Good morning, Night City! We've got a surprise for you...

My Resident Evil 9 experience so far...

The Shadow Monarch rises.

Sung Jinwoo.
Cha Hae-in.
Igris.

Available now in Fortnite.

Solo Leveling: ARISE | Fortnite

What an incredible milestone - huge congratulations to @warhorsestudios.bsky.social on 5 million copies of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 sold!!!

Massively excited to see the release of the Switch 2 Edition of Animal Crossing New Horizons today.

I am looking forward to go back to my island (though I imagine they have all left by now and the island is a 🗑️🔥 by now...)

You can get the upgrade here: www.shopto.net/en/ndo100164...

Learn how to build animation-friendly rigs from the ground up with our 'Rigging in UE 5.6 Workshop,' now available for free on the Epic Developer Community

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Footprints Weekly - Tracking games media coverage This Newsletter is dedicated to Footprints: the PR reporting tool that collects, analyses, and shares the video games coverage that matters to you. This week, you’ll find the best video games coverage...

Great to see Fortnite on top last month with ~851 articles. Chapter 7 Season 1 launched globally on November 29th, following the Zero Hour live event, which brought over 10.5 million players online simultaneously across all platforms.

Source: www.linkedin.com/pulse/footpr...

Truly amazing to see 10m+ players joining yesterday to the Zero Hour event on #Fortnite
Thank you all for coming to save the world!

40 years ago, gaming changed forever. Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan on September 13th, 1985 for the NES.

God I hate that. My shed is falling apart and it's become home to a range of insects and spider families.
I'm going to get a flamethrower....

I am beyond excited to announce that I have joined Epic Games today.

I am joining as Product Director, LiveOps, for Epic Online Services, where I will be working on defining product strategy, roadmap development, Live Operations, and strategic planning relevant to the LiveOps space!

The end. As I close my chapter at People Can Fly Studio, I’m filled with gratitude for the journey. I’ve had the pleasure of working with some truly talented people who have previously worked on some incredible games. The work we have done over the past years has been nothing but incredible.

PSA: please update your WinRAR and 7zip applications.

Two new vulnerabilities were found in the past days, affecting both WinRAR and 7zip (or any fork of 7zip using Libarchive).

Sources:
- WinRAR: lnkd.in/dgjUXxR2
- 7zip / libarchive: lnkd.in/dcPxzskH

Wow... 47,000 followers on LinkedIn!
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Video Game Jobs Resources - collated by Alexander Rehm Find your job in gaming. These are your video games jobs and support resources, covering disciplines in art, animation, UI, engineernig, QA, Production, Brand, Marketing, Community Management, Audio, ...

All support resources are at alexanderrehm.com/gamejobs

- Blizzard Entertainment - up to 100 people laid off, support for Warcraft Rumble discontinued.

Wider impact:
- Romero Games Ltd. - number of layoffs unknown

- Raven Software - number of layoffs unknown.
- Sledgehammer Games - number of layoffs unknown.
- Turn 10 Studios - nearly half of the staff or more than 70 employees laid off.
- Undead Labs - number of layoffs unknown.
- High Moon Studios - number of layoffs unknown.

- ZeniMax Online Studios - number of layoffs unknown, MMORPG code-named Blackbird canceled.
- Rare Ltd - number of layoffs unknown, Everwild canceled.
- King - 10% of the staff (~200 people) laid off.
- Halo Studios - number of layoffs unknown.

Update from yesterday's layoffs, as of 20:30 BST / 12:30 PDT: Microsoft's layoffs resulted in the following:

- The Initiative - studio closed, Perfect Dark remake cancelled.
- Bethesda Game Studios - part of the staff in Europe laid off.

@jasonschreier.bsky.social, Undead Labs has also been affected, looking through my friends' statuses on LinkedIn

Wonderful news to wake up to: Valve corporation confirmed in writing that our game Lost Rift was one of the most played demos of Steam Next Fest!!

This is not only amazing news, but also testament to the amazing work the entire team has delivered to make this happen.

"Which Game Studios are hiring right now?"

Oh boy, I have been waiting for this update! 👹

Over 666 studios have come forward to share jobs with me or be put on my list, and the list is growing every week! 🎉

You will find them all in my Games Jobs Resources!
➡️ alexanderrehm.com/gamejobs⬅️

Incredible! 45,000 followers on LinkedIn! This is amazing (and humbling)!

Lost Rift on Steam Lost Rift is a First Person Survival Shooter Adventure that blends base-building PvE co-op with high-stakes PvPvE extraction gameplay set on a mysterious archipelago that can be explored solo or in te...

And what's more, we've activated friend invites - invite up to 3 friends into the game, build your base and explore the mysteries of Pioneer's Landing!

If you haven't yet requested access, now is the time: store.steampowered.com/app/3494520/...

(also, please wishlist!)

In case you missed it, our Lost Rift playtest is currently live, and it's been extended for the whole weekend!!

Get to experience People and Fly's latest game first hand - no NDAs, you can even stream it!

Lost Rift on Steam Lost Rift is a First Person Survival Shooter Adventure that blends base-building PvE co-op with high-stakes PvPvE extraction gameplay set on a mysterious archipelago that can be explored solo or in te...

Signups for the Lost Rift playtest are now live!!

Want to test our new survival game ahead of everyone else? Then jump over to our Steam page and click the Request Access button!

store.steampowered.com/app/3494520/...

Lost Rift | Early Access Weather Showcase | Wishlist on Steam YouTube video by Lost Rift

Lost Rift news! Following our Announce trailer at Future Game Show, we are excited to show you a little preview of Lost Rift's real-time, dynamic weather system.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Uj...

Wishlist the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/3494520/...

If I was a betting man, I would say tonight's show at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET, and 8 pm GMT would be one to watch.... 🫡

Watch it on:
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/futuregamess...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/JsFTvIs...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/futureg...
Epic: store.epicgames.com/en-US/events...

Amazing news: Capcom announced that the total sales for Monster Hunter Wilds surpassed eight million units in just three days!

It is the fastest a title has reached this milestone in Capcom company history.

(source: www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/n...)

Note more layoffs.... Warner Bros. Games shut down three studios: Monolith Productions (WB Games), Player First Games, and WB San Diego. The shutdowns affect hundreds of employees across three separate studios.
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