Author: Zach Barbieri

Ubisoft has ceased game development at the North Carolina-based studio Red Storm Entertainment, resulting in the loss of 105 jobs. This, according to a source who spoke with the site Gameindustry.biz. The studio will remain open, but the remaining employees will be refocused to work on the Snowdrop Engine, along with IT and customer relations. Red Storm Entertainment was founded in 1996 and has since been closely associated with the Tom Clancy-branded military shooters, including Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. The studio also had experience developing for VR, having worked on Werewolves Within and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR. They were…

The developer behind Alan Wake II, Remedy, has released the final update for their first-person shooter live service spin-off of their Control series, FBC: Firebreak. Available to install now, this final update adds a friend’s pass system to the game, allowing up to three friends to play while only one person needs to own the game. Alongside this, the price of the game, which was previously $39.99, has received a permanent decrease to $19.99. All of this follows the game failing to find an audience after launching last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScDCimMDtqM Remedy has stated that they plan to keep the servers…

Warner Bros. Games has announced that LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has had its release date moved. Instead of arriving on the previously announced date of May 29, the title will now arrive on May 22, a week earlier. This release date is for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC, with a Nintendo Switch 2 release planned for a later date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCGdYd_Uj44 This news was announced via a new trailer for the game, for which the studio captioned the video by stating, “You signaled. He answered.” The original release date was announced in December of last year, during…

CD Projekt has stated that there are “No Plans for further or additional Cyberpunk 2077 content beyond the 2023 expansion, Phantom Liberty. This news comes amid reports that the studio is currently developing a secret expansion for its 2015 title, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, which is rumored to be developed by Fool’s Theory, the studio behind The Witcher Remake. The Polish studio responded to a fan’s question on social media, directed at the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account. In response to a question regarding whether the FPS action RPG would get any secret new DLC, the company stated, “We have no…

With the narrative of Tales of Berseria, Namco Bandai feels like they crafted a more poignant narrative for now than they did when it was originally released. Coming out of COVID-19, we saw multiple economies far weaker than they have been in recent memory. The solution that came out of that, as always, was blame your neighbor and trust us, the wealthy and the powerful, to bring order back into your life. It’s a sad state of affairs; I feel like I have seen it in a cyclical nature since I was 10, only having developed the words to articulate…

The director of Resident Evil Requiem, Koshi Nakanishi, has confirmed plans for the game’s post-launch content. This announcement was via a post made by the director on X in which he once again thanked players for the strong sales of the title, with the game hitting 5 million sales last week, along with a big demand for physical copies of the game. In this video, it was confirmed that there are multiple plans for the latest Resident Evil game, including a story expansion, a mini-game planned for May, and a photo mode. https://twitter.com/RE_Games/status/2031325052268921100?s=20 In this video, Nakanishi stated: We’re planning to…

The original GreedFall was not a game I expected to love. It was one of those titles I skipped at launch, having not liked a previous title from Spiders, eventually playing it two years later or so. Sure, there was a little jank there. Ok, a lot of jank. They aren’t a top-tier developer. But there was something there, winning me over every step of the way. Eventually, I would own the game on about three systems, and it is in there with Cyberpunk 2077 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance as an RPG I could pick up at any point in…

Microsoft’s new CEO, Asha Sharma, who took over for the previous long-serving Xbox boss, Phil Spencer last week, following his retirement, has confirmed the next-generation Xbox hardware that is currently in development. Codenamed Project Helix, it was also confirmed that the machine will run PC games, something that has long been rumored of the hardware. Sharma took to X today, posting about this upcoming console. She stated: Great start to the morning with Team Xbox, where we talked about our commitment to the return of Xbox, including Project Helix, the code name for our next-generation console. Project Helix will lead…

Well-received puzzle and action platformer Kena: Bridge of Spirits will be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 platform this spring, developer Ember Labs has announced. The title was originally released for PlayStation 5 and PC in 2021, thanks in part to funding from Sony Interactive Entertainment under a console-exclusive deal, with Kena eventually making her way to Xbox in 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_veh2kXT2ck The Nintendo Switch 2 version of Kena: Bridge of Spirits is set to include both the Anniversary DLC and the New Game+ mode. This will include features like additional “Charmstones, Spirit Guide Trials, Kena Outfits, and accessibility features.” The…

Last year, when I was scrolling through Netflix, I stumbled upon the most recent City Hunter film. It looked stupid as hell, but Masanobu Ando was up in there, and lord knows I haven’t seen him since he was doing Takashi Miike westerns with Quentin Tarantino and his classic crazy hair, so I figured, why not? He was killed off about 10 minutes in, which I would have remembered. If I had any recollection of the source material, Ryohei Suzuki did such a good job as Ryo Saeba that the film was actually a pleasant watch. I’m not really sure…