Month: March 2025

Grand Theft Auto maker Take-Two Interactive is reducing its headcount by 5 percent as part of a cost reduction program that was announced earlier this year.

The U.S. publisher, which just spent $460 million to acquire Gearbox Entertainment from Embracer, said it wants to "identify efficiencies across its business and enhance the company’s margin profile, while still investing for growth."

"As part of these efforts, the company is rationalizing its pipeline and eliminating several projects in development a…

– Microsoft's Kathryn Storm, speaking at E3 about changes coming to the company's Avatar system as part of an "Avatar 2.0" rollout later this year.  

The Avatar system for Microsoft's Xbox platform is due for a revamp this fall, and in a livestream from E3

While Apex Legends may have seen its popularity rise due to being an excellent battle royale game, Respawn has since expanded upon the overall experience with an Arenas mode. This round-based 3v3 elimination experience is reminiscent of Counter-Strike and Valorant and provides players with constant action in close-quarters combat. Here’s everything you need to know about Apex Legends’ Arenas mode.

How Arenas mode works

There are two Arenas playlists, one ranked and one unranked. Both playlists feature a different rotation of multiple Arenas maps. The current map and …

Starfield game director Todd Howard has commented on how the global COVID-19 pandemic impacted the development of the sci-fi RPG. Speaking to The Washington Post, Howard said when developers shifted to a work-from-home setup in early 2020, this made production on Starfield “very, very slow.”

Not only were the team members crafting Starfield the game, but also the new technology underpinning it. Starfield was originally set for release in November 2022, but the game later got pushed to September 2023 Come from Sports betting si…

It’s breakfast. FBI agent Francis York Morgan sits at one end of an impossibly long table. The octogenarian hotel proprietor Polly Oxford sits at the other. “It might help to hear you better if I could sit closer,” calls out Francis. Polly thinks it’s a come-on. “I think I’m a little old for you,” she says, invoking the memory of her dearly departed husband as she winces with embarrassment.

Just when we thought the summer livestream season might be winding down, Capcom has announced an update show of its own: Capcom Next – Summer 2024 will kick off July 1 at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET, and it will feature updates on three games (and three games only) over 25 minutes.

The stream will include “first details” on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, which was spontaneously revealed via social media earlier this week. The event will also provide updates on the company’s next release–Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess, which launches July 19–and the iOS/Mac port of Residen…