Four years after acquiring the studio, Zynga has confirmed with IGN that Torchlight 3 developer Echtra Games is being closed."Zynga has made the difficult decision to cease operations at its Echtra studio, ending development on future titles and reducing roles," the company told the site. "This decision is part of a strategic realignment of the company's resources and priorities. We will work closely with impacted employees so they are treated...

The San Antonio Express News reports that Jonathan Joss, an actor who appeared in videogames including Red Dead Redemption, Days Gone, Wasteland 3, and Cyberpunk 2077, as well as the long-running King of the Hill animated series, was killed over the weekend in an apparent dispute with a neighbor. He was 59.Police say Joss was shot "several times" by his neighbor after the two became embroiled in some sort of...

I am Mr. Antisocial Souls⁠—I don't play many multiplayer games in general, and FromSoft's offerings have always been, for me, private affairs. So I'm just as surprised as anyone that Elden Ring Nightreign's multiplayer focus has really hooked me.I still thought I'd be playing solo at least half the time until I realized that Nightreign's singleplayer experience elevates all the game's flaws to their maximum annoyance level. Two patches have...

Trial begins this week at France's Bobigny Criminal Court for a trio of former Ubisoft executives, according to French news service Franceinfo (Google Translated). Former chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, former vice president of editorial and creative services Tommy François, and former game director Guillaume Patrux face allegations of "moral and sexual harassment" following reports of systemic workplace abuse at Ubisoft that emerged in 2020.In hearings scheduled to last five...

Larian is a certifiable CRPG rockstar right now, having taken the once-niche genre to chart-topping blockbuster status with home runs like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and the superlative Baldur's Gate 3. A lot of people, myself included, started gnawing the bars of their enclosure last year in anticipation of Baldur's Gate 4, an idea Larian mulled over before moving on from the series completely.And so, tantalizing mystery takes the reins....

Although Elden Ring Nightreign has a main story, which you'll finish by beating the Night Aspect, most of the narrative actually comes from the characters' Remembrances. These are quests that see you talking to NPCs, completing "personal objectives" while on expeditions in Limveld, or beating a boss in a separate instance.Unlocking and beating Remembrance quests isn't as simple as you might think, though, as you're given little direction as to...

What started out as just another gamer finding their brand new graphics card missing and replaced in the box by some random piece of junk, has turned into a potentially big headache for Zotac and a compromised Chinese factory shipping not-RTX 5090s out the front door.Late last week one redditor posted about their poor luck in having been sold a brand new Zotac RTX 5090 Solid OC card from a...

You might've figured this out on your own if you clicked that headline, but just to repeat it here—this article will contain spoilers for the ending of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. All of it. You have been warned.I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 last month, and it's still stuck with me, like a bit of food in my molar that's taken time to chew. In a week that turned into...

As a man who writes for a living, I have no actual useful abilities. That means that—while I keep close track of the Bethesda modding scene—I often don't really understand what all the very smart people who work in it are actually speaking about. As far as I'm concerned, a 'script extender' means putting a load of white text into your screenplay to buff up the final wordcount.So it must...

Elden Ring Nightreign is now in the wild, and my experience thus far can be summed up as "wow this game is hard." I had a few runs over the weekend and, masochist that I am, went in fairly blind. Bad idea: Every single one ended when a party member picked a fight they shouldn't have, and we got brutally wiped by something gigantic.But at least in multiplayer it felt...