While gamescom has overtaken the crux of major video announcements, several other sudden surprises and unsurprising slops have also taken space on the newspaper stand.

Gamescom Big Gains

gamescom 2024 is still ongoing into the weekend, and you can catch up with our roundup of opening night’s announcements here! But a big crux of the annual convention’s major programming has reached its climax with its award show with the following winners:

• Monster Hunter Wilds for Best Trailer, Most Epic, Most Entertaining, and Best PlayStation Game
• Little Nightmares 3 for Audio, Visuals, and Best Xbox Game
• Genshin Impact for Best Mobile Game
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for Best PC Game
• Frostpunk 2 for Gameplay
• Tavern Talk for Most Wholesome
• Creatures of Ava for Games for Impact
• Microsoft / Xbox / Bethesda / Blizzard for Best of Show Floor

Tango Gameworks Dances Again

In a sudden turn of events, games studio Tango Gameworks has been taken over by publisher of PUBG: Battlegrounds, Krafton, with full intent on resuming all work activities as norm and ambition to further continue the Hi-Fi Rush IP.

The Hi-Fi Rush developer was founded by Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami and went on to be acquired by ZeniMax Media, in turn, later getting folded over into Microsoft. News that Tango Gameworks was to be shuttered erupted back in late spring.

Packing Up Camp

Meanwhile, the bell tolls for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp—and certainly not those kinds of Bells—and it has been announced that services for the mobile game will end November this year.

That said, Nintendo has further elaborated they intend on releasing a paid, offline version of the game, and Pocket Camp players will be able to transfer their data from the original game.

In other news…

Steam now has a new feature in reviews to indicated if a reviewer has played the title extensively on the Steam Deck.

While among several of the lineup of announcements made at gamescom 2024, developer Warhorse Studios emphasizes that Kingdom Come: Deliverance II will not be released until the first quarter of next year on February 11, 2025.

In the midst of another wave of SAG-AFTRA strikes that has now evoked a rally for video game actors, Amazon Games CEO Christopher Hartmann claims that games “don’t really have acting“.

The Backyard Sports video game franchise is being rebooted.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has unveiled a 60-day plan to address player complaints.

John Carpenter is reportedly heavily involved in the production of a new Halloween game, to be developed on Unreal Engine 5.

Final Fantasy XVI is now up for preorder on both the Epic Games Store and Steam. The game is due out September 17th, and a demo is available now. Meanwhile, a rumor also suggests that game will also soon find itself on the Xbox.

To no one’s shock, the Borderlands movie flopped at the box office. You can still get the Claptrap popcorn bucket watching something else though! (while supplies last)

And finally, United States Vice President candidate for the Democratic party Tim Walz was apparently a huge Dreamcast gamer, to the point his wife had to hide the console away from him.

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Call of Duty trailer. Set in the early 90’s. Everything is launching on all consoles with all content, and Black Ops 6 is going to be on Game Pass.

Doom: The Dark Ages! 2025. Set in a medieval kind of era. Tons of new weapons, a shield, and riding dragons.

State of Decay 3 trailer, mix of CG and maybe gameplay, maybe not, hard to tell. No release date.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard. New characters, CG trailer setting the scene. Fall 2024.

Starfield DLC, looks very horror themed. “Shattered Space”. Coming this year. Also new content added tonight.

Fallout 76 update. Set in Appalachia. Big new map expansion. Includes Vault 63. Skyline Valley’s the name of the place. You can also play as a ghoul in 2025. Skyline Valley is dropping on Wednesday.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from Sandfall Interactive. Turn based RPG about a group of people trying to stop a sorceress who kills everyone after every year. 2025.

South of Midnight. Compulsion Games. Animated like Spider-verse, but it doesn’t work as well in a game. 2025.

World of Warcraft expansion. Very introspective trailer. The War Within. August 26th 2024.

Metal Gear Solid Delta. David Hayter’s doing Snake’s voice here. There’s mud disguises, which is new.

Sea of Thieves will now let you be evil, have a stronger warship, have skeletons on your team. Season 13, July 25th.

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. Releasing July 18th 2024. Souls-lite with a little critter companion.

Age of Mythology: Retold. September 4th 2024.

