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Despite nearly sharing its name with a joyful Mario squid enemy, developer Bloober Team makes horror games almost exclusively, but its track record is spotty. Its last game, however, the 2024 remake of Silent Hill 2, was met with nearly universal acclaim. The positivity surrounding that game inspired confidence in Cronos: The New Dawn, and while there are some clear lessons the team has taken away from its time in foggy scary town, Bloober’s time-travel horror game is not without its pain points. If you’re in the mood for something that recalls games like Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space,…
In the latest “Can’t believe this hasn’t already happened” installment of news, a Call of Duty film is in the works. Paramount, the movie and television studio behind Top Gun: Maverick, Halo, and more, announced today that it struck a deal with Call of Duty publisher Activision to produce a live-action feature-length film. “Under this milestone partnership, Paramount will develop, produce, and distribute a live-action feature film based on Call of Duty, designed to thrill its massive global fan base by delivering on the hallmarks of what fans love about the iconic series, while boldly expanding the franchise to entirely new…
Take-Two Interactive Software, the publisher behind Ken Levine’s next game Judas, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, and the upcoming Borderlands 4, was in talks to save the recently canceled Perfect Dark reboot, according to a new report from Bloomberg. While Crystal Dynamics owner Embracer Group was close to striking this deal with Take-Two, negotiations ultimately failed, leading to last week’s layoffs at Crystal Dynamics. Bloomberg writes that Embracer “had come close to striking a deal” with Take-Two to purchase the game from Xbox, which owned the rights, but that discussions collapsed “at least in part because the companies involved were unable…
Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles remakes one of the greatest tactics games of all-time, adding to it quality-of-life updates, a new visual style, full VO, and more. When it was revealed in June, I was thrilled – it’s not the easiest game to legally play these days, a challenge emphasized by Square Enix famously losing the game’s source code after rewriting over it when bringing the game to the West after its Japanese release. But I wasn’t necessarily thrilled about some of the changes. The biggest change is the new visual style, which, while faithful to the original pixel…
The announcement of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s release date has created a ripple effect in the indie game community. With the game launching on such short notice – next week, on September 4 – several indie titles that were slated to release on or near that date are collectively jumping out of its blast radius to avoid being overshadowed. Devolver Digital’s Baby Steps joins this list.The upcoming physics-based walking adventure by the creators of Ape Out and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy was set to launch on September. 8. Although it wouldn’t have arrived until one week after Silksong, publisher…
Ninja Gaiden 4, the long-awaited fourth mainline entry in the iconic action franchise, graces the next cover of Game Informer, and we could not be more excited to feature both the new protagonist, Yakumo, and his counterpart, the series’ longtime hero, Ryu Hayabusa, on the full spread of our cover art. The digital issue goes live today at GameInformer.com/NinjaGaiden4, with print subscriptions rolling out in a few weeks. If you haven’t subscribed yet, there’s still time to get the Ninja Gaiden 4 issue shipped to your mailbox. The Ninja Gaiden franchise has been dormant for more than a decade, but 2025…
In 2018, Monstars and Enhance partnered for Tetris Effect, a gorgeous and rhythmic Tetris experience. Now, the same pairing has turned its gaze towards a new pulsing, thumping, timeline-scrolling puzzle game in Lumines Arise. Arriving on November 11, Lumines Arise is a reinvention of the puzzle classic Lumines, where you clear a scrolling timeline by matching squares of multi-colored blocks. All of this hums underneath wave after wave of music and visuals, in the exact kind of rapturous symphony you’d expect from the makers of Tetris Effect. Check out our gameplay from the demo, with a surprisingly welcome S-rank for this rusty…
For years, a lot of China’s video game development has happened in the realm of mobile games or as outsourced developers for studios elsewhere in the world. But there’s been a shift happening – with big releases like last year’s Black Myth: Wukong and plenty more, Chinese developers are aiming for new audiences around the world and seeing massive success. After visiting S-Game’s Beijing, China, studio last month to check out hours of its upcoming “kung fu punk” action game, Phantom Blade Zero, I’m feeling pretty confident it’s going to be the country’s next big video game hit. In our newly…
As a part of our exclusive coverage of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, we sat down with the developers and barraged them with 100 rapid-fire questions about their game. Featuring narrative director Ian Thomas, creative director Alex Skidmore, and White Wolf Brand Marketing Manager Jason Carl, we asked why Phyre’s name is spelled like that, pitched some alternate names for the game, and inquired about whether Carl would ever consider doing a Cincinnati By Night series. Sorry, fellow Bengals fans – I wouldn’t get your hopes up about that last one.Watch Our Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Rapid-Fire…
On March 4, it was announced that defunct publisher Acclaim had been resurrected (again), this time as an indie publisher. After months of waiting, it’s time to learn what new games will bear that iconic rainbow logo thanks to the publisher’s first digital showcase.On September 10, Acclaim will host the Play Acclaim showcase to reveal its lineup of upcoming titles. The news follows a series of teaser trailers posted to the publisher’s official YouTube channel (such as the one below), which is where the presentation will be broadcast. Play Acclaim will air at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m. ET. Acclaim was a…