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As Amazon makes a further 16,000 company-wide layoffs following 14,000 job cuts in October, Amazon Game Studios has reportedly lost its studio head, Christoph Hartmann.Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports that Hartmann, previously head of 2K, “is leaving the company.”You may also remember Hartmann as the studio head who said, in 2024, the year after Baldur’s Gate 3 won a zillion game of the year awards and the year before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 did the same, that games “don’t really have acting.” He made this claim in the middle of a video game actor strike over AI protections. You may like…
It’s harder to re-animate a dead game than Frankenstein, fans of BioWare’s defunct looter shooter Anthem are learning.They were able to resuscitate the, by most accounts, middling 7-year-old game long enough to post a proof-of-concept server test on YouTube last week – but it sounds like their progress has been paused right around there. The fans behind the server project have just discussed some of the challenges they’ve been facing in a new interview with Ars Technica, and they ask you not to expect too much.Project administrator Laurie, who helped establish a team of devs on The Fort’s Forge Discord,…
Prime Video’s live action Fallout streaming series has spent some time in New Vegas, the setting of the sixth game in the venerable post-apocalyptic sci-fi franchise. New Vegas has a multitude of possible endings, just one of which has been enshrined in the canon of the show.Despite locking in a specific ending path as part of Fallout season 2, co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet assures fans that the show isn’t intended to overwrite New Vegas’ other endings or serve as a definitive ending for the game.”It did seem to us like a version of himself powered by cold fusion would be sort…
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has shared his memory of an average day making the original Fallout at Interplay Entertainment, revealing that he worked 70+ hour weeks simply because he and his team loved making the game that much.In a video shared to his official YouTube channel, Cain described a typical day as one where he woke up around 6am, fed his needy cat, and then went to work and arrived between 7 and 8am. He said he would bring the cinnamon bread he’d prepped in his bread machine the night before to the office with him, where it would inevitably…
Dispatch, the highly acclaimed episodic superhero narrative game from the group of Telltale alums at AdHoc, has landed on Switch a few months after hitting PlayStation and PC, but Nintendo’s version is decidedly more kid-friendly.Dispatch is a game with a lot of sexually explicit content, including scenes with partially nude and fully nude characters. Nothing, nothing at all, is censored, unless you decide to switch off the nudity toggle in settings, and then you won’t see any naked people or hear naked people sex sounds. All middle fingers will also be censored.Two problems as this relates to the newly released…
Fresh from the trenches of the Divinity generative AI debate, Larian CEO Swen Vincke has taken to the Twitterverse with some moderately spicy thoughts on video game critics and reviewers. Broadly, he feels that we need to work harder to be “critical” without being “hurtful”. He also suggests that the industry could do with a Metacritic-style system for evaluating and scoring reviewers, to “encourage a bit more restraint”, so that “sensitive” creatives don’t “lose their idealism and love of players.” Picture me over here, huffing and snorting like a bull eyeing the red-trousered bottom of an atypically fleshy…
Who are all the Highguard characters? Each Highguard Warden comes equipped with unique abilities that help them break down defenses – by taking a closer look at each Warden, you can decide which one suits you and your team best. It’s also helpful to know what you could be up against; understanding what the Wardens are capable of allows you to target their weaknesses during a fight. Looking at the Highguard roadmap, new Wardens will be added to the FPS game at the beginning of each Episode, so we expect the meta to shift as players discover powerful team combinations.…
There are a lot of poorly kept secrets in the gaming world, but it’s still rare for an unannounced game to have been so thoroughly leaked that even its own publisher is willing to acknowledge the rumors. Amid mountains of reports about the Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag remake, even Ubisoft seems exhausted of playing coy, and has responded to the latest rumor with a cheeky Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas meme.This week, an Edward Kenway figure seemingly tied to the new version Black Flag started to make the rounds online. It rapidly spread across the Assassin’s Creed fandom on…
Dune: Awakening has struggled a touch with its endgame pretty much since launch, but with the MMO’s next big update, Chapter 3, is promising to offer a revamp that you (yes, you! The person playing Dune: Awakening right now! Maybe!) have been after. A release date was also offered up for the big update, alongside some specifics on just what this new endgame might look like. Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 is apparently set to arrive as soon as next week, February 3rd, so you’ve not got all that long to wait. In a blog post over on Steam, Funcom…
Highguard is, in many ways, my most-anticipated game of January. Its distinct lack of post-reveal marketing intrigued me, and the idea of a high fantasy extraction FPS game certainly feels very Lauren. It didn’t exactly wow me at The Game Awards, however, feeling somewhat like a chimera of the myriad shooters we’ve seen release over the past few years. The response to its launch has been equally lukewarm, and the internet generally appears divided. While Steam says that 37% of players have left a positive review, if you filter by playtime (we looked at reviews that had logged more than…