Riot Games Lays Off 46 as Wave of Games Industry Job Cuts Continues
Riot Games has laid off 46 employees amidst an ongoing wave of industry mass layoffs.The League of Legends developer confirmed to journalist Jacob Wolf that it had eliminated the positions, which were largely concentrated in the company's talent acquisition, recruiting, and publishing departments as well as a few roles in ...
Game Developers Aren’t Sold on the Metaverse
As commonplace as it's become to see big, bold speculations about a futuristic metaverse in games industry discussions, game developers themselves don't seem too hot on the concept.The 2023 State of the Game Industry survey has just been published, canvassing over 2,300 game developers for their situations and opinions on ...
Hold back the endless hordes when Endless Dungeon begins this May
Endless Dungeon is set within Amplitude's Endless universe, but it's neither a 4X strategy game like Endless Space nor a turn-based tactics game like sorta-predecessor Dungeon Of The Endless. It's instead a co-op action roguelike, which takes the spaceship exploration and wave defense of Of The and makes it real-time, ...
Random: ‘Wii Shop Wednesday’ Twitter Account Is Closing Shop
Super Mario RPG... Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong 3.Update Day! We all love Update Day, don't we? Every Wednesday, we all love to shop for the best Wii games when the Wii Shopping Channel gets updated with new games to buy. And, of course, that was the genesis of sketch ...
NetEase staff take hammers to World Of Warcraft statue, calls Blizzard “unseemly and commercially illogical”
Blizzard's 14 year relationship with Chinese publisher NetEase will come to an end on January 23rd, at which time World Of Warcraft will go offline for millions of Chinese players. As the date approaches, NetEase have livestreamed staff dismantling a giant WoW axe statue at their offices with hammers, and ...
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty: High-Level Superplay with Epic Boss Battle – IGN First
From its weapons to its bosses, stages to systems, January’s IGN First has been all about Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. So far, all of our footage has been from earlier stages of the game – but how does developer Team Ninja shake things up later in the game? What kind ...
Remember That Inaccessible Path In Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life? The Remake Might Change That
No link cable needed!For those of us who didn't have a link cable or a Game Boy Advance, the GameCube era sometimes felt like you were getting locked out of content that all the richer kids on the playground would boast about. There was the Tingle Tuner in Wind Waker, ...
UnderDungeon, the First Dungeon Crawler Starring Cats, is Out Now on Xbox
Hey, Xbox fans! We want to share some great news with you. Starting from last Friday, January 13, you can play UnderDungeon on your Xbox consoles. We’re all ultra excited and happy about the release, so if you still haven’t heard of this title (how is this even possible?!), I’m ...
Ubisoft have cancelled yet another video game: Project Q
Ubisoft's Project Q was revealed in April 2022 after several leaks. At the time, it was described as a "team battle arena" game with "a variety of PvP modes" that was in "early development." Now Ubisoft say that they have cancelled it. Read more ...
Talking Point: Does Nintendo’s Next Console Have To Be ‘Another’ Switch?
Bait and Switch?Let’s talk about comeback stories. The Mighty Ducks. Robert Downey Jr. Rocky. Nintendo in 2017. Yep, after the launch of the Wii U, many may have thought that the Big N was out for the count (well, not completely, but certainly left licking its proverbial wounds), but did ...
