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Prolific former Valve writer, Chet Faliszek, has hit out at Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney, asking why anyone at Epic "should work hard" when staff have no agency and "the recent 1,000 job cuts didn't come because of shareholder pressure". Read more

Ivy Road, the studio formed by talent behind games like The Stanley Parable , Gone Home , and Minecraft, is closing down. Read more

A former developer at Hooded Horses alleges he was fired from his translator role yesterday and will be replaced by AI. Read more

Krafton's free-to-play PUBG spin-off, PUBG: Blindspot, is closing down after just two months. Read more

Slay the Spire 2 has pushed out another beta patch, reverting a number of changes the prior patch introduced , including changes made to the Prepared (Silent), Borrowed Time, and Capture Spirit (Necrobinder) cards. Read more

Have you ever wondered what game writers think about games, or about how game writers think about games? When a story doesn't click for you or when the writing jars, do you take a moment to wonder why? What is the thought behind this? What are the steps, the processes, the logic? Why are some things good and some things great? Is there a science behind it, and if there is, what is it? A new book …

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, everyone's playing the same games again. Bertie's probing Slay the Spire 2; Connor's getting frustrated with people in Marathon but not in Old School RuneScape ; Kelsey's playing Pokémon Pokopia while also trying to 'ship Leon Kennedy and Lara Croft; and Dom's playing with their ba…

John and Brenda Romero - award winning game developers and founders of Romero games - have spoken about the state of the games industry following the radical downsizing of their Galway-based studio. Read more

Nintendo reportedly has great plans to tap into (and benefit from) our nostalgia this year. Read more

During last night's Xbox Partner Preview showcase, AdHoc announced that its brilliant superhero workplace comedy Dispatch would be heading over to Microsoft's Series X/S consoles, as well as Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud. Read more

If you've whizzed your way through Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections already and you're wishing its beasties had a little more bite, Capcom's got you covered. It's just announced some "extremely powerful" variants are on the way in a free future update, along with the news its first paid bit of story DLC might arrive soon than expected. Read more

It's official: Glen Powell will be voicing Star Fox in the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy movie. Read more

Earlier today, Sony announced a shock price rise for its PlayStation 5 family of consoles. When these changes come into effect on 2nd April, those of us in the UK will see the base PS5's retail price increase by roughly £90. The company cited "continued pressures in the global economic landscape" as the reason for the pricing changes . Read more

Sony has announced significant price increases for its PlayStation range, starting 2nd April, which will see the cost of a base PS5 climb by around £90 in the UK. The company is blaming the price bump - which it says it's making "after careful evaluation" - on what it calls "continued pressures in the global economic landscape". Read more

Actors Chris Pratt and Charlie Day appear to have confirmed an earlier Super Mario Galaxy Movie leak, while also sharing how to actually pronounce Mario (it's Maaa-rio, apparently, not Ma-rio). Read more