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"I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team
Xbox aren't closing or selling off Doom developers id Software as part of their latest business teardown , but they are reportedly laying off around half the studio, with swinging cuts aimed at id's…
While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future
Yesterday, Xbox announced that they were spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring , with 1600 jobs instantly chopped and 1600 more layoffs to…
Xbox's layoffs come with a push to focus on series like Fallout, so naturally New Vegas devs Obsidian have reportedly lost around a quarter of their staff
Xbox laid off around 1600 people yesterday , July 6th, as mass cuts accompanied by the decision to part ways with five studios were set in stone. This substantial upheaval's also had plenty of…
Xbox layoffs mean that Elder Scrolls Online's roadmap is "shifting" just two days before Season One's release... the plan put in place for the MMO after the last round of cuts
Yesterday brought the news that Microsoft were cutting 1600 staff, spinning out four studios, and finding a further 1600 jobs to cut in the year to come . Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said in an email to…
"It's much further along than we originally planned": Fallout: London modders say work on their next game is going "swimmingly", despite DLC delays
Though Last Orders, the second DLC for massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London , is taking longer than Team FOLON originally planned, the modders have revealed that their next game is running ahead of…
ZeniMax's pivot to big series amid Xbox cuts reportedly isn't a death knell for Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein
Xbox have officially announced the scale of the mass layoffs and rejigging of their studio lineup which have loomed on the horizon for the past couple of weeks. While Double Fine, Compulsion Games…
Xbox are parting ways with Double Fine, Arkane, Undead Labs, Compulsion, and Ninja Theory in the course of thousands of layoffs
After weeks of uncertainty , Microsoft have finally revealed what their big Xbox business "reset" involves. Spoilers: it's not great! Gaming division CEO Asha Sharma has announced that they will lay…
Xbox Parts Ways With Five Studios, Over 3,000 Layoffs Announced
Xbox has announced it is splitting from five of its development studios – Compulsion Games, Double Fine Productions, Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, and Arkane Studios – while announcing plans to reduce…
This Donkey Kong Jr. Educational Game Tanked At Launch But Is Now Worth Almost $2,000
The cover art for Donkey Kong Jr. Math. We’ve all heard about sealed copies of Super Mario Bros. selling for millions of dollars. It seems a new record keeps popping up every few years, with the…
Stop judging games by their sales figures, says Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada: “That’s exactly what you’d expect from someone who’s never actually developed games"
I don't think anybody reading these hallowed pages really judges games by their sales figures, but it's nice to hear that perspective affirmed by no less a Legendary Fightguy than Katsuhiro Harada…
This week in PC games: Stardew Valley plus vampires, a lavish gamebook RPG, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, finally
Happy this week, all! Also: huge apologies to the World Cup organisers and teams for any matchside cosmic sabotage brought on by our struggle to feed the Maw. Truth be told, Mexico should have had…
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is suffering similar PSN region locking woes to Helldivers 2, with 132 countries barred according to Steam's backend
PlayStation might have opted to stop putting their single player big hitters on PC going forwards, but they're still committed to porting their online games in the name of juicing player counts. All…
"Smuggle chainsaws onto the pitch": What Blood Bowl's new publisher thinks the World Cup can learn from Warhammer
Last week brought the news that strategy game publisher Slitherine have penned a deal with Cyanide Studios to continue developing Blood Bowl 3 (which will soon become Warhammer Blood Bowl . The…
The Sunday Papers
You know what, reader? Sundays are for whatever you goddamn feel like. Go swimming. Get lost in the woods. Take a kintsugi pottery class. Fix a broken appliance. Eat more than one hot dog. Learn…
Spider-Man PS4 Painting From A Legendary Comic Artist Is The Ultimate Marvel Game Fan Grail
I’ve been dreaming about taking down the Kingpin ever since I first watched Spider-Man: The Animated Series in the 1990s. Marvel’s Spider-Man PS4 game finally gave me that opportunity, and…
Object Impermanence is a puzzle game where the moment you look away from something, it stops existing
Remember when you were a baby, and someone would cover their face with their hands, thusly disappearing entirely from existence, only to return and scream at you? This is to do with something called…
Man a gate and keep out people, chickens and unknown horrors alike in the Paper Please-esque Dreadwoods Gatekeeper
Most Papers Please -likes that I'm aware of tend to all have a throughline in being 2D. That'll for sure be because one, it'll be easier to make and two, most derivative works don't exactly move that…
Build a medieval castle piece by piece and then defend it from enemy knights in the city builder and RTS Bergfried
How about a two-for-one today? Perhaps something from the RTS tower defence and city builder departments? Oh, and we'll throw in a medieval flavouring too, on the house. With all of that mixed…
After spending more than a decade in early access, robotic survival game Scrap Mechanic enters 1.0 later this month
You ever just blink and 10 years of your life have gone by just like that? I wonder if that's how the developers behind Scrap Mechanic feel, given that the survival sandbox game about building fancy…
Dragon Age writer David Gaider's next game is a light-hearted heist RPG, if he can get the funding for it
Since being founded back in 2017, Summerfall Studios have only managed to put out a couple of games, 2023's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical , and last year's Malys , a devil exercising…
Now is the winter of your discontent, console blaggards: the RPS team reflect on PlayStation going digital-only
This week brought the news that Sony will stop selling physical PlayStation games at the start of 2028 . Not just for their own games, but third-party, too. Here in the world of PC gaming, we've…
What are we all playing this weekend?
This weekend marks the first wedding of the season (and the first of three in July alone). There will be suiting, there will be booting, and there will be demanding the DJ plays Toxic. Though, I…
The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – July 3, 2026
Happy July 4th weekend! Fireworks. Lemonade? Hot dogs. Scared pets? Sunscreen? A lake and/or beach. Heat? Sales at mattress and furniture stores. Some of those things I am certain are Fourth of July…
Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess
Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr released a browser game consisting of eight, very silly variations on chess - a flagrant assault on the dignity…