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Discussion with Readers: Share Your Favorite E3 Memory
The Entertainment Software Association announced today that E3 is officially dead. After more than two decades, the long-running video game conference where developers, publishers, businesses, and press met to check out new games, watch reveals, and more, has been permanently canceled. The first E3 took place in 1995 and the last in-person conference happened in...
The ESA Declares E3 to Be Officially Defunct
The Entertainment Software Association has announced that its long-running Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is officially dead, as reported by The Washington Post. The last in-person E3 conference happened in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and other complications prevented it from coming back in full form since. Despite struggles, the ESA attempted to bring E3 back...
Hasbro, the owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is laying off 1100 employees
Hasbro, the parent company behind Wizards of the Coast, which itself is responsible for both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is laying off 1100 employees, as reported by Dicebreaker and The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is also behind the Transformers franchise (toys and other media), announced this decision yesterday, on December 11. ...
Nintendo Switch to Receive Terra Nil, a Reverse City Builder, Next Week
Terra Nil, the “reverse city builder” from developer Free Lives and publisher Devolver Digital, is coming to Switch next week. More specifically, it will hit the Nintendo console on December 18, as revealed in a new trailer you can watch below. While many simulation games task you with creating a new metropolis or saving a...
Fntastic Announces Allowing All Players to Refund The Day Before
Update, 12/12/23: Fntastic, the studio behind The Day Before, announced yesterday that it was shutting down. It said at the time that servers for the game, which launched last week on December 7, would remain operational but that the future of The Day Before is unknown. Now, less than 24 hours later, The Day Before...
Epic Games Victorious in Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
Epic Games has won the antitrust lawsuit against Google on all counts. Epic sued Google for allegedly running an “illegal monopoly” through the Play Store back in 2020, when Fortnite was removed from both iOS and Android following the introduction of Epic’s direct payment system. The California court jury have agreed that Google possesses monopoly...
DIY Event: Devil’s Derby on Saturday for PC Gamers
Greetings, survivors! Are you waiting for good news? And they have just come! This Saturday, the “Organize it Yourself 1: Devil’s Derby” tournament starts with the support of Flame Raiders, and you have a chance to earn valuable items and a premium subscription. Do you wish to show yourself? You can find all the details...
Hogwarts Legacy Emerged as the Most Searched Game on Google in 2022
Hogwarts Legacy hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC back in February – you can read Game Informer’s Hogwarts Legacy review here. Now, as 2023 comes to a close, Google has released the top 10 trending searches in games on Google over the year and in the top slot is Hogwarts Legacy. While many were...
Dev Fantastic is shutting down just days after early access launch, the day before
Fntastic, the studio behind The Day Before, is shutting down. It announced the closure today with a statement that arrives just four days after the The Day Before launched into Early Access on December 7. The studio says servers for The Day Before will remain operational, but it also says at this moment, the future...
Starfield: Bethesda Developing New Travel Options, City Maps, Mod Support, and More
Developer Bethesda Game Studios is working on bringing mod support, city maps, and “all-new ways to traveling” to its recently released sci-fi RPG, Starfield. It announced this by way of a Starfield subreddit comment from the official developer Reddit account, as reported by IGN. The team says it’s working on other things, too, like quest fixes,...
Valhalla DLC for God of War Ragnarok features an endgame challenge so difficult that no one on the development team has been able to complete it
God of War Ragnarok’s Valhalla DLC is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, less than a week after it was revealed at The Game Awards 2023. It features a good bit of story content that acts as an epilogue to the events of Ragnarok, and it’s packaged within a roguelite structure, meaning it’s...
New Gameplay Trailer Released for Vintage Animation Shooter Mouse with a 2025 Release Window
Mouse, an upcoming classic first-person shooter sporting a vintage rubber hose animation style, turned heads in May with its first look at gameplay. Although that initial showing was very much a work in progress, today’s video offers a more polished look at what’s to come. The noir game stars a private-eye rodent cleaning up his...
PlayStation Wrap-Up and Xbox Year In Review have been released!
