The clue, of course, is right there in the title. Developer Freshly Baked Games' Queen's Domain isn't just a retro-fantasy action RPG played in first-person; it's an explicit homage to King's Field, the long-dormant FromSoftware series that – as the precursor to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, Elden Ring, and all those other Soulslikes… read more

Rockstar Games has released a new look at Grand Theft Auto 6 on Nov. 5, with 36 new screenshots of Jason, Lucia, and Vice City. Read Full Article read more

Macronix, longtime Nintendo hardware partner and one of the main producers of ROM memory, has announced it's leaving the business. ROM chips are key components in Switch and Switch 2 cartridges. Read more Read Full Article read more

The STJV union says Microsoft imposed hiring freezes at Arkane that resulted in delays and additional expenses, which it then cited as reasons for shutting it down. Read Full Article read more

ArenaNet and co-dev studio 2Weeks have announced Guild Wars Afterlife – the first major update for the game in nearly 20 years. Read more Read Full Article read more

Raw Power Games, an independent studio comprising veteran developers of The Witcher 3, Total War: Three Kingdoms, and Crusader Kings III (among others), have called on players for support after losing their funding – an existential threat to both the organisation and to their debut, the still-in-development historical strategy game Chronicles: Medieval. Read more Read… read more

Long waits between mainline entries in a series aren’t a new phenomenon, if perhaps a bit more common nowadays due to big games' ballooning development cycles. It took about 23 years for BioWare’s Baldur's Gate 2 to be followed up by Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3, though there were a decent amount of spin-offs and remasters… read more

Unionised workers at Dishonored developers Arkane Lyon have published a fresh statement about the progress of negotiations with Microsoft over the studio's potential closure. Aside from calling on Xbox management to make a redundancy offer proportionate to Microsoft's colossal market value, they accuse the parent company of creating the very economic conditions cited as a… read more

Space station trading game Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim has been doing rather well on Steam, attracting over 162,000 concurrent players last night. I've been feeling the urge to fire it up again myself, after my brief launch-day trawl through its quagmire of black market economics and factional rivalries. The game's big numbers come… read more

God of War Laufey's release date is being delayed to May 20th, 2027, developer Santa Monica Studio announced today. It was set to launch on PlayStation 5 on February 16th. Here is Santa Monica Studio's full message about the delay: Since the reveal of God of War Laufey in June, we've been deeply grateful to… read more

Warzone Season 1 brings everything in line with Call of Duty MW4, and includes two new maps, mechanical changes, and also a reset of your player level. Read Full Article read more

Things are potentially looking up for Arkane, depending on how you feel about Ubisoft (and depending on who actually ends up acquiring them). I mention the Assassin's Creed developer because, reportedly, they're interested in buying the studio from Microsoft, having even made a bid for it. I'll go out on a limb here and say… read more