Author: Liv Ngan
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Fan recreates The Legend of Zelda as a Studio Ghibli film
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, one fan has released an animated short of Castle Town reimagined as a setting in a Studio Ghibli film. YouTuber RwanLink said the environment and characters took four months to make in Unreal Engine 5, and totals to over 600 hours of…
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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew developer announces final ever release
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew developer Mimimi Games has announced it’ll release two DLC expansions for the supernatural stealth tactics game on 6th December. The DLCs will mark the final release from Mimimi before it closes as it announced back in August. At the time, studio co-founders Dominik Abé and Johannes Roth revealed it was…
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After Unity’s crisis, GameMaker replaces subscriptions with one-off fee for indies
GameMaker, a series of cross-platform engines for game developers, has ditched its subscription model for non-commercial purposes, hobbyists and indie developers. GameMaker will now be free for anyone using its software non-commercially on all non-console platforms. Creator and indie subscriptions have been replaced with a one-time fee of $100, meanwhile, which grants a commercial license…
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Ark: Survival Ascended finally out today on Xbox Series X/S
Following yet another last-minute delay, Ark: Survival Ascended’s Xbox Series X/S release is now happening later today. Studio Wildcard’s dinosaur survival game was meant to launch last week on 14th November for Xbox Series X/S, but was delayed until some point later in the week. On 16th November, Studio Wildcard delayed the release once again,…
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The Expanse: A Telltale Series out now on Steam
The Expanse: A Telltale Series is now available on Steam after the game’s four month long period as an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. The Steam version contains the full series of five episodes, which released between July and September on PlayStation, Xbox and the Epic Store, with the bonus DLC Archangel available to…
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League opens closed alpha registration
Warner Bros. has opened registrations for a closed alpha tech test for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League which is set to take place at the end of the month. The action-adventure game is set to release on 2nd February, 2024, and the test represents a “smaller, specific section of the campaign and will not…
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Court documents reveal Google considered partnering with Tencent to take over Epic
Court documents from the ongoing Epic Games vs Google antitrust case reveal the internet giant wanted to take over the Fortnite and Unreal Engine developer, and was willing to work with shareholder Tencent to complete a buyout. A quick reminder of how we got here: in August 2020, Epic implemented a method to circumvent Apple…
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Cities: Skylines 2 studio delays expansion pass content to continue fixing main game
Cities: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has delayed the release of scheduled content within the game’s expansion pass, while it continues to improve the main game’s performance. The studio posted an updated roadmap to Steam, and Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen expanded on the decision to delay the DLC in a new developer diary. “We…
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Knights of the Old Republic Remake reportedly not in active development
The fate of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake is once again up in the air, after a new report that the game is not currently being worked on at developer Saber Interactive. Development of the KOTOR remake has been rocky since it was first announced, and last week Lars Wingefors, CEO of…
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Immortals of Aveum developer blames poor sales on busy launch calendar
The CEO of Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios has said releasing the game during such a busy window “100 percent” contributed to its poor sales figures. Bret Robbins made the statement in an interview with Windows Central, where he discussed the reception to Immortals of Aveum, the subsequent layoffs at the studio, and putting…