Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios Group is shuttering two studios and, as a result, is laying off roughly 9% of its overall workforce, according to a statement on its website. Avalanche is the latest developer to announce studio closures and staff layoffs in a year that seen thousands of layoffs …

At some point, every Star Wars fan has had to make a decision: Will they follow the light and use the Force for good, or embrace the darkness and support the franchise’s baddies. Thankfully, there’s a surprising (and delicious) new tool available to help fans decide: the new Star Wars …

YouTube has announced the introduction of over 75 games to its platform, all of which can be played in-browser or via the YouTube mobile app. Over the past few months, the game library–referred to by YouTube as “Playables”–has been made available to select users in certain markets, but the company …

Starfield‘s massive May update–the biggest to hit the game since its September 2023 launch–arrived last week, introducing tons of new quality-of-life features (like improved scanner function and surface maps) and long-awaited bug-fixes for some of the game’s most important quests. The May update ostensibly has it all, from options to …

Silent Hill 2‘s legendary antagonist, Pyramid Head, is finally headed back to the big screen, and audiences caught their first glimpse of the geometric monstrosity this week when the film previewed at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Christophe Gans (who also directed the first Silent Hill film back …

Apex Legends Season 21: Upheaval launched, surprisingly, without an actual launch trailer. But just over a week after the new season went live, Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has released a new animated short featuring a device that Titanfall 2 players will certainly recognize: the Time Gauntlet, a device that …

Starfield‘s biggest update since launch is finally here, bringing loads of new quality-of-life features to the game, from new visual performance settings to the ability to tweak combat difficulty and ship cargo space. First announced earlier this month, Starfield’s May Update (as Bethesda calls it) includes new ways for players …

Microsoft is rolling out a bevy of new features for Xbox starting today, as detailed in the company’s recent Xbox Wire blog post. Among those features is mouse and keyboard support for titles played via Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Although the feature is still in the beta-testing stage, players …

Sony’s PlayStation 5 console is heavily outselling Microsoft’s Xbox Series X|S, according to Daniel Ahmad, director of research at Niko Partners, a firm that aggregates data on video game and console sales. 4.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles were shipped in the first quarter of 2024, with Sony selling roughly five …

After becoming the first human to receive Neuralink’s N1 implant back in January, 29-year-old quadriplegic Noland Arbaugh is reportedly playing Old School Runescape, Slay The Spire, and a number of other popular games using the implant and signals from his brain. “I’m beating my friends in games that, as a …