Following news of EA's decision to shut down iconic RPG studio BioWare , Canadian fans of the studio have escalated their grievances to the governmental level, calling on the Canadian Government to step in and save the Canadian studio from closure, seemingly after Canada's New Democratic Party...
After gifting Pillars of Eternity a turn-based mode for its tenth anniversary , Obsidian have now rolled out full PC controller support for both the RPG and its younger sibling Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. The support, along with some tweaks to Deadfire's turn-based mode, are currently out...
Calls for the Canadian government to help ressurect recently shuttered RPG makers BioWare have progressed from a single post by a politician to a petition with enough signatures that it looks set to be presented to the Canadian House of Commons for an official response. So far, 1,662 people from...
Xbox would probably spend more money shutting down Arkane Lyon than it would trying to finish and release Marvel's Blade, according to a union representing workers from the beloved imsim studio.
Unionised workers at Dishonored developers Arkane Lyon have published a fresh statement about the progress of negotiations with Microsoft over the studio's potential closure. Aside from calling on Xbox management to make a redundancy offer proportionate to Microsoft's colossal market value, they...
Following the release of yesterday's brief new The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel teaser trailer , story speculation is running rampant across communities dedicated to the fantasy series, with fans theorising everything from alternative histories to split timelines.
Eight years ago, I sat at my desk enthralled. Bethesda had just released the first trailer for The Elder Scrolls 6 , a then mysteriously nameless, locationless sequel to one of the biggest games of all time, and I reckoned I'd just found the secrets to both. It was going to be set in the region...
Aha. Here it is . Freshly poked live and right on time . Now, we wait for the inevitable flood of mods, like the ceaseless current of add-ons which still flows into Skyrim .
Have you ever seen - or read - the wonderful Dungeon Meshi (known in English as 'Delicious in Dungeon')? It's a phenomenal manga series written and illustrated by Ryoko Kui, which was adapted into an anime series produced by Trigger in 2024. Long story short, it's about a group of adventurers in...
Arkane Studios, which spent the last several months in limbo following Xbox's decision to divest itself from the studio, has apparently received buyout offers from several bidders.
Ubisoft is reportedly seeking to acquire Arkane Lyon following an extension of its consultation period with Xbox.
For the time being, the world of Frostpunk remains a hypothetical, even if it's one that seems just that little bit more likely than I'd like it to be given who's in charge of the world. But at the very least, there are pockets of hope to be found in Frostpunk 2 , namely with its newly revealed...
Helldivers 2 isn't slowing down any time soon, and according to Edwin's recent interview with Arrowhead CCO Johan Pilestedt, it'll continue to be Arrowhead's main priority for the future. As if Helldivers 2 wasn't full of enough horrors for our brave Super Earth Helldivers to shoot at for the...
Praise Talos and whatever other Elder Scrolls deities you might worship. We here at RPS and in the wider gaming press finally have new material to use when hunting for images to symbolise The Elder Scrolls 6 . No more will we be limited to that shot of some hills from the 2018 teaser, because...
Developers at Embark Studios, the company behind Arc Raiders , have spoken on the use of generative AI voice acting in the extraction shooter. It's argued that the initial use of generative AI line reads was a benefit to the voice actors, as they: "would just go crazy if they had to read all of...
Rockstar Games have revealed the pre-load date and time for Grand Theft Auto 6 . You better be prepared to clear out some storage space, and burn the midnight oil.
Today, Xbox and Bethesda have finally revealed the name and more information about The Elder Scrolls 6. The game, which we now know carries the subtitle Sentinel, was revealed in a special video that took place today, 3rd November 2026, almost exactly 15 years since the launch of The Elder...
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 patches continue, with the latest delivering some big changes to the game's extraction mode DMZ. The latest hotfix introduced a key balance change to one of DMZ's most controversial mechanics: UAV Towers.
Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan Strandberg insists that "we are not in the industry of replacing actors." In a new video posted to the Arc Raiders channel focused on audio design, Strandberg...
Compulsion Games parted ways with former owners Xbox , having landed on the long list of things Microsoft were determined to ditch as part of multi-round mass cuts this year. Now, South of Midnight creative director David Sears has suggested that an eventual pulling of the rug was something he...
It's been speculated for a while that Call of Duty may be losing its lustre. Although we don't have concrete data with detailed statistics for each game released in the last several years, there's an observable trend in player numbers that's hard to ignore.
A month or two back I penned a 1500 word whine about feeling too powerful in Blood of Dawnwalker. "Gimme a vampire sim in which I'm a pathetic vein-nibbling goblin," I wrote, using many more adjectives than that. Well, never let it be said that I'm biased against vampires, for I am equally keen...
After adding a whole new town to Fallout 4 last month, a group of modders have released another in their long string of extra quests for the RPG. This latest mission revolves around a dungeon delve in the Glowing Sea, where a mysterious bunker's just been unearthed.
December is certainly going to be the month of Dune. The biggest Dune of Dunecember will obviously go to Dune: Part 3, which is Duen out December 18th. A little bit before that, however, is a well-timed free expansion coming to Dune: Awakening . It's called Blood and Ice, which sounds gross, but...
Indie developer Maddy Makes Games has delisted Celeste and TowerFall from Xbox to support the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Microsoft has exceeded first quarter expectations, reporting $92.3 billion in revenue with increases in net income and earnings per share.
Update, November 3, 2026: Former Xbox COO Helen Chiang has issued a statement in response to claims she was "fired for a policy violation," stating that this is "not accurate" and that "silence should not be mistaken for agreement."
Microsoft is offering voluntary exit to employees.
Back in July, Xbox announced plans to divest five studios . Among them was State of Decay maker Undead Labs, which Microsoft had acquired back in 2018.
Netflix reportedly offered Microsoft $500 million over seven years to license Xbox IP for film and television adaptations.
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