Author: Zach Barbieri

Earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled its reboot of the Perfect Dark franchise, a game that had been in development since around 2018. The title first received a trailer in 2024, years after being announced, during the Xbox Games Show in June of that year, skipping the next year completely, which was an indicator it might have been in some trouble, inevitably being cancelled a month later. After this, we learned that in a bid to save the project, developers involved with the Perfect Dark reboot began shopping the idea around to publishers, one of which approached and the closest to…

*This news article will contain some potential spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem. These cannot be confirmed if it is accurate at this time. GameStop has been known, from time to time, to list the exact wrong thing on their site when concerning an upcoming game (remember The Last of Us Part 2 killing dogs debacle?) And now it appears Resident Evil Requiem is the latest to hit this pitfall. In particular, this leak concerns a plot point that has been much debated since the title was initially announced: who you play as. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wFNN1f6hF8 We know that players will take the…

Katsuhiro Harada, long-time developer, Executive Producer, and Director of the popular fighting franchise Tekken, has announced that he will be departing from Bandai Namco after having worked across the company for over 30 years. The 55-year-old developer, who has been involved with every Tekken game since the series launched in 1994, has stated in a post made on social media that the death of close friends, along with the retirement or death of senior colleagues, has made him reflect on his time left as a creator He also stated advice from Ken Kutaragi, the “father of playstation”, supported him in…

New studio Chaos Manufacturing has announced its debut title, Sol Shogunate, which looks like it should delight fans of games such as Stellar Blade, Black Myth: Wukong, Ghost of Yotei, and Ninja Gaiden 4, to name a few. In it, you play as a Samurai fighting armies and shoguns through a technologically advanced sci-fi space landscape made up of traditional iconography, mixed with more modern ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCZ7nC1ybY In Sol Shogunate, players take the roles of Yuzuki, a lone survivor from a once-powerful samurai family. After a rival clan murders her family, she does the obvious and begins to carve a…

Spry Fox, the developer behind the Cozy Grove series of games, as well as the upcoming Spirit Crossing, will soon return to co-founders Daniel Cook and David Edrery. According to the publication Game File, the move is keeping in line with the changing policies at Netflix, which is additionally evidenced by the shutdown of the internal studio known as Team Blue last year. Unlike that, however, Spry Fox will remain as a studio, with Netflix having reportedly sold the studio back to its original creators, though no details on the deal have been made public yet. The studio was founded…

In a recent interview with Japanese publication Real Sound, Metal Gear series producer Noriaki discussed what is next for the Metal Gear Solid franchise following the strong performance of the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, a remake of the classic PS2 title, released in August. While Konami had attempted to continue the franchise shortly after the departure of series creator Hideo Kojima with Metal Gear Survive, the series has remained mostly dormant following the fallout between Kojima and Konami, serving both as a strong return for the series as well as Konami, leaving several possibilities open for the studio.…

IO Interactive has a few projects in development, such as the upcoming 007: First Light, set to release next year. Despite branching out, the developer has confirmed that more Hitman is on the horizon, though a timeframe is currently unknown. In an interview with Variety, CEO Hakan Abrak stated in no uncertain words, “Of course there will be more Hitman.” Right now, though, those talks are on hold until after Co-op is added to Hitman: World of Assassins, which continues to receive updates from the developer. Abrak stated in the interview: So, of course, there will be more Hitman, but…

CD Projekt has committed to a plan to release the next three games in the The Witcher series, a Ciri-led trilogy of games starting with The Witcher 4, within a 6-year timeframe. This is an ambitious plan, given the current game development cycles and the size of a traditional Witcher game. This was brought up during a financial call, in which Jjoin CEO Michal Nowakowski, who stated that the company  “should be delivered in a shorter period of time.” This is due in part to the development shift to Unreal Engine 5, which will additionally be used for development on…

When playing Sintopia, the phrase “This is my hell” came to mind. Everybody has probably said that at some point, but I’m guessing one of those times was while behind a desk or a counter, staring at the clock, hoping the last five minutes of work will tick away. This is why the idea of hell being a bureaucratic nightmare seems like such an enticing motif. Television, like Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, Purgatony, and most recently Hazbin Hotel, have all, in some context, depicted the monotony of paper pushing juxtaposed with the brutality of eternal damnation. Have A Nice…

It appears that a PC Version of Game of the Year-nominated Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is set to be announced soon. This is according to a listing that has popped up on the ESRB website. Gematsu has also reported that the publisher listed on the site is Sony Interactive Entertainment. This is interesting as, while SIE was involved with the original title, which was ported to PC eight months after release, 505 Games was the listed publisher on that port. With Kojima Productions having acquired the Death Stranding IP from Sony last year, it might have stood to…