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Recent Square Enix games have misfired due to the approach of each game being "a single producer's fiefdom"....

Over a year after Beauty and the Beast's Belle first starting popping up in promotional images for developer Gameloft's Disney Dreamlight Valley, the avid book-reader, Gaston-snubber, and dinner-enjoyer will be joining the village sim today, 13th September....

Recent Square Enix games have misfired due to the approach of each game being "a single producer's fiefdom". That's acc…

Worrying for Sims fans

Games with Gold replacement Xbox Game Pass Core launches on 14th September with 36 titles available to play....

Unity has announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model which will see its introduce a monthly fee per game install beginning on 1st January next year - a move that has already send shockwaves across the development community....

... a backlash from PC players has resulted in an influx of negative reviews. Now, according to Steam 250, it ranks just behind Overwatch 2 in the list of worst reviewed games on Steam....

The Pokémon Company has announced a new collaboration running at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 28th September....

Our Chants of Sennaar review - a brilliant game about cracking languages....

The next colour to be celebrated with an Xbox wireless controller is purple, as Microsoft has announced its new release called Astral Purple....

Sega has announced a release date for Football Manager 2024, which will debut on PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and on smartphones from 6th November....

Gearbox is reportedly the latest studio to be affected by Embracer Group's restructuring efforts....

Smartphone racer Mario Kart Tour will receive its final content update next month on 4th October, Nintendo has announced....

Over the weekend, following the game's full release, it hit a peak of 330,723 concurrent players. That's bigger than Skyrim's 287,411 concurrent player record, though still a way behind Fallout 4, which has a concurrent Steam player count of 472,962

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games for September will be NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139..., Star Ocean The Divine Force, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 and Unpacking.

Corden made the claim in the latest edition of his podcast, The Xbox Two Podcast, in a broader conversation about the pros of established studios sticking to the development blueprint that made their games so special versus the cons of taking risks and innovating, only for it to instantly crash and burn....

A fire has destroyed part of the offices of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World....

Blizzard says it's taking "big steps" to discourage cheating, and has banned over 250,000 players since Overwatch 2 launched as part of its "zero-tolerance policy toward cheating and botting"....

Singapore's rating board, the IMDA, has rated an unannounced version of Horizon Forbidden West....

These guy’s can’t catch a break.

Saturnalia, the acclaimed survival horror from MirrorMoon EP developer Santa Ragione, is shaking off the shackles of Epic Games Store exclusivity and coming to Steam this October - and ahead of its launch, a 40-minute demo is now available on Valve's platform....

Journalist and radio host Louise Blain has joined Blumhouse Games as its creative lead....