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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 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…
Now that all four teasers for Avengers: Doomsday have hit the internet, Marvel has rolled out a live-streamed countdown that highlights… just how long we still have to sit tight before we’re reunited with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.On January 13, the studio dropped the final promo, which was rolled out in theaters before Avatar: Fire and Ash after the Steve Rogers, Thor, and X-Men ones and centers on Black Panther’s Shuri, online. With it, it launched website that notes there’s 11 months, 4 days, 12 hours, 26 minutes and 23 seconds… no, 22… no, 20 until Robert Downey Jr. terrorizes the…
Be very, very quiet. I’m hunting bugs. Or so will say the folks who don the gear of Helldivers 2’s next warbond. It’s dubbed Redacted Regiment and it’s all about looking stealthy in a tactical fashion. As opposed to simply trying to hide in a corner because you’re a coward, as I’ve unashamedly done numerous times while serving Super Earth.
March and April are going to be two of the most significant months in The Elder Scrolls Online history. Season Zero kicks off a new era for the MMO, totally refreshing how content and rewards are served up to players. But Update 49 will first arrive to set the stage, merging a trio of old expansions into the base game, overhauling the Dragonknight class, and delivering more quality of life improvements than you can shake a staff at. However, you don’t have to wait to try out what’s coming to ESO, as plenty of its biggest changes are available to…
Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares has defended Electronic Arts, saying he believes the publisher has been vilified more than others.EA has published all three of Hazelight‘s games to date – A Way Out, It Takes Two and Split Fiction – and Fares is adamant that his studio’s relationship with the publisher is a strong one.In an interview with The Game Business, Fares was asked about Hazelight’s relationship with EA, given that the studio has a reputation for being rebellious and EA has a reputation as a large corporation.Fares replied that the partnership continues to work very well in his opinion,…
As head of the Brunette Blazer fan club, I must admit something before the grand jury of Dispatch fans: I never liked Visi all that much. That said, I still wanted what was best for her at the end of Dispatch, which is why I felt unbelievably gaslit when she ended up turning on my Robert (albeit after killing his greatest foe – which I construe as a parting gift).My ending was still a happy one, with the Z Team celebrating a victory and Coupe back among our ranks after a brief return to her villain beat. Life went on,…
Minecrafty fantasy sandbox Hytale will finally launch into early access today, a few months after being rescued from cancellation by Hypixel server co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme. In development for over a decade, it’s a bid to “redefine the block-game genre” that features procedurally generated biomes and RPG-style dungeon delving. Unlike the earliest instalments of Minecraft, it will also ship with some pretty fleshed-out lore. In a post on the official site, the dev’s lore meister “Joe” has shared a few thoughts on the game’s flexible ideas about canon. Naturally, a lot of the chat invites comparison with other games with mighty…
I was somewhat surprised that Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red decided to sell its online games store GOG late in 2025, but unsurprised by who bought it. Michał Kiciński was a co-founder and joint CEO of CDPR, including in 2008 when it launched GOG. After parting ways with the company in 2011, he’s reacquired the storefront in order to challenge Steam’s hegemony and commit to providing players with DRM-free games for them to play any time, any place. For those unaware, DRM is touted as anti-piracy software, but often requires additional sign-ins or registrations in order…
The owner and managing director of GOG say the store’s aim is not to challenge and defeat Steam, but to specialise in certain areas and do them better than Valve’s shopfront.Last month CD Projekt sold GOG.com to its co-founder Michał Kiciński, who bought 100% of the shares for PLN 90.7 million ($25.2m).GOG is focused on DRM-free digital games, including modern releases and the preservation of classic games, and had operated within Witcher and Cyberpunk owner CD Projekt for over 17 years.In recent years the company has championed its Preservation Program, a venture designed to ensure that classic games remain playable…