Doom co-creator John Romero’s shooter was a casualty of Microsoft’s cuts, but it’s being “completely redesigned” into a smaller game

Romero Games, the studio founded by Doom co-creator John Romero and Brenda Romero, are marching on despite losing staff after Microsoft suddenly pulling funding for their next shooter amid mass layoffs this summer. Romero says the project isn’t living on in its previous guise, but is instead having elements pulled from it as part of a near-total redesign into a smaller game.

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Post-Black Ops 7, Call of Duty puts a bullet in releasing Modern Warfare or Black Ops entries back-to-back

With Call of Duty Black Ops 7 now out in the wild and having earned a largely mixed reception, Activision have said right, that’s it, time to do a thing. Said thing is committing to no longer releasing entries in the same sub-series, be that Modern Warfare or Black Ops, in back-to-back years going forwards.

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New Divinity trademarks suggest Larian are behind Geoff Keighley’s regal, inspiring and thick teaseage

Three new trademarks which very much look to be related to Larian’s Divinity RPG series have been unearthed, with one closely mirroring the design of a desert monolith Geoff Keighley’s posted a picture of in advance of The Geoff Awards. That monolith teaser, which Keoff captioned “regal.inspiring.thickness” has been the subject of much chatter for the past week or so, as the big showcase hype machine churns.

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Lie to futuristic billionaires so you can steal their stuff in Pentiment and Pratchett-inspired Better Than Us

My husband died in a horrible toilet accident. Also, I’m distantly related to Ronald Reagan and spend summers in an underwater chateau. These aren’t just very true facts about the author of this article, they’re things you can tell the reprehensible billionaires of the future in Better Than Us. It’s the latest work of Vampire Therapist developers Little Bat Games, and it’s set to arrive in 2026.

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced rated by PEGI, as the siren song of remake sea shanties grows deafening

Look lively, me hearties. There, cast your eyes starboard. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PEGI rating ahoy. The fair winds have seemed to be blowing our sails towards Ubisoft’s long-rumoured remake or remaster of the fourth mainline Assassin’s Creed, the one that’s all piratey, for years at this point. At last, it seems, we may be on track to slide our hull into its port.

Our compasses have endured much flitting between different directions, buffetted by the rogue gusts of voice actors saying a thing and many reports also saying things. The seasick landlubbers among us may indeed finally breathe their sigh of relief very soon after all, it would seem.

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Civilization 7 update 1.3.1 drops today, rolling out a new island-filled map and knocking Egypt off the top of the pyramid

This month’s Civ 7 update, 1.3.1, will rock up today, December 9th. Following on from the beefy 1.3.0 update, which added in a bunch of new navally-themed bits and revamped battling at sea, this update’s comparatively compact, but still packs a new map type and some civ balancing tweaks which are well worth being aware of if you’re gonna be Civving over the holidays.

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