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Riot Games has announced it’s downsizing the development team behind its League of Legends fighting game 2XKO, just weeks after it left early access and launched for consoles.In a statement, the developer said that, following its full launch on January 21, the free-to-play title “hasn’t reached the level needed support a team of this size long term”.Executive producer Tom Cannon claimed that affected employees would be supported either with roles on different teams or a “minimum” of 6 months of notice pay and severance.The scale of layoffs isn’t yet clear, but former producer Patrick Miller claimed on BlueSky that he’d…
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined is enjoying series-high player numbers and great reviews on Steam, but there’s one game keeping it from being the franchise’s biggest launch on the platform: Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D, which is still ahead by a wide margin.Specifically, we’re talking about Steam’s tracking of peak concurrent players. Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined has managed an all-time peak player count of 27,390 as of yesterday – likely to be its highest peak as it happened the weekend after launch – while Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D’s peak from its November 2024 launch is 45,357, quite the jump from 7 Reimagined.As…
I’m just a tiny mining droid trying to carve an upward path through the brutalist monolith that dominates the skyline. Not hurting anyone, am I? Yet, I’d be making much better progress if it weren’t for the pesky red-eyed monsters that keep attacking my base. They’re just afraid of change – NIMBYs the lot of them. Every few floors I climb, I have to race home to blast the incoming creeps with my base’s gun turret. But then that’s the ever-present challenge of Iter-8, the latest half-mining game, half tower defence game to have stolen my attention.
Like the satisfyingly fast crack of a whip, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle instantly entered my list of the best action-adventure games. Even over a year later, I still look back at my time as Indy with fondness and a further love for the character than ever before. It’s got everything: exploration, historical sites, beating up Nazis, and this gem of a new chapter for our beloved Dr Jones is nothing short of a fantastic time. If you’ve been waiting to give it a try, the full experience so far is cheaper than ever at Fanatical, so you have…
There’s not much to say about Nobuo Uematsu’s iconic Final Fantasy 7 music that hasn’t already been said by people much more qualified than me, but veteran JRPG composer Yasunori Nishiki is in the unique position to offer genuinely novel insights.Nishiki, primarily known as the main composer for Octopath Traveler, also handled various arrangements for Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth, including Rebirth’s versions of One-Winged Angel and Hollow Skies, and he recently opened up to RPG Site about what it was like having a hand in adapting such a beloved score.”Final Fantasy music is something that’s legendary to me,…
A recent update to Steam allows developers to list a planned 1.0 release date for their Early Access games. While developers have always been free to share this information in blog posts or in the description on the store, in the past, they couldn’t flag a game’s planned release so clearly. While this might seem like a small change, I’m thrilled to see it. Steam Early Access can be an excellent tool for developers, allowing them to put their game into players’ hands and earn money without waiting until it’s ready for a 1.0 release, but it can be a…
Like any of the best soulslikes, Nioh 3 can be frustrating. Learning attack patterns and using the right gear to take on foes of all sizes, from those little demonic creatures to the large yokai, is part of the core experience. Luckily, Nioh 3 also manages to strike a balance between stress and excitement, grabbing my attention for hours on end as I slash my way through Team Ninja’s latest entry in the franchise. If you’re hoping to score this triple-A game for free, well, our latest giveaway could be the prime opportunity for one lucky player. Nioh 3 features…
StarCraft fans have had a rough decade, but a new report suggests a wide-ranging revival for the dormant sci-fi franchise is underway. Arc Raiders publisher Nexon has apparently hired a veteran StarCraft modder to lead a new entry in the series at its free-to-play shooter studio, and it seems this project is entirely separate from the long-rumored StarCraft shooter said to be in the works at Blizzard.Development of a new game building on the StarCraft IP has begun at Nexon, according to a machine translation of a report from Korean outlet dnews. The outlet cites insider sources as it suggests…
I hate Discord with the intensity of a supernova falling into a black hole. I hate its ungainly profusion of tabs and voice channels. I regret its cybersecurity breaches. I resent that the PRs use it for every virtual press event. I’m furious that I have to download 12 updates whenever I remember to turn it on. I despise the feisty and cloying loading screen trivia and service messages. Show me the “empathy banana” again, you weird little gopher beetle. I’ll put you in the microwave. I also dislike that Discord now assumes I’m “teen-by-default” and restricts my access appropriately…
It saddens me how numb we’ve all gotten to multiplayer games getting canned so soon after they launch. While there are of course huge success stories like Marvel Rivals or Arc Raiders, many are lucky to get more than a couple of years in the bank before having to shut up shop. Concord. Spectre Divide. XDefiant. The list of swiftly cut competitive games is long, and now success is more surprising than failure. That didn’t deter the creators of Super People, a battle royale that shuttered in 2023, only to reappear last year as a reimagined version of the game.…