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A Honkai: Star Rail leaker seems to have the gacha gods on their side, as they’ve managed to somehow shake off their $156,600 lawsuit with Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse by simply ignoring it.I guess some things really do go away if you close your eyes. Stephen Totilo reports in his Game File newsletter that the leaker, identified as Alfredo Lopez, shared a pre-release stream of Star Rail character Castorice before she was officially debuted in 2025 to a Discord channel with 12,000 members, prompting HoYoverse to seek the maximum $150,000 in damages for copyright infringement, plus an extra $6,600 in…
Peter Molyneux and 22cans will release their new god sim Masters of Albion on Wednesday 22nd April via Steam. They’ve also pumped out a new trailer, rich in accents, exploding barrels and stone circles. If it were a game from any other developer, I’d be modestly anticipating it. But it’s a Molyneux joint – his last game before retirement, allegedly – so instead, I’m looking at it with a mixture of sadness and suspicion. If you’ve somehow overlooked Molyneux during your voyages across the gamerwebs, he’s among the creators of foundational god sims Populous and Black & White. He’s also…
There’s something electric about New Orleans. I first fell in love with the city when I was watching The Vampire Diaries’ spinoff show The Originals (I can hear the judgement from here). In many ways, it feels like its own world, oozing style to the sound of smooth jazz; a place where anything is possible. We’ve seen that mysticism explored in shows like American Horror Story: Coven and videogames like the recent South of Midnight. Ex-Bethesda artist Nathan Purkeypile, who worked on Fallout 3 and 4 before becoming lead artist on 76, feels that same allure and wants to see…
A judge today ruled against forcing Rockstar to pay out interim relief to the 34 GTA 6 developers it fired in October, dealing the first major legal blow to the former employees and the union representing them.The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) pressed the Glasgow Employment Tribunal for emergency financial relief earlier this month, then accusing Rockstar of “brutal union busting.” Today a UK judge denied that request, saying it’s unlikely the firings were due to union activity.Despite this setback for the IWGB, the legal battle over the fired employees is likely to continue. In a statement to…
Once again it appears that Pocketpair appears to be going after a bit of Pokemon’s pie, this time of the card game variety. Where the latter’s started life as a physical medium, the former’s attempt at such a thing, literally just called Palworld Official Card Game, announced today, looks to be of the digital-only variety, though what there is to learn about it is a touch slim overall. There is a small teaser trailer to bear witness to, but to be honest that barely shows off the cards itself. You will see in the opening shot a card…
“We all love the Steamdeck!” That was the ringing endorsement Larian Studios exclaimed during its recent Divinity AMA. Acknowledging just how popular Baldur’s Gate 3 is on Valve’s handheld, the company now confirms “we will do our best to again release on the platform.” It’s not quite a nailed-on certainty that Divinity Steam Deck support is incoming, but it’s good to know that it’s already on Larian’s mind. Recently taking to Reddit to conduct a wide-ranging AMA on all things Divinity, the Larian Studios team answered questions on the use of AI in Divinity, the technical limitations that came about…
GOG is under new(ish) ownership, as CD Projekt co-founder Michał Kiciński has bought back the digital PC game store from his old company. While there’s a change in management, it seems there won’t be a change in philosophy, as Kiciński insists the platform’s anti-DRM policy isn’t changing on his watch.”This is a core value of GOG, and there’s no signs that it might die in any visible future,” Kiciński tells GamesIndustry.biz. “This is not only an ethical value, but it’s also very pragmatic. It helps people to enjoy games no matter what happens with the software provided by the platform…
Lighting up my fifteenth cigarette of the hour and adjusting my fedora, I slipped the mysterious code into the box. A collection of numbers and letters designed to provide early access to the demo of a detective game. It was a hot tip from a public relations person on behalf of developers Lost Cabinet Games. That wasn’t suspicious. Well, assuming the missing furniture is metaphorical rather than literal.
There are several games that defined my childhood, most of which are high fantasy. There was, of course, Dragon Age: Origins, then its sequel and Inquisition after that, as well as Lionhead’s Fable, perhaps my favorite childhood RPG. But before all of that there was Black and White, a strategy series most wouldn’t associate with me, but one that I played the heck out of on my dusty old family PC. With Lionhead gone, it felt like the B&W days would be confined to history – at least the Fable 4 release date is set for this year, I suppose.…
Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has once again given all its employees an expensive gift to thank them for the previous year’s work.As reported by Seoul Economic Daily, the South Korean studio celebrated the new year by giving its roughly 300 staff cash bonuses and Apple products.The company gave each of its staff a set of Apple AirPods Max, an Apple Watch and a bonus of ₩5 million ($3,400), a total value of more than $4,000 per employee.This isn’t the first time Shift Up has given its entire staff gifts to mark its continued success. In January 2023, it gave…