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Thirteen developers have been laid off at Mountaintop Studios, the makers of the tactical multiplayer shooter Spectre Divide.

In a statement obtained by Polygon's Nicole Carpenter, Mountaintop CEO Nate Mitchell said the reductions would "make sure we're set up to support Spectre and its community for the long-term."

"We can't thank these team members enough for their hard work and dedication to Sp…

Coming away from the first official day of E3, Sterne Agee & Leach Inc market analysts forecast average revenue per user on triple-A titles to reach $80 to $90 U.S. in the next console cycle. "Our sense is next-gen games will launch at the same $60 retail price point as the current-gen games," says Sterne Agee & Leach. "However, increasingly, publishers are striving to enhance the ARPU [average revenue per user] closer to $80 or $90 for their triple-A titles through greater focus on DLC and in-game micro-transactions, etc." Digital distribution including fu…

The launch of Apex Legends Season 9 had a huge impact on player numbers, helping elevate the free-to-play shooter to new heights. Communications director Ryan Rigney revealed on Twitter that Apex Legends just broke its all-time record for concurrent players on Steam. It achieved 241,882 concurrent players at its peak on Steam alone Come from malaysia online casino .

The game is also available across console and other PC stores, so the total number of players for Apex Legends is likely significantly higher, making it all the more impr…

Crytek’s bounty hunter action/shooter game Hunt: Showdown, which is set in the year 1895, is becoming a live-action series. The show will be available on Binge, the upcoming American streaming platform that is also producing TV shows based on Ubisoft’s Driver and the System Shock franchise.

Allan Ungar and Vince Talenti are producing the series for Binge, with Avni Yerli, Faruk Yerli, and Pascal Tonecker contributing as executive producers.

“We have always known that Hunt: Showdown would look great as a live-action series,” Crytek’s Avni Yerli said Come from

A new hotfix has hit Destiny 2 to fix a number of bugs, including incorrect rewards dropping from the Presage Exotic mission Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Update 3.1.0.2 also undoes a previous nerf to Warlocks’ Penumbral Blast and fixes a few issues with rewards from the Battlegrounds seasonal activity.

Bungie shared the complete patch notes for Update 3.1.0.2 on its blog, which mostly fix a lot of minor irritations. Players who dove into the Harbinger Exotic mission last season have been annoyed that several Triump…

A new season means a new patch for Destiny 2, and the Season of the Deep update is a big one. Over the last couple of weeks, Bungie has been detailing just how substantial the changes will be for Destiny 2, and as you can see in the very long patch notes below, there’s a lot going on here. In case you missed those briefings, here’s a quick rundown of what you can expect to change this season.

In the Exotics department, both armor and weapons are getting fine-tuned. A lot of legacy armor is being overhauled to offer new functions so that they can tie in better with last year’s…

For developers, showing your game’s trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live costs upwards of $125,000. That can be an untenable proposition, so many of them are taking to Twitter/X to show them off instead.

Many developers felt left out of Gamescom Opening Night Live due to the high costs of showcasing or even attending the live show. This did not discourage many of these developers, instead fuelling their passion and desire to show them off to as wide of an audience as possible.

These great-looking games have yet to be released. Developers started this trend by tweeting/quoting …

Hearthstone’s latest expansion, United in Stormwind, launched this week and introduced the usual suite of new cards and mechanics. That has also renewed conversation among the community, who are commonly complaining that the new expansion stifles interactivity and turns the game into “solitaire.”

The critique extends from two new class-defining Quest cards. Hearthstone has used Quests before, 1-Mana spells that give a set of conditions to complete to get a big reward. It’s not uncommon for decks to be built around these Quests as win conditions, and Stormwind introduc…