Author: Ed Nightingale

Platinum Games Apple Arcade game World of Demons will end service and no longer be downloadable from 18th January. A short blog for the game from Platinum further states the game will be unavailable to play from 1st February, even for those who have already downloaded it. “We extend our gratitude…

Twitch has updated its attire policy to prohibit implied nudity on the streaming platform, which goes into effect today. The update is in response to a recent wave of streamers using black censor bars or items to block their bodies, implying full or partial nudity. Twitch notes, in a new blog post…

Square Enix will be “aggressive in applying AI” and other “cutting-edge technologies” to its development and publishing functions. CEO Takashi Kiryu has shared his annual new year letter, setting the tone for the company in 2024. “Artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential implications had for some time largely been subjects of…

Activision Blizzard is ending hybrid working for its QA testers in January, meaning employees are expected to work full-time in offices. The impact of this decision has been highlighted by the ABK Workers Alliance in a new statement shared with Eurogamer. QA employees in Minneapolis, Austin, and El Segundo are affected, with…

Creative Assembly has apologised for “missteps” it made with the Total War series and is offering partial refunds of Total War: Pharaoh on Steam. The Shadows of Change DLC for Total War: Warhammer 3 was poorly received by players when it released in August, with mostly negative reviews on Steam posted ever since.…

Ubisoft has delisted open world racing game The Crew, with servers shutting down next year. The Crew originally released in December 2014, with the most recent third entry in the series – The Crew Motorfest – arriving nine years later in September 2023. An update from the Ubisoft Ivory Tower team states…

Trust was a key reason Hideki Kamiya left Platinum Games earlier this year. In a new interview with IGN, the Bayonetta creator discussed his reasoning for leaving the developer. “My work with PlatinumGames was based on a relationship of trust with the company,” he said. “I decided to leave because…

Toby Fox has remixed Ed Sheeran’s song Celestial in the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC The Indigo Disk. Celestial featured in the credits of the base game, while Toby Fox – known as the creator of Undertale – composed music for the soundtrack, specifically the raid battle theme among others. The remix…

Twitch has streamlined its sexual content policy in the wake of increased suggestive streams on the platform. A new blog post outlines a consolidation of its previous guidelines into one clear policy, as well as detailing how and why streams with explicit content will no longer appear on the homepage. The change…

Sonic Mania Plus is heading to mobile via the Netflix app next year. Netflix made the announcement yesterday in a blog post recapping the games released in 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. Sonic Mania Plus was released in 2018 across consoles and PC as an expanded version of Sonic Mania, the…