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A game developer has to be pretty brave to attempt a Soulslike, I feel. Just the fact that they’re still called Soulslikes, nearly a decade and a half on (and surely longer than it took for "Doom clones" to turn into first-person shooters), is probably a sign. FromSoftware just keeps banging out top notch examples of a genre...

Resident Evil 4's Separate Ways campaign and Mercenaries mode update are coming to this year's acclaimed Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC remake on 21st September - and the main game's long-awaited VR mode will hit PSVR2 this "winter"....

During this evening's Sony State of Play, Insomniac Games revealed some more information about next month's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 ahead of its release on 20th October....

The wait is almost over (sort of)! Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth - the second instalment in Square Enix's three-part Final Fantasy 7 remake - will be coming to PlayStation 5 on 29th February next year....

Stig Asmussen, the director behind the acclaimed Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, is leaving Respawn Entertainment and EA to "pursue other adventures"....

Developer Drop Bear Bytes has announced its post-apocalyptic RPG Broken Roads will be out on 14th November....

RT is gone, performance improves - but some issues remain....

A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....

With last week's Starfield launch slowly simmering down, Bethesda has started to cast its gaze forward, confirming a number of "community requested" features are on the way, including Nvidia DLSS support on PC, an FOV slider, and more....

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....

Unity executives sold thousands of shares in the weeks leading up to last night's hugely controversial announcement it will soon charge developers when one of their games is downloaded....

A new PS5 update will allow players to assign a second controller as an assist. (+ more)...

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

There's a new Nintendo Direct happening tomorrow, Thursday 14th September, at 3pm UK time....

Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4968815...

Worrying for Sims fans

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....