• Former Xbox Exec Shares Her Side Of The Story After Mysterious Depature

    Former Xbox Exec Shares Her Side Of The Story After Mysterious Depature
    Helen Chiang, the veteran Xbox staffer who got promoted in July and left the company amid mysterious circumstances just recently, has shared her side of the story--but her response doesn't close the book on this saga.In a LinkedIn post titled "Clarity is Kindess," which itself is a reference to her former boss (and Xbox CEO) Asha Sharma's much-ridiculed and cringey mantra, said it's "not accurate" that she was "fired for a policy violation" as multiple reports said.Chiang said she will not "turn
  • When Is Resident Evil Coming To Home Video? It Could Be Very Soon

    When Is Resident Evil Coming To Home Video? It Could Be Very Soon
    Zach Cregger's Resident Evil movie crushed it at the box office, banking more than $400 million globally to become the most successful entry in the series ever. When will the film be available to watch at home, though?
    According to Fandango, the home video release is set for November 3. That's apparently when people can buy the movie outright or rent it digitally, with a physical edition for Blu-ray coming at some point later. It will also presumably come to streaming at some point, and it shoul
  • Phantom Blade Zero Put Up Some Massive Sales Numbers

    Phantom Blade Zero Put Up Some Massive Sales Numbers
    Developer S-Game's action-RPG Phantom Blade Zero launched on October 29 and had a massive start across PC and PS5.
    The game sold more than 4 million copies over its first 72 hours. That works out to 926 units sold per minute or about 15.4 per second over the first three days.
    "Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support," the studio said in a social media post.
    https://twitter.com/pbzero_official/status/2117074929594298758
    The 4 million figure counts copies sold
  • Xbox Game Pass Has A Busy November Ahead With Several Day-One Launches

    Xbox Game Pass Has A Busy November Ahead With Several Day-One Launches
    The start of the month is a good time to be an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, as that's when Microsoft reveals the next batch of games coming to the service. November is frontloaded with new game releases before November 19--we can't imagine why--and several of them are day-one releases. Once more games are revealed, we'll update this post.A few games have already been revealed for November, and usually, the first wave is the biggest one for Game Pass. Kicking things off is the online horror co-op g
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  • GTA 6 Buying Guide: Get Ready For Sticker Shock

    GTA 6 Buying Guide: Get Ready For Sticker Shock
    Rockstar's GTA 6 finally releases on November 19, and if you're looking to play the game, you'll also need a console--and those are more expensive than ever. Here's a quick buying guide to help you understand what you need and how much the items will cost. A consoleFirst, you'll need a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S console. The least expensive option for buying a new system outright is the Xbox Series S, which costs $500. Unfortunately, that's $200 more expensive than the system cost at laun
  • Claude Code Just Got A New Rule: Stop Copying Other People’s Games

    Claude Code Just Got A New Rule: Stop Copying Other People’s Games
    AI clones and vibe-coded copycat games have become a huge headache for developers recently, but it looks like an update to Anthropic's Claude Code's "rules" has been pushed out. Listed under "tengu_heron_brook," the tweak to the AI now directs it not to copy games and assets, and users cannot disable this setting.Spotted by Chasm on X (via Game Developer), the full rule reads, "Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don't build a recreat
  • Doom Dev Says “We’re Doing Great” After Half The Studio Was Just Laid Off

    Doom Dev Says “We’re Doing Great” After Half The Studio Was Just Laid Off
    Doom developer id Software was among the numerous Microsoft-owned game studios that cut staff recently as part of the big Xbox "reset." What's the vibe like internally at the studio in the wake of that? Studio co-director Marty Stratton said in a recent interview, "We're doing great."He said he wasn't trying to "handwave" the layoffs, and isn't shying away from acknowledging that "half of our studio" was laid off, IGN reported. Stratton said the layoffs were part of a "deliberate effort" to ensu
  • We Finally Know Who Made The Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake

    We Finally Know Who Made The Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake
    Fans have speculated on which studio is leading the development of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake since it was first announced, and a new Ask the Developer feature from Nintendo appears to give us the answer.The interviewees in Nintendo's online feature include longtime Zelda producerEiji Aonuma and several members of Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (EPD) Production Group No. 3, which is the team behind the mainline Zelda games. In other words, the usual Zelda peop
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  • Gears Of War: E-Day’s Apparent $500 Million Budget May Not Tell The Full Story – Report

    Gears Of War: E-Day’s Apparent $500 Million Budget May Not Tell The Full Story – Report
    How much does a true console exclusive cost to make today? If recent reports are to be believed, Gears of War: E-Day had a production cost $500 million, but there's more to that figure than just a single game.That's according to Windows Central writer Jez Corden, who says he spoke with multiple sources familiar with the story behind the half-billion dollars paid over several years to The Coalition while it was working on Gears of War: E-Day. The studio emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic as a Swi
  • Resident Evil Director Reacts To Backlash: “I Should Have Known Better”

    Resident Evil Director Reacts To Backlash: “I Should Have Known Better”
    Resident Evil is a huge success at the box office, recently surpassing $400 million globally. It's also received fantastic review scores. But hardcore fans of the game series took issue with the film and its direction because it did not contain any storylines or characters from the source material. Director Zach Cregger never intended to, instead opting for his own original story that is set in the world of Resident Evil. Now, Cregger has spoken more about the fallout, saying he became "frustrat
  • Dave Bautista Is Looking More Like Kratos After Packing On 20 Pounds Of Muscle

    Dave Bautista Is Looking More Like Kratos After Packing On 20 Pounds Of Muscle
    With filming set to resume soon on Prime Video's God of War series, 55-year-old actor Dave Bautista revealed in an Instagram Story that he's packed on a beefy 20 pounds of muscle for the role of Kratos, bringing his weight to 250 pounds. While it's not the first time Bautista has bulked up for a role, he'd noticeably slimmed down in recent months, and he'd previously said he needed two months to get ready to play Kratos on TV.While 250 pounds is an impressive weight, it's not the heaviest that
  • Xbox Game Pass Is Losing 14 Games In November

    Xbox Game Pass Is Losing 14 Games In November
    It's the start of a new month, which means new additions and departures on Xbox Game Pass. To kick off November, 14 games are being removed from the Game Pass library soon, including several simulators, one longrunning Dragon Ball game, and one of the greatest James Bond adventures of all time--at least until that upstart 007 First Light popped up earlier this year.Simulator fans can say goodbye to Football Manager 26, Firefighting Simulator, Pigeon Simulator, and Police Simulator this month. Be
  • Gang Of Dragon Won’t Be The First Game From Nagoshi Studio. It Won’t Be Any Game At All

    Gang Of Dragon Won’t Be The First Game From Nagoshi Studio. It Won’t Be Any Game At All
    Nagoshi Studio, the studio formed by Yakuza creator Toshiro Nagoshi at NetEase, has been shut down before it even released its first game. According to Gematsu, shareholders officially dissolved the developer on October 31 via a resolution later published in the Japanese government gazette Kanpo.Under Nagoshi, the studio worked on Gang of Dragon, a new game that looked similar to the veteran developer's work on Sega's Yakuza and Like a Dragon series at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. Work on the game con

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