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Ubisoft have reportedly cancelled an unannounced life simulation game dubbed Alterra, which devs had spent nearly three years weaving into something that combines aspects of Animal Crossing with Minecraft’s voxel building. The cancellation reportedly hasn’t resulted in any immediate layoffs.
A new Noble Legacy update is ramping up its immersive simulation systems in what developer Studio 369 calls one of its biggest overhauls to date. The medieval game has already grown from a fairly low-key start with an impressive list of upgrades, and today’s major patch is another step in that direction. It expands the potential size of your towns, enhances the variety and behavior of your population, forces you to consider factors like temperature and cleanliness, and even introduces good boys and girls that can help you to keep bandits at bay. In a way that feels rather fitting,…
Analysts have said Microsoft’s decision to drop the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass isn’t surprising, given that the addition of Call of Duty had made little impact to subscription numbers.On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it was dropping the price of Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 / £22.99 to $22.99 / £16.99 per month, and PC Game Pass from $16.49 / £13.49 to $13.99 / £10.99.It also announced that future Call of Duty games would not be available on either service on the day of release, and would instead be added the following holiday season (up…
As The Last of Us, Death Stranding, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle star Troy Baker reveals he wants to start his own game studio to tell his “own stories,” one fellow actor who’s followed that very same path has a few words of warning.Abubakar Salim, the actor behind Assassin’s Creed Origins protagonist Bayek, is also the founder of Surgent Studios – developer of 2024 Metroidvania title Tales of Kenzera: Zau and last year’s excellent psychological horror game Dead Take (which stars Neil Newbon, Ben Starr, and more). Baker actually gives him a shout-out when speaking to Eurogamer about…
Naval warfare won’t be coming to Crusader Kings 3 with the big merchant republics expansion Paradox are set to roll out towards the end of this year. The studio say that they want to make sure they do sea battles justice, and so didn’t want to shoehorn them into a DLC which already comes with “a fair amount of risk”, while also blowing up their planned development timeline.
League of Legends’ matchmaking is a puzzle that Riot will never quite be able to solve. Someone somewhere will always be angry. One little tweak can send the entire system into a spiral, and big, sweeping changes come with the risk of destabilizing it entirely. Coming into 2026, the developer actively reworked a large part of the MOBA’s matchmaking in an attempt to make the ranked climb a little smoother. It added the Aegis of Valor for those that autofill, and now attempts to pit autofilled players against one another. It added duos back into every tier of play, and…
Koei Tecmo has greatly revised its earnings forecast for the financial year ending March 2026.The company made its initial financial forecast at the end of April 2025, predicting that it would have an operating profit of ¥31 billion ($194.5 million) and an ordinary profit of ¥27 billion ($169 million).Instead, it now forecasts that its operating profit will be ¥36,000 ($225.9 million) – a 16% increase on its original forecast – and an ordinary profit of ¥55.5 billion ($348 million), a massive 50% increase on its original forecast.In a notice to shareholders, Koei Tecmo said the reasons for the revision were…
Mark Ruffalo is at it again. Marvel’s resident king of spoilers may have just let another secret slip – and, this time, it concerns Spider-Man.”I promise you, one thousand percent, that he will be fighting an alien in the future,” the actor, who plays Bruce Banner/Hulk, said during a recent appearance at the Cinema Adriano in Rome, Italy.Some fans have taken this as confirmation that alien symbiote Venom will appear in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, something that’s been whispered about for a while now. “Spider-Man fighting Venom confirmed???” is the caption on the video, but others think he’s “trolling.”Article continues…
Valve, Epic Games, Microsoft, and the Roblox Corporation have all been issued transparency notices by the Australian government’s eSafety commissioner, with the body seeking to learn what steps are being taken to keep kids safe on Steam, Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox. The Australian government say this step’s been taken as without action, all four platforms risk “becoming onramps to abuse, extremist violence, radicalisation or lifelong harm”.
Nvidia has just released new graphics research that it claims can unlock 2-3x performance in certain situations, seemingly without relying on AI. The new research paper uses techniques such as “reciprocal neighbor selection” and “duplication maps,” showing good old-fashioned algorithms are at the heart of this breakthrough. As to what those graphical situations are, well, this Nvidia research is all to do with path tracing, which is the ultra-demanding next step up in PC rendering from ray tracing, and which is only realistically playable on the very best graphics cards currently available. Games such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Indiana Jones…