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@Nibellion , one of the most prolific sources of video game news on Twitter, has announced he’s leaving the platform.
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A Resident Evil 4 fan who spent eight years making an HD mod for the game has landed his first industry job, with a developer that specialises in retro remasters.
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Final Fantasy music legend Nobuo Uematsu says he thinks "movie soundtrack-like music in games" is uninteresting, and that "game music cannot develop further" if composers don't try something different.
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The scrapped ‘Ugly Sonic’ design from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie makes a cameo appearance in the new Disney+ film Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
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Activision wants Xbox to revive Guitar Hero and Skylanders.
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In their debut week, Hi-Fi Rush outperformed Forspoken on Steam. The surprise Microsoft game made more revenue than Square Enix's title, despite costing less than half.
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Insomniac’s Wolverine game is reportedly targeting a mature rating and could release as soon as late next year.
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From Software boss Hidetaka Miyazaki has said he’s “very happy” to see fans calling for a Bloodborne remake.
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Legendary Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he doesn't think he'll be able to compose a full game soundtrack ever again. Uematsu, who provides the main theme for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, says he no longer has the "physical or mental strength".
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From Software has acquired the Elden Ring trademark from Bandai Namco.
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer says NFT game plans "feel more exploitive than about entertainment".
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Sony has formed the ‘PlayStation PC’ label for its PC games push.
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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is now the worst reviewed game of the year.
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A Nintendo Direct featuring Wind Waker and Twilight Princess announcements for Switch is reportedly coming in September. It’s claimed the event will be a “Zelda blowout” and may also include a Metroid Prime remaster
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Assassin's Creed Mirage will include the option to turn on a 'nostalgic' blue-grey filter which makes it look more like the first game.
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The Death Stranding film won’t be a Hollywood blockbuster with big actors and flashy explosions. Hideo Kojima says he's “aiming for a more arthouse approach” to his debut movie
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Xbox Game Studios chief Matt Booty has said that both game players and the industry in general need to realise that most big games now have development cycles of around half a decade.
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players are already building ridiculous contraptions (many more via the link).
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Hideo Kojima says he shelved a game concept due to its ‘similarity to The Boys’.
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The voice actor who plays Raiden in the Metal Gear Solid games has seemingly teased there may be new announcements "in the coming weeks".
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Capcom has announced that it will be increasing its starting salary in Japan by more than 25%. Existing employees will also get a "one-time special payment" and an average salary increase of more than 5%.
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Xbox is planning a revival of the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, a developer has claimed.
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Update – Ubisoft has now delisted the announcement video for its Quartz NFT platform, after it received more than 95% dislikes on YouTube.
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EA is reportedly polling fans on if they would like to see remakes of Dead Space 2 and 3.
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Dutch Instagram model Ella Freya has confirmed she’s Resident Evil 4 remake’s Ashley.
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Xbox turned down the opportunity to make exclusive Marvel games, leading to Spider-Man on PS4, Marvel's head of games has revealed.
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Sonic Frontiers has smashed the series' record for concurrent players on Steam, nearly doubling the record set by Sonic Mania five years ago.
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REACTION: "Xbox saved the summer with a solid showcase that channelled the E3 of old."
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Zelda: Wind Waker HD is now more retro than the original was when it released.
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Kojima Productions has threatened legal action after Hideo Kojima was falsely linked to the assassination of former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe by a politician and news outlets.
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A Hogwarts Legacy TV series is reportedly in development at Warner’s HBO Max
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Cyberpunk and Witcher studio CD Projekt ‘doesn’t see a place for microtransactions in single-player games’.
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The first player to reach Hardcore level 100 in Diablo 4 has seen their character perma-die after 82 hours of play when their game disconnected from the server.
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Helldivers 2's developer says games "need to earn the right to monetise".
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Bethesda’s Starfield is a ‘confirmed’ exclusive for Xbox and PC and won't release for PS5, it’s claimed.
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Sasha Grey will voice Ash, a new character in the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 DLC, Phantom Liberty.
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Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has claimed that Starfield will have the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game
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Elden Ring publisher Bandai Namco wants to work with fantasy author Brandon Sanderson and he already has a Soulsborne pitch, he's said.
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Low Roar founder and lead singer Ryan Karazija, known for his large contribution to the Death Stranding soundtrack, has passed away.
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An anonymous hacker has reportedly leaked the entirety of Twitch, including source code and creator payouts.
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Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka has reportedly been sentenced to two and a half years in prison and fined over $1.2 million for his part in an insider trading scheme at Square Enix
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Remedy has confirmed Control 2 is in development for PS5, XSX and PC, co-developed with 505 Games.
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Call of Duty's latest anti-cheat update makes cheaters hallucinate imaginary opponents.
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The upcoming ‘big PlayStation remake’ recently teased by a composer is reportedly Square Enix's Chrono Cross.
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Geoff Keighley has urged viewers to “manage your expectations” ahead of this week’s Summer Game Fest show, which he said will be “primarily focused” on announced games.
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Review: God of War Ragnarök is one of the best PlayStation games ever. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Starfield director Todd Howard says most of his time spent playing the game has been on Xbox Series S, because his kids won't let him play the Series X.
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‘Leaked images’ appear to show a new Silent Hill set in Britain.
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Fallout New Vegas 2 is reportedly in ‘very early talks at Microsoft’.
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The Elder Scrolls 6 director Todd Howard has said he wants it to be “the ultimate fantasy-world simulator”. He also often wonders if the game was announced too soon
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Babylon’s Fall dropped to just one concurrent player on PC this week.
