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Except it’s all coaster and no tycoon After the diabolical mess that wasRollerCoaster Tycoon 4, the idea of a new, proper game in the series to follow it up is both exciting and utterly terrifying.RollerCoaster Tycoon Worldhas been passed around three different studios, with Nvizzio Creations currently being at the helm. RollerCoaster Tycoon Worldcould either be the mess most people are expecting it to be, or a semi-decent follow up toRollercoaster Tycoon 3, and no one quite knows which way it will go....

Sword and Sorcery forever During this morning’sJapanese Fighting Game Publisher’s Roundtablestream, developer SNK announced that a third season of content is headed to its meticulous fighting titleSamurai Shodown. No further information was released outside of this simple statement, but from experience we can expect several new characters will be headed to theSamShoroster. Whether these characters will be newcomers such as Darli Dagger, returning stars such asIroha, or more strange cross over selections likeThe Wardenand the recently revealedGongsun Liremains to be seen....

Skullgirlswas one of the first indie fighting games made for and by lifelong fans of the genre. Lead design designerMike Zis an EVO-winningBlazblueplayer, while animation directorMariel Cartwrighthas been studying the artwork of Capcom’s best since she was a teenager. Cut to 2016, andSkullgirlshas become an international success, to the point where it’s arguably too big for just one genre to contain. Skullgirlsfor mobile will likely be perfect for the side of the franchise’s fandom that is more there for the characters than the mechanics, as it “distills the essence of a complex fighting game into a more casual, accessible mobile experience with RPG elements....

Apparently John Cena owns one Call of Duty: WWIIlaunches this November, and what better way to play it than on a Limited Edition PS4 console, as announced by Sony on theEU Playstationblog yesterday. But as hard as I’ve searched, I can’t find any pictures of it anywhere. It’s reported that the shiny new 1TB machine will come emblazoned with a camouflage design and is side-armed with a military green controller, which allsoundspretty cool....

They never released a game MCV Indiasays that Square Enix India has closed up shop without ever having shipped a game. This was just confirmed by Square Enix India VP Atul Vibhandik. To be fair, they were set up to build relationships with local studios to grow Square Enix’s mobile game business, and they only had about six employees on staff. They were only around for about a year before closing....

Valve has become the latest company to try and avoid a lawsuit by making its users agree not to take it to court. Steam’s newest terms of service include thesame attempts to prohibit class action suitsemployed by Sony, Microsoft, and Electronic Arts. “Most significant to the new dispute resolution terms is that customers may now only bring individual claims, not class action claims,” writes Valve. “We considered this change very carefully....

Small-town gossip and vibes The beautiful mutated world ofMutazioneis coming to some new platforms next week. The mutant space opera will land on Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles on June 01, 2025. Mutazioneis an indie adventure that’s racked up a few awards already, including the2020 IGF award for Excellence in Audio. That excellence in audio is also getting commemorated in its own way, as iam8bit has announced a2xLP vinyl soundtrack for the game, complete with a stylish cover....

Crowdfunding backer demo is out today InXile Entertainment is one of a few companies to take to crowdfunding like a fish to water. It’s been around since 2004 when it developed its first game,The Bard’s Tale, an action-adventure title that shares a name with the classic RPG series but none of the characters and locations. The title was decently reviewed, but not exactly a monster seller. It wasn’t until the developer turned to Kickstarter to fund a sequel to the 1988 open-world RPGWastelandthat it found its niche....

Since 2009 The Call of Duty Endowment program charity isn’t something you probably think of often in the now zombie-heavy shooter, but it’s actually been around for roughly 10 years now and heavily linked to the series. Today the program has announced that it’s placed over 54,000 veterans into careers during that time frame (10,686 were from 2018 alone), with Activision-Blizzard paying for “all of the Endowment’s overhead costs,” and 100% of the donations going directly to grantees....

Stampy feet Chiropracticsurvival city builderThe Wandering Villageis coming to Xbox One and Series X|S on June 12, 2025. This comes at the same time as its Oceans update, which drops a new biome into the game. The Wandering Villageis a post-apocalyptic city builder where you construct your settlement on the back of a giant creature that carries your people above the toxic surface of the doomed world. It’s pretty neat! You have to appease both your villagers and the creature that they live on in a pretty inventive interpretation of symbiosis....

I feel like a proud mama bear showing off her children right now I’ll be the first to admit that my video game collection is quite modest. It only fits into three shelves on an IKEA BILLY, and most of it taken up by mediocre PS2 platformers andGTAgames I will probably never get round to playing. It’s a host of what-ifs, “what-if-I-took-a-sabbatical-to-‘find myself’-for-a-year”s and weekends lost to life admin and cleaning....

Please be a new game Capcom has apparently registered theOnimushatrademark in Japan for re-use. While this may seem like nothing, Capcom noted recently it’sputting a lot of eggs into the remaster basket, and this seems like an obvious candidate following the success ofResident Evil HD. While a lot of people are down on remakes, I’m of the opinion that they can one day lead to new games, so I’m good....

According toBloomberg, the waves of layoffs at Ubisoft Entertainment continued this week with 45 jobs being cut from its San Francisco and Cary, North Carolina offices. Paired with previous layoffs earlier this year at Ubisoft Toronto as well as in its global publishing and Asia-Pacific teams, Ubisoft is approaching a total reduction in headcount of over 1,800 since 2022. The layoffs come less than a month after Ubisoft reported first-quarter 2024-25 net bookings of €290....