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Microsoft gives Arkane Lyon another month to find a partner
Microsoft has given Arkane Lyon another month to find a partner for the studio behind Marvel's Blade.
There's no such thing as a bad main. Only a long night.
Fighting games.
Brackets, grapplers and the quiet maths of a close set.
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FAV go top of SFL Japan Division S with a 40-0 win over ZETA
Fujimura's C. Viper beat MenaRD 3-2 to finish the sweep. iXA got their first win of the season, and every away team won in round 5.
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A Samurai Shodown movie is in the works from the creator of Altered Carbon
Laeta Kalogridis will write it for The Arena, the SNK-backed company that's also making Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting films.
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Persistent worlds.
Guilds, servers and the long hours between raids.
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Zul'Aman is open in Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary
The 10-player troll raid needs no attunement, and rescuing every hostage in time earns the Amani War Bear mount.
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Final Fantasy XIV subscribers get a free day for the login pause
Square Enix will add one day of game time from 28 October. Save data backups are running again.
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RPG and action.
Open worlds, RPGs and big adventures: Cyberpunk, GTA, Elden Ring, Zelda and more.
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Microsoft gives Arkane Lyon another month to find a partner
The studio making Marvel's Blade had been facing a 13 November deadline, Le Monde reported. Microsoft says closure isn't a final decision.
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Genshin Impact 7.2 'Hour of Ruin' arrives 4 November with two new Electro characters
HoYoverse revealed Mitya and Valeriy, a new area in eastern Snezhnaya and a Furina rerun in its 7.2 livestream.
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Open worlds, RPGs and big adventures.
All RPG & Action storiesShooters.
Maps, LANs and the last few metres to the exit.
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Overwatch teases a Stellar Blade collab called EVE Protocol
Both games' official accounts posted the tease on 23 October. No dates or details yet.
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Escape from Tarkov: Arena patch 0.6.1.5 limits Wildcard ammo
Battlestate says Wildcard weapons now follow the ammo rules of their own class, to fix low time-to-kill and weak armour.
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Oceania.
Aussie and OCE results, dates and servers. New pieces every day, plus every OCE story from the other sections.
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Freeplay's board responds over a donor dropped from Parallels 2026
Unpacking director Wren Brier says she was removed over an accusation she denies. Freeplay says it regrets how it happened but rejects claims of prejudice.
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All OCE storiesTech and hardware.
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC hardware: graphics cards, CPUs, RAM, handhelds, firmware, prices and launches.
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NVIDIA's 621.01 driver brings Advanced Shader Delivery to RTX cards
Microsoft's feature downloads precompiled shaders with the game, cutting first-launch shader waits. AMD, Intel and Qualcomm support it too.
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Consoles, graphics cards and PC parts.
All Tech storiesAI in gaming.
AI features in games, studio policy, tools, NPCs, anti-cheat and the people it affects.
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SonicFox pulls out of Nexcon over an AI-generated flyer of them
The organiser apologised and said they couldn't afford artists. SonicFox forgave him but still won't attend.
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Epic's AI MegaJam runs 12 to 15 November with US$65,000 in prizes
Teams of up to five can use as many AI agents as they like to build a game in Unreal Engine or UEFN. Using AI is optional.
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