Author: Zach Barbieri

2k Games has announced that two of their most anticipated titles, Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country, are set to be showcased during The Video Game Awards later this week. This makes a fair amount of sense as Mafia had previously said more would be shown of the game in December, and both titles were previously teased during Opening Night Live of Gamescom 2024, another event run by The Video Game Awards head Geoff Keighley. Both the Borderlands account as well as the Mafia account took to X, formerly Twitter, today to post short clips in anticipation of the…

After the release of its first and only major DLC expansion Phantom Liberty, CD Projekt Red had suggested that Cyberpunk 2077 would begin winding down support as the team moved on to the sequel of the title, as well as the next game in The Witcher series. This doesn’t appear to be the case however as the Cd Projekt Red has confirmed yet another major update, numbered 2.2 for Cyberpunk 2077, surprising fans in the process. CD Projekt took to X, Formally Twitter, to announce an upcoming episode of their REDstreams which is slated for December 10th to announce the…

The open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki, from former Legend of Zelda director Kentaro Tominaga, has crossed the 10 million download threshold since releasing on December 5th of this year. Additionally, the developer behind the game, Infold Games, is celebrating the achievement with in-game rewards. The studio revealed this milestone via a post on X (formerly Twitter), which revealed that it was achieved within just 4 days of release. Players will now have access to 10 free draws in the game’s clothing-based gotcha mechanic as thanks for their support of the title. Players can access this reward by opening their in-game…

Square Enix’s latest remake, Dragon Quest HD-2D Remake, has reached 2 million copies sold since the game was released on November 14th. The title see’s a return to the original trilogy of Enix’s flagship series (now working in reverse as I and II are set to release next year) reimaging the 1988 classic using Square Enix’s panorama mix of 3D graphics and pixel sprites that was popularized by their game Octopath Traveler. Released for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series, and PC this is not the first port or remake of the NES game even if it is the…

Square Enix has announced they will be ending seasonal support for their live service title Foamstars a little less than a year after launch. The Japanese developer has explained that the next seasonal update, the ironically named ‘The Party Goes On!’, will in fact bring an end to the party once and for all. The Party Goes On! will begin on December 13th, 2024, and run until January 17th, 2025. After that, no additional content will be released. In a notice to players Square Enix wrote: In this concluding update, expansions will be introduced to enhance gameplay, such as the…

Deck Nine Games, the developer best known for several games in the Life is Strange series, including Life is Strange: True Colors and the recently released Life is Strange: Double Exposure, has announced layoffs as the year comes to a close. This is the second round of layoffs the studio has undergone this year, having previously let 20% of the studio go in February. The studio released an official statement today via twitter, announcing the news that people would be layed off, without any concrete numbers as to how many will be let go. This release, penned by Cheif officier…

Back in January of this year, the Technical Director of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Yukata Ito shared a photo of source code from the then-upcoming mainline entry of the long-running series. It was an uncommon move among major developers to share such integral parts of their development process. In an interview in late November with Automaton Media, Ito addressed this, with the goal of offering encouragement to coding hopefuls and future developers in the industry. Ito Told Automaton that programming can be “surprisingly simple” He went on to say: I created an X account in the first place because…

Fans of Capcom classic Fighting games might have forgotten, given that Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection was only recently released, Capcom has another Fighting Collection coming soon that they should be excited for. Announced during a Nintendo Direct in August the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is set to release next year, and is now available to preorder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bkLKebJ2so While the collection still has no concrete release date beyond 2025, it hopefully will not be too long before fighting fans and classic game enthusiasts can get their games on this one. It will be $39.99 at launch, slightly cheaper than Marvel…

Steam Concurrent Player numbers for the newly released Marvel Rivals show a large number of players on Steam alone, hitting over 440,000 in concurrent users. This is assumably reflective of a far higher number, given the game saw simoultanious release on PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Series as well with both platforms not making their player counts public. The free-to-play hero shooter developed by NetEase saw a total player count on Steam of 444,286. The reviews for the game are far smaller, featuring about 7,870 reviews at the time of writing this but give the game a mostly positive review…

Ubisoft has announced they will be ending support for the free-to-play fps title XDefiant and shutting it down a little over a year after the title had gone live. In the process of doing so, production studios in both San Francisco and Osaka are set to be closed, with an additional studio in Sydney expected to be “ramped down”. In a note to investors, it was stated that the game was being shuttered after a “thorough review of the game’s performance, profitability, and market conditions.” Ubisoft also stated their intention to be more selective with R&D Investments in the future. This…