Last week, Recreate Games apologised after an AI-generated video competition for its popular casual brawler Party Animals drew significant criticism from its community. Now, it's cancelled the competition entirely. Read more
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Pushing the limits.It feels like Hellraiser: Revival is bubbling under the radar a little bit, and I’m not exactly sure why that is.I played the game for over an hour last year and was drawn in by its tense atmosphere and strong violence. This is a title that pushes so close to the edge of what…
Say hello to Fellowship Entertainment.Embracer Group has today announced plans to create a secondary publishing label called Fellowship Entertainment, in order to "capture the full potential of the high-quality assets" that the group currently owns.The Swedish game publisher says that it hopes to…
Would it be wrong? Would it be right? If I put Middle-earth on the NASDAQ tonight?
Embracer has announced fresh plans to play Tetris with its balance sheet
Plus you can ally with Chrace for their white lions and Kislev for bears then finally have an army of lions and tigers and bears, oh my.
Technōs Japan's 'Tag Team Wrestling' is coming to modern consoles.A 1983 tag team wrestling game from Technōs Japan and Data East is making its way to consoles later this week, courtesy of Hamster's Arcade Archives series.Tag Team Wrestling (also known as The Big Pro Wrestling! in Japan) hit the…
Eclipsing Lorwyn
Earlier this week, Final Fantasy legend Hironobu Sakaguchi praised an AI-generated trailer for a hypothetical remake of FF6, sparking some backlash, before being told to "please stop" by SaGa creator Akitoshi Kawazu, another Square veteran. The comments by Sakaguchi sparked a degree of backlash,…
Unknown Worlds says it's not "because we think those players are wrong," but Subnautica 2 just isn't that kind of game.
Who's upgrading to AM5 these days when DDR5 is so stupidly expensive?
Circana is changing how it shares sales data
How does it hold up on other platforms?In case you forgot, Warner Bros. Games is still planning on releasing LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight on the Switch 2 – we just don't have a date yet. It's sad that we're slipping into unfortunate yet familiar territory with Nintendo's new(ish)…
With online rankings!The Japanese independent developer BeXide today announced plans to port KAZe Co., Ltd.'s 1995 pinball classic, Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators, to Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PC, and Mac later this year, with a new online ranking feature (h/t: 4Gamer/@denfaminicogame).Digital…
Earlier in May, Sony released its fiscal year report for the past twelve months. Amongst the inevitable dryness of financial reporting it offered an intriguing look into the wider economic challenges the PlayStation platform-holder is facing, and the solutions it has in mind. And all that is…
"We're excited to tell you more...".It feels like every year we're talking about another The Lord of the Rings game being spun up by some dev studio - but today's announcement feels a little different. Warhorse Studios — the team behind the Kingdom Come: Deliverance series — has publicly…
Warhorse Studios is also working on a 'new Kingdom Come adventure'
This is part of a continued effort to improve fair play.
But I still think there's an AI industry bubble that could burst.