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Unity is "likely" to announce layoffs as part of broader cost cutting measures.

This week, a lot of people around the world have been rediscovering an old love. I've never really left Fortnite behind, but the game's original island has been out of reach for a couple of seasons now. Suddenly it's back and it's been fascinating to return to it - and fascinating to watch everyone else flood back in too.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Dante's infernal, cyborg ninjas, and Crashes.

Cor, there's a new GTA on the way! And while we're going to learn a bit more about it in December when the trailer drops for GTA 6 drops, we still wanted to get together and share a few thoughts about things we hope the new game includes.

One scene near the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's story - no spoilers here, not that there's anything to spoil - features a CIA agent heavily redacting all the key details of what you just played through. I let go of the idea that Call of Duty might do much of interest, or even consequence, with its story some time ago, but that's as on-the-nose an analogy as you could ever ask for with Modern Warfare 3.

It's been just over two years since acclaimed animated League of Legends spin-off Arcane launched on Netflix, but finally its long-awaited second season has the closest thing to a release date yet. The bad news is there's still a long wait in store; the streaming service has now confirmed Arcane season two will launch in November 2024.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes has confirmed a "number of" layoffs at the studio resulting from the closure of its publishing division. It's also announced it'll no longer be publishing free-to-play online action-RPG Wayfinder following the closure, and that full control of the property will return to developer Airship Syndicate.

Remnant 2's first expansion, The Awakened King, is right around the corner, and ahead of its release next Tuesday, 14th November, developer Gunfire Games has revealed a second copy of the DLC won't be required to play it with a friend.

It's been over three years since developer Jonathan Blow announced his critically acclaimed, time-manipulating platform-puzzler Braid was getting an Anniversary Edition, but, finally, a release is in sight; it's coming to Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and Netflix mobile on April 30th, 2024.

Valve has announced Steam Deck OLED, a revamped version of its popular handheld PC which boasts - as you might guess - a shiny new OLED screen as its star feature.

Don't expect Steam Deck 2.0 anytime soon, Valve has said, as the technology to launch a handheld with an adequately beefy jump in power just doesn't yet exist.

Let's be clear, the brand new Steam Deck OLED isn't just the original machine with a brand new display. Excluding the outer shell, it's essentially a top to bottom revamp of the entire machine and perhaps the most extensive mid-generation 'console refresh' I've seen. But let's give that beautiful new display its due: it's bigger, brighter, runs at 90Hz and in combination with enhancements to SteamOS, you get full HDR support too. Boot up Ori and the Will of the Wisps for some class-leading HDR and you quickly realise that Valve has delivered home cinema display fidelity to a handheld games machine. It's simply stunning.

As we stroll gamely into month two of Sea of Thieves' extremely long-delayed Season 10, Rare has announced that the second of its three big tentpole features - the new PvP-focused Skull of the Siren Song voyage - will arrive next Thursday, 16th November.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth may include a 17 minute CG film to recap the events of Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

Hitman developer IO Interactive has laid out its Winter roadmap for the World of Assassination trilogy.

Strauss Zelnick, boss of GTA publisher Take-Two, has credited the company's "three-part strategy" as the reason it has managed to avoid mass layoffs this year.

GTA 6 could contain generative AI, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.

The new Pokémon animated series is set to launch in the UK on the BBC in December.

Broken Roads, the upcoming narrative-driven cRPG from developer Drop Bear Bytes, has been delayed.

This year's BBC Children in Need kicks off with a dedicated TV live show devoted to video games, set to air on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer tomorrow, Friday 10th November at 7pm.

Sony has now sold 46.5m PlayStation 5 units.

There's a joke among Yakuza fans that Kazuma Kiryu will never truly be gone. At 90 years old he'll be hauling himself out of the retirement home to beat some poor sod's face in, before heading to the nearest pocket circuit club to race miniature cars against children. Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name feels like it's aware of the joke - in part because it's the force pulling Kiryu out of retirement for yet another bout.

Starfield's protagonist is silent, but that wasn't always the case. Sam Coe's voice actor Elias Toufexis has revealed he recorded lines as the voice of the male lead, while Cissy Jones did so as the game's female protagonist.

The soundtrack for upcoming release Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has leaked online, following the release of Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name yesterday.

Video games are not strangers to museums and galleries. Over the last few years games have landed in places like the V&A and the MoMA. But it's still relatively rare to have games sharing the same space as other artworks, let alone for a gallery to ensure they're playable for the audience, just like they are in their living rooms.

A long time ago, in a press release that now seems far, far away, mobile game maker Zynga announced arena squad shooter Star Wars: Hunters for Nintendo Switch and smartphones.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has now sold over 5m copies.

Sony has halved the number of live service games it plans to release by March 2026 from 12 to six.

Unannounced football game Lego 2K Goooal! has leaked yet again, this time with official artwork via a listing on the PlayStation Store.

Tired of having to explain yourself every time your friends catch you firing up Hosiery Party: Wet Potato Frenzy on Steam? Well, there's some good news: Valve is reportedly readying a feature that'll let you mark specific games as "private" so you can hide your more unusual tastes from other users while still maintaining a public profile.