Perfect Dark from The Initiative. Joanna’s got detective abilities. You can scan people’s voice and information. Does look pretty slick, but where’s the alien… No release date, but it’ll be on Game Pass.

Diablo IV update, Vessel of Hatred. October 8th. Very messed up evil trailer.

Fable from Playground Games. Shows some gameplay! Looks pretty fun. 2025.

Fragpunk, 5v5 hero shooter where you can pop effects to change the game as you go.

Pine Creek Games with a mouse. Survival, crafting, rebuild the mouse society. Winter Burrow. Early 2025.

Annapurna Interactive game, developed by Beethoven and Dinosaur, the people who made Artful Escape. They got a bunch of 80’s and 90’s music. Mixtape, due out in 2025.

Microsoft Flight Sim update, commercial flight modes added, do a variety of careers like agricultural, search and rescue, and more. Hot air balloons as well. November 19th 2024.

Elder Scrolls Online. Ten year anniversary celebration. All DLC free for a limited time, new expansion Gold Road June 18th.

Life is Strange new entry. Dimension hopping. Made by Deck Nine. Starring Max from the first one. Double Exposure coming October 29th.

Indiana Jones from MachineGames. It looks exactly what you’d expect. Fist fighting, world traversing, historical mystery, Nazi killing. Fun chase scene. Nailed the vibe! 2024.

Mech battle game, very fast and action packed. Macross style transforming. Mecha Break. 2025.

Wuchang Fallen Feathers from 505 Games, Soulslike game, very slick. 2025.

Obsidian game, Avowed. It’s a first person fantasy game! It’s what you want! 2024.

Atomfall from Rebellion. European village with evil experiments happening under it. 2025.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows, cool ninja lady and Yasuke! Looks pretty slick for Assassin’s Creed. November 12th.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl. September 5th.

New all digital Series X, and it’s white. Out this holiday.

Gears of War E-Day. Prequel based on when the Locust first attacked. No release date.

There’s a Call of Duty Direct after but I am not watching it.

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Happy Pokémon Day, You Freaks

The latest Pokémon Presents happened on the 27th, with most of the shown updates focusing on mobile titles.

• Pokémon Go will get a crossover event with the latest season of the anime to coincide with its release outside Japan.
• Pokémon Sleep adds the Legendary Beasts to the roster of napping monsters, starting with Raikou in March, with Entei and Suicune coming later.
• Pokémon Masters will add two new pairs: Silver and Shiny Mega Tyranitar and Geeta and Glimmora, plus reruns of older powerful characters and a new photo editor.
• Pokémon Cafe Remix gives the Paldean starters new outfits, new chances to add either Koraidon or Miraidon to your cafe, and the ability to collect Gimmighoul coins for a chance to get Gimmighoul and Gholdengo on your team.
• Pokémon Unite adds Miraidon to its roster, with Falinks and Ceruledge debuting in the coming months.

The final two announcements were the big ones: First, Pokémon TCG Online game gets a new mobile client. They swear it is not going to be NFT-related.

Finally, the next mainline Pokémon title, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, was announced. Players return to Generation 6’s Kalos region for a game supposedly all set in Lumiose City, X/Y‘s central hub. Mega Evolution will also return. Z-A is scheduled to launch in 2025.

So Back to the Bad

Playstation plans to lay off around 900 people. These cuts include staff at Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Guerilla Games, and the complete shuttering of their London studio. Firesprite, another subsidiary of Playstation that saw cuts, cancelled the production of live service Twisted Metal game.

EA has also laid off a large swath of their employees: five percent of their workforce in total. Battlefield studio Ridgeline Games folded into another Battlefield focused team, Ripple Effect, and a rumored Mandalorian game from Respawn was cancelled.

Embracer Group continues to shed weight across their properties. Saber Interactive, developers of the continuously in question Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake, reportedly will be sold to private investors for $500 million. There is also talk that Gearbox will be sold as well, with an official announcement due in the coming days. Gearbox recently shifted focus purely to Borderlands games, with a fourth mainline entry and a sequel to Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands still in development.

Maybe Some Good?

Toys for Bob, previously downsized by Microsoft after the Activision acquisition, is going independent. No reports on what this fully entails, but they are attempting to keep an active relationship with Microsoft, potentially meaning they will continue to work on Crash, Spyro, and potentially Tony Hawk titles.

