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Don’t take everything the internet tells you at face value. Marvel’s Wolverine was mocked relentlessly on social media. Viral clips picked apart its “fart trail” interface and its underwhelming chase sequences. Even so, the game has performed strongly at retail. New figures from the analyst firm Circana show that Marvel’s Wolverine was the top-selling game...
BioWare’s fifth Mass Effect entry was revealed six years ago. The project stayed in early development with a small team, so we learned very little about it, including who had been brought on to work on it. Now that BioWare is officially closing its doors, several staff members have started to share what they did...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is pressing ahead with sweeping changes as part of a broad effort to rebuild the brand. Close to 2,000 employees have already lost their jobs, and three more rounds of layoffs are reportedly planned between October and January. The cuts are not limited to staffing. Xbox Cloud Gaming is also changing,...
Full-scale production is still a long way off. Beyond Good & Evil 2 fans may need to be patient. According to a new report from the French outlet Origami, the sequel remains in development, but full production has not started. Origami says it got the information from conversations with several people familiar with the game’s...
Electronic Arts confirmed on Wednesday that BioWare, the celebrated RPG developer, will be shut down. Few were truly shocked. The studio’s latest releases drew mixed reviews and underwhelming sales. Still, many fans had quietly hoped it would recover its old magic. For a whole generation of players and developers, BioWare means surviving the suicide mission...
Generals! Welcome, I’m Norrman. I’ve been working alongside Marijn and Alex on the upcoming Romania Focus Pack, and I’ll be handling the opening section of this Dev Diary. First, a little about me. I’ve been playing Hearts of Iron IV since roughly a month after launch, and I’ve now been modding it for a little...
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now BioWare’s final game. EA announced on Wednesday that the studio will close its doors after thirty years. The 2024 action-RPG sparked endless debate online, and it now serves as the studio’s farewell. It never should have ended this way. BioWare deserved the chance to finish the projects already underway,...
Despite a few restrictions, the game launched uncut in most countries. The team behind the horror game Hellraiser: Revival set an unusual goal: make the game so brutal and provocative that at least one country would ban it or refuse to give it an age rating. Narrative director Antony De Fault shared this in an...
The search for the next James Bond is nearly over. More than five years have passed since Daniel Craig left the role in Cary Joji Fukunaga’s No Time to Die. According to a new report, Amazon MGM Studios is entering the final phase of its search and will hold its last round of auditions over...
The Critical Role cast has played Dungeons & Dragons together for decades. It’s easy to assume they can handle any combat scenario Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer throws at them. But as every D&D player eventually learns, no amount of experience or preparation helps when the dice turn against you. That happened four years ago in...
