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Director of 2021’s PS5 exclusive, Returnal, leaves Housemarque and announces the formation of a new game studio based in Finland.Harry Krueger previously worked on Outland, Resogun, directed Nex Machina, and “helped shape” the early stages of Saros. After almost 15 years at Hoursemarque, Krueger and the newly founded Cosmic Division aim to “establish [their] own identity while building on years of experience crafting award-winning action experiences.”Krueger now steps into the role of founder and CEO of Cosmic Division, sharing in a statement: “I’m incredibly grateful to Housemarque for our shared journey, which has shaped the foundations for our new studio.“We’re…
A few alumni of the Mass Effect series are working on a new space-based action-RPG, the big-budget Exodus that’s being bankrolled by Hasbro. As we get closer towards the project’s launch, a higher-up at the tabletop company reckons it’ll harken a return to form when it comes to cosmic gameplay.Chris Cocks, the CEO of Hasbro, spoke to The Game Business about his high hopes for Exodus, which is the corporation’s start of a bigger push into video games. “Yes, it’s a new IP, but it’s not unfamiliar ground to us,” Cocks explains. “Exodus is effectively D&D in space. We’re familiar…
The biggest videogames are taking longer to make, according to Diablo 4 lead engine engineer Marcin Undak, and one consequence is that there are fewer junior openings at industry dreadnoughts like Blizzard and CD Projekt, because companies prefer to hire juniors right at the start of development. This isn’t ideal, Undak suggested, because “the best teams” have a healthy mixture of crabby old wizards and sparky bantlings. OK, he did not call anybody either a wizard or a bantling. Maybe next time. Undak offered these thoughts during a presentation at this year’s Digital Dragons conference about what working on an…
The aim is to turn D&D virtual tabletop Maps into “a simplified, streamlined version of what we wanted to do for Sigil,” according to Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks.Drawing a blank on Sigil? I don’t blame you. This was an all-singing, all-dancing 3D virtual tabletop that felt like a cross between the two-dimensional D&D Maps system and Baldur’s Gate 3 (complete with video game-style effects to jazz up your sessions of the best tabletop RPGs). However, just a few weeks after it was soft-launched into early access, a significant percentage of its development team got laid off. Fast-forward to October last…
Embracer says the new steward of its biggest game IPs will “more actively” explore external partnerships for franchises including Legacy of Kain, Saints Row, Deus Ex, and TimeSplitters.On Wednesday, Embracer Group announced its intention to split into two public companies next year, with the new entity, ‘Fellowship Entertainment’, taking over stewardship of Tomb Raider, The Lord of the Rings, and other franchises.Part of the formation of Fellowship will see it form a new IP licensing business unit, it said, with the objective of increasing revenue by letting external partners use its franchises for games, films, and other areas.Commenting on the…
A modder is fixing an issue that has persisted with Metal Gear Solid 3 since 2011’s HD Collection release – one that most people didn’t really notice.Metal Gear Solid 3 is the greatest game ever made – this was the subject of the first thing I ever wrote for GamesRadar+, about a game I’ve inhaled as many times as Kirby inhales a Waddle Dee. And yet, somehow, I never noticed that the 2011 HD collection version of the game, which was then ported over to Master Collection in 2023, actually had a broken camera in it the whole time.As spotted…
Embracer Group has announced its intention to split into two public companies, with a new spin-off taking over its biggest game IPs, including Tomb Raider.Fellowship Entertainment is planned to be established in 2027 and will be an “IP-led” entertainment company built around the development, publishing, and licensing of games.The new company will take over stewardship of The Lord of the Rings IP, and game franchises such as Tomb Raider, Darksiders, Dead Island, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Metro, and Remnant.Studios joining the new company will include 4A Games, Crystal Dynamics, Dambuster Studios, Dark Horse Media, Eidos-Montréal, Fishlabs, Flying Wild Hog Studios, Gunfire…
Two of the biggest controller brands are going head-to-head with their latest product launches, and when I say head-to-head, I mean launching in the same 24 hours, and they look almost like long-lost twins. It’s almost as though the two brands caught wind of what one another had planned, but the result for us is that two new Xbox Series X controllers have entered the market.For starters, 8BitDo has launched pre-orders for its new 8BitDo Ultimate 3 controller for Xbox, which officially releases in August in the UK, and in October in the UK. Interestingly, this comes ahead of the…
EOFY 2026 sales are just around the corner, which means most Australian retailers will be running deal events very soon. In a year that’s been awful for the budget conscious, thanks to price hikes and the ongoing AI-induced component shortage, EOFY should offer some respite, though it’ll depend what you’re after.That’s the rub, really. I’ve been covering big Aussie sales events for GamesRadar for nearly a decade now, and gaming has never been as inaccessible, at least when it comes to the cost of entry. The regular PS5 disc model launched in 2020 at AU$749, but nowadays goes for AU$999.…
Years before Cyberpunk 2077 bailed on the idea, CD Projekt Red wanted The Witcher, the first RPG in the series, to have multiplayer.Speaking at a Digital Dragons talk attended by GamesRadar+, CDPR senior technical writer Adrian Fulneczek discusses the dusty documentation that’s home to the first scratches of what The Witcher would become.”If the state of your documentation is this black hole, this means you have to reverse-engineer everything,” he says, “and basically reverse-engineer your own legacy. Since I’ve mentioned legacy: we don’t have much in digital form, but we have some physical documents, and we would like to show…