Alan Wake creators Remedy have acquired full control of…Control. The studio purchased the rights to the franchise from 505 Games ahead of the eventual sequel that is still in development. as well as another project codenamed “Condor“, which is a multiplayer PvE spin-off of Control.

In other news…

Stardew Valley also has its own anniversary to celebrate, and ConcernedApe confirm that a 1.6 update to the PC version of the game will be coming March 16.

Critical Role is holding a public open beta playtest of their tabletop roleplaying game, Daggerheart, and playtest packets will be available on March 12.

Terminator: Survivors, an open-world survival game, is set to release this fall.

Nintendo sues the creators of Yuzu, a popular Switch emulator. While emulators have been proven to be legal, Nintendo’s case focuses on Yuzu’s circumvention of Switch game encryption as well as promotion of piracy, as the emulator’s Patreon saw a doubling of profits once Tears of the Kingdom leaked online.

Jen Cohn, the voice actor for Overwatch character Pharah, came under hot water when she called for Palestine to be “freed from Hamas” on a livestream. Her statement, which sidelines the very real genocide being perpetrated by Israel, has led to Overwatch fans calling for the character’s recasting.

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Bobby Kotick Departs Activision Blizzard

As of the end of December 2023, Robert “Bobby” Kotick has officially retired from his role as CEO of Activision Blizzard.

Kotick’s departure leaves behind a legacy of controversy and potential complicity to the company’s toxic and hostile workplace issues in his wake, and is part a series of many leadership and policy changes to the company in response to the long, grandstanding saga of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. As another subsidiary under Microsoft, Jill Braff has been named head of studio for Bethesda and ZeniMax. Microsoft’s acquisition of Blizzard was officially finalized in October 2023.

The state of California ended up settling the Blizzard’s gender discrimination lawsuit for about $54 million, the very case that has pushed the series of dominoes that catalyzed the acquisition of the company in motion back on July 2021.

In its initial filings of the suit, California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) alleged that the company had a “frat boy” culture, but has went on to now conclude that “no court or any independent investigation has substantiated any allegations” of sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard in the suit’s settlement text. If the court approves of this settlement, the payout will go to “cover direct relief to workers and litigation costs” and “a settlement fund dedicated to compensating workers.”

While being pushed back by the ABK Workers Alliance union, Blizzard will also be ending hybrid work for QA employees starting this year. The union believes that the in-office accommodations that have been offered due to this decision will not adequately meet the needs of its membership and that it will cause “many, many more employees being forced out of the company and into a desperate situation.”

As Blizzard will be continuing to face turbulence and ongoing changes under a new coat of paint, Microsoft pulls back from their VR projects as consumer trends shown interest in the medium dipped in 2023.

Leaving the Year With Leaks

Insomniac Games had the misfortune of experiencing a severe cyberattack credited to ransomware group Rhysida, who claims to have taken over 1.67 terabytes of data from the company.

After a deadline has passed demanding a ransom of $2 million dollars, Rhysida went on to leak a plethora of internal data and sensitive employee information, such as HR documents, screenshots of private messages, and unreleased images and assets of future projects, and even a playable build of one of those projects. Sony experienced a data breach by a different group in October that same year.

Insomniac has went on to respond to how demoralizing the attack has been, but nonetheless has vowed that teams will resume to push on and that work will continue on the projects that have been leaked. The leaked playable build contains a warning against piracy, which could result in legal action from Insomniac. Downloading it also potentially comes with the threat that it contains implanted malicious software after the hack’s tampering.

Allegedly, Rhysida has sold a tiny portion of this data to an unknown buyer, but a significant portion of 98% of the data allegedly has been released.

In less concerning news, sensitive military documents have been leaked on the War Thunder forums —again.

The Blockchain Is Not for Babies

While the Epic Games Store still won’t necessarily list games in its catalog with the Adults Only rating, the platform has adjusted its policy to now allow exceptions for games utilizing blockchain technology.

The ESRB board has been labeling games using blockchain technology with the AO rating, determined on “assess[ing] whether products may reward real money, prizes with real world value, or something that can be exchanged for or converted to real money.” NFT-based game Gods Unchained was removed from the Store for its AO rating, but has since been relisted on the platform after this policy update.

