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Xbox has announced sweeping changes to how Halo games are made. 343 Industries, the developer of Halo games since 2007, has rebranded as Halo Studios, with a new internal organization and a new development philosophy. As previously reported, 343’s in-house game engine Slipspace is being abandoned in favor of Epic’s Unreal Engine 5. Halo Studios […]

Despite facing a patent infringement lawsuit in Japan from Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, indie developer Pocketpair is pushing ahead with capitalizing on the runaway success of its creature-collecting survival game Palworld. After surprise-launching the game on PlayStation 5 in September (everywhere but Japan), Pocketpair has entered into an agreement with Korean publisher Krafton to develop […]

Tying in with its Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2024 broadcast, Microsoft made a few surprise additions to Game Pass on Thursday: Vintage Square Enix role-playing games Legend of Mana and Trials of Mana, surrealist roll-em-up We Love Katamari, and an adorable and hilarious-looking new co-op game called All You Need is Help are all available […]

During its Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2024 broadcast, Microsoft announced that it’s bringing some of the best real-time strategy campaigns of all time to Game Pass. StarCraft Remastered and StarCraft 2: Campaign Collection will be added to the subscription service on Nov. 5. StarCraft will be the second classic Blizzard franchise to join the Game […]

Microsoft has published an update on its efforts to make Xbox consoles a bit greener; it reckons that its two energy-saving initiatives — one focused on the consoles’ power modes and the other on helping developers write more power-efficient code — have prevented more than 1.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in […]

Sega and the wildly prolific Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have announced the next game in the Like a Dragon (formerly Yakuza) series — and given it a release date of Feb. 28, 2025, barely more than a year after the release of the epic Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. The game is titled Like a […]

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, the developer of Palworld, for patent infringement. In response, Pocketpair has said that it is “unaware” of the patents it is accused of infringing and will begin its own legal proceeding to investigate. Late on Wednesday, Nintendo issued a joint press release with The Pokémon Company […]

If you ever stumble across some genuinely interesting data about how much money a video game has made, you can be sure you’re not supposed to know it. So it is with the apparently accidental revelation that Diablo 4, released in June 2023, has made $1 billion in revenue to date, including over $150 million […]

Microsoft is laying off a further 650 people from its gaming division, months after it laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees and shuttered several game studios, including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. Microsoft’s gaming head Phil Spencer said no games were being canceled and no studios would be closed as a result of […]

Sony has officially revealed the long-rumored mid-generation upgrade model for the PlayStation 5. Dubbed the PlayStation 5 Pro (just like the PlayStation 4 Pro before it), the new, more powerful console will be released on Nov. 7 and cost $699.99. The PS5 Pro is styled like the “slim” PS5, except for a triple groove across […]