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Insomniac has hired an experienced MCU concept artist as an art director for the Spider-Man 2 game.
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PlatinumGames vice president Hideki Kamiya has said he thinks Japan should be proud of the term ‘JRPG’, amid fresh claims it could be considered discriminatory.
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Review: Starfield takes everything players loved about Fallout and Skyrim, and casts it across an enormous, engrossing galaxy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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EA will reportedly announce ‘an established IP’ revival at its EA Play Live event next month.
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Hideo Kojima breaks silence on ‘Abandoned': “Users just kept sending me pictures of this ‘Hasan’. They still send me collages and deep fake images, like twenty a day, it’s really quite a nuisance”
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Switch 2 will "likely be an iteration rather than a revolution" and launch at $400, according to a Tokyo-based game industry consultancy firm.
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Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann says the studio has ‘moved on’ from the Uncharted series and could do the same with The Last of Us, should it decide not to proceed with a third mainline series entry
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Ahead of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley says he ‘hasn’t felt this good about a show in a while’.
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Dead Space creator Glen Schofield has thanked EA‘s Motive Studio for its “care in remaking the game faithfully”
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Hasbro wants Xbox to bring back Activision’s Transformers games via Game Pass, it's said.
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Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki has been named one of the 100 most influential people of 2023 by Time magazine
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Larian Studios boss and Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vinke has blamed corporate greed for the high number of mass layoffs in the video games industry.
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A new Sony patent application has been published for a controller that could theoretically change temperature during gameplay.
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Capcom is raising its employees’ base salaries by 30% in Japan, ahead of its expected fifth consecutive year of record profits.
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Days Gone director John Garvin has blamed middling reviews of the game on tech issues and 'woke' reviewers who he says "couldn’t handle a gruff white biker looking at his date’s ass".
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PlayStation Plus has lost nearly 2 million subscribers since its revamp in June, with Sony blaming declining third-party game sales and ‘more people going outdoors’.
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One of the producers of the Sonic the Hedgehog films has said the plan is to create “a Sonic cinematic universe”
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The actor who played Kratos in God of War Ragnarök has called on players to stop getting involved in console wars. "Give each other a break," @iamchrisjudge asks.
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Crystal Dynamics says it hears fans "loudly and clearly" after ‘100k+’ responses to a recent survey about a potential Legacy of Kain revival.
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Steam’s newest hit, Palworld, has been accused of plagiarising designs from Pokémon, as social media users negatively highlight its creator’s history with generative AI tools.
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Guardians of the Galaxy developers say the game is now “finding its audience”, especially on Xbox Game Pass, following a slow start
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A.I. program ChatGPT was used to write the apology for the broken The Lord of the Rings Gollum game, it’s been claimed.
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Japan’s Super Nintendo World is already hinting at its reported Donkey Kong expansion, via a DK-style locked door found at the park.
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‘E3 killed itself’, not competition from Summer Game Fest, says Geoff Keighley.
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BLOG: "Stone Cold Steve Austin thinks Breath of the Wild is better than Ocarina of Time"
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A ROM site owner decided to fight Nintendo in court with no attorney and lost $2.1 million.
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A senior artist who worked on God of War Ragnarök has defended Starfield's locked 30fps frame rate, saying it's not a sign the game is "unfinished".
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 2 is planned for reveal this year, its producer has confirmed.
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A speedrunner has already managed to complete The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in 94 minutes
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Netflix’s Resident Evil series currently has one of its lowest audience scores.
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God of War Ragnarök has reportedly suffered a fresh delay and now won’t be released until 2023
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The Tower of London will be displaying a replica of the Invictus sword from Final Fantasy 16 in its Royal Armouries for the next month.
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Hidetaka Miyazaki has said the next FromSoftware game is in "the final stages" of development. Miyazaki has previously claimed the unannounced game has been in development since 2016.
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Halo Infinite’s multiplayer director has left 343.
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Konami’s free-to-play eFootball released today and it's already the worst-rated Steam game in history.
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Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2’s line-up has reportedly leaked. It’s claimed Metal Gear Solid 4 will be released on platforms other than PS3 for the first time
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Capcom sold more games in its last fiscal year than in any other in its history. The company's share price also hit an all-time high today.
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Metacritic has revealed that Microsoft was the highest-rated publisher in 2021, with the largest average Metascore in history.
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A scientist who trained rats to play Doom II has said he'd like to stream their 'gameplay' on Twitch.
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2K is facing a community backlash, following its decision to ban a popular WWE 2K24 creator known for sharing content previously inaccessible to players.
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Sony has reportedly secured the complete Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy as a PlayStation console exclusive.
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Banjo-Kazooie’s decompilation project is now 80% complete, which could lead to a PC port.
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Hideo Kojima wants to leave Earth to ‘make a game you can play in space’.
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Square Enix staff have reportedly been asking Final Fantasy boss Yoshinori Kitase for a remake of Final Fantasy 6.
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Valve CEO Gabe Newell has said he's willing to help Microsoft bring PC Game Pass to Steam.
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said he’s aiming to make Starfield Bethesda’s most-played game to date
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Sega has said it’s targeting high review scores for its next flagship Sonic the Hedgehog game, the open-world Sonic Frontiers
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Cyberpunk 2077 game director Gabe Amatangelo says Version 2.0 and Phantom Liberty are the title’s last big updates. "Then it's Cyberpunk 2. Or 'Orion,' I should say, whatever we end up naming it."
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Nintendo‘s shareholder meeting was reportedly disrupted by a fan, who purchased over $3500 in shares to rant at the company’s president about Splatoon 3's customisation options.
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