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I'd heard they spent a few years making TimeSplitters into Fortnite before making a proper TimeSplitters game, but if this was what they had toward the end of development, maybe we're better off with this game getting cancelled. And that sucks.

As you might expect, you're going to want a powerful computer to run this beautiful game at its best.

Xbox has announced the new games coming to Game Pass this March, including Control and day one games Lightyear Frontier…

Our review of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley - the game's a treat.

It's more than meets the eye.

You may recall that, earlier this week, it was reported that Nintendo was suing the creators of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu for “illegally circumventing Nintendo’s software encryption”…

If you’ve been waiting to find out when Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD will be releasing on Switch, the good news is that it may not be much longer. X user Pyoro, who has a habit of leaking Nintendo announcements such as content from Nintendo Directs, now indicates that news about both titles will...

AI FSR for AMD GPUs everywhere or just the upcoming RDNA 4 chips? Place your bets now.

Start your week off in a scary way with the launch trailer for The Outlast Trials.

They still seem to be working with Microsoft on their next project, but they're hopefully in a better spot as a result of this transition.

That title sure is editorialized. Thanks, Kotaku...

I don't see a buyer disclosed, but Gearbox carries a substantial number of studios along with them.

Sold to a group of private investors. $500M sounds like too much money, but whatever keeps those people employed and making games, I guess.

Nintendo claims that Yuzu actively assisted in piracy of Tears of the Kingdom. They say that Yuzu violates Nintendo's copyright by decrypting their games to run.

They also claim that "Nintendo also has technological measures on the Nintendo Switch console itself, including additional layers of encryption, which prevent users from unlawfully accessing or modifying the console—including to procure the prod.keys—and from accessing or copying games stored on the console or on a cartridge inserted in the console." - From the actual lawsuit which you can read here: https://www.scribd.com/document/709016504/Nintendo-of-America-Inc-v-Tropic-Haze-LLC-1-24-Cv-00082-No-1-D-R-I-Feb-26-2024

Nintendo claims that Yuzu spoiled Tears of the Kingdom for everyone (not listed as a damage in the lawsuit this is just something they've added on).

This lawsuit bears similarities to the Bleem v. Sony though I'll let you draw your own conclusion if this is comparable.

Pre-orders are now live for Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, the definitive edition of SMT V. Check out the extended cut of the announcement trailer.

Indie studio Shiny Shoe has announced that Inkbound will be leaving early access with new character classes, an additional questline, extra worlds to explore, and more.

Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has announced it's acquired the full rights to its Control series from publish…

The Pokémon Company has made the surprise announcement of new spin-off game Pokémon Legends: Z-A and fans are excited about one element in particular: the return of Mega Evolutions.

What’s your high score?

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has suffered layoffs amid unrest due to relocation and accusations of a "hi…

Ads will not interrupt gameplay on the cloud gaming service, but will display as free users wait in the queue.

Persona 3 Reload is seemingly getting the additional content from Persona 3 FES after all, with a datamine and end of game tease certainly suggesting it's in the works.

The upcoming app for mobile devices corrects a problem with Poke Balls.

Mabinogi announced they're in the process of developing an engine update. A quick excerpt from the article introducing the Eternity Project by Min Kyunghun:

That means there's a lot of work being done right now--too much to give a meaningful estimate of the actual progress we've made. What I CAN tell you is that we're either working on the following tasks now, or will be soon:

• We’re planning to redesign our server structure and logic to improve stability.

• We need to not only recreate all of Mabinogi's existing content in the new engine, but also ensure it all works as you've come to expect.

• As we do that, we'll be revising the game’s data and scripts, improving them as we convert them over to the new system.

• Every map and instance and the countless components that go into building them must be improved in quality or faithfully recreated in the course of migrating them to the new environment.

• In the asset migration process, we may discover that some original pieces of artwork or design elements we need have been lost to time...which is understandable, given the many years the game has been in operation. While we work on redrawing and recreating any such material, we'll need to write up new design documents for content that needs attention and polish to bring it up to modern standards.

• Beyond these specific things, there are many other areas that will need work as we bring the whole of Mabinogi into this new environment.

There's several articles you can read up on the site. It appears they're going for a complete graphical overhaul using Unreal Engine (no indication of if that's UE4 or 5). Either way, exciting stuff!

Repent, repent, the end is Nier.

Kazushige Nojima, Yoko Shimomura and more team up