Update, 9:51 a.m. ET, 1/25/24: Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has announced he is departing from the company; he was not laid off as part of Microsoft’s 1,900 job cuts across its various gaming divisions, but the timing suggests the layoffs and his decision to leave are at least tangentially related. Here’s what Ybarra wrote on…
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Final Fantasy XIV Live-Action TV Series ‘Dead,’ Says The Production Company Behind It
The Final Fantasy XIV live-action television series first announced back in 2019 is “dead,” according to the production company that was working on it. Hivemind, which also worked on Netflix’s The Witcher, was developing the series with Sony Pictures Television, but co-founder Dinesh Shamdasani revealed on Twitter that the project is dead when asked about it,…
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Outriders Studio People Can Fly Lays Off More Than 30 Employees
People Can Fly, the developer behind 2021’s surprise shooter hit Outriders, has laid off more than 30 employees. This news comes by way of Kotaku, which reports that its source with knowledge of the situation said the job cuts affected only staff working on an unannounced game at the studio, codenamed Project Gemini, that is to…
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The Pokémon Company Issues Statement On Palworld Copyright Controversy
Earlier this evening, The Pokémon Company issued a press release seemingly addressing the recent conversation surrounding the new Steam Early Access release Palworld and its suspiciously familiar-looking collectible creatures. “We have received many inquiries regarding another company’s game released in January 2024,” the company states. “We have not granted any permission for the use of…
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Nier Reincarnation Shuts Down In April
Nier Reincarnation, the story-driven mobile RPG set in the popular Nier universe, will have its services ended this April. While the game will continue to receive support until then, its final story campaign will serve as its last big hurrah. Reincarnation first launched on July 28, 2021 for iOS and Android and takes place within…
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The Legend Of Zelda, Super Mario Composer Koji Kondo To Be Inducted Into AIAS Hall Of Fame
Koji Kondo, longtime composer for The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. franchises, will be inducted into the Academy of Interactvie Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame at this year’s D.I.C.E. Awards. The presentation will take place at the 27th annual D.I.C.E. Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the ceremony on Thursday, February 15,…
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The Legend Of Zelda, Splatoon Orchestra Concerts Head To YouTube Next Month
Nintendo has announced that it will stream full pre-recorded concerts for The Legend of Zelda series and its Splatoon franchise next month. Both concerts were set to be a part of Nintendo Live events in December of last year and this month, too, in Tokyo, Japan, but these events were canceled over safety concerns, as…
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Splatoon 3’s Side Order DLC Hits The Game Next Month
Nintendo revealed during a Direct last September Splatoon 3’s Side Order DLC would be coming to the game sometime in the spring of this year. Now, just a few months later, Nintendo has revealed exactly when: February 22, 2024. That’s when Wave 2 of the Splatoon 3 expansion pass, which features Side Order as the…
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Palworld’s Early Access Roadmap Includes PvP, Raid Bosses, Crossplay, And More
Developer Pocketpair has shared the Early Access roadmap for its hit “Pokémon with guns” survival game, Palworld, alongside news that the game crossed 7 million copies sold in just five days. For reference, it took Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, a PlayStation 5-exclusive game starring arguably the most popular superhero in the world, 11 days to cross the…
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Project C and Project D Are Immortality Developer’s Newest Games, According To Mysterious Steam Listings
Half Mermaid, led by Sam Barlow, is known for making video games using FMV, and they often require the player to sort through footage to solve mysteries. But for the studio’s next projects, it seems the mystery will begin before the games are even announced – today, two Steam listings were posted on Half Mermaid’s…
