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"Some of the best games of the last decade came from teams of fifty": Destroy All Humans! remake devs Black Forest Games split from THQ Nordic to launch new indie studio group

Black Forest Games, developers of the Destroy All Humans! remakes, have spun out of Embracer Group-owned publishers THQ Nordic via a management buyout and announced plans to form a new "developer-driven group" of independent studios. The new group, dubbed Third Signal, will aim to "give teams...

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Lootboxes, pay-to-win, virtual currencies and other blights unto gaming face heavy regulation as the EU tables new Digital Fairness Act

Loot boxes, dark patterns, virtual currencies, subscription services, pay-to-win systems, and many other trappings of diabolical digital serfdom all face extensive regulation under the European Commission's proposed Digital Fairness Act, which has been formally presented to EU member states...

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The Outer Worlds 2's first story expansion could well be the opening to the series' last hurrah and will have you hunting for a cure to "explosive cell death" in December

Since they released The Outer Worlds 2 around this time last year, the world has rather turned upside down for Obsidian. The studio lost a chunk of staff to Microsoft's mass layoffs and have pivoted to making a new Fallout game as a smaller group shoved underneath Bethesda in Xbox's corporate...

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As The Elder Scrolls 5 turns 15, massive mod Beyond Skyrim: Bruma gets a 2.0 update delivering a new quest, extra dungeons and an "expanded worldspace"

Warning: I'm probably about to make you feel old. Today, November 11th 2026, is the 15th anniversary of Skyrim 's release. The first one, before it was re-released on every other platform under the sun. Fittingly, one of its best expansion mods, Beyond Skyrim: Bruma , has gotten a beefy 2.0...

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Keeping hold of Company of Heroes was essential for Relic to leave Sega, Relic CEO says – "Without it we would have been a dead studio"

In the nearly 30 years since they opened their doors, Relic have been an enormously influential studio. Responsible for lauded RTS series Homeworld, Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes , they also dabbled in other genres with third-person shooter The Outfit and the original Warhammer 40,000...

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Sick BMX flips, colourful characters, a whole lot of mail and a charming raccoon dog await you in Tanuki: Pon's Summer, which you can pick up now

Right, today's been miserable thanks to the now hourly discourse we have to all take part in lest we be seen as approving of the current bad thing, how about something that looks simply pleasant? Today's the launch day for Tanuki: Pon's Summer, a delightfully vibrant mail delivery sim /Tony...

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Ahead of GTA 6 and as concerns over genAI PC ports grow, Take-Two's CEO says they're revving up their "technical defences" and "legal activites" over piracy

It's a bit of a time for AI and games at the moment, 'ey? A bad time, obviously, as it's infecting everything from game development , to the modding community , to native PC ports of a remake of a very popular game that I won't link to for fear of a certain company finding out where I live and...

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Nvidia shareholders have filed a lawsuit against the tech company over claims that they were misled regarding CEO Jensen Huang's affair

If I wasn't so sick of hearing about AI every day of my life at the moment I might have found it funny to hear that one of the biggest peddlers of the poison around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was caught having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Oh who am I kidding, it is funny! And despite...

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Company of Heroes 3 developer admits "it was a lot" to make the 3.0 overhaul patch alongside regular updates, singleplayer DLC, and a whole spinoff game

The Company of Heroes 3 's 3.0 update is huge. Touching virtually every part of the three-year-old RTS, the patch notes are longer than, well, my arm isn't a great measure of patch note length. Let's just say the headline features of overhauled VFX and audio don't really cover it. It also comes...

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Bandai Namco is liquidating Unknown 9: Awakening studio Reflector Entertainment, following multiple previous layoffs since the game's launch

As another addition to the slew of smaller studios being dissolved by their parent companies, Bandai Namco announced in a press release that they are shutting down their subsidiary studio Reflector Entertainment, a Montreal studio responsible for 2024's action-adventure game Unknown 9: Awakening...

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