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2XKO, Riot’s League of Legends fighting spin-off, is having its development team significantly cut back not long after release. Game Developer report a Riot spokesperson as stating the publishers have put plans in motion to lay off around 80 developers on the game, about half of the global team who’ve been working on it, with the potential for some of the affected workers to land in new posts at Riot.
Back before Burning Springs brought the Amazon Prime show to Fallout 76, Bethesda’s open-world survival RPG was already on a strong run of updates. While the introduction of playable ghouls was certainly a major milestone, I’d argue that its most dramatic addition was the Gleaming Depths. The four-player, multi-stage endgame dungeon is still Fallout 76’s most imposing and exciting challenge so far, and so when I sat down recently with creative director Jon Rush and lead producer Bill LaCoste, I was eager to check in on it. Along the way, we discussed the current state of endgame balancing, potential future…
Attendees of this weekend’s Pokémon European International Championships will have the chance to play a hands-on demo of Pokémon Pokopia.The Pokémon European International Championships take place from February 13 to February 15 in London’s Excel exhibition center. As well as the yearly tournament where players of all Pokémon disciplines compete on the road to the Pokémon World Championships, side activities for Pokémon fans are held all weekend.For this weekend’s event, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo have announced that fans will be able to play the upcoming life simulation game, Pokémon Pokopia. Other EUIC events include signings with Pokémon TCG artists,…
Harry Potter star David Thewlis has had enough of the franchise. The actor played Remus Lupin in the films, introduced in The Prisoner of Azkaban as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and an old friend of Harry Potter’s father.When asked by Screen Time if he’d like to return in the upcoming HBO reboot TV show, either as Lupin or another character, Thewlis was pretty clear that he’s had his fill of the Wizarding World.”I feel like I’d be far too old to play my original character now. And no, I wouldn’t want to go back into it,…
Spider-Man and Venom are about to cross over in Marvel’s Death Spiral event, but it’s what happens when the smoke clears in May’s Venom #258 by writer Al Ewing and artist Carlos Gómez that could have the biggest impact on Spidey and Venom’s world.As readers likely know, Mary Jane is the current host of the Venom symbiote after bonding with it in a life-or-death crisis. She’s been operating as Venom for some time now, and despite her close relationship with Peter Parker, it seems the symbiote anti-hero still has some beef with Spider-Man.On the newly revealed cover of Venom #258…
If the Nioh games are Team Ninja’s attempts at infusing Dark Souls-style games with its talent for action, Rise of the Ronin is the developer’s take on Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei games. While it doesn’t nail some of the elements of the Ghost duology, it does offer a world brimming with combat, a war between two factions, and a more RPG-focused experience that is still brilliant to play. Best of all, while Ghost of Yotei is yet to launch on PC, Rise of the Ronin is already available, and at a lower price than ever…
Masters of the Universe director Travis Knight says he always intended to make live-action Skeletor look the way he does in the He-Man cartoon – no ifs, ands, or buts.”I said, ‘Fuck that shit. Skeletor has a skull face,'” Knight told Empire when asked about previous iterations of the supervillain’s look. “That’s just the way it is. It’s a living, talking, emoting skull, and that’s that.”In the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie, Skeletor is quite simply Frank Langella wearing a skull mask and a hood to conceal his real-life human body. The Skeletor design in the 2026 movie, however,…
Helldivers 2 players long ago christened the character from the game’s intro cinematic as John Helldiver – the ultimate embodiment of freedom, democracy, and impossibly deep insincerity. Arrowhead has increasingly taken to this moniker, and a new interview with the game’s director suggests that the name is pretty much canon now.”I think one of the strengths of Helldivers is that it is very easy to understand the fantasy and get into it quickly,” game director Mikael Eriksson tells IGN. “You can watch the opening cinematic with our John Helldiver character – named by the community – you can watch that…
League of Legends spinoff fighting game 2XKO just enjoyed its full, official launch on January 20 and now, just three weeks later, Riot has laid off a number of its developers.Game Developer reports about 80 employees have been impacted by what executive producer Tom Cannon is describing in an announcement post as “an important update on 2XKO.””As we expanded from PC to console, we saw consistent trends in how players were engaging with 2XKO,” Cannon explains. “The game has resonated with a passionate core audience, but overall momentum hasn’t reached the level needed to support a team of this size…
Actor Aaron Moten plays Maximus in Prime Video’s Fallout TV series, and while he’s familiar with the video game source material, he’s confessed that he has “forbid” himself from actually playing any Fallout games.”I am a gamer; I really enjoy taking a break from watching TV and movies. It’s work for me, and I really have a hard time turning that brain off when becoming a viewer,” Moten tells Game Informer. “I have not played Fallout, but I have watched Twitch streams, you know, I’ve watched others play it. But, partly, I forbid myself from playing it at this point.…