Government Goes After Gacha

Reguators China are attempting to introduce new policies to curb spending and monetization practices in online games.

Per several other past initiatives in an effort to reduce play time and addiction to games, some of the terms of these regulations include imposing spending limits on players, disallowing in-game items to be auctioned or used as speculative assets and that all Chinese games must be ran in servers based within China.

Researcher Leon Y. Xiao has further found that the policies will require that loot boxes shouldn’t make their contents exclusive and that unspent currency must be refunded to players if a game shuts down.

While in Korea, the Korean Fair Trade Commission has fined Nexon for changing and reducing the loot box probability rates without transparency across their published titles that contain this equivalent mechanic.

The New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft

On top of an ongoing string of other lawsuits pushing back against the exploitative use of the technology, The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft, opening what might possibly be one of the largest lawsuits against AI thus far by for copyright infringement.

The publication alleges that the AI technology used has been illegally pulling from the Times’ archive to train ChatGPT. Data that that plaintiff has currently reported has found the Times as one of the largest sources that the technology has pulled from, arguing that ChatGPT is for-profit that now directly competes with the Times’ own services.

Wizards of the Coast deservedly catches flack again, this time for the use of AI art going unchecked in a recent social media campaign for Magic: The Gathering.

In other news…

Teenager Willis Gibson is the first human player to fully complete a version of Tetris on the NES. Going by “Blue Scuti” on his YouTube channel, the run lasted for about 38 minutes.

Devolver Digital capped off the holiday season with a quick Public Access Holiday Special that showcased several upcoming indie titles, such as The Plucky Squire, Pepper Grinder, and Baby Steps.

Actor James McCaffrey passed away. McCaffrey has starred in various film and television roles, and provided his voice for the titular role in the Max Payne series and was a regular talent for Remedy Entertainment’s various characters, such as Alex Casey in the Alan Wake games.

Publisher Versus Evil laid off its entire staff, effectively shutting down. Versus Evil was acquired by TinyBuild in 2013, and effectively all titles of their library, such as The Banner Saga games, have been moved under TinyBuild’s ownership.

Ubisoft’s The Crew will be going offline. The game has already been delisted from all online stores and will remain playable until March of this year.

While Sea of Stars has much to celebrate following their win of Best Independent Game at the 2023 Game Awards and achieving a 4 million player milestone, the game is removing the cameo appearance of Jirard Khalil. Also known as The Completionist, Khalil was met with allegations of financial fraud against his family-founded charity to support dementia research, the Open Hand Foundation.

Publisher Bushiroad Games and developer Eighting announced the production of a Hunter x Hunter fighting game. Bushiroad has published various titles based on anime and manga IPs, and was responsible for bringing the multimedia musical franchises Love Live! School Idol Festival and BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! into the mobile games market.

As even its own cast awaits an official greenlighting of a sequel to Illumination’s animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie, rumors suggest the animation studio has pitched the idea of potentially also adapting the Smash fighting games into a film.

Likewise, Jack Black won’t be waiting for his next gig for too long as he is reportedly to play Steve in the Minecraft adaptation.

Meanwhile, the Paramount television series adaptation of Halo has been confirmed for a second season.

While the official server of MMO City of Heroes was shut down way back in 2012, NCSoft officially granted a license to a long active, private-run server Homecoming. Players are reassured that accounts will remain untouched and that the gameplay will continue to be free, hoping to be supported by donations.

Fans of Baba Is You will be pleasantly surprised by the release of Mobile Suit Baba, a tactical mission-based puzzle game that revisits the same quaint Baba characters and setting.

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It’s time! Spencer is back on the pod to join John in talking about the week in games. John’s been playing more Fate/Samurai Remnant and Spider-Man 2 while Spencer has been living in the Pathologic games and Starfield. In the news, Microsoft is bricking third party peripherals and Nintendo patents are showing what the next Switch might be. Bungie was hit with a bunch of layoffs and then they talk about all the announcements coming out of Blizzcon.

