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Daily Briefing: Monday 14th March

Square Enix Seek Feedback On Babylon’s Fall

Square Enix have launched a survey to gather feedback on making a “better game experience” for Babylon’s Fall, specifically asking about the visual aspects of the game.

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Daily Briefing: Wednesday 9th March

Final Fantasy 35th Anniversary Site LIVE... And A Stranger Of Paradise Demo Soon

Ahead of tonight’s State of Play, Square Enix have launched a site celebrating FF’s 35th anniversary. Right now, the two projects on the page are Stranger...

Daily Briefing: Tuesday 8th March

A Japanese Publisher-Focused State Of Play Tomorrow!

Sony have announced a State of Play, lasting about 20 minutes, will be on Wednesday, March 9th, at 2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm GMT. It’ll focus on “highlighting great games” from Playstatio...

Daily Briefing: Monday 7th March

A State Of Play Due This Month

With the release of PlayStation’s first two major titles of the year, Horizon and Gran Turismo 7, a State of Play is allegedly coming as soon as this week to highlight the near-future of the platform. Howev...

Daily Briefing: Friday 4th March

Gran Turismo 7’s Microtransactions Are Heavy: Cars Costing $30+

Gran Turismo 7’s microtransaction costs were unavailable during early previews, but now that they’ve gone live, the ‘credit bundles’ are raising eyebrows. Credits ar...

Daily Briefing: Thursday 3rd March

PlatinumGames’ Babylon’s Fall Has Released To Crickets

Square Enix’s next attempt at a live service following the disastrous Marvel’s Avengers has released today.... to zero fanfare. Impressions across players of the demo are profo...

Daily Briefing: Wednesday 2nd March

GMG Union On Strike

Union workers at Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker and The Root are striking. The GMG Union has made proposals to G/O Media’s counsel five times, but rather than counterproposals, they have been sidestepp...

Daily Briefing: Tuesday 1st March

Steam Deck owners are reporting stick drift

In a video shared to Reddit, one user showed the test controller input screen to prove that their right stick was already drifting - they clearly let go and reset the stick to neutral, but the sc...

Daily Briefing: Monday 28th February

GabeN Spotted Hand-Delivering Steam Decks (And Giving Some Away!)

Valve boss Gabe Newell has been spotted doing what seems like Steam promotion in Seattle, hand-delivering signed Steam Decks to customers in the area while followed by a cam...

Daily Briefing: Friday 25th February

Elden Ring’s Launch On PC Is A Disaster, But... Still Incredible?

Elden Ring’s launch on PC has hit a peak player count of 764,835 - six times higher than the previous series’ peak with Dark Souls 3. However, it’s currently sitting...

Daily Briefing: Thursday 24th February

Christian Dailey Leaves BioWare - Another Leader Down

In an update posted by BioWare General Manager Gary McKay, Dragon Age 4 is currently in “Production”, with a full pre-production blueprint that the team understand and are focused o...

Daily Briefing: Tuesday 22nd February

Bethesda Are Sunsetting Their PC Launcher - Moving To Steam!

In a surprise move, Bethesda have announced they’re winding down their own launcher and moving their library to Steam - including transferring licenses for existing 2022-02-22 18:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Daily Briefing: Thursday 17th February

EA Internally Blame Halo Infinite For Some Of BF2042’s Performance

In a town hall post-mortem of Battlefield 2042 reported by Tom Henderson, EA’s Chief Studios Officer Laura Miele admitted that Battlefield failed to meet the expectatio...

Daily Briefing: Wednesday 16th February

Apologies for a lack of Daily Briefing yesterday, patrons! This one is a bit larger to make up for anything you may have missed.

The Witcher 3’s Director Has A New Studio

Konrad Tomaszkiewicz left CDPR last year after being accused...

Daily Briefing: Monday 14th February

Horizon: Forbidden West Reviews Are In

Reviews are in, and it’s sitting pretty at 89 across OpenCritic and Metacritic. A throughline across reviews is that it’s an incredible improvement on the original in almost every way. Eurogamer, ...

LOOT! February 2022

Yes, we've all got the hots for Dandelion ;)

We're about to launch with out new fulfilment partner, which is going to make shipping etc significantly faster! December 2021 is shipping to them now, and January 2022 will ship ...

We've Got A NEW Studio!

The work begins!

Daily Briefing: Thursday 10th February

Microsoft are keeping an eye on Activision Blizzard’s executive leadership

That’s according to Microsoft president Brad Smith who, speaking in a new interview with CNBC, confirmed that the company want to greatly improve the work cultu...

Daily Briefing: Wednesday 9th February

FromSoftware are fixing that Dark Souls PC exploit

A wee while ago we reported on a dangerous Remote Code Execution (RCE) exploit currently plaguing the PC version of Dark Souls III. The potential security vulnerability could be exploited ...

Daily Briefing: Tuesday 8th February

There’s a Nintendo Direct tomorrow

Ah, this is always an oddly fun little piece of new to give. Nintendo will hold a new Nintendo Direct presentation tomorrow, Wednesday 9th February, at 5pm EST/2pm PST. The presentation, the first since...

Daily Briefing: Monday 7th February

Loads of Dying Light 2 fixes are coming this week

Zombie survival sandbox Dying Light 2: Stay Human may be one of the biggest games of the year but that doesn’t mean its launch last week was entirely without incident. While the game is b...

Legion’s Doomsayer Mystery Has Blown My Mind

Remember the doomsayers? Two expansions later, they've been SOLVED! We know what they're talking about - and they've been setting up the next step for Warcraft the whole time.

Daily Briefing: Friday 4th February

There’s a mobile Warcraft game coming this year

Speaking in their most recent earnings report published this week (there was no actual earnings call due to the proposed Microsoft acquisition), the company stated that at least one F2P mob...

Daily Briefing: Thursday 3rd February

Skate 4 is reportedly “launching soon”

That’s straight from the mouth of EA CEO Andrew Wilson who, speaking  earlier this week in EA’s most recent earnings call, let slip a few key details. When discussing User-Generated Conte...

Dragons Are More Important Than We Thought

10.0 is (almost definitely) going to be about dragons. Why? The Age of Dragons ended in Cataclysm, right? Nope. New knowledge, and a second look at history, proves they’ve always been more important than even they know.

Daily Briefing: Wednesday 2nd February

PlayStation will launch 10 liveservice games in the next few years

That’s according to Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki who, speaking in the company’s most recent earnings call, outlined that “through close collaboration with Bungie and the Pl...

Daily Briefing: Tuesday 1st February

Sony are buying Bungie

Not to be outdone by Microsoft’s seemingly bottomless wallet, Sony this week announced that they will be acquiring Bungie - the original Halo developers and creators of Destiny - in a deal worth around $3.6bn. In a...

Daily Briefing: Friday 28th January

Hitman 3 Steam owners get free upgrades following messy launch

The Hitman trilogy (the new one, not the old one) is a bit of an odd duck. The games have released to fairly universal commercial and critical acclaim despite the fact that dev...

The Heart of Azeroth Is Their Key

N'zoth's whispers told us more than we knew at the time. When we make our way to Zereth Mortis, we're going to smuggle the Void in too.

Daily Briefing: Thursday 27th January

Ubisoft Singapore investigation concludes

According to new findings shared by Ubisoft, an external watchdog investigation into reports of misconduct at Ubisoft’s Singapore studio has confirmed that all allegations were handled appropriat...