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Battlefield Studios has confirmed that the upcoming second season of Battlefield 6 has been delayed by around a month.Season 1 was set to end on January 20, but it has now been confirmed that it will be extended by four weeks until February 17, at which point Season 2 will finally begin.In an update posted on the game’s official website, the team explained that Season 2 wasn’t quite ready to launch at an acceptable standard, and so it was being held back until it was ready.“During our ongoing development, we’ve continued to review community feedback and, in order to keep…
Arc Raiders would’ve "for sure" won Game of the Year over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at The Game Awards if it came out earlier, former FPS pro Shroud argues: "There's just not enough time"
A well-documented enthusiast of Arc Raiders, retired Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro and current streamer Shroud says that if Embark’s extraction shooter was out for just a few more months, it would’ve taken home the Game of the Year prize over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.He, full name Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek, says as much on a recent stream. “I really do believe if this game came out at this state in the summer, it for sure wins. 10,000%,” he states. “But there’s just not enough time – three weeks, four weeks is not enough time to process how good a game actually…
Anthem could be revived as a trad BioWare singleplayer RPG for $10 million, says former Dragon Age producer
BioWare’s misbegotten mech-me-do Anthem died this week after EA pulled the official servers. It’s a sad day for people who saw promise in the game’s sci-fi world and flight mechanics, however spoiled by the always-online looter-shooting, and a happy day for people who really hated being called “freelancer” in community bulletins. I was an actual freelancer when Anthem came out in 2019, and I didn’t get no mech suit. At least when the Destiny developers call you a Guardian, it feels sort of romantic, rather than like rubbing your nose in your own economic precarity. Anyway, ‘officially unsupported’ doesn’t necessarily…
We regularly see Samsung offering deals on its gaming monitors, from its $1,000+ giant OLED panels all the way down to its most modest options. It’s the latter that we’re looking at today, with this 27-inch Samsung gaming monitor deal offering incredible value thanks to a huge 36% discount, from $249.99 down to just $159.99. This isn’t a truly entry-level gaming display either. With a 2,560 x 1,440 (1440p) resolution, a 200Hz refresh rate, and the excellent viewing angles you can expect from using an IPS LCD panel, this Samsung panel is a great mid-range option for anyone wanting to…
Bobby Kotick alleges a lawsuit against Microsoft’s Activision acquisition was secretly aimed at helping Embracer Group
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has alleged that an ongoing lawsuit objecting to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard was secretly designed to help rival publisher Embracer Group.As reported by Game File, the lawsuit was filed back in 2022 by a Swedish pension fund called Sjunde AP-Fonden, also known as AP7, and alleged that Kotick rushed the sale of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft so he could avoid the consequences of the sexual misconduct claims at the time.In a recently filed ‘answer’ to the lawsuit, Kotick and his lawyers not only denied the claim, but has made a counterclaim that AP7 had…
The Duffer Brothers say the Stranger Things season 5 finale was "the most difficult writing circumstance we've ever found ourselves in" because they were "constantly getting hammered" by Netflix
The Duffer Brothers have revealed that the Stranger Things season 5 finale was “the most difficult writing circumstance” they’ve ever experienced.”We were getting hammered constantly by production and by Netflix for episode 8,” the duo revealed in the new documentary One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things. “It was the most difficult writing circumstance we’ve ever found ourselves in, not just because of the pressure to make sure the script was good, but because there was never so much noise at the same time.”Matt Duffer also admitted that “we went into production without having a finished script for the…
Games Workshop ban staff from using genAI in Warhammer, saying they're not “excited about it yet”
Let the runes of protection blaze upon the vestments of the machine spirit; let psalm pervade circuitry and obliterate the Enemy’s designs; let fire and catechism fall upon the creeping ruin of Abominable Intelligence. Brothers! The hour of motion is at hand. Games Workshop have banned their employees from using generative AI tools to create or design Warhammer stuff, because their senior management don’t consider the technology very “exciting”. Their CEO also seems irked about software companies shoving generative AI into every new device or system update, whether it’s desired or not. The tech-priests are coming for your candy ass,…
Despite promises that Riftbound's Spiritforged launch was under control, League of Legends' TCG sells out again
Riftbound has been both a blessing and a curse for Riot. The League of Legends card game is by far the most exciting thing the developer has done in years, but heavy is the cardboard crown. Set 1, Origins, sold out everywhere, with players waiting weeks for restocks and rares going missing from quite a few packs. Speaking to us at the TFT Paris Open last year, game director Dave Guskin admitted that Riot “undershot” in its estimations, but assured that it was “pulling all the levers [it could] to get the product out to players as quickly as [it]…
Former Xbox executive Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb says he’s been laid off from Unity after 18 months
Larry Hryb, best known to Xbox players as Major Nelson, has announced that he has been laid off from Unity after 18 months.Hryb was previously at Microsoft for 22 years, becoming Director of Programming at Xbox and the long-standing spokesperson for Microsoft’s gaming business.He left Xbox in July 2023 and, after taking a break, joined Unity in June 2024 where he became Director of Community following a difficult period for the company, which had recently faced backlash from the development community over controversial monetisation plans for its popular game development engine.“I’ve always been transparent with this community, so I wanted…
JRPG maestro behind Persona and Metaphor ReFantazio has been playing Clair Obscur Expedition 33, says "there's a lot of careful love that's gone into it" and it's "very well made"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive took a bit of a tour through Japan in the aftermath of the game’s release, sitting down to chat with several games veterans, with a particular emphasis on the lead creators of the RPGs that inspired the team. One of those veterans was Katsura Hashino, known for his work leading multiple entries in the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei series, and most recently as chief of the new Atlus group, Studio Zero, and its debut title Metaphor: ReFantazio. Hashino met Sandfall and played Clair Obscur himself, and had no shortage of praise for…