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We’ve never really seen an actual World of Warcraft killer. We’ve seen rival MMOs come and go, with the likes of Final Fantasy 14, Old School Runescape, and Guild Wars 2 pushing their way to the front of the chasing pack, but never quite managing to topple Blizzard’s age-old goliath. But, in 2025 alone we saw various new WoW-inspired alternatives appear. Fellowship is perhaps the most prominent, followed by Eldegarde, previously known as Legacy: Steel and Sorcery. Notorious Studios’ extraction-based MMO had a lot of promise, but struggled to stick the early access landing. But that was over a year…
Ubisoft has announced that it has cancelled six games currently in development – including its remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – and delayed seven others.As part of a larger announcement that it is conducting a “major organisational, operational and portfolio reset”, the company also stated that it had “conducted a thorough review of its content pipeline” over the past two months.This review led to the decision to “refocus its portfolio, reallocate resources and comprehensively revise its roadmap over the next three years,” it said.Ubisoft said its focus will be on a “return to exceptional levels of…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms now holds the record for highest-rated first season of any Game of Thrones show on Rotten Tomatoes – and we’re so happy for Dunk and Egg.The spin-off series sits at a whopping 95% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to Game of Thrones season 1 and House of the Dragon season 1, which both hold a 90%. Originally titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, the series is based on George R.R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg novella series and follows the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and Egg…
Given its lengthy, troubled development period, it will probably not come as any surprise to you that Ubisoft have announced today that their Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has been cancelled. This comes as part of a broader restructure at the company, which will apparently focus on what they call five “specialised creative houses” to “reclaim creative leadership and restore sustainable growth.” Alongside the Prince of Persia remake, Ubisoft have also cancelled development on five other games, three of them apparently being completely new, and one being a mobile title. Seven other games they have…
Battlefield 6 hit a small bump in the road as it approached Season 2, and in a move that surprised a fair few of us, decided to delay the release of its sophomore content drop. The team cited “community feedback” as the reason and not much more, with a disconcertingly vague post about needing to “polish and refine” what they already had. It wasn’t a huge disaster, as the extension of Season 1 of the FPS game brought with it extra time for players to complete the Battle Pass, and a new bonus track to keep everyone busy while the…
Veteran Nintendo designer and producer Kensuke Tanabe has reportedly suggested he’s retiring from the company, after nearly 40 years of service.In an interview with Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream, which has been uploaded by a user on Weibo, Tanabe is claimed to have said that Metroid Prime 4 was his last game at Nintendo, and that producer Risa Tabata will likely succeed him, should another Metroid Prime game be made. VGC interviewed Tanabe and Tabata back in 2020.Tanabe is claimed to have said that when he was planting hints in Metroid Prime 3 and Metroid Prime: Federation Force about villain Sylux,…
Battlefield Studios has revealed a new community update detailing some of the plans for Battlefield 6 season 2, including a brand new multiplayer map and the return of the classic Battlefield 4 map, Golmud Railway.EA gave a fairly comprehensive overview of its plans for Battlefield Labs testing for season 2 “and beyond” on its official website. The season 2 update was recently delayed because EA wanted to give Battlefield Studios more time to refine the new content following community feedback, and in this new community update, it’s revealed that one of the things being tested in Battlefield Labs is a…
I am going to level with you. My awareness of Lort up until this point has been non-existent. Never heard of it before today, it’s early access release day! But when you see a game called Lort, well, you at least need to take a little look. And as astronomically silly as the name is, it looks like a pretty neat, silly time, so, my predilection towards the inane has clearly worked out in my favour this time. Lort is one of those trendy affordable co-op games, specifically of the action roguelite variety. Think something along the lines…
Ubisoft has today announced a “a major organizational, operational and portfolio reset” that will see six in-development projects canceled and a further seven upcoming games delayed. The only one of the six scrapped projects to be named is the Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake, which has had a long and arduous development at the hands of multiple studios but looked set to launch within the next few months. “Ubisoft’s strategic decision to undertake this major reset is driven by the continued shift toward a persistently more selective triple-A market and an increasingly competitive shooter landscape, combined with the…
A visual effects developer at Epic Games has challenged director Gore Verbinski’s comments about Unreal Engine.Earlier today VGC reported that the Pirates of the Caribbean director criticised the increasing use of Unreal Engine in film production, saying it’s led to “this sort of gaming aesthetic entering the world of cinema”.“I just don’t think it takes light the same way,” Verbinksi said. “I don’t think it fundamentally reacts to subsurface, scattering, and how light hits skin and reflects in the same way. So that’s how you get this uncanny valley when you come to creature animation, a lot of in-betweening is…