More indie developers say they've been forced to delay the impending release of their games as a result of Steam's growing approvals backlog – a relatively recent problem that's believed to stem from an influx of AI slop on the platform. Read more Read Full Article read more

Developer FromSoftware has announced that online multiplayer servers for Dark Souls 2 and 3 are back online following a nearly two-week outage. Read more Read Full Article read more

It's a bit of a time for AI and games at the moment, 'ey? A bad time, obviously, as it's infecting everything from game development, to the modding community, to native PC ports of a remake of a very popular game that I won't link to for fear of a certain company finding out where… read more

Hidden Horses, co-founded by "approximately 20" former id devs, is planning a Kickstarter campaign to help fund its first project. Read Full Article read more

Black Forest Games, developers of the Destroy All Humans! remakes, have spun out of Embracer Group-owned publishers THQ Nordic via a management buyout and announced plans to form a new "developer-driven group" of independent studios. The new group, dubbed Third Signal, will aim to "give teams the independence, resources and creative freedom" to "bring their… read more

Back in July, Doom developers id Software laid off around a hundred people as part of wider Microsoft blood-letting. Now, a few of those devs have founded a new employee-owned studio, Hidden Horses. Their first project is Danger Pay, a single-player FPS influenced by ancient arcade blaster Smash TV (pictured) and dystopian movies such as… read more

Katsuhiro Harada, formerly director on the Tekken series, is known for not pulling his punches. This truth was reinforced recently, as he said he wished the Xbox Series S "wouldn't be released" at a developer panel. All while a member of the Xbox team was in the room. Read more Read Full Article read more

PlayStation 5 has officially surpassed 100m consoles sold, Sony's updated sales data revealed. The milestone was reached on 10th November, almost exactly six years on from the console's launch. Read more Read Full Article read more

UPDATE 11TH NOVEMBER: Grand Theft Auto 6 has also become the most pre-ordered game "of all time" on the Xbox Store, Microsoft has announced. And on that platform, again, the advice is to pre-load because of "unprecedented demand" for the game, a post on Xbox Wire said. Read more Read Full Article read more

Since they released The Outer Worlds 2 around this time last year, the world has rather turned upside down for Obsidian. The studio lost a chunk of staff to Microsoft's mass layoffs and have pivoted to making a new Fallout game as a smaller group shoved underneath Bethesda in Xbox's corporate structure. Given all that,… read more

Valve released an early update to Proton Experimental to bring fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS including Steam Deck, Steam Machine and Steam Frame.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. Read Full Article read more

Valve has released a new Steam update that adds Steam Deck framerate data to a game's store page, giving potential buyers an indication of how well a game runs on the handheld. Read more Read Full Article read more