Ubisoft are laying off around 40 people at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio behind the forthcoming remake of the original Splinter Cell. That’s approximately eight percent of the studio headcount. It’s all in the service of Ubisoft’s drive to cut costs after restructuring their operations around a big dollop of Tencent funding, which has elsewhere seen Ubisoft propose to lay off up to 200 people in Paris, and chop fixed costs by €200 million over the next two years.

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Developer: Free Radical    Publisher: Eidos    Release: 10/25/02   Genre: Action Goldeneye left its mark on the first person shooter genre. There were many console first person shooters before its release, many of them PC ports. But Goldeneye, with its...

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Developer: Namco    Publisher: Namco    Release: 10/02/01    Genre: Action Namco came out the gate swinging with Time Crisis, revolutionizing the light gun genre with its mechanics and cinematic action. The PlayStation home port was a step above with...

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I miss boxing - not that I ever did it. It used to be a kind of combat-sport backbone running through the country. I remember sleeping at a friend's house when Frank Bruno was fighting Mike Tyson in 1989, and us kids were listening to the fight on a radio upstairs while our parents listened to it on a radio downstairs. Their cheers led ours. Boxing matches were big deals, they were moments where everyone seemed to turn around, but where are they now? Lying on the canvas alongside Jake Paul.

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The price of an obscure PS4 game is skyrocketing on the second-hand market, thanks to its necessity in a new PS5 jailbreak. This game, of which 1,000 or less physical copies were produced, has suddenly become a hot commodity among jailbreak enthusiasts and resellers alike.

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Elias Toufexis, the voice actor behind robotic employee of the year and Deus Ex main character Adam Jensen, has assured fans that a new entry in the sci-fi series will not be coming in 2026, as the people in charge are "psychopaths".

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Ah, hello, Prince Arthur. This is King Dutch. Long time no see. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. The katamari. The gunslinger suffering from tuberculosis. Where the first rolls the second follows. Roll, roll, roll.

That, essentially, is the ethos behind a Red Dead Redemption 2 mod which streamer Blurbs created late last year, and has since shown off in a video that's heavy on large masses of horses and pardners being rolled into rootin' tootin' chaos balls.

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Developer: AlfaSystem Co.    Publisher: XS Games    Release: 11/17/04    Genre: Shooter Here is a fun fact: the PlayStation 2 has one of the greatest shooter libraries of all time. By virtue of the system being more powerful than...

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Remakes, you either love 'em or hate 'em! Or, more probably, you like some of 'em, aren't too keen on others, and are largely ambivalent to the rest. Whatever your perspective, it's obvious remakes - beloved of risk-averse publishers across the industry - aren't going anywhere. They offer the perfect maelstrom of nostalgia bait and brand recognition, meaning they're an easier sell compared to entirely new games, and if players love them, why stop now? But not all remakes are created equally; for every Resident Evil 2 or Silent Hill 2, there's an XIII - a remake so bad its publisher was forced to remake it. Which raises the question - you might call it the Big Question - what makes a remake great?

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While a recent patch to PlanetSide 2 already started the celebrations, ToadBreak Rogue PlanetMan is continuing to party hard for its lucky number 13 anniversary, and it’s doing it by handing out a bunch of codes for doing stuff outside of the game. You only turn 13 once, after all, so why not? Four different […]

So this week’s moment of “unexpected but very, very good” news is the announcement that Guild Wars is getting a new “Reforged” update that does things like bump up some graphical quality and add some general experience improvements, for players on multiple devices. This is a really cool and good thing, and while I could speculate […]

At the tail end of 2024 the original PlayStation turned 30 years old. While the Xbox 360 is only hitting 20 and it's not an industry shaker to the degree the PS1 was, there's no doubt it earned its place as one of the most important consoles of all time. Xbox managed to challenge Sony in the traditional home console space the PlayStation had dominated with PS1 and PS2, and the console's brilliant line-up of games played a major role in that.

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Rebecca Heineman, one of the co-founders of Interplay Entertainment - a key programmer as well as the designer of The Bard's Tale 3 - has passed away. She was 62 years old.

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Sony has revealed the next slate of games set to arrive on PS Plus for Extra and Premium subscribers this November.

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