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The cancellation of 'The Last of Us Online' reportedly wasn't a "bloodless endeavour" at Sony. After the highly-anticipated single-player sequel 'The Last of Us Part II' released in 2020, developer Naughty Dog – which is owned by PlayStation Studios - announced it was working on a separate multiplayer title for the series, though continued to delay it until it was ultimately cancelled last December – with the company citing at the time it did not want to "become a solely live service games studio". Now, industry insider Jason Schreier has claimed shelving the project – which was due to be an e...
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Bungie has reportedly canned it’s ‘Destiny’ spin-off ‘Project Payback’. Following the major lay-offs at the company - which saw 220 employees lose their jobs and a further 230 join Sony or a different studio - industry insider Jeff Grubb has now claimed Bungie has scrapped it’s upcoming title set in the ‘Destiny’ universe, and let go of its two senior executives Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy as a part of the developer’s mass redundancy programme. Speaking on his ‘Game Mess Decides’ podcast, Grubb said: “[Smith and Noseworthy] were labelled as working on ‘Payback’. It was going to be the next ...
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Intercept Games and Roll7 have allegedly been shut down. Initially, a report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier claimed Intercept and Roll7 – who developed 'Kerbal Space Program 2' 'OlliOlli World 'respectively – were due to be axed by their parent company Take-Two, and now a closure notice spotted by Eurogamer shows the business will shut down their Seattle office and lay off 70 employees. Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis told GamesIndustry.biz: "On April 16th, Take-Two announced a cost reduction program to identify efficiencies across its business and to enhance the Company's margin profile, wh...
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Troy Baker has insisted he isn’t in ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ (‘GTA VI’) after it was claimed he would be starring in the game. The 48-year-old actor was thought to be voicing Jason - one of the main characters - in the upcoming Rockstar Games title after the trailer was released last December but has now dismissed the rumours as nothing but hearsay. During an interview with YouTuber The Movie Dweeb, he said: “He says one word! He says ‘trust’. That right there is a lesson in perception – people think and they just automatically assume. “I want that guy, whoever it is, to credit for his work becau...
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The ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake’ (‘KOTOR’) is “alive and well”, according to Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch. Doubt was cast over the state of the hotly-anticipated role-playing-game (RPG) after developer Saber parted ways from its parent company Embracer in February, though the studio’s boss has now reassured fans the title is still in the works. Speaking to IGN, Karch said: “It's clear and it's obvious that we're working on this. “It’s been in the press numerous times. What I will say is that the game is alive and well, and we're dedicated to making sure we exceed cons...
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Games insider Jason Schreier insists that the ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ (KOTOR) remake is still in active development. Jason, who has a good track record when it comes to gaming leaks, and even revealed the KOTOR remake was in development before Sony officially announced it in 2021, emphasised that the game was not cancelled. In a X post, he wrote: “Can't say whether the KOTOR Remake will ever actually *come out*, but yes, two people from Saber Interactive tell me they're still on it, despite recent rumors that nobody is working on the game. (Saber took the project from Aspyr la...
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Sony could be gearing up to compete with the X-Box. The tech giant - who own the PlayStation console, the rival to Microsoft's X-Box - are reportedly gearing up to release their own version of the Game Pass, a subscription service which allows players to access a cloud-based library of games. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier wrote on Twitter: "Sony is planning a new subscription service, code-named Spartacus, to take on Xbox Game Pass. It's being pitched as a three-tier service that will merge PlayStation Now with PlayStation Plus. Highest tier could include PS1/PS2/PSP games." After allegedl...
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Employees at CD Projekt Red reportedly criticised their management during an internal video meeting, according to Bloomberg journalist, Jason Schreier. These critical remarks are one of various reasons as to why Cyberpunk 2077 continues to make headlines at present. A source told Schreier about the negative atmosphere between management and employees at the CD Projekt Red meeting. Directors, among other things, were confronted about the poor treatment of workers who were imperative to creating the game. Schreier wrote: "During Cyberpunk 2077's development, staff endured multiple periods of ext...
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