Games

Electronic Arts hasn’t ignored the troubled launch of Battlefield 6. Battlefield 6 players have started receiving compensation for the EA App outage that occurred on release day. Users report that the rewards are being delivered through the game’s internal mail system. The malfunction happened on launch day, when some EA App users encountered an error...

Following the new Street Fighter adaptation, Noah Centineo is reportedly preparing to join a film based on another iconic Japanese franchise. Legendary Pictures is developing a live-action version of the seminal anime Mobile Suit Gundam, and Noah Centineo may be joining the cast. According to Deadline, the star of The Recruit is in talks to...

Arc Raiders is increasingly becoming a stage for community-driven social experiments. Players in Arc Raiders have started organizing into factions with their own charters, dress codes, and unwritten norms. The first to make a splash were the “Citizens of Speranza” — a band of raiders who pledged to forgo PvP entirely and declared neutrality toward...

Zak Krueger has set aside his trademark narrative twists to craft a more straightforward horror that echoes the tone of the series’ original games. Zak Krueger, the director behind the thrillers “Barbarian” and “The Tools”, admitted that his upcoming film adaptation of Resident Evil will be remarkably simple in structure. “On the film I’m currently...

Efforts to modernize Dark Souls 2 continue. The creator of the DS2LightingEngine mod is developing a new version that will add full ray-traced global illumination (RTGI) support to Dark Souls 2. No release date has been announced yet, but modder Ganaboy has shared the first images illustrating the lighting changes. According to the developer, RTGI...

Valve ranks among the most efficient companies in history. With just 336 employees and over $17 billion in revenue in the past year, the Gabe Newell–led firm has produced striking results. Menlo Ventures’ Deedy Das calculates that this amounts to more than $50 million in revenue per employee, while the company’s average salary is approximately...

Developers at Xbox studios are pleased that their games are now appearing on PlayStation, Bloomberg reports. Ending exclusivity has broadened both revenue and the player base. Over the past year, Xbox released four titles on PlayStation and later confirmed that it may publish any of its projects on competing platforms. The move benefits both management...

IO Interactive head Hakan Abrak said the studio “has found a successful formula for a single-player live service.” He noted that the success of Hitman World of Assassination fully financed 007 First Light. I genuinely believe we’ve discovered the right formula for a single-player live service. In the games industry projects are often canceled, and...

Valve has outlined its work to enable anti-cheat compatibility on the Steam Machine. The console runs SteamOS on Linux, which currently lacks support for some kernel-level anti-cheat systems, preventing titles such as Battlefield 6, Apex Legends, and Valorant from launching on the device. Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais noted on the Friends Per Second podcast: On...

Skate has seen a dramatic decline in its Steam player base. In the two months since entering early access, the game has lost more than 90% of its players. At launch on September 21, the platform recorded 134,901 concurrent players, while current daily peak counts no longer exceed 12,000. That drop underscores waning interest, although...