Ash Parrish

The devastation of 2023’s great video game layoff continues. Today, Versus Evil, a publisher focusing on indie games including The Banner Saga and Pillars of Eternity II, announced that it’s closing — days before the Christmas holidays.

Max has renewed The Gilded Age for a third season. The period drama, originated by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and focuses on the lives of New York’s upper crust (and their beautiful gowns) in the 1880s, wrapped its second season on December 17th.

A few days after an abysmal launch that saw its development studio shut down, The Day Before is officially going offline.

In celebration of this year’s game of the year finally arriving on Xbox, Larian Studios is giving fans a little treat. Because we deserve.

A report from Kotaku has examined some of the documents released as a part of a malicious ransomware attack on Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games. The documents reveal that Insomniac spent $300 million on the game’s development, roughly $30 million over budget, and that the game needs to sell 7 million copies at full price to break even.

There’s a great corporate shuffling going on at Microsoft today. Matt Booty, Microsoft’s president of game content and studios, sent a memo to employees announcing that Jill Braff would be the new head of its ZeniMax and Bethesda studios.