Update, 12/12/2023: Following Sony’s lead, Microsoft has published its yearly retrospective as well, allowing Xbox and PlayStation fans alike to take a look back at the games they played this year. You can check out the Xbox Year In Review right here. For an idea of what to expect, here are some of my stats:...
Sony’s PlayStation Wrap-Up – The Equivalent of Spotify Wrapped – is Now Available
When the year comes to a close, many spend time reflecting on the past 12 months of their lives, the decisions they made, and the places they went. In recent years, companies like Spotify have capitalized on this tradition, turning it into their Wrapped celebration, which has users all over the world sharing their stats,...
Embracer Group Confirms Closure of Free Radical Design Studio: Update
Update, 12/12/23: After reports in November indicated that Free Radical Design, the team behind the TimeSplitters franchise that had been reformed in 2021 to create a new entry in the series, was facing a complete shutdown, the studio closure happened yesterday. Game Informer reached out to Free Radical Design parent company Embracer Group for a comment on...
GTA V Update of December 12, 2023
This update for the Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) game titled “Chop Shop” introduces exciting new features and improvements. The update, releasing on December 12, 2023, opens up new business opportunities in the Junkyard, offers exciting Junkyard heist missions, a host of new vehicles, drift racing competitions and exclusive content for PlayStation 5 and...
Discussion with Readers: Share Your Favorite E3 Memory
The Entertainment Software Association announced today that E3 is officially dead. After more than two decades, the long-running video game conference where developers, publishers, businesses, and press met to check out new games, watch reveals, and more, has been permanently canceled. The first E3 took place in 1995 and the last in-person conference happened in...
The ESA Declares E3 to Be Officially Defunct
The Entertainment Software Association has announced that its long-running Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is officially dead, as reported by The Washington Post. The last in-person E3 conference happened in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and other complications prevented it from coming back in full form since. Despite struggles, the ESA attempted to bring E3 back...
Hasbro, the owner of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is laying off 1100 employees
Hasbro, the parent company behind Wizards of the Coast, which itself is responsible for both Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is laying off 1100 employees, as reported by Dicebreaker and The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is also behind the Transformers franchise (toys and other media), announced this decision yesterday, on December 11. ...
Nintendo Switch to Receive Terra Nil, a Reverse City Builder, Next Week
Terra Nil, the “reverse city builder” from developer Free Lives and publisher Devolver Digital, is coming to Switch next week. More specifically, it will hit the Nintendo console on December 18, as revealed in a new trailer you can watch below. While many simulation games task you with creating a new metropolis or saving a...
Fntastic Announces Allowing All Players to Refund The Day Before
Update, 12/12/23: Fntastic, the studio behind The Day Before, announced yesterday that it was shutting down. It said at the time that servers for the game, which launched last week on December 7, would remain operational but that the future of The Day Before is unknown. Now, less than 24 hours later, The Day Before...
Epic Games Victorious in Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
Epic Games has won the antitrust lawsuit against Google on all counts. Epic sued Google for allegedly running an “illegal monopoly” through the Play Store back in 2020, when Fortnite was removed from both iOS and Android following the introduction of Epic’s direct payment system. The California court jury have agreed that Google possesses monopoly...
DIY Event: Devil’s Derby on Saturday for PC Gamers
Greetings, survivors! Are you waiting for good news? And they have just come! This Saturday, the “Organize it Yourself 1: Devil’s Derby” tournament starts with the support of Flame Raiders, and you have a chance to earn valuable items and a premium subscription. Do you wish to show yourself? You can find all the details...
Hogwarts Legacy Emerged as the Most Searched Game on Google in 2022
Hogwarts Legacy hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC back in February – you can read Game Informer’s Hogwarts Legacy review here. Now, as 2023 comes to a close, Google has released the top 10 trending searches in games on Google over the year and in the top slot is Hogwarts Legacy. While many were...
Dev Fantastic is shutting down just days after early access launch, the day before
Fntastic, the studio behind The Day Before, is shutting down. It announced the closure today with a statement that arrives just four days after the The Day Before launched into Early Access on December 7. The studio says servers for The Day Before will remain operational, but it also says at this moment, the future...




