Borderlands 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland studio lose staff “at all levels” Lost Boys Interactive have reportedly been hit by “sizable” layoffs, as overall owner Embracer Group continuethe “restructuring” programthatclaimed over 900 jobsat various studios last year. Developers affected have been posting about the layoffs on Linkedin, though neither Embracer nor the studio’s immediate owner Gearbox have confirmed the news. “It seems a sizable portion of Lost Boys Interactive was laid off today, including myself,” former producer Jared Pacewrote on Friday....

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Pretender gods rise up Dominions 6was announcedlast year, with promise that the latest iteration of the complex 4X god-battler would be thick with UI and quality-of-life improvements. I dared to dream of a game that was more accessible than Dominions 4, the last in the series I played. Well, it now has a release date of next Wednesday, January 17th, and there are videos that show it in action. Ah. More accessible?...

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Mercy me Overwatch 2is going to receive some changes designed to make teamwork easier, and to makebadteamwork less frustrating. The latter is more interesting, because one of Blizzard’s proposed solution is giving Tank and Damage heroes “a modified, tuned-down version of the Support self-healing passive”, which would make them less reliant on Support players to heal everyone. The change is coming in season nine and was outlined in ablog post....

Also “numerous graphic improvements” “Next week, on January 17, we’ll be putting our biggest @StarfieldGame update yet into Steam Beta with over 100 fixes and improvements, with a planned release date for all players two weeks later,” wrote Bethesda on the inner walls of Elon Musk’s soul cavity (formerly Twitter). “This update contains a multitude of fixes to Quests. Eye of the Storm issues such as being unable to dock with the Legacy or data transfer not starting, and Temples not showing up in Into the Unknown, will no longer prevent Constellation from exploring the cosmos....

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Ani-mad Max Bandai Namco have slapped a release date on Ilca Inc’sSand Land, which isn’t a dodgy themepark created by an over-ambitious building supplies firm, but an actionRPGadaptation of the same-named manga by Akira Toriyama, in which a titchy demon searches for the Legendary Spring and goes to war with a king who is hogging all the water. Ed Thorn played 20 minutes of Sand Land at this year’s Summer Games Fest, and came awaywith tempered expectations, noting that the desert world has the potential to get boring, as videogame deserts often do....

MiniMatt Asks RPS In addition toresolutions, new years are always good times to start thinking aboutthe futureeeee, with or without a wibbly oooOOOoooOoooOh intonation. Predictions about what’s going to happen over the next 12 months abound, some of which are morespurious(and light-hearted) thanothers. But such near-sightedness is not what we’re concerning ourselves with today in this latest edition ofAsk RPS. We’re looking much further ahead, thanks to this excellent question from MiniMatt....

Naoki Yoshida also wants Square Enix to “continue challenging ourselves in the action genre” The latest IAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast (embedded in the full article below) is a chat between Sony’s head of independent development Shuhei Yoshida and Square Enix producer, designer and director Naoki Yoshida, one of the big fish behindFinal Fantasy 14andFinal Fantasy 16. In a lengthy discussion of the latter game, the two Yoshidas chew over the familiar topic of whereFinal Fantasyshould go next....

Ask your mom Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk is a combination of words that screams “predatory mobile fantasy RPG” but that’s very much not my takeaway from the game’s demo.Out tomorrow on Steamfor £10.23, $11.99 or €11.83 including the 20% launch discount, this first instalment in the Crystal Story series blends the cuddly feel of a 16-bit Zelda with the dream logic of aYume Nikki. There’s a splash ofUndertale’s crackpot experimentalism to the writing and certain battles, as well....