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New Vegas devs Obsidian are reportedly working on a new Fallout game, and only Microsoft could make news I've waited half my life for taste this bitter Well, at least one good thing's come out of Destiny 2's demise: lob tomatoes at ex-Bungie CEO Pete Parsons' car collection in this fan-made boss battler Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced can run smoothly aboard both Steam Deck and Steam Machine - with the right settings Become King Dracula's personal vamp-assassin in Vampirium: 1997, an immersive sim Bithell Games are launching into Steam early access soon Xbox boss Asha Sharma pins layoffs on Phil Spencer's regime spreading the company "too thin", while claiming a "a healthy Xbox" could weather the RAM storm Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game where you run a post office for cats, and I wish it let me snoop into their private lives "A mentor and an inspiration to many": Skywind devs pay tribute to modder Kettlewitch, whose death has left another Skyrim mod's future up in the air Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced review - a great pirate game swaps the ups and downs of old Assassin’s Creed for the ups and downs of new Assassin’s Creed Get spirited away to a weird, scary version of a Japanese town and take pictures of the oddities you find in SOMBRAS: negative frames "This has got to be the most awesome toaster ever": Saber on building upon hits like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Cyberpunk Edgerunners' Lucy finds herself in yet another crossover, this time in an upcoming Apex Legends event Subnautica 2's first proper update is coming tomorrow, bringing in much needed creature behaviour changes and more Appa is a gorgeous, surreal card game about grieving siblings where every move your opponent makes can be reacted to Left 4 Dead lives on in The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian extraction game from the creators of Zeno Clash After split with Xbox, Hitman developer IO will "continue to develop" Project Fantasy independently, but they're closing their Istanbul Studio "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts "It's much further along than we originally planned": Fallout: London modders say work on their next game is going "swimmingly", despite DLC delays Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein games will still reportedly be worked on at ZeniMax following Xbox cuts, despite pivot towards Fallout and The Elder Scrolls Xbox are parting ways with Double Fine, Arkane, Undead Labs, Compulsion, and Ninja Theory in the course of thousands of layoffs Stop judging games by their sales figures, says Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada: “That’s exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s never actually developed games" This week in PC games: Stardew Valley plus vampires, a lavish gamebook RPG, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, finally Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is suffering similar PSN region locking woes to Helldivers 2, with 132 countries barred according to Steam's backend "Smuggle chainsaws onto the pitch": What Blood Bowl's new publisher thinks the World Cup can learn from Warhammer The Sunday Papers Object Impermanence is a puzzle game where the moment you look away from something, it stops existing Man a gate and keep out people, chickens and unknown horrors alike in the Paper Please-esque Dreadwoods Gatekeeper Build a medieval castle piece by piece and then defend it from enemy knights in the city builder and RTS Bergfried After spending more than a decade in early access, robotic survival game Scrap Mechanic enters 1.0 later this month Dragon Age writer David Gaider's next game is a light-hearted heist RPG, if he can get the funding for it Now is the winter of your discontent, console blaggards: the RPS team reflect on PlayStation going digital-only What are we all playing this weekend? Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess Slay the Spire 2 gets 15 powerful new multiplayer cards, while making life easier the first time you install a mod Final Fantasy 7 Revelation is getting a "Story Expansion Pass" amid a heap of DLC to help it wrap up the remake trilogy, leaked store listings suggest Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced promises smooth handheld sailing with Steam Deck and Steam Machine verification I love being a cultist in Feed the Pit, and not just because I get to throw scummy stock-brokers into a toothy vortex Relic announce a new Company of Heroes RTS, a wave defence roguelite for strategy buffs who don't have time to fight a whole World War Feed a ravenous landlord daily buckets of scrap to stop them seizing your belongings, as Rust's latest update adds terrifyingly realistic apartment renting "I could feel myself coming apart at the seams": Suicide Squad leads on almost leaving the games industry after its failure Ithaca is a road trip RPG about climate resistance and dealing with the hostage you have in your trunk That's a bummer: Frictional's Soma follow-up Ontos has been delayed into 2027 Seoul-set MMO shooter Cinder City halves its RAM requirements, after initial specs listed 64GB of memory The Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to offer "meaningful solutions" for preserving digital-only games "You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach Flask is a grim brew of homunculus autobattling and hand-drawn alchemy, and it’s got a new demo on Steam Valheim 1.0 won’t update the survival game’s sparse oceans, reveal devs Iron Gate, who add it’s "too soon to say" how long post-release updates will continue Onimusha: Way of the Sword release date pushed forward, its devs deciding they'd rather fight vampires than cosmic entities and Scottish horrors New Fallout 4 quest mod starring