Amazon Game Studios, which is currently working on games including Crucible and New World, and possibly a game streaming service, reportedly laid off “dozens” of employees yesterday, during the final day of E3. According to a Kotaku report, Amazon also canceled the development of multiple unannounced projects. “Amazon Game Studios is reorganizing some of our teams to allow us to prioritize development of New World, Crucible, and new unannounced projects we’re excited to reveal in the future,” an

If you’ve got a completely reasonable desire to spend your weekend sneaking through a creepy swamp and getting ambushed by monsters, what stellar luck you have, because Hunt: Showdown is free until Monday. Crytek’s FPS is a competitive bounty game with monsters. In my experience, they’re sneakier and deadlier than any of Hunt: Showdown’s supernatural beasties. It should be busier this weekend, though, so even if you’ve already got the game, the event’s a good excuse to jump back in. Hunt: Showdo

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Steam In-Home Streaming, which lets you stream Steam games between devices that share a network, has “experimentally” been unshackled and is now available outside the home, too. Given the change, it’s got a new name, Steam Remote Play, and you can try it out now. As long as both devices you’re running Steam on have a good connection and are close to a Steam datacentre, you should be able to stream games between each other wherever they are. Valve is overhauling the Steam Library, with a public b

Starbase, the sandbox space MMO, is becoming more tantalising with every new feature trailer. The latest, introducing Starbase’s programming language, YOLOL, is a bit intimidating, but all I want to do now is start experimenting. First off, you need power sources and a grasp of what might as well be an alien language, at least to me. The good news is that you don’t need to learn YOLOL or do any hard work at all. Starbase will get an Early Access launch this year, where it’s expected to remain fo

The aesthetic is immediately evocative of Samurai Jack, while the prop-heavy combat is 100 percent Jackie Chan. An unassuming barrel, for instance, can be knocked over and ridden, turning it into a deadly steamroller. Using a sword, for instance, flings you forwards towards your target where you can kill them in one bloody slash. It feels looser than Hotline Miami, where you have discrete rooms and can treat it like a methodical puzzle. If Bloodroots’ demo mission is representative of the rest o

Square Enix is looking into releasing its mammoth catalogue of games digitally after getting a lot of requests from fans. “We’re working on that in a variety of ways,” Matsuda said. As far as our major titles go, most of those, we still have variations out that you can play now. Square Enix might end up creating a “dedicated channel” for itself. Would you shell out for a streaming or subscription service from Square Enix?

Deadly bullet hell dungeon crawler Enter the Gungeon has shed its price and is now free on the Epic Games Store for the next week. It received a final update recently, three years after it launched, so you’ll be playing it at its best. Your goal: loot and kill your way through the Gungeon, always heading towards the big prize. Or that time I thought I could probably sing some Lenny Kravitz in front of a large crowd. That’s a lot of free games you’ll be getting over the next 6 months.

Ubisoft art director Josh Cook and lead game designer Mathieu Berube played through about 30 minutes of Watch Dogs Legion at E3, as you can see in the video embedded above, posted by UbiCentral. The footage shows the devs playing through and narrating several different missions and using Watch Dogs Legion’s three different character classes: the Hacker, the Infiltrator, and the Enforcer, giving us a better understanding of their abilities. There’s no main protagonist in Watch Dogs Legion. You be

It’s still possible to spend thousands (plural) of dollars on a gaming laptop, but it’s certainly not necessary to dive that deep into your wallet or purse. Driving this point home is a 10 percent discount that is available on Lenovo’s current-generation Legion Y540 laptop line with GeForce RTX graphics. Lenovo Legion Y540 Gaming Laptop | Save 10 percentUsing coupon code RTXLEGION10, you can save $160 on the 15.6-inch Lenovo Legion Y540 gaming laptop, and $163 on the 17.3-inch model, both with a

