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gamesreview 1 sources · 1d ago

Stupid Never Dies Opens at Mostly Positive on Steam, Metascore 66

The debut from a studio built by Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma staff lands in mixed territory: Steam users like the look and the transformation combat, but a 66 metascore and complaints about lock-on and grinding show the reception split.

Game Spark
gamesrelease 1 sources · 1d ago

Pixel Releases Hoggy Hue for Switch, a Return to Its Roots

The Switch release revises the shooting systems and reworks the sound while keeping a story that traces back to a dog named Hyuga, who came to live with Pixel's representative director Eishu Sasaki after the Fukushima evacuation.

Game Spark
gamesbusiness 2 sources · 1d ago

EA Outlines Three Strategic Priorities as BioWare Edmonton Shuts Down

EA is trading breadth for concentration: closing BioWare and naming only a few large action-adventure projects, while protecting Battlefield, Apex, and sports, which tells investors where the company thinks its remaining leverage is.

Game Spark
games 1 sources · 1d ago

Honma Credits BioWare as BioWare Closes

The Edgerunners connection Honma traces runs through a localization pitch and a referral, which means the Japanese release of The Witcher 2 and the anime work that followed sit downstream of a studio that has now closed.

Game Spark
gamesrelease 2 sources · 1d ago

Pocket Mirror: Golden Dream Launches on PS4, PS5 and Switch

A Steam remaster from 2023 now reaches console storefronts on the anniversary of the original, and KOMODO is marking the release with a fan-art contest and a goods lottery rather than a new game.

ASCII.jp
games 4 sources · 1d ago

Xbox Cloud Gaming Tests Playtime Packs For Non-Game Pass Users

The packs make cloud gaming a metered purchase separate from the subscription, and GIGAZINE notes the 50-hour pack works out to about 38 yen per hour against about 63 yen for the 10-hour pack, so the discount scales with commitment.

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gamesrelease 1 sources · 1d ago

Tsumimi Time Psycho Horror Adventure Releases Today on Steam

A four-hour first playthrough that stretches to eight or nine hours across multiple endings, with interventions and deductions reshaping both the streams and the ending, puts the game's runtime and replay in the hands of viewer choices rather than a fixed script.

Denfaminicogamer
games 3 sources · 1d ago

Three Roguelite Devs Explain Why They Chose the Genre

The three answers split on cost versus narrative, and the split is itself the report: the genre's economics and its storytelling are being weighed differently by studios in three markets.

Automaton, Game Spark
gamesevent 1 sources · 1d ago

BanG Dream! Girls Band Party Announces Manosaba Collab With Roselia PV

The collab pairs a nine-year rhythm game with a gothic mystery adventure that has sold 700,000 copies and taken an Excellence Award at the Japan Game Awards 2026, and the guest slots for the October 29 stream put the Manosaba cast in front of Garupa's audience before any gameplay is shown.

Denfaminicogamer
gamesbusiness 2 sources · 1d ago

EA Closes BioWare, Cancels New Mass Effect as RPG Peers Pay Tribute

The tributes lean on concrete debts, not sentiment: CD Projekt Red localized Baldur's Gate in Poland and built the first The Witcher on BioWare's Aurora Engine, which is why the shutdown reads as the loss of an infrastructure provider rather than one more closed studio.

Automaton, Game Spark
gamesop-ed 1 sources · 1d ago

Eric Chahi Returns To Japan With The Another World Materials He Kept

Chahi built his own polygon editor and development language because no tools existed for what he wanted, which is why the surviving graph paper and rotoscope rig are the record of how one person made a game that Fumito Ueda, Hideo Kojima, and Goichi Suda have cited as an influence.

Denfaminicogamer
gamesrelease 1 sources · 1d ago

GONE Fishing Leaves Early Access With a Proper Ending

A cooperative horror game built around feeding a monster, not fighting it, has held 90% positive across about 3,000 Steam reviews, and the finished version adds the ending and progression an early-access build goes without.

Denfaminicogamer
gamesrelease 3 sources · 1d ago

Serial Lover Adds Japanese Support With 20 Percent Launch Sale

The localization update arrives nine months after the full release, so Japanese support is reaching a title that had already built its Steam review base in English and other languages first.

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