Author: Ed Nightingale
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Capcom announces two showcases this month for its upcoming games
Capcom has announced two showcases over the next week detailing its upcoming games. Capcom Highlights, as they’re known, will begin on Thursday 7th March at 11pm UK time with a look at Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. Then, on Monday 11th March at 10pm UK time, we’ll get…
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Helldivers 2 footage shows someone already using a playable mech
Gameplay footage of Helldivers 2 shows off in-game playable mechs – something that isn’t currently available to users in the public version of the game. We already knew these were on the way – the game’s Report for Duty trailer (below) features mechs captioned “coming soon after launch”, plus the first game featured…
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Embracer to sell Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake developer Saber
Embracer Group is set to sell Saber Interactive in a deal worth up to $500m, according to a report from Bloomberg. Saber will continue to work on its remake of Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic after development was removed from Aspyr in 2022. This deal is just the…
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Sony studio Firesprite has been shedding talent amidst accusations of toxic culture, staff say
Sony-acquired studio Firesprite has recently suffered high profile exits amid accusations of a toxic workplace culture, Eurogamer has been told, as part of an investigation into the studio begun ahead of the layoffs announced by Sony this week. The Liverpool-based developer released PlayStation VR2 launch title Horizon Call of the Mountain last year,…
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Nintendo sues Switch emulator creator for facilitating piracy “at a colossal scale”
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu, and claims more than 1m copies of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom were pirated ahead of its release. The lawsuit is against Tropic Haze, the creator of the Yuzu game emulator, which Nintendo said allows users to play its games illegally by circumventing its…
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Persona 3 Reload datamine points to The Answer expansion being reinstated as DLC
Fans are hopeful that expansion The Answer will come to Persona 3 Reload after dataminers discovered references to DLC. Persona 3 Reload released last month as a remake of the 2006 original. However, it was criticised for being incomplete without the inclusion of The Answer expansion and the female protagonist featured in revised…
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Star Citizen developer hit with layoffs amid claims of a “highly toxic company”
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has suffered layoffs amid unrest due to relocation and accusations of a “highly toxic company”, reports suggest. Game director Todd Papy left the studio last month, according to LinkedIn. MassivelyOP has since reported a number of other high profile losses at the company (via Game Developer), including…
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake ending dialogue patched, four years after release
Four years after its initial release, Square Enix has patched Final Fantasy 7 Remake to amend one of Aerith’s lines at the very end of the game. The update comes ahead of the release of Rebirth later this week and additionally makes a change in Remake to Tifa’s outfit seen in a certain…
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Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket heading to mobile this year
A digital version of the Pokémon Trading Card Game is heading to mobile later this year. As announced at today’s Pokémon Presents, Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is a free-to-start mobile game for players to collect and share trading cards, plus battle with others online. And, being digital, it will feature “immersive…
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PlayStation Studios head confirms projects cancelled in wake of layoffs
PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst has confirmed that some projects have been cancelled in the wake of layoffs across Sony Interactive Entertainment. Earlier today, SIE president and CEO Jim Ryan announced 900 layoffs would take place across the company, including the complete closure of PlayStation London Studios. Hulst then followed up with a…