Month: July 2025

Playstation

Ready or Not Dev Releases Before-and-After Screenshots as It Battles Against ‘Censorship’ Backlash and Steam Review-Bomb Campaign

VOID Interactive has responded to player backlash after it made changes to the PC version of its controversial shooter Ready or Not in order to secure a console release, citing “misconceptions and misinformation” about the amendments. Yesterday, July 2, we reported that VOID said it had to adjust levels of gore, nudity, violence, and the […]

Mobile

Blizzard Says Warcraft Rumble Won’t Get Any New Content as Microsoft Layoffs Hit Development Team

As the full effect of Microsoft’s devastating round of layoffs becomes clearer, Blizzard has announced that mobile game Warcraft Rumble won’t get any new content, with its developers reporting they have been laid off. Warcraft Rumble was a high-profile attempt by Blizzard to bring the Warcraft universe into the lucrative mobile space. Development began in […]

Xbox

Microsoft Insists Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Isn’t Retiring ‘Anytime Soon’ in Response to Rumors Following Mass Layoffs

Microsoft has insisted Xbox boss Phil Spencer isn’t retiring “anytime soon,” amid rumors over the executive’s future at the company following yesterday’s mass layoffs. Around 4%, or just over 9,000 staff, were cut across Microsoft, and while the majority of those layoffs were outside the gaming business, Xbox studios were hit hard. Rare’s Everwild, for […]

Movies

Marvel’s Black Panther 3 Director Ryan Coogler Responds to Questions Around Ironheart’s Future, Whether Its Characters Might Return, and a Potential Season 2: ‘I Don’t Know Jack S**t’

Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and executive producer of its spin-off Ironheart, has said he knows “jack s**t” about when the latter’s characters will now return. Ironheart wrapped up its brief two-week release schedule on Disney+ a couple days ago, with several major cliffhangers that leave its characters’ next steps uncertain. But […]

PC

Veteran Banjo-Kazooie, Sea of Thieves Director Gregg Mayles Reportedly Leaving Rare After Everwild Cancellation

Gregg Mayles, the veteran Rare designer and director, will reportedly depart the studio following yesterday’s sweeping cuts of Xbox staff and projects that included the long-in-development Everwild. Mayles’ departure, as reported by VGC, ends an influential career at Rare stretching back more than 35 years, to the studio’s origins developing games like Battletoads for NES […]

Xbox

Dune: Awakening’s Huge 1.1.10.00 Update Has a Long List of Patch Notes

Dune: Awakening developer Funcom has deployed a raft of changes to prove it’s responding nimbly to player feedback. Previously, Funcom launched Dune: Awakening’s Public Test Client and then extended the PvE zone of the Deep Desert from about 10% of the map to 50%. It followed an AMA in which the studio told players frustrated […]

Playstation

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Hotfix 8.1 Addresses Crashes, Disconnects, and Rewards Problems in Response to Siege Mode Complaints

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 got its hotly anticipated Siege Mode update last week, and while fans are enjoying it, crashes and disconnects have marred the experience. Siege Mode is Space Marine 2’s take on the classic video game Horde mode. It sees teams of three players fight against increasingly difficult waves of Tyranid and […]

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