an iconic Elder Scrolls voice actor has you solve an eccentric gang war over a long-dead starlet's vault of mysterious goodies Subnautica 2 legal battle ends with reinstated CEO stepping down, as Krafton and Unknown Worlds founders agree settlement Lullabies Made of Static is a quieter, slower, but still quite welcome addition to PC gaming's brutalist walking sim canon Grand strategy game Terra Invicta is getting two new scenarios - a Fallout-style nuclear wasteland, and an early noughties world of UFO sceptics Behold my range of handmade Steam Machine faceplates: tasteful fan-covering, on the cheap Edit news: GTA 6 devs have to opt-out of crunch, claim Rockstar North insiders, because it's baked into their contracts Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump's wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign "to make the galaxy safe again" Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard "Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures Xbox claim they're "not reducing [their] investment in games" despite looming cuts, as report claims under 2.5% of Microsoft's total workforce are in the firing line "Keeping this under wraps has been torture": Against the Storm 2 could happen, but first, Eremite are making a survival game set in the city-builder's festering world Green Suits is a surreal platformer stroke JRPG filled with Escher architecture and paranormal investigators Microsoft reportedly add Arkane and their Blade game to the potential shuttering pile Disassembling the Steam Machine suggests Valve are protecting its precious RAM by burying it under a dozen other parts IO Interactive look set for layoffs as their external partner for Project Fantasy pulls out Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2 I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted Nivalis has a new name and a release date that will make your autumn backlog even bigger Ground Branch, a first-person tactical shooter from an original Rainbow Six dev, is finally hitting v1.0 after eight years in early access GTA 6 makers have 10 working days to voluntarily recognise Rockstar IWGB Game Workers Union or it may go to a government tribunal Generative AI is a "virulent plague" and even using it to eliminate "drudgery" has downsides, reckons long-time Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider "We're talking about at least half a decade of horror": former Exodus lead explains why he wasn't keen on doing a Baldur's Gate 4 despite Hasbro offering the chance State of Decay studio Undead Labs potentially up for closure, sources claim, with Bethesda and Blizzard also facing layoffs "We were only three votes away": Stop Killing Games-backed California bill to keep online games playable fails to win over senate committee Valve dropped that Steam Machine Companion Cube case down the legal incinerator after its makers neglected to get their permission "Everybody got the rug pulled out from under them": Xbox are putting third-party Game Pass deals "on pause", claims publishing veteran Rainbow Six Siege developers go on strike through July to protest mass layoffs and RTO policies at Ubisoft Barcelona Space shooter Hyperwired gives you a ship with a doofy power cable hanging out the back and challenges you to keep its battery charged US lawsuit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of worsening the RAM crisis by fixing memory prices and supply This week in PC games: a new King's Field-like RPG, an American Revolutionary War sim, and a dreaming megacity full of cool architecture Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 mantis blade slices its way out of Netflix's doors this autumn, with a fresh crew of tech-infused Night City dwellers Visual novel Coffee Talk Tokyo serves up an image of 'Cool Japan,' but not much more The Sunday Papers Joy Malignant is a photobashed, dice-based RPG where every choice you make affects how your faceless body looks Bloodwoven is a survival immersive sim set in a world built on top of the frozen corpse of a god Oh no, that's Lenovo saying they think these RAM prices will be the new normal and may never go back to how they were Civilization 7 devs talk 20th century leaders, controversial historical figures, and dealing with colonialism in 4X strategy games Star Wars Eclipse "literally cannot be finished" if layoffs go through, its devs reportedly say From Hydro Drift Ninjas to Sonic Napoleons: I spent far too long definitively ranking Tokyo Xtreme Racer’s best opponent names What are we all playing this weekend? "I torture myself over every last detail": Stardew Valley's creator is having a real time of it with Haunted Chocolatier's recipe book interface Valve's Steam Machine gets competition in the "Stim Machine", a cheeky French PC box that's already reportedly been re-named Deep and volatile Terraria-style factory sim Sandustry hits early access in August, Hooded Horse announce How to survive the memory shortage crisis: a PC owner's guide Creative Assembly confirm Total War: Medieval 3's starting factions, pegging out a complex world of schemers and killers, feudal giants and emerging empires Clutch doesn't look like just a Forza Horizon clone, judging by its first lengthy livestream, though I'm concerned it might spread itself too thin "Once Darth Vader came for you, you were just going to die": We could have had an MMO about Jedi refugees hiding from the Empire, if Star Wars Galaxies had gone differently South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games are allowing staff to openly seek new jobs ahead of possible Xbox layoffs, according to report A year on from its launch, former Blizzard devs' Wildgate only has one last update left, but it's not shutting down Punch a buff frog and try not to let it hit you back with its massive tongue in the frenetic BREKEKEKEX

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