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Riot Games has acquired Wargaming Sydney
League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that it has acquired World of Tanks studio Wargaming Sydney. Riot Games has announced today, October 17, that as part of its acquisition the studio will be renamed Riot Sydney, which will use its "considerable expertise to further augment the League of Legends, Valorant, and tech teams at Riot," according to a press release. "The studio will ...read more
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God of War Ragnarok Reviews Go Live on November 3rd, 9 AM PDT
Santa Monica Studio’s God of War Ragnarok has gone gold en route to its release next month, but the wait is still excruciating. Thankfully, we won’t have to wait long for reviews. Jordan Middler of Video Game Chronicle confirmed on Twitter that his review goes live on November 3rd, 9 AM PDT/12 PM EDT. Next Gen Base and Geoff Keighley confirmed the same date for their reviews. They’ve ...read more
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G4 Shuts Down Less Than A Year After Re-Launching
G4TV, the gaming-focused TV network that re-launched in November 2021, is shutting down. A memo sent from Dave Scott, the CEO of Comcast's Spectacor division, said the new G4 didn't attract enough viewers and the network didn't make enough money. According to Deadline, "a few dozen" full-time and contract workers are affected by the closure of G4 and some are being considered for other roles ...read more
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Nintendo Will Compensate Fans For Switch Sports Downtime
Nintendo has confirmed via an official blog post that it will compensate Nintendo Switch Sports players for the game's recent removal of online functionality. The game has had its online play disabled since October 14 due to a bug that was found in its recent Ver1.2.1 update. As Nintendo itself Tweeted, the bug caused the application to close during pre-match loading screens, which was affecting ...read more
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Capcom apologizes for breaking Resident Evil Village on Steam
The latest patch for the Steam version of Resident Evil Village accidentally broke the game in some pretty significant ways, and Capcom is sorry. The publisher posted a hilariously brief notice earlier today. "After installing the latest patch, the following has been observed," it begins, specifying "a message appears that mentions the need to restart the game" and "game crashes." I don't ...read more
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A Plague Tale: Requiem dev currently has no plans for a sequel
A Plague Tale: Requiem developer Asobo Studio has no plans to add more to the tale of Amicia and Hugo de Rune but hasn't ruled out the possibility of a sequel. During an interview on the PlayStation blog, game director Kevin Choteau was asked if he considered A Plague Tale: Requiem to be the final part of the siblings' story or just the end of another chapter. "I think, for now, it's the end," ...read more
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Activision wants to patent unique AI-generated music for games
Activision is seeking to patent the ability to automatically generate in-game soundtracks unique to each player in multiplayer games. As spotted by Exputer, the patent is titled ‘Systems and methods for dynamically generating and modulating music based on gaming events, player profiles and/or player reactions’. According to the patent’s description, the idea is that players – ...read more
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Perfect Dark Decompile Makes Mods Possible
More than 22 years after Perfect Dark launched the N64 game has now been reverse engineered, opening the shooter up to potential mods and ports. Programmer Ryan Dwyer has decomplied the two NTSC versions of Perfect Dark that released (via VGC). This is the 1.0 version from launch, and the later re-release that fixed up various bugs. The code for the Rare-developed title has been fully reverse ...read more
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EA Shutting Down Servers for 4 More Games
Electronic Arts will be shutting down the online services for four more of its games in early 2023. Electronic Arts and other companies have been shutting down online services for older games in recent years, and it doesn't look like that's going to stop at any point in the near future. On October 20, EA will be shutting down the online services for Army of Two: The 40th Day and Army of Two: ...read more
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Fable dev reunited with commemorative plaque he lost 12 years ago
Mike Ducker was given a plaque to commemorate his work on Fable, the Lionhead RPG released in 2004 for the original Xbox. In 2010, it went missing under mysterious circumstances—and now, 12 years later, a spot of good luck has put it back in his hands. Ducker, whose Mobygames profile lists him as a programmer on every Fable game from the original to Fable: Anniversary in 2014, shared the ...read more
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