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That Game of Thrones RTS is still coming, still very HBO, but no longer due out this year

Game of Thrones: War for Westeros—the upcoming RTS from PlaySide emerging from the blasted wreckage of HBO’s once-water-cooler-dominating fantasy TV series—would like you to know it still exists and is still coming out. Just, you know, a little later than it originally had planned. War for Westeros originally broke cover at last year’s Summer Game

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“The Gears of War trilogy was largely developed hungover by me” – Cliff Bleszinski reckons with a difficult past while plotting a return to games and a brighter future

In a candid interview with 80 level, Bleszinski, now 51 years old, recalled the moment he was handed a bottle of vodka on an Unreal Tournament press tour in 2003 and his drinking began, and how a culture of heavy drinking in the games industry encouraged it. “You go to your GDCs, you go to

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Call of Duty voice chat lobbies turned into ASMR app that takes veterans back to the cacophonies of the MW2 and BO1 days

Mike Wing, who’s already crafted other off-beat apps like Steam Sale Simulator and Xbox 360 Messenger, uploaded Call of Duty Ambience to AppDrop, a site where developers can upload their own small applications. “Most people fall asleep to white noise… I fall asleep to grown men arguing in CoD lobbies,” Wing wrote as the app

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AYANEO tugs at your nostalgia once again with a new Game Boy Advance clone

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. At the beginning of July, AYANEO began teasing a new Android handheld that would “reimagine” an icon from the golden era of gaming handhelds. The company eventually revealed that the device would be called the KONKR Pocket Advance. Yesterday, AYANEO shared a teaser

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Those rumoured Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas remasters are real, Fallout 5 is in pre-production, and Fallout 76 is getting a massive expansion

The next canon game in the RPG series, Fallout 5, didn’t get much information as part of this announcement, but Howard notes “Fallout 5 remains our long-range destination”. Given the post notes explicitly that there will be a massive celebration for Fallout Day 2027 (typically held on 23rd October), we can probably expect movement on

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Starfield “remains an important part of our future” says Bethesda, as developer pledges continued support for sci-fi RPG

This comes from a staggering blog post from Bethesda Game Studios, which addresses the future of all of its different RPG series. Starfield gets its own dedicated section, titled “Starfield Continues”, Bethesda revealed the game has been played by over 17m players for nearly a billion hours. It also says outright that Starfield “remains an

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Battlefield 6 is getting an evolved Carrier Assault mode in Season 4, and the Top Gun collab brings more than cosmetics

And that Top Gun collaboration will involve more than skins and cosmetics, which is beyond what many people expected. As seen in the gameplay trailer, the iconic F-14 Tomcat aircraft (F-74A Seacat in-game) is coming to the game, alongside the F/A-81F Super Spectre (F/A-18 Super Hornet). The pair are the game’s first two-seater jets, making

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Not so much James Bond, more Mission Impossible – 007 First Light was originally more of an ensemble piece, says IO Interactive

"During the training sequence, we make a false promise." The traces of IO’s original approach can still be felt in First Light, as British spy headquarters MI6 restarts the double-O programme and recruits Bond to join a series of other young hopefuls-in-training. Bond jets to Malta and slowly ingratiates himself with the other trainees there.

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Marathon director Joe Ziegler leaves Bungie just four months after launch

In an update posted to Twitter on Friday, Ziegler announced Friday 17th July was his last day at the studio, and that he was “passing the torch of game director” to Del Chafe III and Julia Nardin, insisting: “both of them have been operating in a strong leadership capacity for the team and are ready

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