UPDATE 12PM BST: CD Projekt Red seems to have confirmed the partnership and film, with joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski commenting on X that: "We're excited about Paramount as a future partner who shares our creative ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise. We look forward to sharing more details at the appropriate time."
The most touching of additions, in EA Sports FC 27, is a mode called The Grounds. This is an online social hub, where your custom avatar can roam and rise. It's touching not for its play – which lets you challenge people to rounds of Rush football, where the ghosts of Volta and Fifa Street happily haunt – but for its look. There are three open hub areas to explore, one styled on the UK, another on Paris, and a third on Argentina. The streets are clean, and cluttered by bustling NPCs. Here and there are luminous white-domed kiosks, with all the promise of an artist's impression of an upcoming Heathrow terminal. If I didn't know better, I'd say that the developers at EA Vancouver and EA Romania were paying homage to PlayStation Home. There, too, you could list through weird streets and glassy booths, clad in store-bought clothes, and beat other players in mini-games of all kinds. There, too, you felt the looming threat of a shutdown.
British actor Charlie Cox, best known for being Daredevil in Marvel's Netflix series - but known closer to home as the voice of Gustav in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - has said he's just finished recording for a Sega game which hasn't been announced yet.
The Galaxies Showcase returns next week, on 15th October, boasting the most ambitious line-up it's had yet. It will feature games from more than 40 studios and publishers, both big and small, including the Square Enix Collective, Krafton, Embark Studios and many more.
The reports were correct: Forza Horizon 6 has been delayed to 2027 on PS5. The PlayStation version had been expected this year - the PC and Xbox versions launched in May - but it will now launch in January.
One of the witnesses in the ongoing Rockstar Games vs Garland & Others case has said he had "little interest" in evidence of unionisation efforts he was sent by an anonymous employee, prior to the developer laying off a substantial number of union Discord members..jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Gears of War: E-Day's sales are reportedly lighter than you might expect from one of Xbox's flagship names, but pure sales numbers don't paint a complete picture of the bloody shooter's performance. A sizable chunk of revenue actually came from Game Pass subscribers paying for the game's Premium Edition upgrade.
PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles are more expensive than ever in most markets, thanks largely to memory components being gobbled up by AI data centres. Now, analyst Mat Piscatella worries the console market, at least in the US, hasn't looked this dire since the early 1980s, which was maybe not-so-coincidentally when the industry absolutely collapsed.
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Dom enjoys being back in Gears of War, which they should with a name like that; and Bertie ekes every last drop he can get out of The Blood of Dawnwalker before saving his family.
It looks like Bokeh Game Studio, founded by Keiichiro Toyama, who directed the original Silent Hill and created Siren and Gravity Rush, is working on another horror game.
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Ace Combat 8 has become the fastest-selling game in the aerial combat series, soaring to 1 million sales since its release roughly a week ago.
Though there's still plenty of waist-high cover, ebb-and-flow firefighting, and braindead machismo, Gears E-Day proves that looking back can, indeed, help you look forward, too.
EA and Full Circle - the developer behind the new early access Skate game (skate.) - don't have a problem with modders and "creativity from players," but they're drawing the line with mods that aim to unlock paid microtransactions and unreleased content.
Silent Hill producer Motoi Okamoto says Konami is looking at "a number of projects" after the first wave of new Silent Hill games.
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