The mass layoffs at Epic Games which saw 830 employees lose their jobs and another 250 pawned off to newly-spun out companies apparently included most of Mediatonic’s employees. The studio is best known as the developer of cutesy platformer battle royale Fall Guys and was acquired by Epic Games back in 2021. According to several Mediatonic developers, the studio was [...]
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The latest update for Hoyoverse's sci-fi gacha RPG Honkai Star Rail is arriving on PC and PS5 on October 11th and is titled version 1.4 "Jolted Awake From a Winter Dream". The update introduces new areas and continues the game's story. The content in Update 1.4 Include: New Areas: Old Weapons Testing Ground & Pillars of Creation New Planar Infinity [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Jim Ryan has announced that he’ll be stepping down from his role as CEO of Sony’s video game arm in March 2024. He has been with Sony for 28 years and served as the company’s President and CEO for the last five years. “I have announced my retirement after nearly 30 years at Sony Interactive Entertainment,” Ryan [...]
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Square Enix has released the preliminary patch notes for next week’s Final Fantasy XIV: Growing Light update. The patch notes offer details on the update’s new story quests, side quests, and encounters along with other changes coming to the fantasy MMORPG when Growing Light goes live. Aside from new content, players can also look forward to increased XP gains and [...]
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Lord of the Rings Online’s senior world designer Matt Elliott took fans on a tour of the new post-war region of Outer Gondor. The region will be opening its doors when the Corsairs of Umbar arrives this fall and will be one of four new zones that will be introduced in the expansion. Standing Stone Games still hasn’t announced a [...]
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Visionary Realms didn’t quite get the reaction that it expected when it unveiled Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s new hand-painted look. While the community didn’t completely hate the idea, they had mixed feelings at best, particularly over the less-gritty art style. The studio, however, was quick to defend its decision to overhaul the fantasy MMORPG’s visuals in its September newsletter. [...]
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Shapeshifter weapons might be the star of Albion Online’s upcoming Wild Bloods update but there’s plenty of other things to look forward to when the update drops next month. Another key feature of the update is the addition of Awakened Weapons that will serve as a stepping stone for endgame players towards obtaining Legendary Weapons. Awakened Weapons can be acquired [...]
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Nexon is gearing up for the return of MapleStory’s Halloween-themed Night Troupe in-game festival alongside the release of its Version 245 update, a.k.a. Midnight Carnival Nautilus. This year’s event will feature new blueprints and seasonal decorations that players will be able to use to expand their Halloween Manors to a full three-story house. “The Night Troupe festival of dreams and [...]
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Epic Games joins the growing list of companies that are now trying to cut back on their spending as the video game industry sees a post-pandemic decline. The company is now undergoing restructuring with multiple divisions being spun out as separate and completely independent companies. In line with the restructuring, the company also laid off 830 employees, with an additional [...]
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It’s been two years since Clockwork Labs first unveiled its upcoming sandbox MMO, BitCraft. To mark the occasion, the studio revealed that its planning to kick off alpha testing for the cross-platform game in early 2024. To recap, BitCraft is a procedural-generated sandbox MMORPG that was first announced in September 2021 and is being backed by several big-name investors including [...]
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