Epic Games Store boss quits after 8 years to take up new role at Saber Interactive

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XAfter an eight year stretch as vice president and general manager of the Epic Games Store, Steve Allison has left Epic Games to take up the mantle of chief business officer at Saber Interactive. Allison said in a statement (via Games Industry) that he’s “extremely impressed” with what Saber Interactive’s founders have built. “Saber’s strength … Read more

Future Games Show returns to Gamescom with 3 shows

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Three videogame showcases from PC Gamer publisher Future will air at this year’s Gamescom in August: “Future Games Show at Gamescom” and “FGS Live From Gamescom” on August 26, and “FGS Best Of Gamescom” when the convention wraps up on Sunday, August 30. The first of the three shows “will bring viewers world premieres, exclusive … Read more

Steve Buscemi joins the Far Cry TV series cast and now we’re all wondering: will he be a weird, helpful NPC, or a weirdly charismatic villain?

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Have you ever thought to yourself, I bet Steve Buscemi would make a good Far Cry villain? I think he would. He’s charismatic, superficially good-natured, kind of odd looking, extremely high-strung, and prone to sudden, sometimes random outbursts of extreme violence. And I’m not the only one who thinks so—the people making the live-action Far … Read more

Fighting game developer previously accused of sexual harassment confirmed to be working on Avatar Legends a week before release

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In 2023, I reported that the development team of then-upcoming fighting game Diesel Legacy included Mike Zaimont, previously a developer on Skullgirls and Indivisible who had been accused of sexual misconduct at Lab Zero, the indie studio behind those games. Diesel Legacy released to little fanfare more than a year later, but the next fighting … Read more

Dead Space creator and Call of Duty veteran Glen Schofield announces retirement: ‘I had a front row seat to one of the greatest creative explosions in history’

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Glenn Schofield, the creator of Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol, has announced his retirement after 35 years in the industry. In a LinkedIn video post, Schofield thanked his family, Electronic Arts and Activision, and “the people who supported us in videogames”. “The past couple of decades have been some of the greatest times in … Read more

WoW devs hotfix annoying grappling hook that takes a spot on your action bar, despite only being used in one zone

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Original story: I’m pretty neutral on World of Warcraft’s current in-between patch content—this sort of thing isn’t necessarily Blizzard’s strong suit, and you get losers and winners. I’m already deeply ambivalent to the Omnium Folio, but I’ve been having an acceptable time in its void invasion zones. Sometimes it’s nice to just turn your brain … Read more

Latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates stamp out a record 622 security vulnerabilities, as the company’s AI-enhanced bug hunt looks to bear fruit

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As much as AI has its drawbacks, it’d be wrong to say it doesn’t have its uses. Case in point, Microsoft’s previous commitment to leverage AI vulnerability detection in Windows security updates looks to be bearing fruit, as the latest Patch Tuesday release fixes an astonishing 622 CVEs across its products. Which is a new … Read more

That annoying day one DLC in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was less than 3% of its initial Steam sales, but hey, $1 million is $1 million

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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is, naturally, a modern Ubisoft game—and as modern Ubisoft games are wont to do, it had some really annoying DLC wrapped up into it alongside an in-game cash shop. One point of contention was a day-one map pack DLC for five bucks, which reveals the location of every collectible in … Read more

The designer of cult classic King of Dragon Pass says his upcoming hellish heist game is pushing the boundaries of a concept he invented in 1999: ‘There’s really nothing else quite like it’

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In 1999, designer David Dunham and his studio A Sharp released King of Dragon Pass. Part mythic fantasy RPG, part cattle management sim, King of Dragon Pass was initially a commercial failure—but it gradually amassed a cult following, and is remembered today by those with excellent taste as one of the finest narrative experiences in … Read more

I reckon Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of the series’ best, and a former Ubisoft director agrees it’s ‘One of the most underestimated games in the series’

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Assassin’s Creed Unity, it hardly needs to be said, had its share of problems. At launch, the game which was intended to be Ubisoft’s big technical showcase on the then-new PS4 and Xbox One was rife with sometimes-hilarious bugs, filled with map barf, crammed with microtransactions, had a rather odd emphasis on co-op gameplay in … Read more