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Xbox’s Fable reboot has been internally delayed, and could release later this year, or potentially fall into 2027, it’s claimed.That’s according to Giant Bomb journalist Jeff Grubb, who claimed that, like many developers planning to ship games this year, Microsoft is concerned about releasing Fable too close to Grand Theft Auto 6, which is planned to arrive in November.The Playground Games title was fully revealed two months ago and given an Autumn 2026 release window, which was potentially kept deliberately broad in order to respond to any GTA slip.“I’ll say that I’ve heard that Fable has been pushed internally,” Grubb…
The Hunger Games – Official Franchise Lookback – YouTube Watch On A new sneak peek at The Hunger Games: The Sunrise on the Reaping gives us our first look at Maya Hawke and Kieran Culkin’s characters in the upcoming prequel.Based on Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name, the movie is set 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. Joseph Zada stars as Haymitch Abernathy, a tribute from District 12 at the 50th Hunger Games, AKA the Second Quarter Quell. In the original movie trilogy, he’s played by Woody Harrelson and is a mentor to Katniss and Peeta.He’s…
As you may well know, Edwin has been devoured by The Maw more than once in his time as news editor. Though you cant say he’s not learned from the experience of being a digestee. Knowing that The Maw becomes particularly agitated in weeks stuffed with new releases, I suspect he saw the bloated Steam Upcoming chart and hastily booked his holiday, leaving us to wrangle the beast. Luckily, I was only chosen for this role after the hiring manager learned I trained under the great great great great granddaughter of lion tamer Isaac A. Van Amburgh. Hand me that…
“For the future, the big question mark is really AI,” says former Microsoft vice president of game publishing, Ed Fries. “There’s obvious advantages where AI is going to make building games faster and cheaper with smaller teams, and those things are great if they’re done well. But there’s even more potential with AI to change the experience itself.” Fries was speaking to host Luke Lohr on the Expansion Pass podcast last week, but his support of the controversial technology has some caveats. First and foremost, he understands that the technology is not guaranteed to take off. It’s up to developers…
A group of hackers has said it will release data stolen from Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games, after its demands were not met.This weekend, the hacker group ShinyHunters demanded a ransom for data it said it had obtained from the GTA studio’s cloud servers. In a statement, Rockstar confirmed the breach, but downplayed its impact.At the time, ShinyHunters issued a deadline of April 14 for Rockstar to pay a ransom, less the data be released. However, speaking to the BBC, the group has now confirmed it will release the stolen data online.Law enforcement advice globally is not to…
Original Xbox designer and co-creator Seamus Blackley is looking forward to whatever Valve and Nintendo are cooking up much more than Microsoft’s next-gen console hybrid, Project Helix.Microsoft has yet to properly spill the beans on its upcoming console, simply codenamed Project Helix for now, but Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma did soft-confirm rumors that the hardware would straddle the line between traditional console and gaming PC.”I don’t know as a developer what I’m excited about and I don’t know as a gamer what I’m excited about,” Blackley says of the console’s starting pitch, per an interview with Expansion Pass. “I…
Stop Killing Games, the campaign group seeking to prevent online games being rendered unplayable when publishers shut down their servers, have moved to support a Californian bill that in its current form would require studios to either update games with impending server shutterings to they keep working independently aftwards or provide full refunds. The movement also claim their UK efforts are “far from dead in the water”, noting they were called in to advise the Department for Culture, Media & Sport last week.
A casting call for Hideo Kojima’s new PlayStation stealth franchise, Physint, has revealed potential new details on the project and suggested that performance work is due to begin in the coming months.As spotted by MP1st, a casting call for the project, codenamed ‘Shimmer’, has been published, attached to the same casting director, Mari Ueda, who worked on Death Stranding 2.The casting call describes a scene with multiple passengers on a hijacked bus, and is looking to cast a mother holding her newborn baby, five teenagers of different ethnicities, two other male passengers, and an antagonistic character “with a German accent”.Notably,…
Game companies everywhere are bracing for the attention-sucking black hole on the horizon dubbed ‘GTA 6′ by quantum physicists. A new rumor even suggests that Xbox’s Fable reboot is preparing to move well out of Rockstar Games’ way, even though developer Playground Games has claimed that everything remains on track.Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb recently said he’s heard reliable whispers that Fable had been internally delayed out of the Autumn 2026 release window it had previously targeted, per an episode of the Game Mess Mornings podcast. Rockstar Games’ behemoth was cited as one possible reason for the push back because, well,…
There’s a new Humble Bundle in town, and if you’ve been circling Galactic Civilizations 4 for a while, the timing is perfect for you. With new DLC continuing to roll out, the bundle drops the base game down to just $2.57 / £2.33 ($18 / £16.32 for the whole thing) which is by far the cheapest it’s ever been available at before. Galactic Civilizations 4 is a classic 4X: explore, expand, exploit, exterminate (there are more ex’s here than in my love life), but with other interesting gameplay aspects to keep things interesting. For instance, the galaxy is split into…