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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

As strange as it was, the first Outward managed to sell over 1m copies and build a solid following. With Outward 2 , developer Nine Dots Studio, which is now self-publishing the game, aims to improve on that start and now we have a release date for the new open-world action RPG. Read more

Far Far West - a sci-fi fantasy co-op shooter that launched on 28th April - is off to a fantastic early access start on Steam , and its publisher is now making it very clear it's not interested in working with developers that use generative AI tools. Read more

Microsoft has revealed the next batch of games coming to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service this May, and into next month. Read more

Following its announcement last summer and a look at gameplay during The Game Awards 2025 , Lords of the Fallen 2 (which is actually the series' third game if we don't ignore the fact it was rebooted) has been steadily marching towards an unspecified 2026 launch. On PC, the plan was for it to be an Epic Games Store exclusive, but it seems like that's no longer happening. Read more