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After being laid off by Microsoft, former Doom devs found new Smash TV-influenced FPS studio that isn't "subject to investor demands"

Back in July, Doom developers id Software laid off around a hundred people as part of wider Microsoft blood-letting . Now, a few of those devs have founded a new employee-owned studio, Hidden Horses. Their first project is Danger Pay , a single-player FPS influenced by ancient arcade blaster...

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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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