Author: Liv Ngan
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Batman: Arkham Trilogy on Switch pays tribute to Kevin Conroy
Fans have spotted a tribute to Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy in the Arkham Trilogy on Switch. Conroy’s voice lines are used in the collection, which contains Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, and Arkham Knight, and the actor passed away in November 2022 aged 66, following a short battle with cancer. At the end of Arkham…
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Twitch shutting down in South Korea
Twitch has announced it will end operations in South Korea at the end of February 2024, and blamed the high cost of operating in the country. Twitch made the announcement yesterday through an article on its blog, attributed to CEO Dan Clancy. Twitch said it will now work to help Twitch streamers based in South…
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15 percent of Baldur’s Gate 3 playtime is spent in character creation
Larian Studios has released another set of statistics for Baldur’s Gate 3 which reveal some illuminating statistics. The accumulative playtime across all players is 452,556,984 hours, which is about 51,662 years. By contrast, 8196 of those years were spent in the character creator, accounting for 15.9 percent of all playtime. 1.3m players have finished the…
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Layoffs reported at Hello Neighbor publisher TinyBuild
Layoffs at publisher TinyBuild have been reported, following lower than expected performance during the financial year so far. TinyBuild publishes indie titles and is known for the Hello Neighbor series, Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, and Tinykin. Yesterday, the Telegram channel Gamedev we deserve claimed there had been layoffs at TinyBuild’s three studios within Serbia, as…
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Embracer confirms layoffs at Insurgency developer New World Interactive
The latest studio to be affected by Embracer’s “comprehensive restructuring programme” is Insurgency and Day of Infamy developer New World Interactive. Following a report of the studio’s closure by Nick Calandra (Second Wind), Embracer has confirmed layoffs at New World Interactive. New World was acquired by Embracer in 2020 through its subsidiary Saber Interactive. Newscast:…
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Donkey Kong expansion for Super Nintendo World opens in spring 2024
Universal Studios has announced that Super Nintendo World Japan will be opening its Donkey Kong Country area in spring 2024. The theme park opening window was revealed at a media presentation held yesterday, as reported by WDW News Today. The area will include a new rollercoaster called Mine Cart Madness, which will take riders through…
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Nightingale opens registrations for stress test
Nightingale developer Inflexion Games has announced it’ll be conducting stress tests for the game’s servers in early 2024. The “gaslamp fantasy” survival game is currently in closed testing, but the stress test will be an open playtest. Inflexion Games is inviting players to help “break the portal network” and all you need to do…
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Outcast: A New Beginning releases in March 2024
Publisher THQ Nordic has announced Outcast: A New Beginning will release on 15th March, 2024. The sci-fi action-adventure sequel sees original protagonist Cutter Slade return to the alien planet Adelpha in a bid to help the local Talans fend off invading humanoid robots and discover why he was sent back there. The game was announced…
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Waluigi creator shares then removes designs of Wario-style Peach
Waluigi creator Fumihide Aoki shared designs of a Wario-style Princess Peach for the first time at the weekend, before pulling them shortly after. Aoki posted the designs to his Instagram page, which he has since set to private. The images have been reuploaded by others, including gosokkyu on X (née Twitter), who brought attention to…
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Ark: Survival Ascended finally releases on PS5 tomorrow
Following a string of delays, Ark: Survival Ascended will finally release tomorrow on PlayStation 5. The PC version released in October and the Xbox Series X/S version followed earlier this month, but not without multiple delays. Developer Studio Wildcard previously delayed the PS5 launch from the end of November to early December, but has now…