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It’s the post-PAX podcast as Solon has returned to regale us about one ReedPop run show while E3 removes itself from their clutches. Plus, John’s still digging through Xenosaga and the Pokemon TCG Game Boy game, Maverick’s shooting through Armored Core 6, Nintendo’s new console was demoed at Gamescom, Roblox is trying to get into the dating sphere, and Blizzard tries to properly age the Overwatch cast to hilarious results.

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Returning from a week off, the Gamesline Gang returns for a long episode running down mostly the news we missed! The Limited Run Showcase, Genshin voice actors getting their pay withheld, the Microsoft and Activision update, and talk about the strikes happening across the world.

Plus, John is struggling with Rain Code‘s writing (spoilers in this episode), Elvie is bummed at the quality of the suitors and their dialogue in Love Shore, Maverick’s chilling Shin-chan’s Summer adventure, and lots more!

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More Releases

Persona 3 Reload, a new re-imagining of the original Persona 3, gets a gameplay trailer.

Also announced during a panel at Anime Expo 2023 last weekend, Type-Moon declared that Tsukihime -A piece of the blue glass moon-, a remake of the original Tsukihime, will be getting an English-language release sometime next year in 2024.

Street Fighter 6‘s addition to their first wave of DLC characters will be Rashid. He will be part of a character pass that will include other characters like A.K.I., Ed, and Akuma, in this initial roster.

Katamari Damacy and Wattam creator Keita Takahashi has announced a new project, called to a T.

The Mortal Kombat reboot gets a new trailer confirming several more characters on its roster, such as Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Smoke.

Overwatch 2 is still insisting on making fetch happen, and “Genesis – Part One: Dawn”, the first part of an animated mini-series that hopes to further delve deeper into the lore of the games, debuted on YouTube.

The Tokyo Broadcast System Television unveiled a games division under TBS Games. This will be TBS’ first full-scale plans to enter gaming, as opposed to merely having had thier past programming be adapted into games.

Finance Crimes

The South Korean games rating board, the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC) has been found guilty of embezzlement. Players of the mobile gacha game, Blue Archive, tried to file complaints about the game’s rating, leading into the audit and accidental uncovering of GRAC’s scheme, through a paper trail in mining bitcoin.

In attempts to alleviate their net debts, Embracer Group announces a $182 million through share issue in the midst of shuttering further subsidiaries and ongoing employee layoffs.

The disgraced Yuji Naka receives a suspended sentence, accompanied by fines, instead of facing jail time for insider trading. Naka pleaded guilty several months ago to insider trading while working at Square Enix, while accompanied by former coworkers Taisuke Sasaki and Fumiaki Suzuki, were also arrested for buying shares ahead of the release of Dragon Quest Tact.

And in other news…

Emile Morel, a creative director on the ongoing development of Beyond Good and Evil 2, has passed away. Morel worked at Ubisoft’s Montpellier studio since 2009, and was substantial to the creation behind Rayman Legends. Morel replaced Beyond Good and Evil 2′s previous creative director only on February as of this year, as the game’s completion continues to be unclear.

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Game Movies and Movie Games

First off, the Five Nights at Freddy’s film is scheduled to release October 27th, 2023. The movie will star Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games, Bridge to Terabithia) with a video previewing just what to expect from this cinematic look at what if the pizza place was haunted or evil or whatever. Shouts out to all the eighth graders camping out there on opening night.

That’s not the only thing going bump in the night, as Dead by Daylight has just revealed that on July 5th, Nicolas Cage will be in the game. There’s no additional news regarding whether he’ll be a survivor or one of the new killers, but some players speculate that he could be both. Given Cage’s filmography as both villain and victim, the possibility is genuinely intriguing! Here’s hoping they give him the axe from Mandy, too.

Forever Fighting

Netherrealm Studios is giving you what you need with the announcement of Mortal Kombat 1. No, not Mortal Kombat (1992), and no not Mortal Kombat (2011) either, this is a uniquely different game that will also feature new “Kameo” characters which will function as assists similar to games like Skullgirls or Marvel vs. Capcom. The Kameo and main fighter rosters are confirmed to be separate so get ready for a roster size of Armageddon proportions!

Right before we posted this, Amazon Italy has leaked the first batch of DLC characters for Mortal Kombat 1. The first Kombat pack will include Ermac, Takeda, Quan Chi, and three guest characters. Omni Man, Peacemaker, and Homelander will be the first guests in this entry, so get ready to see John Cena brutally murdered by J.K. Simmons.

