The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are still a long way off, but CD Projekt is slowly but surely ramping things up. The company said in its H1 financial report today that the development teams for both game have continued to expand, and that further "gradual growth" is expected by the end of the year.A chart released as part of the H1 report indicates that The Witcher 4, which had...

Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has imposed another round of layoffs, putting an undisclosed number of people out of work in the face of "evolving business conditions.""Today we made the very difficult decision to part ways with a number of our talented colleagues as the result of evolving business conditions," the studio announced in a message posted on LinkedIn. "This decision was not made lightly. It was necessary, however, to...

The Diablo team is the next in line to unionize at Blizzard. Over 450 developers across multiple disciplines have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and they're now the fourth major Blizzard team to do so.Game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff all "voted strongly in favor of union representation" by signing an authorization card via an online portal, according to a news...

The Battlefield 6 server browser had my curiosity, but now it has my attention: Battlefield Studios just confirmed that servers spun up in its "Portal browser" can be made persistent. Theoretically, that means the Portal browser will behave like a classic FPS browser, allowing someone to host a "24/7 CAIRO ONLY" server that won't disappear after everybody goes to bed.BF Studios' exact wording for how server persistence will work came...

We both feel it. You want to escape. I want to escape. Microsoft's usurpations have grown too many and too frequent: useless AI in every wazoo, constant upselling on Office 365, the feeling of a gradually tightening noose as more and more apps try to corral you into this or that walled garden—the Microsoft Store, the Xbox App, etcetera. That's to say nothing of all those other reasons you might...

Grow a Garden is filled with different seeds and items you need to unlock as you upgrade your plot. However, a lot of these things can be expensive, so a little help goes a long way. Using Grow a Garden codes is the fastest way to unlock rewards without having to spend a single Sheckle, and if you've just started out, it can give you a decent head start to...

These daily Wordles aren't going to solve themselves, so let us help you work through them. You can make sure Thursday's puzzle gets off to a great start with our clue for the August 28 (1531) game, and then peek at our hints if you need a little more guidance along the way. Not quite enough? Today's answer will soon sort that out for you.A clue for today's WordleStuck on...

Contrary to some claims, the scariest thing about zombies is not that there's a lot of them. It's that they're dead, and dead things are scary. (I am sometimes startled by pigeon corpses.) But I'll agree that the second scariest thing about zombies is that there's a lot of them, and that's where John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, an upcoming co-op shooter with a story "inspired by" the famed horror director,...

Roblox is in the midst of expanding and implementing new systems and policies around age verification and user safety, including setting a date for when it plans to restrict unrated Roblox experiences for all users. Starting on September 30, 2025, (most) unrated games will not be playable or discoverable by anyone.When the new rules roll out next month, unrated games won't be deleted entirely, but instead locked to a developer-only...

I don't blame any of the developers behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for not immediately thinking about DLC plans just as their game exploded in popularity and hit sales numbers in the millions earlier this year. But in the last few months they've acknowledged the hunger for DLC in every way but a direct confirmation and at this point I'd just like to know if those plans are real.In May,...