World of Warcraft: Forever came out last night. Those who stayed up were prepared for the usual from major WoW releases: long queues, disconnects, and server lag. However, save for a few minor hiccups here and there, things went off without a hitch. Read more Read Full Article read more

It feels like every single week for the past few years has been the infinitely quotable 30 Rock quote on repeat. That feeling struck particularly last month when EA decided to shut down the iconic Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare. That obviously resulted in the cancellation of Mass Effect 5, of which a… read more

An updated version of the Xbox PC app available to Xbox Insiders loads up to 60% faster, and it's got some other nice improvements too. Read Full Article read more

Nintendo's latest financial earnings report is here, revealing healthy software sales thanks to the enormously popular Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Sales of Switch 2 hardware, however, are down. Read more Read Full Article read more

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