Ever since Microsoft announced a wave of layoffs that would affect 1,900 people – over 800 of whom work for Activision-Blizzard – the officially stated reason for why has changed a couple of times. An interview from Polygon has now brought a third excuse out of Microsoft, as CEO Phil Spencer now says that layoffs […]

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has only been out for a week but Capcom is already considering the possibility of adding content to the game in the future. The action-RPG has been met with widespread critical acclaim (and, yes, no shortage of player grievances), and it looks like the game’s publisher may want to keep the…

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Microsoft seems poised for an all-digital future, folks. The company is swapping the black coating on the Xbox Series X for white and pulling the disc-drive for an all-digital refresh of its “most powerful Xbox ever,” according to eXputer.

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Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6’s cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and has been launching on different platforms ever since, all while weirdly obfuscating the fact that it’s still in beta. For example, as we noted, the game’s Steam launch early this week […]

Have we said how utterly bizarre it is to see RIFT pop up in our feeds this much recently? Not that we’re complaining, mind you; we root for this underdog fantasy MMO to defy the odds and forge a future. And part of that future is making sure that the servers is work properly. To […]

PAX East was in Boston this past week, and while there were some heavy hitters at the show like Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios and Square Enix showing off Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail expansion, the show didn’t have a ton of big names.

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Another company has escaped the gaping, acquisition-hungry maw that is publisher Embracer Group, as Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has been sold to Take-Two Interactive. This lines up with Kotaku’s previous reporting on the matter in February, in which sources told us Gearbox was nearing a sale. Embracer is…

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Funcom’s Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year’s GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune: Awakening that involved the game’s population size, its activities for PvP and PvE players, and its plans for release as chronicled by WCCFTech. We’ll jump to that release timing question first, […]

I’m filling in some gaps in my RPG history. I’ve been playing series like Final Fantasy since I was a kid, but there are countless other landmark RPGs I’ve rarely touched, including the fantasy RPG Mana series, which splintered off of Final Fantasy Adventure in 1991. The only installment in the long-running franchise…

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The topic of Guild Wars 3 has been a common one over the last few years; when I dredged our articles, the first one I found specifically about Guild Wars 3 went all the way back to 2017 as MMO players speculated about the future of the franchise between expansions. But now Korean press have reported […]