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Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam
Star Wars: Hunters debuted on the Nintendo Switch in June 2024 and a Steam release was announced in November, but now the whole thing is off.
Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread 'false and defamatory rumors' of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close
news Possibility Space was closed in 2024 under mysterious circumstances, and the rest of Jeff and Annie Strain's Prytania Media followed not long after.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now has Steam Workshop support, and of course one of the first mods lets you adjust the 'jiggle physics'
news The genuinely massive Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 1.2 update is now live.
Microsoft unveils Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered 'ultimate gaming sidekick' that will let you talk to your console so you don't have to talk to your friends
news Early-stage work on the gaming-focused AI was revealed during today's Official Xbox Podcast.
Praise be to the Omnissiah! Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is officially in development
news Titus is coming back for more.
The Steam Spring Sale 2025 is here
news We should all probably go outside for a while, but we're not going to.
There's hope yet for Classic Offensive after its Steam rejection: The team behind the Counter-Strike 1.6 revival mod is in touch with Valve about its 'concerns'
news The CS:GO mod Classic Offensive hasn't come back to life, but it's not dead, either.
8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry's latest proposal is 'filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse'
news Progress has been made, but SAG-AFTRA says the two sides in the dispute are still far apart.
LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'
news A recent kerfuffle over AI art forced the Balatro creator to get involved.
Rise of the Ronin is another crappy PC port, performance patch coming 'soon'
news Widespread problems with stuttering, low frame rates, and sub-par graphics have saddled Rise of the Ronin with a "mixed" rating on Steam.
Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'
news Rebellion makes big games, but not that big.
Oops! Bungie rolled out Destiny 2's Rite of the Nine event three weeks early, and new loot is already dropping
news The Dungeon-themed event was supposed to go live on April 1, but it looks like someone hit the wrong button.
No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios is now 'fully independent' after acquiring the rights to the game from Take-Two
news Take-Two said when it sold Private Division in 2024 that it would continue supporting No Rest for the Wicked itself, but the plan has changed.
The best baseball player alive is coming to Fortnite, and so is his dog
news Shohei Ohtani will become the first Major League Baseball player to join the Fortnite Icon Series.
'Creepy,' 'ghastly,' 'rancid': Viewers react to leaked video of Sony's AI-powered Aloy
news The video of Aloy hooked up to OpenAI and various other systems was not meant for public consumption, and you can see why.
Split Fiction sells 1 million copies over 2 days
news 1 million over 2 days - ½. Split Fraction? Get it? No? OK.
More than 5 years after launch, Control gets a surprise patch that lets everyone play the Hideo Kojima mission
news Today's update also adds some previously preorder-exclusive cosmetics, official HDR support, and more.
The next Monster Hunter Wilds update is set to launch on March 10 and will ensure that when you chop off monster parts, the right monster parts get chopped off
news Capcom says it's "working away behind the scenes" to get Monster Hunter Wilds in proper shape.
The official Balatro Timeline documents the history of 2024's biggest game as its developer went from 'obsessed' with making it to 'shocked' at the reception
news LocalThunk's detailed account of the creation of Balatro is remarkably entertaining.
Battlefield playtest gameplay is leaking all over the internet, and fans seem cautiously but genuinely excited: 'Okay, we might be back'
news Interestingly, Electronic Arts does not appear to be putting great effort into having the gameplay clips taken down.
Following a disastrous beta test, Killing Floor 3 is delayed less than three weeks before launch: 'We've realized we missed the mark'
news Killing Floor 3 is now set to come out later in 2025.
EVE Online studio CCP Games hires former Iceland Central Bank economist for its crypto game, because nothing says 'fun' like 'removing currency controls and fostering emergent value systems'
news EVE Online had a lead economist, and now EVE Frontier does too.
Robocop: Rogue City is getting a 'standalone expansion' that sounds an awful lot like The Raid
news Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business will be out this summer.