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is heading to consoles in September, while those of us playing on PC have been left out in the cold. Thankfully, Capcom has not been deaf to the PC masses who want more Monster Hunter, sooner. “We know that the title updates for console have taken a while to reach PC, which is something that a lot of PC players have given us feedback about,” producer Ryōzō Tsujimoto told PCGamesN. That’s a good reason to keep supporting PC and shrink the gulf between releases. “We

Shenmue 3, if and when it ever actually gets here, will not tell the full and complete story of martial arts vengeancemeister/gainfully employed forklift driver Ryo Hazuki. In fact, series creator Yu Suzuki said in an interview with USgamer that it won’t even give us half. When asked if Shenmue 3 will conclude Ryo’s tale, Suzuki put his water bottle on the table and pointed to a spot midway along its length. He also acknowledged that he had doubts when the project first began as to whether the d

There have been a few leaks pointing to several upgraded Super variants of Nvidia’s existing RTX cards. Namely, it’s rumored Nvidia is getting ready to announce three new RTX cards, including Super versions of the RTX 2080, 2070, and 2060. First, here is a look at the GPUs that the new cards will be using, along with the GPUs employed in currently shipping RTX cards, and the accompanying number of CUDA cores:GeForce RTX 2080 Super—TU104-450 (3,072 CUDA cores)GeForce RTX 2080—TU104-400 (2,944 CUD

Image source: GTA WikiIt looks like GTA Online’s infamous Vinewood Casino, a high-roller joint that’s been in the game since it launch but has never actually been accessible, is finally opening its doors. Opening soon: A luxury casino in the heart of Vinewood… pic.twitter.com/fSM9xXFk23June 13, 2019The opening of the casino was actually rumored earlier this month: As reported by GamesRadar, GTA Online dataminer TezFunz2 dug up information revealing changes to an area near the casino, including

During a muddled E3 Coliseum chat between rich car guy Elon Musk and rich Skyrim guy Todd Howard, the latter gave us a tiny detail about Bethesda Game Studios’ next big RPG, Starfield. “Traveling in space in our game, I want to say it’s like flight in the ’40s, like it’s dangerous,” said Howard. That’s pretty much the end of the Starfield details, though the comparison to early flight is somewhat interesting. “We have to gamify it some,” said Howard, “so that it’s not as punishing as actual spac

But if you’re expecting your companion to obediently follow you everywhere on the map like Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 or Fawkes from Fallout 3, it’s not really going to work that way in Fallout 76. “But the general gist of it is: they’ll be romance-able, you’ll be able to get quests from them, advance their storyline.” “Obviously, if I kill [an NPC] in the game, other people need to be able to interact with that NPC,” said Gardiner. Unlike the exterior world, your companions will be able to a

Google is promising big things with Stadia, the streaming game service it announced in March, including 4K, 60fps gameplay on just about any hardware that can run the Chrome browser. But even with all the pieces in place, Respawn executive producer Drew McCoy doesn’t think the system will work out for games like Apex Legends. For the kinds of games we make, I don’t think they’re well suited,” McCoy said in a recent interview with Game Informer. Some games will be “fine” on streaming services, an

The attacker uses a grappling hook to quickly ascend up to windows and through hatches. They use a “special deployable shield” equipped with a canister that drops fire on the ground when destroyed. The special deployable shield is consistent with how the Season 3 defender has been described to me. It’s unclear if the shield has any other unique properties or how its appearance will compare to a typical deployable shield. Both the grappling hook and shield gadgets are also backed up by an easter

Valve has officially revealed Dota Underlords, its standalone version of Dota Auto Chess that we first heard rumors about a month ago. “With your help, we’ll be stress testing our servers as we prepare for our Open Beta.” Ranked matchmaking, cross-play, and cross-saving will be added once the game enters open beta. “We’re sharing Dota Underlords fairly early in development. And if you’d rather wait, you won’t have to wait long: Valve said the Dota Underlords open beta will begin in about a week.