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Ubisoft has outlined its future slate of releases in its latest earnings report, confirming the next Assassin's Creed will launch before the end of its 2028-2029 financial year. That's in addition to new Ghost Recon and Far Cry games. Read more

Quantic Dream, the developer of Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain , is closing down its MOBA-with-flying game Spellcasters Chronicles, which only launched in early access in February this year. Read more

Crowdfunding website Kickstarter - a place many video game projects have originated - has issued an unflinching apology after 'botching' new guidelines it released last week. The changes had sought to tighten the rules around adult-oriented projects raising money there, resulting in a fierce backlash and calls of censorship. Read more

Many indie games are finding success as larger publishers and studios try to navigate a difficult market, but Titanium Court stands out as a particularly special and unique one. After a relatively quiet launch a month ago, it's now sold over 25k copies. Read more

Last week, Recreate Games apologised after an AI-generated video competition for its popular casual brawler Party Animals drew significant criticism from its community. Now, it's cancelled the competition entirely. Read more

Earlier this week, Final Fantasy legend Hironobu Sakaguchi praised an AI-generated trailer for a hypothetical remake of FF6 , sparking some backlash, before being told to "please stop" by SaGa creator Akitoshi Kawazu, another Square veteran. The comments by Sakaguchi sparked a degree of backlash, and his answer has been... to double down on his interest. Read more

Earlier in May, Sony released its fiscal year report for the past twelve months. Amongst the inevitable dryness of financial reporting it offered an intriguing look into the wider economic challenges the PlayStation platform-holder is facing, and the solutions it has in mind. And all that is framed, notably, in the run up to the inevitable next generation of consoles. Read more

Sony has just announced its next State of Play, which will return on 2nd June - kicking off the Summer Games Fest week with an hour-long showcase that will reveal more information about Marvel's Wolverine, as well as "news and updates on upcoming PS5 games". The wording on the PlayStation Blog more specifically reveals "updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals" will follow "a closer look at M…

Pokémon Pokopia has been a hit on Nintendo Switch 2 , and its ongoing events are keeping players glued to it. One especially dedicated player has been working on a recreation of the first-generation Kanto map with Pokopia's Minecraft -like tools, and they're almost finished now. Read more

Housemarque is the talk of the town again following Saros ' launch, and now another veteran from the Finnish studio, Returnal game director Harry Krueger, is aiming to deliver something that feels familiar with a new game studio. Read more

The rumours are true: Kingdom Come Deliverance studio Warhorse really is making a Lord of the Rings role-playing game. More specifically, it's making an open-world Middle-earth RPG. Read more

That was quick. Hasbro has reportedly cancelled the single-player Dungeons & Dragons action-adventure being made by Star Wars Jedi director Stig Asmussen, less than a year after it was announced. Read more

Hitman studio IO Interactive has gone to great lengths to ensure 007: First Light feels James Bond enough. We've had entire videos documenting the watch Bond will wear , or the Aston Martin he will presumably drive , and there's a celebrity making a villainish cameo . There's even a 007: First Light Bond Theme recorded by famous singer Lana Del Rey . But what about the game's, ahem, sexiness? Rea…

Embracer Group is slicing itself in half, resulting in two legally distinct public companies. The split, which is set to take place next year, could potentially provide a lifeline for many of the intellectual properties currently in hibernation under Embracer's umbrella. Read more

The boss of toy giant Hasbro believes the sci-fi role-playing game space, which famously counts BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy among it, "hasn't had a good game in a long time". Moreover he - Chris Cocks - believes Hasbro's new game Exodus will change that. Read more