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When Bloober and Konami announced that they were remaking Silent Hill 2 as part of a comprehensive series reboot, it made immediate if slightly deflating sense to me. Silent Hill 2 is the more feted of the Hills – if I were a calculating franchise custodian tasked with ‘bringing back’ one of the acclaimed original […]

Longtime Quantic Dream writer Adam Williams has departed the studio after almost a decade. He already has his next job lined up: he’ll be starting his own independent, currently unrevealed studio. “I’ve already been in touch with many of you guys at Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm, to thank you for everything on Detroit and Eclipse,” […]

45 employees have been let go by Ubisoft, according to Bloomberg. The outlet reports the reductions were spread across US offices located in Cary, North Carolina and San Francisco, CA. A Ubisoft spokesperson said the cuts were made to “align [their] organizations with future business and development objectives.” Ubisoft’s Cary team (typically known as Red […]

UK publisher Kwalee has launched an Arabic-language edition of its mobile game platform Hitseeker for studios in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. For creators in that part of the world, they’re able to use the platform and its resources in their native language (or English). Beginner developers can also access tools like […]

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has told investors the PC / Console business is the ‘bad guy’ within the company. Outlining why Embracer has stopped providing hard guidance each quarter, Wingefors said there’s some “lumpiness” within the PC / Console segment that prevents it from looking too far into the future. Case in point: Kingdom Come: […]

I’ve likely mentioned hitting Lovecraft fatigue so often that it’s now evolved into a second phase of Lovecraft-fatigue fatigue. This is not the same as Lovecraft refreshment, no matter how much I might want to return to the days before old one plushies and Cthulhu children’s books terrorised the internet en masse. There’s not quite […]

If there’s one movie that Max subscribers are going to watch this month, it’s probably going to be Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. After bombing in theaters, George Miller’s prequel to Max Max: Fury Road is now streaming. But if action isn’t what you need, perhaps the romance of Amelie and the comedy of Beetlejuice are […]

If there’s one movie that Max subscribers are going to watch this month, it’s probably going to be Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. After bombing in theaters, George Miller’s prequel to Max Max: Fury Road is now streaming. But if action isn’t what you need, perhaps the romance of Amelie and the comedy of Beetlejuice are […]

Kawasaki’s Ninja motorcycles have developed quite the reputation as speed machines. The Ninja 650 is a sports tourer with an aggressive, angular sense of style and a parallel-twin 649cc engine. It was introduced in 2006 as the 650R, and six years later with a series of adjustments, reborn as the Ninja 650. Advertisement The Ninja 650 […]