Today “We’re in the business of making great big hits”, Take-Two CEO says after shuttering good studios and selling good indie publisher Private Division to a mystery buyer

Remember when it looked like Take-Two was shutting down both Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and Roll7 – the studio behind Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World only for Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick to then say that it “didn’t shutter” those studios? Well, Take-two’s now confirmed those shutterings, as well as the sale of indie … Read more

Today Back to the Future’s original director isn’t interested in making a fourth film, but there is one idea that would get him to make another one

No, Back to the Future 4 isn’t in the books, but original director Robert Zemeckis is technically open to making another film. While we’re getting further and further away from Back to the Future’s relevancy, considering the first film is 40 years old next year, they are classics for a reason, and with … Read more

Tower Of Druaga Prequel ‘VS. The Quest Of Ki’ Is Making The Journey To Switch & PS4 xyz

Image: Namco The VS. system conversion of Namco’s Tower of Druaga prequel Kai no Bouken (otherwise known as The Quest of Ki) is making the journey over to Nintendo Switch and PS4 later this week, as part of Arcade Archives. It will be released on November 7th, as reported by Famitsu, and is expected to … Read more

Today Grab your tinfoil hat, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a hidden easter egg that’s making players go full conspiracy meme

Warning: Spoilers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard lie ahead. Dust off your lore tomes and most unhinged expressions, Dragon Age: The Veilguard players have unearthed a board on a wall that looks to be a hidden easter egg trying to convey something about the wider narrative of the series or just having a bit of … Read more

A EA & BioWare Aren’t Making Any DLC For Xbox RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching … Read more

Monster Hunter, Mortal Kombat And Resident Evil Director Paul W.S. Anderson Is Making A House Of The Dead Movie xyz

Image: Sega Paul W.S. Anderson is writing and directing a live-action movie based on Sega’s House of the Dead series, Deadline has reported. British director Anderson has a long history with video game-inspired movies. He directed the first Mortal Kombat film in the ’90s before moving on to the Resident Evil series, which ran from … Read more

Capcom insists its making “good progress” despite drop in first-half sales xxx

Capcom has released its financial results for the first half of the 2024/25 financial year, saying it has made “good progress” towards its full-year target. In addition to launching new titles, the Japanese game maker and publisher said that “catalogue unit sales grew YoY” and both its arcade operations and amusement equipment businesses “contributed to … Read more

Today Summer Eternal’s not-quite-Disco Elysium successor needs a focused vision, and the studio’s unique worker-owned set-up is the key to making sure it finds one

One of the things that made Summer Eternal stand out from the not quite Disco Elysium successor studio crowd when it was announced was the unique way its developers – the majority of whom are ex-ZA/UM – had gone about setting up its structure. Co-op was the word (or two contracted words jammed together) of … Read more

Making players the “consciousness model for AI” in Ctrl Alt Deal xxx

Developed by indie studio Only By Midnight, Ctrl Alt Deal sees players take on the role of a sentient AI robot trying to escape the megacorporation that created it. Achieving this goal is no easy feat, as players must interact with the human workers of the same megacorp by spying on them or negotiating deals … Read more