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The Dragon Ball community has never been shy about speaking its mind, and the reaction to the upcoming action RPG Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 proves it. Fans were thrilled when the series was confirmed to be returning after more than ten years. That excitement faded once developer Dimps showed its first gameplay footage. One change...

Ahoy, captains! Welcome back to our ongoing tour of what’s headed to Ashlands, with a peek at the reasoning behind the changes. Our previous two entries were devoted to ships. If you missed them, you can catch up with [part 1] and [part 2]. For this installment, we’re drifting a little off course and into...

A developer who goes by Belmante has shown an unofficial Android port of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, reportedly based on a recompiled version of the Xbox 360 release. The project is the latest example of fans experimenting with bringing major games to smartphones. In a video published on October 19, the game runs on...

LEGO Daft Punk collaboration LEGO Group The LEGO Group announced a partnership with the retired French duo Daft Punk on Thursday morning (Oct. 22). The deal grew out of a father-and-son LEGO set that recreates the duo’s Pyramid stage. The company said the collaboration aims to “inspire and remix fandoms” and promises “product, content and...

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...

The studio’s creative lead shared the details. Control Resonant creative director Mikael Kasurinen said Remedy Entertainment’s new game is not meant to reveal the studio’s plans for future projects. According to him, despite a noticeable Easter egg tied to Alan Wake, the developers wanted the sequel to be a standalone story with a complete ending....

Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord hasn’t appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2023, when James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy definitively concluded. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 gave Star-Lord (aka Peter Quill) a hard reset. The intergalactic hero returned to Earth and found new purpose in enjoying Terran cereal and contemplating an amateur career...