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Call of Duty movie will be set in the Modern Warfare universe

Confirmation came by way of director Peter Berg, who revealed the news at this weekend’s Fanatics Fest. The movie, announced earlier this year, is still set to premiere on 30th June, 2028. If you’re looking for more information, I’m afraid there isn’t any – that’s the entirety of the announcement. But given there’s little else […]

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Palworld is once again dominating Steam this weekend, clocking up almost 1m concurrent players

Palworld finally released in full on PC and consoles on 10th July, and while it still hasn’t quite managed to top its massive 2.1m concurrent player peak from early 2024, according to SteamDB this is the second time it’s almost topped the charts as the most played game on Steam of the entire weekend, second

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Game of Thrones: War for Westeros RTS delayed to 2027 to “ensure the game reaches the high level of quality we are aiming for”

"We remain unwavering in our mission to deliver a real-time strategy game set in the world of Westeros." While at first insisting that development “has been progressing well”, an update posted to the Game of Thrones: War for Westeros’ development blog later revealed the team has decided to push the game back from its original

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Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur actor Jennifer English withdraws from Tides of Annihilation to “look after her mental and physical health”

The team has hired an "incredibly talented performer" in her place. English said it had been a “difficult yet personally necessary decision” as the game moves on “into its next phase”. “I’m really grateful to have been part of Tides of Annihilation since the game’s inception and to have worked with such a lovely team,”

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Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections: ‘These layoffs and cuts are not difficult decisions, but simply profit being put over the people that make this company run’

Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections in response to tech giant workforce cuts over the past few months. According to The Guardian, the union-led petition calls for guaranteed severance, buyouts before mandatory layoffs, and the option to take severance as extended paid leave. Employees reportedly chanted “Google, Google, you

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No, Doom maker id Software hasn’t been “nerfed into the ground and gutted” by the Xbox cuts, insists director Hugo Martin

Legal documents suggested id Software lost nearly three quarters of its 185-person staff in the layoffs, reducing the workforce to 49 people – a move people who worked there referred to as “a bloodbath”. This prompted the suggestion id Software would become a support studio for Xbox rather than one capable of making full-scale games

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Castlevania Belmont’s Curse could just be a gaming classic whipped back into shape

Likewise, Castlevania Belmont’s Curse’s visual stylings struck me immediately. The game is rich with colour. Each major region – of which there were three in the demo I played – was distinct and gorgeous. The game would play with dark wine reds and earthy tones to present a Paris overrun one hour, then vivid greens

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“It has to make sense for the game” – EA sees a “huge opportunity” for in-game advertising “but it has to be done properly”

Sports games can be "so much more authentic". Last month, EA announced a new advertising platform allowing brands to hawk their wares to potential customers from directly inside its games – as in, directly during gameplay. This has naturally led to concerns about what this will mean. Will the next Mass Effect game try to

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The company that makes all the West’s chipmaking machines says it’s selling more than it expected thanks to ‘very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic’

ASML, the company that makes the semiconductor machines that every big Western chipmaker uses to make their chips, has “raised its guidance”—i.e., increased its predictions over how well it’s going to do—for the year. It says this is thanks to being able to keep up with customer demand coming from both memory and processor/accelerator chipmakers.

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“It’s not that we don’t care about PC” – Former Rockstar developer suggests why GTA 6 is only coming to consoles at launch

Better to start with consoles' "constraints". Speaking in a lengthy, all-encompassing chat with YouTuber KiwiTalkz (thanks IGN), Ricchio explained that while many developers have traditionally favoured a PC-first approach and then scaled down to consoles, “It just causes so [many] problems down at the end”. Instead, as is seemingly Rockstar’s approach, it’s better to start

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