Author: Zach Barbieri

As part of an effort to restructure their company, Sega announced last week that they would be canceling their upcoming live service shooter Hyenas along with several unannounced titles being developed in Europe. This came as a shock Considering Hyenas had just had a beta and was considered close to release, after six years of development on it. The developer behind the game, Creative Assembly, has suggested that the reason for this cancellation was due to their “Ambitious” plans for the game. They also pointed to the crowded multiplayer shooter space as another reason, though it should be noted the…

Kumi Souls Games has finally announced a release date for one of my most anticipated indie titles this year, The Last Faith. The game was announced years ago, with trailers being released during Summer Game Fest, and again during Gamescom to announce the games beta on Steam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k3Ts85JDmo While we knew, or at least were told, the game was going to release before the end of 2023 it would appear the studio is following through. The date for release is November 15th, a little over a month away from now. The Last Faith is a Metroidvania Soulslike that looks poised…

Nintendo has announced that they will be bringing an end to “online play and other functionality” for both the 3DS and WII U in “early April” 2024. Despite this potentially being unhappy news to many Nintendo fans, it should not be unexpected as the company has spent the better part of the last year winding down these services. The biggest part of this was the closure of the Eshop on both platforms earlier this year. In an official statement from Nintendo, they stated: In early April 2024, online play and other functionality that uses online communication will end for Nintendo 3DS…

Nintendo has announced that they plan to support the Nintendo Switch console, on the hardware side, till at least March of 2024, They also stated that the console will continue to receive new games until March 2025. This information comes from a recent interview with Nikkei, in which Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about the company’s plans for the successor of their popular Nintendo Switch console. Furukawa held back from giving anything major away but confirmed plans to support the Switch till the end of this fiscal year, which will end in March of 2024. Furukawa stated that Nintendo…

The upcoming compilation of Batman: Arkham games for the Nintendo Switch, which was set to release on October 13th, has been delayed back to December of this year. The collection was announced during a Nintendo event earlier this year, promising to let Nintendo Switch players dawn Batman’s signature cowl and play three of the best superhero games anywhere they go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVMNvvaXJ2s In an official statement released by Warner Bros., it was stated: More time is needed to bring players the best possible experience on Nintendo Switch. We apologize to fans who are excited to play this version of the trilogy.…

Coming on the heels of a large number of layoffs across the industry, it appears that Naughty Dog is laying off several employees. This comes in conjunction with the news that the Last of Us Multiplayer/Live Service game is currently ‘on ice’. This is just the latest in what has been a tumultuous development cycle. Naughty Dog, which is home to around 400 developers, will be laying off 25 employees from the company according to a report from Kotaku. According to this report, these layoffs are set to impact the company’s QA department with full-time employees to be unaffected. Additionally,…

Despite the confirmed focus on graphics in the upcoming survival horror game Alan Wake II, it was recently confirmed that the game would feature a performance mode on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This has been something both consoles have struggled with in recent months, Final Fantasy XVI on PS5 struggled to maintain a 60 frame rate and often dropped to 40 or lower, and Starfield was locked to 30 frames on the Series X. A question that was left from the announcement, noticeable due to specifically mentioning only the systems above, was whether the Series S would…

A season of large-scale downsizing in the video game industry is set to continue as Team17, the developer of the Worms and Overcooked franchises, as well as the Publisher of indie hits Dredge and Blasphemous, will also be laying off employees. This comes on the heels of last week, which saw major publishers like Sega, Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Epic Games all doing the same. Similarly to those other cases, the loss of jobs is being blamed on a “Company Restructure” and will eliminate 50 positions from the company. The majority of these positions will be from the Publisher’s QA department.…

Hogwarts legacy has had a mixed bag of a year all things considered. On the one hand, the title premiered earlier this year on the next-generation hardware to rave reviews. The PC release at the same time set a strong concurrent player count. The other hand presents Warner Brothers’ desire to not alienate portions of their player base by releasing the game on both the previous gen and the far more antiquated Nintendo Switch, the latter proving the most difficult. While this in itself is not a horrible thing for a developer or publisher to want, this process has proven…

With only 5 months remaining until Square Enix’s hotly anticipated follow-up to Final Fantasy VII Remake, entitled Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the age-old question of “Will we see the remake on another platform other than Sonys PlayStation?” once again began to make the rounds. According to Leaker NateDrake, in a post on Famiboards, the studio still has no plans to port the game to an Xbox console, or the speculative Nintendo Switch 2 at this point. While this remains par for the course with how the remake series has been handled up to this point, several facts have changed for…