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ARCANE Lyon is claimed to be attracting multiple bidders, including Ubisoft, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier🚀 “Multiple companies have made offers to Microsoft Corp. to acquire Arkane Studios, the French video-game developer behind the Dishonored series and an upcoming title based on the Blade comic books, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Ubisoft Entertainment SA made a bid for the studio, as have at least two other gaming companies, said the people, who asked to not be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Xbox has also weighed selling the studio to its management.”

The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel will quite likely be a multi-platform cross gen release in PS5, PS5, Xbox Series, Project Helix and PC🚀 If they wanna go full exclusivity mode, they should exclude PC and Game Pass, because a game is never truly exclusive if it comes to PC or part of a service that is accessible on both platforms that practically gives the game away for free. If there is a multi-platform launch on PS5/6 day one, Game Pass wouldn’t affect it much, but if it’s gonna be an exclusive, it might as well make paying full price for the game on one console the only way to access it. Otherwise, this is Gears of War and Starfield all over again, and bringing it to PS5/6 6 months to 2 years later isn’t gonna make any much difference, because anyone who cared to play will have gotten it from Game Pass on PC or Xbox

Having the announcement trailer and name reveal trailer being 8 years apart is modern game development crisis in a nutshell🚀 The more I look at this, the more I treasure Capcom for what they’ve given us🥺

Lara Croft graces the cover of the next Game Informer story, promoting Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and a retrospective look at the brand’s history🚀

New Radical Games is hiring for a new project using Unreal Engine 5.8🚀 The project may possibly be PROTOTYPE remaster/remake. Among the requirements, they state: ✅Strong Unreal Engine animation skills: Anim BP, Control Rig, Motion Matching   ✅Gameplay animation logic built with StateTree for locomotion, combat, and traversal ✅Solid grasp of general animation systems: state machines, blending, layering, retargeting ✅Physics-based animation: Ragdoll, RBAN, Control Rig Physics ✅Maya and Control Rig experience applied to stylized characters ✅Python for pipeline tools: export, validation, retargeting Recently, reports claimed a PROTOTYPE remaster or a remake were in the works, though no official announcement has been made. Source: New Radical Games on LinkedIn

The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel is claimed to be more than 2 years away from launch, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier🚀 The game was first announced in 2018, and it’s only an hour ago that we got to officially know its title “Sentinel”🥺

Grand Theft Auto VI pre-loading begins Nov 10🚀

Steam has restored video game purchases for a player who deleted his library without refunding/downloading them🚀 Steam and GOG are setting a great example for how to handle digital media, something no console, especially Sony can even compare to. (Credits to u/lizardintrenchcoat) This is precisely why consoles cannot be compared to PC in terms of physical media and ownership. PC is all-digital, yes. But it gives you options of different stores to buy from, and some of those stores, like Steam has great policies that honor purchases even if a game is removed. GOG allows you to get DRM-free games that can be put on disc even. Consoles only limit players to their own storefront and their polices are predatory and insist that you don’t own any of the games you buy, and they can be taken at any time without compensation. NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

Remedy Games revenue skyrockets by 226% following a hugely successful launch for CONTROL: Resonant, their fastest selling game yet🚀 ✅Q3 revenue skyrocketed by 226% year-over-year to €39.6m, driven by the September launch of Control Resonant. ✅They shared their operating profit of €0.6m, a massive improvement from the €16.4m loss recorded in Q3 of the previous year. ✅Control Resonant quickly surpassed one million sales post-launch, driving a concurrent sales bump for the original 2019 Control. ✅Nearly half of the players were entirely new to the franchise, successfully expanding Remedy's audience. Geographically, the US led player share, followed by Chinese-speaking regions and the UK. ✅CEO Jean-Charles Gaudechon called the launch a “defining milestone” Remedy's focus is now expanding the game's reach while continuing development on other projects. The studio is working on Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes merged into one game, along with a new unannounced project😎

Terminally ill Grand Theft Auto VI fan who wished he could play the game before he passes away, has left us on October 29, his family confirmed🚀 Jerry has been battling a lung disease since he was about 17 years old. He passed from infection, despite having lung transplant. May he rest in peace… My deepest condolences to his family😭❤️‍🩹

Unreal Engine 6 updates coming from Unreal Fest Tokyo 2026, targeting early access in 2027🚀 ✅Removal of Core UE Systems in UE6, Blueprints, Actors, and the C++ Gameplay Framework are confirmed to be completely deleted (rather than phased out or merely deprecated) in UE6. ✅While C++ remains the base of the engine and is still recommended for Physics and Rendering, it will not be compatible with the new Verse- and Scene Graph-based Gameplay Framework. ✅Tim Sweeney addressed the Blueprint removal directly and apologized to the community during the announcement. Migration Support: An AI-assisted migration path will be provided to help transition projects from UE5 to UE6. ✅The Unreal Engine 5.9 Preview releases next week, featuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) updates alongside other improvements. Source: @CobraCodeDev It would be amazing to start seeing tech demos soon. It will give us a good look at the potential for next gen, although knowing how things work, we probably won’t see any being near that for 4-6 years into the next generations Tech demos tend to have some of the best concepts out there, and I wish some of them end up being full games, at least the ones shown before this generation started.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake almost had fast-travel added to it, but Nintendo removed it last minute🚀 “We were missing out on the moments of discovery that came from stopping along the way and wondering” Cancelling fast travel would allow players to actually spend time exploring the world and not missing out on the sense of discovery😎

Whether it’s saving physical media and saving Mass Effect from cancellation, we need to be loud, and show demand and interest, and we must never give up🚀 There’s an estimated 3 billion gamers out there in some shape or form, we outnumber and overpower any corporations. We are the customers, we hold the money and voting with our wallets and voices are our very basic rights. So #SaveMassEffect Save physical media and digital ownership Demand what’s in YOUR best interest, without worrying about profitability, trends, and whatever BS stories they tried to sell you to take more money from and sell you low quality games NO DISC 💿 NO BUY

Would you be interested in an Assassin’s Creed game set in Rome, since the Netflix series is reported to be set in Ancient Rome?🚀

XBOX former COO Helen Chiang made a statement on her LinkedIn following her abrupt departure from XBOX🚀 The content of her letter include: ✅Denies being “fired for a policy violation” and states that silence should not be mistaken for agreement regarding inaccurate public speculation. ✅Clarifies that confidential company information was never leaked to the press, and no unauthorized communication occurred with journalists. ✅Emphasizes deep loyalty from a 20-year career at Xbox, confirming a departure did not happen to join a competitor. ✅Explicitly denies engaging in discrimination, bullying, harassment, insider trading, embezzlement, or fraud. ✅States the departure was not due to being passed over for a larger role, noting that the most recent position was a promotion received in July. ✅Expresses serious concerns regarding fairness and how accountability standards were applied in this specific case. ✅Expresses thanks to colleagues, industry peers, and supporters who reached out with messages of care and solidarity.

You can save only 3 video game studios/publishers from these, the rest will disappear🚀

If you could play only one game of these two, and the other will disappear, what will you choose?🚀

Thief: The Dark Project Remastered is coming December 3rd🚀 This marks the first return of the franchise since 2014. In 2025, they released a VR game called “Their VR: Legacy of Shadow”. It would be amazing to see a proper new installment from this iconic series😎

Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown expansion adds the long-awaited romance option, allowing players to romance, and marry almost any NPC in the game🚀 Characters open for romances have a designated symbol that indicates the possibility for romance, and you need to build up the “meter” for romance, and do their quest line for it. You can marry, and attempting to flirt with other NPCs causes the romance partner to react😎