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New World is dead: Amazon ends new content updates following massive layoffs, says 'servers will be live through 2026'
news Amazon Games' best-known MMO is still running, but it's done.
Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development'
news The VP of Amazon Games says the layoffs are part of the 14,000 announced today, but represent broader "strategic changes" at the gaming division.
13 years after TimeSplitters Rewind was revealed to the world as a 'TimeSplitters CryEngine mod,' it's finally set to release in November
news It's actually happening.
One of the best top-down survival horror games of all time is getting a surprise sequel
news Darkwood 2, being developed by Ice-Pick Lodge, was announced at today's Xbox Showcase.
US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment
news The social media posts also included an image of US president Donald Trump dressed up as Master Chief.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt is the only battle royale I ever loved, so naturally it's going offline for good in April
news Two years after ending active development of the game, Sharkmob has announced the end.
EA confirms free-to-play Battlefield 6 battle royale is coming out tomorrow
news Battlefield: Redsec arrives on October 28.
As The Sims content creators depart over EA's $55 billion Saudi-backed buyout, the dev team promises the game 'will always be a space where you can express your authentic self'
news A message from The Sims development team says its "mission, values, and commitment remain the same," but unfortunately its owners are changing.
Electronic Arts signs a deal with Stability AI: 'We’re evolving how we work so that AI becomes a trusted ally'
news EA wants everyone to know that this is all about "empowering" its people.
Battlefield 6 update coming next week tackles weapon bloom, movement, and the blinding sun
news The 1.1.1.0 update hits on October 28, but the patch notes are out now.
Amidst allegations of AI art and complaints about the music, Plants vs. Zombies fans are not happy with the remaster
news Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is off to a bad start on Steam.
Florida launches criminal investigation into Roblox, claims the gaming platform 'enabled our kids to be abused'
news No charges have been filed but Florida AG James Uthmeier says the criminal subpoenas "will enable us to gather more information for our prosecutors."
AI is 'a combination of metadata with a parlor trick,' Take-Two boss says: 'A great thing' for business, but it's not creative and never will be
news Strauss Zelnick shared his thoughts on the impact of AI on game development at today's Paley International Council Summit.
Fallout 4 is getting the Skyrim treatment with a 10th anniversary edition that includes all the expansions and a mountain of Creation content
news A Fallout: New Vegas 15th anniversary bundle was unveiled too, but it includes a big Securitron statue so the appeal is probably a lot more limited.
Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'
news The new strategy represents "a complete reorganization of the company's operational development system, placing AI at the center of problem solving."
The new Painkiller is out now and it's not great, but that's okay because the old Painkiller still is and there's a fantastic new mod that makes it look like a brand-new game
news The 20-year streak of bad Painkiller follow-ups remains unbroken.
Cards Against Humanity settles $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX, but Elon Musk 'did the legal equivalent of throwing dust in our eyes and kicking us in the balls' so backers are getting a card set about Musk instead of money
news SpaceX admitted to trespassing on Cards Against Humanity's property, but the cost of a trial would likely have been more than CAH could have won.
Steam's latest 'experiment' is a new way of discovering games that's actually really convenient and useful
news The Personal Calendar tracks recent releases and upcoming games in an easy-to-digest format that I really like.
Ubisoft has come up with a new way to avoid saying the word 'layoffs,' with a 'voluntary career transition program' offer that some employees won't be able to refuse
news Ubisoft RedLynx, meanwhile, has put forward a restructuring plan that definitely will result in layoffs.
Palworld studio Pocketpair says its new publishing division won't handle games that use generative AI: 'We don't believe in it'
news Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley says we're already starting to see a flood of 'really low-quality, AI-made games' on Steam and other storefronts.
The Sinking City 2 is delayed into 2026 because of the war in Ukraine, but not just that: Making a survival horror game requires 'a completely different kind of design thinking' than adventure games, and that 'definitely makes development slower'
news Ukrainian developer Frogwares says it will start showing off more Sinking City 2 gameplay in the next few months, but it's not going to make the hoped-for 2025 release.
'Controller players are winning slightly more in close-range engagements': Treyarch throws a live grenade into 'controller vs mouse' debate, says aim assist will be less forgiving in Black Ops 7
news Treyarch says it's going "take a very close look at the strength of aim assist," as well as rotational aim assist ahead of Black Ops 7's release.
Former Battlefield 6 campaign boss calls out EA for leaving him and other developers out of the credits after closing his studio in 2024
news Marcus Lehto founded Ridgeline Games in 2021 to develop the narrative campaign for the next Battlefield, but the studio was shuttered before the game arrived.