Guilty Gear Strive has just announced the release of Asuka R#, the last new character for Season Pass 2. The faceless antagonist of the series only known as That Man is finally playable and has plenty of fun tools for players to lab with. Asuka R# releases on May 25th along with his own stage Tir na nOg and a variety of new color palettes to celebrate 25 years of bullshit blazing!

In one last update for fighting games fans today, Killer Instinct’s legacy servers will be migrating to PlayFab. With the game now in its tenth year, this seems to be a welcome quality of life improvement.

With Riot and Blizzard, the only good news is no news.

I hope you didn’t like Overwatch 2’s PvE mode too much because it’s gone now. This new mode, perhaps their biggest excuse to make a sequel for the fairly popular hero shooter, has been scrapped entirely. This marks yet another set of issues that the game has dealt with since its launch. Game director Aaron Keller and executive producer Jared Neuss cite this change as a way to focus more on the live multiplayer aspect of the game. Once again we are denied the pathos for Winston Overwatch.

Just in case anyone thought we’d leave out the other member of the Questionable Business Practices club, don’t worry because Riot Games has a new CEO as they reach a $100 million dollar settlement for a gender discrimination case. The settlement acts as a conclusion to the class action lawsuit against the company back in 2018 which will result in 1,548 women who are or were employed by Riot to be entitled to upwards of $5,000 each. Another lawsuit in 2019 was filed against Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent, the news of this settlement coinciding with Laurent stepping down from his position. A. Dylan Jadeja, President of the company since 2017 with an overall tenure of twelve years, will be taking his place over the next few months. Laurent will continue to work with Riot in an advisory capacity, so whether this is a lateral move to look good in front of the settlement remains to be seen. Get that paper ladies, it’s very dire out here!

“As CEO, it is fair to assume that I may do some things differently than those before me, but I want to assure you that the goal for us—together—will not waver,”

– A. Dylan Jadeja, new CEO of Riot Games

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Actor Lance Reddick has passed away. Although primarily known for many of his on-screen roles, such as Cedric Daniels in The Wire, Charon in the John Wick franchise, and a recent portrayal of Albert Wesker in a 2022 Netflix series adaptation of Resident Evil, Reddick contributed his talents to various other mediums, such as providing his voice to the Destiny games series as the character Commander Zavala.

Disco Elysium has added a photo mode feature to the game called Collage Mode, which many have rushed to point out was announced in the midst of a lawsuit between ZA/UM’s original founders and the studio’s current leadership. Some reports are indicating that the dispute with former poducer Kaur Kender has officially settled, but there is argument that these reports are misleading and that the legal battle is not quite over yet.

Create the Disco scenes of your dreams.

Introducing Collage Mode: the new functionality that gives you the creative freedom to stage just about anything in-game.

Available now for PC and Mac players, with console rolling out soon: https://t.co/PTkM4PBmLy pic.twitter.com/3dCZGmGzyQ

— Disco Elysium – The Final Cut (@discoelysium) March 16, 2023

Emmett Shear is stepping down as Twitch CEO. Dan Clancy will be taking over the role.

Meta is continuing to fall apart, and the predicted 10,000 layoffs that some analysts have foreseen has come to fruition. In the middle of restructuring, NFTs seem to no longer be a priority in Meta’s pipeline, in which many of these roles were tied to.

Meanwhile, Square Enix continues to insist NFTs are part of its future, releasing a new trailer for its NFT game, Symbiogenesis.

The FTC has fined Epic Games for what it has charged as misleading tactics to trick Fortnite players into making unintended purchases.

IO Interactive is expanding their horizons and opening up shop in Turkey. That said, the region is still in the midst of reeling and recovering from a fatal earthquake.

Former Blizzard leaders have come together to form a new games studio called Magic Soup.

The UK government is increasing tax relief support for video games.

The next Guilty Gear Strive DLC character is Delilah and “Bedman?”, a pair that will function as a single unit.

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is coming to Steam on April 6.

Everyone here is pretty hyped for the release of Dokapon Kingdom: Connect, and the game now officially has a release date for North America on May 9.

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