Earlier this week, Xbox laid off 268 people on top of the 1,600 jobs it cut earlier this year. It has shoved Obsidian into Bethesda, handed Halo to Activision, said Sayonara to Double Fine and Compulsion Games, and State of Decay developer Undead Labs, and is primed to close Hellblade developer Ninja Theory.All of this is part of Xbox's "reset", under its new(ish) CEO Asha Sharma. Sharma has been the...

Steam's global top sellers are my Hit ParadeDropping back 3 places this week is Dota 2, hanging in at number 10 in its 460th week in the charts. Did you know Mr. Brightside by The Killers has held the UK pop charts in a stranglehold for the last 520(!) weeks?A new entry at number 9 for Dressmaker. More than just another shop sim, this is serious seamstress simulation. Fashion hasn't...

You'll know this frustration if you've ever been part of the community around a game that has both singleplayer and multiplayer modes. People who prefer one to the other are always convinced the other cohort doesn't exist. "Nobody plays this game in a different way to me and my friends, and anyone who says they do is lying."In the case of the Blood Bowl videogames, the fact the CPU's tactics...

Armed Fantasia— which was a spiritual successor to the popular JRPG series Wild Arms and not a first-person shooter starring Mickey Mouse—has been cancelled four years after its Kickstarter campaign raised almost $3 million.As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, Armed Fantasia is one of several titles for which Digital Bros—the parent company of 505 Games—has decided to "discontinue development of" as revealed in its most recent financial statement.The project was...

Since its release in 2011, Minecraft has received countless new biomes, but its number of dimensions has remained consistent over the last fifteen years. But that's all about to change. As of next year, a fourth dimension will soon join the Overworld, the Nether, and the End. It's called the Sift, it is riotously pink, and features bunny-like creatures that walk rather than hop.The Sift was revealed at the end...

I want to establish my old school RPG sicko bona fides really quick: My favorite Fallout games are 1 and New Vegas. My least favorite is 3 (4 is better than it gets credit for in critical circles). I really did not like Starfield and did not make it past the first planet. Obsidian is one of my favorites to ever do it. Troika Games forever.With that out of the...

I've got so many games to play, both for coverage and my own growth and edification. But I can't stop playing Bloodborne. I'm almost done with my first playthrough since I got it working in emulation on my PC, and I want to immediately run it back in New Game +.I've also got an idea for another build to try: "John Bloodborne," just straight-up recreating the guy from the box...

Uh-oh. The MMO no-life virus started coursing through me as soon as I jumped into WoW: Forever's beta, and it's refusing to let up. Which is a problem, considering I'm also housing the kind of sickness that makes me pump dozens of hours into Final Fantasy 14 every week like it's a goddamn full-time job. My body is a temple for poor time management afflictions.Critical Hit(Image credit: Future)Welcome to Critical...

Clones have been a fixture in the games industry forever. For every Mario Bros there's a Giana Sisters, for every Stardew Valley there's a Fields of Mistria, and for every Needle In A Haystack Simulator there's a A Needle In a Haystack, or Needle in a Haystack, or Needle In A Haystack, or Needle In A Haystack - A Time For Goats, or Story of The Needle In a Haystack.The...

The facts:Hideo Kojima's return to stealth-action, Physint, is no longer a PlayStation joint, and Microsoft picked up the ball.It still has big Hollywood talent, with Bill Skarsgård in the lead role.That's literally it.What people are saying:Alright, so what does that mean?Both Corden and Schreier's sources suggest Kojima Productions is working on a tighter budget with Microsoft than it was with SonyIt's unclear how much had already been spent on Physint,...