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Torn Banner Studios cuts staff Chivalry developer Torn Banner Studios is laying off some of its staff. In a post on LinkedIn, CEO and creative director Steve Piggott announced that it was having to make some job cuts as part of a restructuring effort at the developer. There’s no word as to how many jobs specifically are affected. Piggot did say that employees that are impacted will be given severance and be able to keep their…

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Smilegate invests in Absurd Ventures Smilegate has backed Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures with a strategic investment.  There’s no word as to how much this funding would entail, but the Korean games giant will “have the opportunity” to be involved with Absurd Ventures’ new IP.  Smilegate is the company best known for its Crossfire series of shooters as well as working with Amazon on the Lost Ark MMO. “This collaboration with…

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Ubisoft to close XDefiant, lay off nearly 300 staff French publishing giant Ubisoft is closing down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant.  In a blog post , chief studios and portfolio officer Marie-Sophie de Waubert said that the game hadn’t been able to bring in and retain enough players to sustain the game. Nearly 300 members of staff are impacted by this news; 143 workers in San Francisco and another 134 employees in Ubisoft’s Osaka and Sydne…

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Image: B.P.SOver the last couple of weeks, a Japanese developer and YouTuber going by the name BasicProgrammer (B.P.S) has been uploading some impressive videos of a new recreation of Sega’s After Burner they are making, running on an MSXturboR computer. After Burner, in case you’re unaware, was originally released in the arcades by Sega in 1987 and was later ported to a variety of machines, including the first wave of MSX computers. This new version, however, has nothing to do with that official port (which was released by Activision in 1988) and is instead an unofficial reimagining of the game,…

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Sting like a Wii.It’s been six years since the first Fitness Boxing was released, during which time we’ve had two main games and two spin-offs……

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Image: Atari / BroderbundThey might not be household names today, but once upon a time, the Choplifter and Paperboy brands attracted a lot of attention in the world of gaming. Dan Gorlin’s 1982 title Choplifter was one of the first scrolling shooters to pull together a movie-like story and solid objectives for the player to follow, and became such a commercial hit that Sega would license the property to produce a 1985 arcade game by the same name – a (then) rare instance of a home title being ported to coin-op when it was traditionally the other way around. Atari’s…

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Dimengeon divers.Hironobu Sakaguchi needs no introduction. The “father of Final Fantasy” is an industry titan, arguably untouchable in the video……

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