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With Hytale early access imminent, lead dev urges folks to take a couple of steps to "significantly reduce launch-day stress"
It’s Hytale early access release week, with the recently resurrected via purchase from Riot blocky sandbox set to ruck up tomorrow, January 13th. Ahead of the big day the Hypixel co-founder who’s currently spearheading the game has asked prospective players to download and log into its launcher nice and early, with the hopes this can help keep launch day disruption to a minimum.
After Expedition 33's success, Split Fiction's Josef Fares warns publishers not to "only do" double-A
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is nothing short of a masterpiece. From start to finish, it’s a cohesive, heartbreaking story, brought to life with stunning visuals, stellar performances from an equally stellar voice cast, and gameplay that tests your limits but leaves you wanting more. Such immense critical and commercial success naturally draws attention from other studios and publishers, but Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares, whose Split Fiction was among Expedition 33’s GOTY rivals, has warned the triple-A industry not to jump on the latest Esquie-shaped trend. Innovation in the triple-A sphere has been a pretty hot topic in recent years.…
Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott was the main protagonist of 1996’s Scream. Now, 30 years later, Ghostface is returning to menace her daughter in this new teaser for the upcoming Scream 7.The teaser recaps the events of the original Scream in which Sidney and her friends are hunted down by their own companions by Sidney’s boyfriend Billy Prescott (Skeet Ulrich) and his partner Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) who take on the shared identity of the Ghostface killer.Here’s the teaser: You may like Scream 7 | Legacy (2026 Movie) – Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox – YouTube Watch On “When a new Ghostface…
Having asked Division devs to lay themselves off, Ubisoft are now cutting 55 jobs at Massive and Ubisoft Stockholm
Ubisoft expect to lay off 55 people across Tom Clancy’s The Division developers Massive in Malmö, Sweden and cloud computing studio Ubisoft Stockholm, as part of wider cost-cutting. Reportedly, the job-lossenings are necessary because not enough workers have participated in an earlier voluntary redundancy scheme at Massive.
Already a viral hit, this new zombie game tasks you with weeding out the infected, and it's flying on Steam
When you think of the best zombie games of the past and the present, your mind typically turns to gripping survival horror or senseless, gory horde-shooters. In a year that’s set to expand those tropes with games like Resident Evil Requiem and Toxic Commando, here’s a newcomer that offers a different spin on a zombie outbreak. While you will get opportunities to spill some zombified blood, you’ll spend most of your time in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check protecting and managing a research and relocation facility. This game has been peppering my For You Page for months now – its…
An indie developer is delisting his Steam game because his new girlfriend convinced him its use of AI is ‘a disgrace’
An indie developer says he’s pulling his game from Steam because his new girlfriend has criticised its use of AI.Hardest is a free-to-play roguelike card game which uses Rock Paper Scissors rules but adds numerous new abilities like stopping time and summoning tsunamis.The game was released on Steam on July 1, 2025, but developer Rakuel –real name Eero Laine – says he will now be delisting it on January 30.According to Laine, the game will be removed because the card illustrations were created using AI image generation, which he initially didn’t see an issue with.However, Laine says his new girlfriend…
As demand for Hytale servers blows past Hypixel's expectations, devs warn "launch week will be bumpy, but we'll get everyone in"
After years of waiting, the Hytale servers have spun up and fans are jumping into early access. Demand has apparently blown past the expectations of Hypixel Studios, but amid some surprisingly sporadic reports of server issues, the devs say not to worry – they will make sure you’re able to log in during a “bumpy” launch week.In a blog post outlining what to expect at this early access release, the devs say that “demand has exceeded our expectations, which means launch week will be bumpy, but we’ll get everyone in.” Lead dev Simon Collins-Laflamme previously noted that the team expects…
Hytale's out now and its devs are advising those suffering download issues or errors to keep plugging away
Update: Slikey has posted a fresh tweet about Hypixel’s efforts to tackle Hytale’s teething issues. “We are already working on a patch for bugs and crashes,” it reads. “That will hit the pre-release patchline once we have a good chunk of fixes. We are working on any auth issues. Please make sure your time is synced and also saw a report about Norwegian OS language causing issues.” Hytale’s early access went live a short time ago as I write this. While plenty of folks look to have gotten in already, its devs have issued some guidance for the many others…
Hytale is Twitch's most-watched game as devs finally release Minecraft rival they've "waited ten years" for
It’s finally here. Almost eight years after its 2018 announcement, we finally have our hands on Hytale, the long-awaited Minecraft-like. After a decade of work, an acquisition, and a cancelation at the hands of Riot, what started as a Minecraft server and a dream is now a reality. Hundreds of thousands have flocked to Twitch since the game’s launch today to watch those with faster internet connections take their first steps. If you don’t know the Hytale story, it’s been a long, arduous journey to get here. After Riot bought developer Hypixel Studios in 2020, many thought we would get…
Meta has closed several studios, including ‘Splosion Man studio Twisted Pixel and Asgard Wrath’s Sanzaru Games
Meta has closed several of its VR studios, according to developers who have announced they have been laid off.The New York Times reported on Monday that Meta was planning to cut around 10% of the employees in its Reality Labs division, which works on products including the metaverse.Reality Labs is also home to Oculus Studios, the division of Meta that runs its first-party game development studios.These layoffs appear to have now started, and the game studios appear to be part of the cuts. Andy Gentile, a designer at Twisted Pixel Games, posted on X that he had just lost his…