Bungie has confirmed what every Destiny 2 player has probably known since word got out of the mass layoffs and project delays at the studio last month. The latest missive from the studio reveals that The Final Shape expansion has assuredly and unequivocally been delayed to next year, more specifically to June 4th. “The Final Shape is the culmination of [...]
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Gatekeeper: Infinity is a new co-op roguelike that launched as a free-to-play game on Steam earlier this month from indie developer Gravity Lagoon. The game features top-down ARPG gameplay with a sci-fi theme that can best be described as a cross between Diablo and 2013 platform game Risk of Rain. “Get ready to embark on an epic quest to recover [...]
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Focus Entertainment has delayed Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 by what could be a full year as the team needs more time to “properly polish the game and to ensure the best possible experience.” The co-op hack-n-slash shooter was originally scheduled to launch by the end of the year but has now been pushed back to the second half of [...]
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Red Dead Redemption 2 saw record-breaking player numbers on Steam this weekend, peaking at 77,655 concurrent players this morning and just over 73,000 players on Saturday. For context, the previous record was 70,914 players which was set in January 2023. The recent influx of players is largely attributed to the ongoing Steam Autumn Sale which slashed 67% off the base [...]
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Community-made mods have always been a backbone of ARK: Survival Evolved, allowing players to customize their maps and game sessions exactly how they wanted. After a month of playing a purely vanilla version ARK: Survival Ascended, the UE5-powered remake’s players now have the power to do the same. Developer Studio Wildcard recently approved 120 cross-platform mods which will allow players [...]
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When Lost Ark’s big Soul Harvest update rolled out earlier this month, it arrived with the Souleater class as advertised. What wasn’t included was the sweeping class buffs that were included in the Korean version of the update, to the disappointment of the fantasy MMORPG’s players. At the time, the only explanation that Amazon offered was that they had a [...]
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Perfect New World’s has just concluded its self-described “equilibrious test” and Ironcore Game Studio is touting it as a huge success. The studio thanked testers for their participation and feedback in its post-mortem report and offered some notable statistics from the recent playtest in an accompanying press release. According to Ironcore, the Galeblade was the most popular class choice during [...]
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My.Games has locked down an early access launch date for HAWKED, its first entry into the increasingly popular extraction shooter subgenre. The Indiana Jones-inspired title has been in beta testing since November 2022 and will soon be making its way to Steam on November 30th. “HAWKED is a free online PvPvE extraction shooter that drops you into X-Isle, a mysterious [...]
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Krafton is looking to cash in on the popularity of extraction shooters with a PUBG: Battlegrounds spinoff called Project Black Budget. The shooter subgenre was first popularized by Escape From Tarkov and The Division’s Dark Zone game mode a few years back and has continued to gain traction to become the current go-to genre for studios and players. Not much [...]
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The past year has been a particularly challenging time for the video games industry with several thousand employees having been laid off across dozens of big-name companies. One company that was hit pretty hard was Swedish video game holding company Embracer Group. After a multi-year studio shopping spree that saw it acquire THQ Nordic, Perfect World Entertainment, Cryptic Studios, and [...]
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