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Days after leaving Xbox, South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games broadcasts that it’s looking for work

"We are excited to support the development of memorable experiences." The South of Midnight and We Happy Few developer has announced it’s now open to new “opportunities to collaborate”, and is looking to “support the development of memorable projects” being made elsewhere – suggesting it’s not necessarily preoccupied making a game of its own. “With

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 needs its own version of Black Ops 7’s Classic mode or it risks sidelining its oldest and most loyal fans

If you play COD multiplayer with any regularity, or even keep up with community chatter around each yearly release, this sentiment should be familiar. A part of it is to do with people getting older and reflexes slowing, which has forever been the way, but as much of it is to do with changes to

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This is my 3rd time playing EVE Online’s upcoming extraction shooter little brother, and it finally feels like it’s coming together⁠—all without the ambitious crossover features it was made for

Back in 2013, EVE Online creator CCP Games attempted an ambitious FPS to tie in with its legendary galactic economics MMO. Dust 514 didn’t end up having legs⁠—not the least because it was a PS3 exclusive⁠—but the developer, now known as Fenris Creations, didn’t give up on the vision. Fenris’ London office is carrying on

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

Halo reporter Rebs Gaming originated the story on YouTube, saying they’d heard from multiple employees at Halo Studios that Project Ekur was no longer in development. The claim was backed up this afternoon by well-Microsoft-connected Windows Central reporter Jez Corden, who said the information was “100 percent true”. A week earlier, however, Rebs Gaming had

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

"I don't want to sound like a Sony fanboy but after 32 years, forgive me." It’s why, when he took an apparent potshot at Microsoft’s running of Xbox on Linkedin recently, people noticed. Layden wrote (in a comment since deleted): “At the risk of sounding like a ‘hater’ (which I’m really not), the moves evince

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

Microsoft must "think twice before ever attempting something like this again." Earlier this week, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced 3,200 job cuts impacting some of the most recognisable studios in the games industry. 1,600 of those cuts were effective immediately, with the remaining layoffs due to occur before the end of Microsoft’s current financial

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

A few of the things that have us hooked this week. Here’s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don’t have to! The What We’ve Been Playing archive has you covered. Aside from some time spent exploring the Caribbean in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced for work this week, it’s

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

"Valve loves it when Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 throw customisable genitals at you in the first five minutes, but of course I can't, because I actually have something to say about genitals!" If you’re wondering about that “ongoing” part, Yang also refers to his release model of choice as GaaS (Gay as a

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Halo Studios reportedly cancels Halo multiplayer project Ekur, which had customisable Spartans and Elites and large player battles

"Zoom out over the last decade and things get really crazy." That’s according to estimates by number cruncher Alinea Analytics, and Rhys Elliott, the head of market analysis there, reckons there are myriad reasons why Steam’s doing so well. The prevalence of the Chinese market, higher prices on new releases, and third-party publishers returning to

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