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Obsidian was at one point in talks to create an Avatar 2 game.

Google has become the latest technology company to announce mass layoffs, as it today told employees it was eliminating 12,000 roles.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition has been released on Steam, with support for the Steam Deck.

UPDATE 20/1/23: Rocket League developer Psyonix has announced a wave of bans for bot accounts running rampant in the game's competitive modes.

A majority of game developers see harassment from players as a major problem for the industry.

A former Sega localisation specialist has criticised the lack of credit for French, Italian, German and Spanish (FIGS) language translators in Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden, which launched for PC and modern platforms this week.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 will bring back a 1v1 Gulag with the delayed launch of Season 2, its developer has said.

UPDATE 20/1/23: The leaked Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League image which showed the game's main menu - including mention of its cosmetic battle pass - has now been scrubbed from Twitter due to a copyright claim.

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: Cyberpunks, Mothmen, and other horrors.

Wizards of the Coast has apologised for its handling of its Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License (OGL) revisions, which caused a huge community backlash over the past week.

Amplitude Studio's Dungeon of the Endless spiritual successor Endless Dungeon - which it calls a "unique blend of roguelite, tactical action, and tower defense" - has been given a release date and will launch for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation on 18th May.

After its year-long delay, EA Sports PGA Tour finally has a release date, and is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 24th March.

Marvel's Midnight Suns' superhero crew is expanding by one on 26th January, when Deadpool enters the fray as the acclaimed strategy game's first paid DLC addition.

December brought the surprise news that Dead Cells - the superb rogue-like action-platformer from developers Motion Twin and subsidiary Evil Empire - would be joining forces with Konami to release a paid Castlevania expansion, and we've now been given a first proper (if rather brief) look at its retro-inspired action courtesy of a first gameplay trailer.

With a little over a month to go until the release of PlayStation 5's spruced-up virtual reality kit, PSVR 2, Sony has revealed the full 37-game launch window line-up players can expect to arrie between 22nd February and the end of March.

UPDATE: Riot has now confirmed that 46 staff have lost their jobs in this round of layoffs.

Paradox Interactive and Triumph Studios have announced a new numbered sequel in the Age of Wonders series - the first for nine years.

New research suggests that warnings for games with loot box-style mechanics are inconsistent and unreliable.

NetEase staff have smashed up a giant World of Warcraft statue by their studio, as the ongoing and increasingly bitter dispute between it and Activision Blizzard continues.

Bruce Straley, who co-directed 2013's The Last of Us with Neil Druckmann, believes unionisation could be the answer to ensuring creators are recognised for their contributions to a series.

Today, on the Digital Foundry YouTube channel, we're posting the latest in our PC Retro Time Capsule 'let's play' series. This is a semi-regular feature that looks to re-examine classic PC releases from across the decades, replaying them using period-appropriate PC hardware and re-appraising them with the benefit of hindsight - and the use of our modern performance analysis tools.

When Naughty Dog first came up with its introduction for The Last of Us, the developer considered having players start by controlling Joel rather than his daughter, Sarah.

I don't know whether to be turned off by the new Colossal Cave or charmed by it. Here's a game that originally came out in 1976, and was played entirely in text - printed on paper, in some cases - and it's been remade in 3D. The caves you once explored in your imagination are now rendered around you.

More military documents have been leaked on the War Thunder forum this week - not once, but twice.

With the arrival of big hitters including Monster Hunter Rise and Persona on Game Pass this month, more games which will leave the service have been announced through the app.

Pokémon are banned across a sizable swathe of Cyprus. There isn't a physical wall to keep them out - at least not in most areas. But in Pokémon Go a large area across the width of the Mediterranean island is still a Pokémon no-Go area, thanks to the country's past.

The opening hour of Forspoken has leaked online, ahead of the game's release next week.

The Last of Us made its TV debut earlier this week, with reception so far praising the show for its faithful adaptation of the game it is based on.

Google has officially pulled the plug on its cloud gaming service Stadia, which died earlier this morning.

Ubisoft has confirmed the cancellation of Project Q, the company's mysterious upcoming PVP battle arena game it teased last year.