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Balatro creator reflects on university and bad grades, promising he's "still working" on that 1.1 update
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Balatro developer LocalThunk has marked the second anniversary of his hit indie roguelike with a heartfelt blog post that ended: "Yes, I'm still working on 1.1."
"I think the franchise is dead," says Saints Row design director
Original Saints Row design director Chris Stockman has declared the Saints Row franchise is "dead".
"Today marks an exciting new chapter" - Xbox boss Phil Spencer retiring amid major leadership shakeup that sees Microsoft's CoreAI president taking over role
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has announced his retirement from Microsoft after nearly 40 years, amid a major leadership shakeup for the gaming brand that'll see Microsoft's current president of CoreAI, Asha Sharma, take over the role. Additionally, Xbox president Sarah Bond will depart the company.
What we've been playing - "I'll never see those oaty treats in the mess the same way again"
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Victoria knows something her husband doesn't; Tom endures the perennial terror known as entertaining a child over half-term; Bertie realises he's missed something important again; and Will makes mech combat somehow sound rather fun.
Nier Automata future developments teased as it passes 10m worldwide sales
The message "Nier Automata will continue" was the stinger concluding today's celebratory showcase for the game, which covered the game's many cameo appearances, spin-offs, and its passing of 10m worldwide sales.
"Watch and dream with us" - Jake Solomon's studio is closing, and the XCOM veteran shares a glimpse of the "Life Sims + The Truman Show" game he was making
Jake Solomon, a decorated game designer known for his work at Firaxis on games like XCOM and Marvel Midnight Suns, has announced that his studio Midsummer is going to close. In doing so, he also shared a pre-alpha look at the "Life Sims + The Truman Show" game the studio was making, called Burbank.
"It is not Starfield 2.0" - Todd Howard squashes Starfield update excitement, but insists work on the space game will not stop "for a while"
Bethesda Game Studios boss Todd Howard has flattened hope for a major Starfield overhaul by stating that the long-awaited update in development "is not Starfield 2.0".
Subnautica, one of the best survival games ever, just got a free Switch 2 upgrade, and it's well worth a return
Is there a more terrifying sound in video games than the roar of a Reaper Leviathan or the irritated gurgle of a Crashfish as it suddenly torpedoes toward you from shadows unseen? I mean, yes, probably - but that's not the point. Every time I slip the word "horror" into conversations about Subnautica, it's usually met with dismissals and frowns. And sure, developer Unknown Worlds' sublime underwater survival adventure isn't technically horror, but I can think of few games capable of instilling such an ominous sense of dread in me, such a suffocating fear of the watery unknown, as this one. And with Subnautica's free Switch 2 update now here, what better time for reminiscences and to make myself unreasonably anxious all over again?
Call of Duty ad banned by UK regulator after investigation determined it "trivialised sexual violence"
An advert released to promote Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been banned after the UK's Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints that it "trivialised sexual violence" following an investigation.
"We need just a few more weeks" - highly-anticipated cyberpunk platformer Replaced gets delayed into April
Replaced, the highly-anticipated cyberpunk platformer from Sad Cat Studios, has been delayed.
Skyrim's Nintendo Switch 2 port gets proper Performance and Quality modes, finally fixing the mess it was at launch
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim getting a native Nintendo Switch 2 version was one of those no-brainers we expected to see as soon as the console launched, yet it took more than a few months to arrive, and when it finally did, it was a mess. What happened there? It's a game from 2011, for Talos' sake.
Unity boss claims engine's next generative AI update will let users prompt "full casual games" into existence, just by using natural language
Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg has touted generative AI advancements in its game engine that'll soon enable users to "prompt full casual games into existence" just by using natural language.
I haven't been this excited about Overwatch in 10 years
This is much more like the Overwatch 2 I wanted when it launched. We're having a redo moment. Blizzard isn't calling this a relaunch but to me, it feels like it is. This is a reintroduction of a game that floundered back in 2023 at launch, but three years later, it's solid and it's stacked. Overwatch (the 2 was symbolically dropped from the title recently) knows what it wants to be now and this is the fullest and strongest this game has ever been. Arguably it's also the strongest the series (can we call it a series now?) has ever been, which is a provocative thing to say, I know. But I haven't been this excited about Overwatch since the original came out 10 years ago.
Ubisoft's short-lived battle royale shooter Hyper Scape is being revived by a passionate fan, but don't expect the multiplayer to work anytime soon
Hyper Scape feels like something that happened ages ago, but Ubisoft's failed battle royale game was shut down in April 2022 after halting its content updates a year before that. The game itself wasn't anything special, yet no small amount of FPS veterans praised its core traversal and movement mechanics. This is why a passionate fan is attempting to bring it back from the live-service graveyard.
High on Life 2 review
I cannot stress how much I detested High on Life when its loser-ass jiggled out of its mum's basement in a suffocating cloud of weed-smoke. Squanch Games' 2022 FPS was a cynical, jabbering mess that overcompensated for its limp gunplay with meandering, interminable stoner humour. Eurogamer's High on Life review rightly lambasted it for its failings, and I personally would have been happy to never look at one of its grinning guns ever again.
Metal Gear's Solid Snake joins the roster of Rainbow Six Siege, finally making a crossover with Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher real
Rainbow Six Siege is one of those multiplayer games that continue to thrive without making much noise outside their core communities. In fact, last year brought a number of substantial changes to the game through the Rainbow Six Siege X update. Shame about those massive attacks from hackers though.
Dead by Daylight movie will be written by Crawl and The Conjuring writers
David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick and Alexandre Aja will write Blumhouse-Atomc Monster's feature adaptation of Behaviour Interactive's Dead by Daylight.