Ash Parrish

Well too damn bad! So sayeth WB CEO David Zaslav during Wednesday’s earnings call in which he said the company will focus on offering games that have “more always on gameplay through live services, multiplatform, and free-to-play extensions.”

Free Radical Design is the next studio affected by Embracer Group’s slow implosion after a $2 billion deal fell through earlier this year. The studio had been re-established to work on a TimeSplitters reboot, and according to VGC, a number of employees have already been let go with the studio itself subject to closure if Embracer can’t find a suitable buyer.

Persona 5 Tactica, Atlus’ latest entry in its “we’re gonna do everything but release Persona 6” experiment, is due out November 17th. But eagled-eyed Phantom Thieves noticed that the game was available on Steam today for a brief moment with some able to purchase, download, and play it already.

A new graph, courtesy of Axios, shows just how amazing 2023 has been for video games. The year has the highest number of games boasting a Metacritic score of 90 or better in the last twenty years. Yes, this is based on aggregated critic scores but based on what we’ve seen this year, this tracks.

You could be forgiven for thinking the Yakuza series was nothing more than a slice-of-life, coming-of-age comedy about a bunch serious-faced dudes navigating life in Kamurocho, Japan. And the new trailer for Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth continues to do nothing to disabuse you of that notion.