Author: David Carter

Casey Hudson, a co-creator of Mass Effect, founded the game studio Humanoid Origin, which recently announced that it is closing. Despite efforts to “protect the studio from broader issues in the industry,” the decision to close was made because of “an unforeseen deficit of finance,” according to the LinkedIn post announcing the closure. Humanoid Origin has only been around for a little more than three years, since June 2021. After leaving BioWare the previous December, Hudson initially launched it as Humanoid Studios. Later, it was disclosed that the company was developing a AAA, multi-platform game set in a brand-new science…

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Guides Zero, a top-down dungeon-crawling roguelike created by independent South Korean studio Izzle, was just added to Steam’s Early Access. In the universe where the novel is set, a war has been going on for a very long time with no obvious winner. Following its conclusion, a neutral zone was established on the center continent. On that continent, a huge pit known as The Scar opened, and a mysterious material called Black Blood that produces corrupted creatures emerged from its depths. The origin of the Black Blood, the origin of this sinkhole, and the contents of the deepest parts of…

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Bloober Team, the developers of the popular survival horror game Silent Hill 2 Remake, made a few minor adjustments to the game, and now fans have found another: eerie messages concealed in TV static. After learning the secrets, YouTuber Shiba posted two videos, according to PC Gamer. They said, “A message broadcast in Morse code is playing on the TV in Brookhaven Hospital.” It is challenging to hear the sound clearly because it is largely muffled by the TV’s static. The Morse code is unique, though, and has a telegraph-like clicking sound. Shiba demonstrates this on the TV and interprets…

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A mod that adds hundreds of visual enhancements to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt recently gave the game its biggest graphics boost since the official Next-Gen Update was out in 2022. “Raises the game’s visuals to the highest degree yet and enhances it to a next-gen masterpiece,” according to HalkHogan, a NexusMods user who posted The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project: Next Gen Edition. Textures, models, materials, and other elements are all reworked by the mod; the quantity of these modifications “may be counted in the thousands.” The mod website also stated, “Everything is painstakingly constructed with attention to every…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has a new update that returns XP tokens to players after an outcry sparked by their removal following the launch of Season 1. Patch notes released today, November 19, indicate that gamers can now access “legacy” XP tokens, also known as XP tokens you have been storing since Modern Warfare 2. Players deep in the Call of Duty grind hailed their unexpected availability with the release of Season 1, but their equally unexpected departure sparked a backlash. Treyarch, the game’s creator at the time, claimed that it had patched Black Ops 6 to remove…

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Sony’s $700 In addition to offering a significant performance improvement for games like God of War: Ragnarok and Baldur’s Gate 3, the PlayStation 5 Pro is also experiencing teething issues. Players have reported problems with games including Silent Hill 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Eurogamer has noticed several fans pointed out that developer Bloober Team and publisher Konami have not yet responded to graphical issues centered around a shimmering or flickering effect in the recently released remake of the popular survival horror game Silent Hill 2. Reddit user Unlocky-Soil-2456 stated, “I realized something…

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A contradiction is now gripping the video gaming business. Given the amazing variety of consoles, portable devices, and PCs available to gamers thanks to gaming subscription programs like Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, one could argue that we are living in one of the best gaming eras. However, from the standpoint of the industry, the situation is severe. Large numbers of game developers, programmers, artists, and animators have been released, studios appear to be closing more frequently, and original intellectual properties are being abandoned in the middle of development. The AAA video game bubble has finally burst, to put…

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Since its September release, Shattered Space has not done very well with fans; it now has a Mostly Negative rating on Steam. Though there is a lot of more general criticism directed at Starfield, the majority of the remarks focus on the quest’s plot. However, it appears that Todd Howard has a notion as to why Shattered Space might not have ended as well as it ought to have. Phil Spencer stated that “we are continually learning” when discussing how to approach expansions in an interview with the Game File newsletter. He also recalled a discussion he had with Howard…

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According to a recent lawsuit, Nintendo used Reddit posts and repair orders to track down a suspected Switch pirate. James “Archbox” Williams of Surprise, Arizona, was sued by Nintendo for allegedly selling unauthorized copies of Switch titles, according to Game File. The lawsuit claims that Nintendo engaged Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, a law firm, to look into online pirate video game businesses and discovered a user named Archbox, whom it linked to Arizona. After that, it noticed Archbox, a Reddit user who was a r/SwitchPirates moderator. The law firm recognized Archbox as James Williams based on their posts. It comes…

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The eagerly awaited Neo-Volkite handgun was included in the latest patch (4.5) for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. The Neo-Volkite pistol is a potent thermal ray weapon that reduces adversaries to ashes with its deadly beams. It is restricted to Operations, Space Marine 2’s three-player cooperative PvE game, and is accessible for the Assault, Vanguard, and Bulwark classes. There, Space Marine 2 players are forming a three-pronged Neo-Volkite pistol death stream, which brings back thoughts of the Ghostbusters’ famous use of Proton Packs to imprison ghosts. Among Space Marine 2’s weapons, the Neo-Volkite pistol is special because it deals foes…

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