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IO Interactive look set for layoffs as their external partner for Project Fantasy pulls out
Update: Bloomberg have reported that IO’s external partner on Project Fantasy was indeed Xbox. Sigh. It’s another one of those days, as layoffs are essentially imminent yet again, this time at 007 First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive. The studio shared a post earlier today regarding their as-of-yet not formally revealed Project Fantasy, in…
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Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2
Last year, the art director behind titans of visual design like Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, Viktor Antonov, died at the age of 53. Prior to his death, in 2022 he co-founded Eschatology Entertainment with Dmytro Kostiukevych, Fuad Kuliev and Boris Nikolaev, who were yet to announce their first game formally. But today it’s been revealed…
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Citizen Vigilante review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary woke piñata of Europe-stan
Low-budget film-maker Uwe Boll sets Hammer up for a further fall from grace by cannibalising all manner of tired tropes in this incoherent schlockerOh, Armie Hammer! Has it come to this? It doesn’t seem that long since you were in the Oscar-winning film Call Me By Your Name giving a sensitive liberal performance opposite Timothée…
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I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer’s boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted
The following sparkling insights about boss battle design are from Marcin Matuszczyk, principal gameplay designer on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, and a former developer of Outriders and Horizon Forbidden West. He was speaking to an audience of budding Bowser-builders and Sephiroth-sculptors during a presentation at Digital Dragons this year. That said, gamedev panels can…
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Football Daily | What next for Germany as Paraguay and penalties fuel more World Cup pain?
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When Germany crashed out of the 1998 World Cup – a miserable 3-0 quarter-final defeat to Croatia – the DFB hit the factory reset button. Youth coaching was overhauled, as was the scouting system designed to spot the talent, and it was made compulsory…
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Queen meets author JK Rowling to mark start of royal week
The Queen said the pair had spoken about their “deep love of books” and importance of children reading.
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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered’s physical Switch 2 release has the full game on a cartridge, and we’ve finally got a release date, too
The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered was one of 2025’s biggest hits after a sudden shadow drop, especially in the United States, which is encouraging news if you (like me) are still waiting for Fallout 3 and New Vegas refreshes. Before that happens, though, there’s a Switch 2 port of the massive Cyrodiil-set RPG in…
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Almost 60,000 far-right extremists in Germany, intelligence agency says
More than a quarter of those identified are believed to be violent, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says.
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Nivalis has a new name and a release date that will make your autumn backlog even bigger
It’s looking like autumn will be a nice little season for the cyberpunk genre. There’s the long awaited Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, which got a lush looking trailer earlier this week. And now, Cloudpunk developer Ion Lands are here with a concrete release date for Nivalis, and a slightly new game for the futuristic restaurant managing…
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Minions & Monsters review – a smart premise descends into more of the same
The hugely successful, gibberish-heavy franchise travels back to old Hollywood for an adventure that swaps out nifty ideas for repetitive chaosThe yellow, cylindrical, overall-clad creatures known as the Minions first appeared as loyal henchmen to Steve Carell’s villainous Gru in Illumination’s Despicable Me, which chronicled Gru’s attempt to steal the moon with the help of…