That was quick. Hasbro has reportedly cancelled the single-player Dungeons & Dragons action-adventure being made by Star Wars Jedi director Stig Asmussen, less than a year after it was announced. Read more Read Full Article read more

The rumours are true: Kingdom Come Deliverance studio Warhorse really is making a Lord of the Rings role-playing game. More specifically, it's making an open-world Middle-earth RPG. Read more Read Full Article read more

At Digital Dragons this year I somehow found myself attending a panel about games industry investment and publishing deals, featuring various senior M&A people gathered under the dread banner of "Capital Reality". It felt like visiting another planet, occupied by towering creatures of gold and green paper, who spoke an earwax-curdling vocabulary of phrases like… read more

Housemarque is the talk of the town again following Saros' launch, and now another veteran from the Finnish studio, Returnal game director Harry Krueger, is aiming to deliver something that feels familiar with a new game studio. Read more Read Full Article read more

Google is adding a new Android feature that resembles Apple's Handoff, allowing you to start a task on your Android phone and continue it right where you left off from a compatible tablet. "Continue On" is designed to eventually be bidirectional, but Google says that at launch it will only support tasks moving from a… read more

Embracer Group are threatening folks with a good time. Fresh off splitting themselves into a not at all confusing selection of companies rather than just the one (something they've got form for doing) the publishers have noted that as part of forming a new IP & licensing business, they'll be "more actively" exploring licensing out… read more

Pokémon Pokopia has been a hit on Nintendo Switch 2, and its ongoing events are keeping players glued to it. One especially dedicated player has been working on a recreation of the first-generation Kanto map with Pokopia's Minecraft-like tools, and they're almost finished now. Read more Read Full Article read more

There is no denying that plenty of RPGs, purposefully designed so or not, are some kind of power fantasy. You're the destined hero, the chosen one, you've heard it all before. Outward 2, like its predecessor, doesn't position you as such a figure. You are simply just a regular adventurer, surviving as best they can.… read more

We're back at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, for this year's edition of Google I/O. These days, Silicon Valley is buzzing about the future of AI search, agents, vibe coding, and e-commerce, so you can bet we're expecting to hear tons of news on these fronts. And who knows, we might get a… read more

An "AI video contest" run by Party Animals devs Recreate Games has been canceled, and the studio has issued an apology today. Last week, Recreate announced the contest, encouraging users to make Party Animals-themed videos with AI prompts, with up to $75,000 in prize money up for grabs. The community backlash was so overwhelming that… read more

The boss of toy giant Hasbro believes the sci-fi role-playing game space, which famously counts BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy among it, "hasn't had a good game in a long time". Moreover he – Chris Cocks – believes Hasbro's new game Exodus will change that. Read more Read Full Article read more

It wouldn't be Subnautica 2 if there wasn't a little bit more controversy to be found, would it? This time it comes in the form of the game's EULA which, as roughly collated by a post over on the Stop Killing Games subreddit, includes some stipulations that certainly sound a bit sketchy on the face… read more