Our weekly news liveblog, with this week’s top videogame releases
As W.H.
)Tekken 8(26th Jan).
Our live coverage of this event has finished.
Lock S-Foils in attack position!
If you don’t have any S-Foils, flapping your arms will do.
At the time of writing it’s stillcomfortably aheadof perennial Steam chart-topper Counter-Strike 2.
The just-announcedDeviatorlooks a heck of a lot like Hollow Knight.
Old School RuneScape is getting an (optional) HD mode, Jagex have announced.
This vaguely Llamasoft-looking thing came out over the weekend.
TitledKitten Burst, it casts you as a vapourwave cat surfing the cosmic wilds and doing bullet hells.
It’s got a demo and initial reactions seem positive.
An RPS piece from Jamesabout a new Steam Deck update that tells you what the performance parameters actually do.
I’m all about being pithy!
Unless I’m being horribly long-winded.
It certainly has style.
All is not well at Gothic and Risen developers Piranha Bytes.
The below follows areport from last weekthat the company is “on the verge of closure”.
Watch out, on-the-go Monster Hunters.
According toOverclock3D, Capcom’s latest DRM update has broken Monster Hunter Rise on Steam Deck.
Surprise, surprise,someones already modded actual Pokemon into Palworld.
Anyway, let’s all FEED THE MAW.
Pocketpair have patched the Microsoft Store PC version of Palworld.
“Numerous bugs have been fixed, including sound issues,” the developer wrote on Xitter.
Open world RPG Dread Delusion’s Clockwork Kingdom update is releasing on January 25th.
There’s a smidge more info about Avowed’s combat, ability and area design onXbox Wire.
Sounds like it’ll be quite freeform in terms of how you progress/customise your character.
Circus horror game Reveil is out March 6th.
I’m in the mood for some lobby music.
You ever really fall in love with some lobby music?
Palworld had a million concurrent players this weekend, butearlier today it cleared 1.8 million concurrent players.
I’ve fled my flat in tears to avoid all the building noise upstairs.
Today’s updates are officially brought to you by Cafe Neros.
hey let there be no invading packs of schoolchildren.
Right, enough faffing around.
It’s time to post some Fatboy Slim.
Sea of Thieves Season 11 islivewih a revamp of the game’s core voyaging loop, amongst other things.
Here’s a Diablo 4 Season of the Construct gameplay trailer.
Aftermath’s Gita Jackson haswrittenabout working conditions during their time at Kotaku and VICE.
Pocketpairhave shared their early access roadmap for Palworld(this is our full RPS write-up).
It’s got arena PvP in it.
Riot-owned Hypixel Studios are not affected by this week’s mass layoffs.
Yesterday, Riot Games made an announcement regarding their future plans, which include layoffs.
We’ve since received a number of questions from our community regarding the impact on Hypixel Studios.
We want to clarify that Hypixel Studios is not affected by this announcement, and… Iron Gate has shared a little more about Valheim’s Ashlands update -here’s our write-up.
Roots Of Yggdrasil isout in Steam Early Access.
We’ll apparently find out more in the next two weeks.
Balcony gardening sim Pocket Oasishas a beautiful hand-painted look and meditative vibes.
Expect future Frontier Unlocked streams to drop on the last Wednesday of each month.
There’s a bunch of other cute nods to the whole MGS too, from !
alert emotes to a new cardboard box item.
The Pokemon Company have issueda press releaseapparently in response toclaims Palworld has breached its copyright.
“We have not granted any permission for the use of Pokemon intellectual property or assets in that game.
My translation of this translation: “yes, we know, yo stop emailing us”.
Reuters reports thatChinese regulators are thinking twiceaboutrecently proposed rulesto curb in-game spending and rewards.
Bay 12have shared a bit moreabout the Dwarf Fortress Steam edition’s impending Adventure Mode update.
The post includes insight on difficulties creating the sandbox, and the possibility of “proceduralizing” magic.
According toThe Verge, Microsoft are laying off almost 2000 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees.
Blizzard president Mike Ybarra has left in the process, and Blizzardsuntitled survival game projecthas been canceled.
Russian civil war RTS Last Train Home is getting some DLC - Legion Tales.
Out 1st February, it adds 10 new missions and look at that, we have a teaser trailer.
As mentioned in earlier reporting of layoffs across Microsoft studios, Blizzard havecancelled their in-development survival game.
It’ll now release on March 6th.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy isout now on Steam.
The turn-based tactics of Mordheim: City Of The Damned are currentlyfree to keep from GOG.
Everyone has saved their release date news for today, it seems.
Abiotic Factor looks like Half-Life, if Half-Life were designed for co-op japes.
All Videogame News Writers gain +5 Second Wind.
Let’s get it done.
Nexon’s live service multiplayer melee game Warhaven isshutting downafter just seven months in early access.
Did you play this one?
Ruiner studio Reikon Games hasreportedlylaid off around 80% off its staff - 60-70 people.
Sources called the move “sudden and shocking”.
Bloomberghas some additional details on Blizzard’s now-abandoned survival game, which was codenamed Odyssey.
Amongst other things, the developers once envisaged multiplayer maps that could support 100 players at once.
They’re also working on a feature that lets you snap building parts to pre-existing structures.
Meme-made-real fangame Bloodborne Kart has been contacted by Sony and consequentlywon’t be called Bloodborne Kart anymore.
It’s going to be delayed while its makers scrub the branding off, but it is still coming.
It’ll run an open alpha during Steam Next Fest from February 2nd until the 12th.
