft announced its sweeping 3,200 staff layoffs. The layoffs impacted almost the entirety of the Xbox studio portfolio - including Doom maker id Software.
French game developer and publisher Don't Nod - creator of the Life is Strange series and games like Remember Me, Vampyr, Banishers, Jusant and most recently Aphelion - seems as though it's about to enter another round of layoffs.
Brian Ward, the CEO of the Saudi-Arabian-state-owned Savvy Games Group, has left his role. During his tenure, he oversaw $38bn of investment into various gaming companies, including Pokemon Go developer Niantic, and Monopoly Go's Scopely.
I've got a bit of a funny relationship with Paradox's grand strategy games. I love the idea of them, of waging and flirting my way across history on the most granular of levels. But despite my enthusiasm, and despite my best efforts, I've never probably cracked one: it doesn't take long before I'm feeling thoroughly overwhelmed and my attention quickly begins to wane. I bring this up, because my relatively brief hands-on time with Paradox's new post-apocalyptic grand strategy game Afterworld suggests - thanks to some smart design decisions - it might finally be the one for me.
On Saturday, Mortal Shell 2 received its biggest update yet, a little over a week after release. Developer Cold Symmetry was seemingly keen to address as many points of criticism as possible because the updates touch almost every aspect of the game. The patch is available now on Steam, and soon on PlayStation and Xbox, and it adds new stuff to the game alongside all of the changes.
Polish developer CD Projekt Red apparently never considered charging players for the recently revealed Remastered edition of The Witcher 3, and it has explained more about how the expansion Songs of the Past came to be, citing a couple of "happy accidents".
Rockstar Games hasn't said much of anything about GTA 6's potential multiplayer offerings, but the developer is making strides for GTA Online's roleplaying community. A watch-only nopixel 5 closed beta is coming next week.
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Most of the developers behind the critically acclaimed Star Wars Zero Company were furloughed weeks before the game's launch last week, as a legal dispute between the studio founders puts Bit Reactor's ownership into question.
Microsoft has kicked off a promotion seemingly out of nowhere to push people to pre-order Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on its platforms, rather than those of its competitors.
As PlayStation's plan to scrap the production of game discs inches closer, Sony's lawyers are arguing that "reasonable consumers" already know that they don't own digital games.
Almost two decades on from its first heavy-metal-infused open-world game, Double Fine pinky promises it'll finally make Brutal Legend 2… if the developer's new Kickstarter campaign somehow manages to scrape together $100m (about £74m).
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