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Stellar Blade is a success now but once came close to the brink: "We could only pay salaries for about three months"15:01 Shift UP CEO Hyung-Tae Kim has spoken about the troubles faced during Stellar Blade 's development, including doubts from investors about the game's ability to break even, and rapidly depleting funds to pay staff with. Read more Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lost "nearly half" of its staff during yesterday's Xbox cuts and move to Activisi15:01 Yesterday's Xbox cuts saw organisational restructuring that moved Age of Empires studio World's Edge under Activision's control. The initial announcement did not specify whether the Age of Empire studio would lose any staff as part of this transition, but new information has emerged suggesting many members of the team have been let go. Read more Star Wars Zero Company finds success in passing 1m sales, so can the furloughed development team be reinstated and paid now?13:56 Star Wars Zero Company, the XCOM-like turn-based tactics game from Bit Reactor, appears to have been a success, selling more than 1m copies, according to estimates from industry analyst Alinea Analytics . Read more Xbox lays off Gears of War: E-Day's story director barely two weeks before the game's launch11:13 The story director for Gears of War: E-Day has been laid off as part of yesterday's Xbox cuts , barely two weeks before the game he's worked on for more than four years is released. Read more Resident Evil movie review - the best video game adaptation of playing a video game11:13 There's a bit somewhere in the middle of the rubbish Doom movie, where the perspective suddenly switches to first-person. Look, it seems to say, it's just like you playing the video game! But what Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie gets is that, really, it's nothing like me playing the video game. Back on my side of the screen, I might be sitting in a digital space marine suit, gliding around… State of Decay studio Undead Labs goes independent after Xbox restructuring, but lays off "a significant number" of the team in10:41 State of Decay studio Undead Labs has shared good and bad news following Xbox's second round of job cuts this year . Read more Artist who hand-paints some of gaming's best fantasy world maps brings them together in oversized and extremely lavish art book18:25 If you're an enjoyer of video game maps, you might like this: celebrated artist and cartographer Francesca Baerald - who's created in-game (and out) maps for Dragon Age, Warcraft, Octopath Traveler , Diablo, Dungeons & Dragons and many more - is releasing a glossy new art book. It's an oversized, A3 book that features page after page of her sumptuously detailed, hand-painted maps. Read more With "a dozen" music levels, Rayman Legends Retold doubles down on the best bit of the original game, and having played it I co18:25 I own Rayman Legends on six platforms. The game, a 2D platformer that launched back in 2013, initially released onto the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii U and PS Vita. A year later, it came to Xbox One and PS4. Fast-forward three years and it's on Switch, and then in 2021 it came to Stadia, too. It's been around the block a few times then, and I've gone with it each time - I have 1000Gs and a Platinum tro… Xbox confirms 268 more layoffs, further studio closures, and Obsidian's shift to Bethesda as major restructuring continues16:48 Following reports that a fresh round of job cuts was imminent at Xbox , the company has confirmed more sweeping changes as its major restructuring continues, which will see some of its studios combined, others closed, and 268 further layoffs. Read more Hellblade developer Ninja Theory to be shut down in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse16:15 Ninja Theory - developer of the Hellblade series of games, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Heavenly Sword - is entering consultation in preperation for a studio closure as part of today's sweeping Xbox cuts and layoffs. Read more Next major Halo game being developed by Activision, as Halo Studios all but closes as part of Microsoft's Xbox restructuring16:15 Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) won't develop the next mainline Halo game because it's being what sounds like drastically reduced in size. Microsoft has instead given development duty to Activision, which is making "a new purpose-built team" separate to Call of Duty to make it. Read more Sony appears to be testing PlayStation Store credit offers when you buy certain games15:43 Sony appears to be testing a new PlayStation rewards programme. A number of posts on social media and Reddit have recently appeared showing that purchasing certain games from the PlayStation Store now comes with an associated wallet credit bonus. Read more Blizzard layoffs are reportedly imminent, days after an exciting BlizzCon and a seemingly popular World of Warcraft: Forever be22.září A week after an announcement-laden BlizzCon 2026, and days after what appears to be an enormously popular beta for World of Warcraft: Forever , cuts at Blizzard by Xbox are said to be "imminent". Read more Another Injustice 3 leak reveals two characters in the rumoured DC fighting game - one that's expected and one that's a big sur22.září We now have even more confirmation a new Injustice game is in development. Following last week's playtest leak , information has emerged that sheds more light on the upcoming DC fighting game. Read more World of Warcraft fans are torn about whether Forever's Skyborne starting zone fits tonally with Classic WoW22.září World of Warcraft: Forever's beta is here, offering us our first look at WoW's reimagined vanilla or classic experience, and already it's proving extremely popular. But there are points of contention, one being whether the new Skyborne race's starting zone fits tonally with original-race zones. Read more |