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Ubisoft close the studio behind Assassin's Creed Rebellion days after the developers vote to unionise
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Ubisoft close the studio behind Assassin's Creed Rebellion days after the developers vote to unionise

Ubisoft are closing Ubisoft Halifax, the Canadian developers of mobile games Rainbow Six Mobile and Assassin's Creed Rebellion. This is strictly speaking outside our mandate as a PC gaming site, of course - I fear smartphones like Hell itself, and only ever communicate over long distances using homing pigeons - but it's all part of Ubisoft's wider transformation into a heavily Tencent-backed publisher, and the nasty twist is that Ubisoft Halifax had only just voted to unionise. Read more

Turns out you have Helldivers 2 to thank for Arc Raiders moving away from a free-to-play model
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Turns out you have Helldivers 2 to thank for Arc Raiders moving away from a free-to-play model

A few years ago, it would have been pretty easy to imagine Helldivers 2 releasing as a free-to-play game. It is a live service game after all, most of those are free-to-play because studios want to reduce the barrier to entry. Instead, it launched as a paid-for, $40 game, a far cry from free, but not the $80-$100 releases we're seeing more and more of. And it's because Arrowhead made the decision to do so that Arc Raiders developer Embark did the exact same thing for their own shooter. Read m

Parasite Mutant explores the horrors of running circles around not-quite-Xenomorphs, and its demo is out now
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Parasite Mutant explores the horrors of running circles around not-quite-Xenomorphs, and its demo is out now

I'm jogging around. Has the gauge filled up to one bar yet? No. Well, back to jogging around it is. Time to politely salute the horrific mutant trying to attack me as I double back past it for the third time. Ooh, we have a bar. Right, time to whip out my pistol and - BANG, BANG. Shit, I forgot to wander up to point blank range and so have hit absolutely nothing. Well, back to jogging I go until the gauge fills again. Read more

Deep Rock Galactic's Season 6 secret release date looks to have been cracked in minutes by astute diggers
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Deep Rock Galactic's Season 6 secret release date looks to have been cracked in minutes by astute diggers

Ghost Ship Games could learn a thing or two from Rockstar about hiding secrets in cobwebs. While RDR2’s spider-spun mystery continues to vex seasoned easter egg hunters, the message behind a piece of Deep Rock Galactic promo art – posted on the game’s Discord server earlier today – was seemingly spotted in about twenty minutes. Still, at least it looks to be a handy bit of info: a release date for its big Season 6 update. Read more

Creature collector RPG EvoCreo brings its turn-based monster battling to Steam, a decade on from mobile
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Creature collector RPG EvoCreo brings its turn-based monster battling to Steam, a decade on from mobile

I found the opening 15 minutes of EvoCreo’s demo to be a laugh riot, mostly because I accidentally named my character “Help”, not “Helen”. This lent a certain urgency to all the routine scene-setting and tutorial dialogue. Help, Farmer Whatshisname is looking for you! Help, I’m adding a map feature to your tablet! Help, there are over 170 Creos to discover! Given that RPGs can be sluggish at first, I think I’m going to adopt this as standard practice g

Steam's ancient behemoths face increased competition from new games in the store's 2025 money-making rankings
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Steam's ancient behemoths face increased competition from new games in the store's 2025 money-making rankings

Right, get ready for some chatter about where the contents of our collective wallets have gone over the past year. Valve's list of the highest-grossing games on Steam in 2025 has emerged from the great mists, and in a nice revelation, features a larger number of fresh releases than last year's ranking. That's alongside all of the moderately to quite old stuff which more folks keep hopping on the train of with every passing 12 month period. Read more