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At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox’s new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company’s big moves recently, including its strategy on exclusives and what’s next for the company in the hardware space with Project Helix. He made these comments at The Game Business Live. „Reliable pipeline“ of exclusives On the subject […]

So many game publishers are trying to get their titles out of the shadow of Grand Theft Auto 6, leading to a comically crowded September this year. But Atari isn’t blinking, releasing–of all things–a collection of classic Barbie games exactly a week before Rockstar’s behemoth. Developed by Digital Eclipse, Barbie Rewind is a compilation of […]

Hellblade and Senua developer, Ninja Theory, has revealed that it has cancelled Project Mara, its experimental photorealistic horror title that was revealed in 2020. In an interview on Xbox Wire, Ninja Theory Studio Head Dom Matthews explained that Senua, the studio’s third title in the series, requires all of the studio’s effort, with Project Mara […]

Sega’s newly announced Crazy Taxi: World Tour game is among those made in part with generative AI, and now the franchise’s original creator, Kenji Kanno, has defended his studio’s use of the controversial technology. He told Kotaku, via a translator, that the game’s artists would use generative AI to generate ideas, and then they would […]

In 2024, developer Wrong Organ’s first-person horror title Mouthwashing was an indie smash. Now, Wrong Organ’s follow-up game, Carcass Clad, has been revealed, and aside from fitting into the horror genre, it appears to be a completely different experience. Instead of the struggle to survive of Mouthwashing, Carcass Clad will place players in control of […]

After years in the shadows, concerns cropped up over the weekend when Marvel’s Blade wasn’t featured in the Xbox Games Showcase. The superhero game from Arkane Lyon was originally announced in 2023, but barely anything has been revealed since then. That led to speculation the title was canceled. However, Giant Bomb’s Jeff Grubb clarified that […]

Amazon Games has been trying to make a The Lord of the Rings game for years, but nothing has materialized. The company isn’t giving up, but it’s still early days for what it might do with a Middle-earth game. Amazon was working on two different versions of a The Lord of the Rings MMO, but […]

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie continues to soar at the box office, despite already being available to watch at home, and now it’s crossed a major milestone. The animated movie from Illumination, Universal, and Nintendo has exceeded $1 billion worldwide. It’s made $429 million from North America and $571.5 million from international markets for a […]

The NES, SNES, and Game Boy Nintendo Switch Online apps all received mysterious updates (to versions 9.0.0, 6.0.0, and 4.0.0, respectively), and a prolific dataminer has claimed that these patches are meant to add challenges. These challenges aren’t accessible yet, but according to LuigiBlood on Bluesky (as spotted by Nintendo Everything), they will be similar […]