11 minutes of gameplay footage from Bloober Team’s Layers of Fear remake has been published. Viewable below, the gameplay walkthrough features the Writer, a recently unveiled character that will feature in the game, exploring an unsettling lighthouse. “As The Writer, enter the lone and ghastly Lighthouse — a newly-introduced location — and uncover an untold story that links all of the Layers’ characters and events together,” reads a description accompanying the new footage....

Treyarch co-studio head Dan Bunting has left the company following an investigation into reports that he sexually harassed a female employee. TheWall Street Journalsaid the incident in question occurred in 2017 following a night of drinking. It claimed the accusation was investigated byActivision’s HR department and it was recommended that Bunting be fired, but thatActivision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick blocked his termination. Bunting, an 18-year Call of Duty veteran, was reportedly given counselling and allowed to remain at the company....

Italian rapper Fabio Rovazzi has been revealed as the actor behind the next Call of Duty Warzone operator, Morte. Morte will be added to the free-to-play shooter on Tuesday, September 8 and is described as a former member of the Italian special forces who is portrayed in-game with “an Old-West inspired look that reflects his passion for Italian-Western movies.” In a behind-the-scenes video published by Rovazzi on Monday, the rapper explains that his role in Warzone emerged after he metInfinity Ward’s Italian technical artist Bernardo Antoniazzi at a science fiction convention....

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is the first Switch 2 game that’s been officially confirmed to use Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling. DLSS – which stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling – is a suite of tools which can increase a game’s resolution without a significant performance penalty. For example, rather than running a game natively at 4K, which can use up a lot of processing power, a developer may instead choose to run a game at 1080p or even 720p, then use DLSS to upscale that – a process that still uses some power, but nowhere near as much....

David Ward, co-founder of influential British developer and publisher Ocean Software, and a pioneer of game development in the UK, has died at the age of 75. Born in 1947, Ward co-founded Ocean Software with Jon Woods in 1983 (as ‘Spectrum Games’) and would go on to become one of Europe’s biggest game publishers, creating titles such as Platoon, Top Gun and Daley Thompson’s Decathalon. The Manchester-based company is credited for establishing much of the commercial, legal and technical framework that helped turn game creation from a hobby to a global business....

The next game from the studio that published Disco Elysium has been revealed. ZA/UM Studio has revealed its next game, currently known by the name Project C4, which it describes as “a new mind-warping espionage RPG that blends player introspection, deep character-driven dialogue, and high-stakes encounters steered by dice rolls.” According to a press release, the game’s world “is rife with shadowy characters who help move the pieces for competing geopolitical powers in a game of concealed conflict”....

The 2023 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been cancelled. TheEntertainment Software Association(ESA) and show organiser ReedPop have released a statement saying the planned June event will no longer go ahead. “This was a difficult decision because of all the effort we and our partners put toward making this event happen, but we had to do what’s right for the industry and what’s right for E3,” ReedPop’s global VP of gaming Kyle Marsden-Kish said in a statement provided to VGC....

EA Sports has announced EA Sports FC Mobile, the latest in its series of mobile football games. The first in the rebranded series following the dropping of the FIFA licence,EA SportsFC mobile will launch globally on September 26. It’s also been announced that Real Madrid winger Vinícius Júnior will feature as the game’s “cover star.” This likely refers to the fact that Vini Jr will feature prominently on the game’s menus, because being a mobile title the game has no ‘cover’ as such....

Electronic Arts has provided an update on the performance of EA Sports FC 24 during the game’s launch month. The publisher announced last May that it wasending a near 30-year partnership with FIFAand that it planned to launch a new football brand,EA SportsFC. The series debuted in September withEA Sports FC 24, which attracted “more than 11.3 million players worldwide, including throughEAPlay”, during its first week of availability,the company said last month....

Eternal Battlegrounds codeswill, at least for the big re-launch, be a great way to get off on a flying start in the latest Bleach-inspired PVP melee game. Eternal Battlegroundssheds the RPG aspects of most otherRobloxBleach homages, turning the Shonen action franchise into a brutal brawler with a growing roster and plenty of flashy abilities.New Eternal Battlegrounds codesdrop all over the game’s various social channels. We then place them into the EB codes list below to make things easier for you....

The first Evil Genius, released way back in 2004, has enjoyed something of a cult following over the years, mainly due to its compellingly comical premise. The idea of taking the typical business simulation genre – usually intended for games where you run your own theme parks, hospitals or zoos – and using it to let players create their own secret lair for a Bond-like villain was so deliciously deviant 17 years ago that after all this time there’s clearly been enough appetite for a sequel....

AEW wrestler Kenny Omega has debuted a new theme song by Final Fantasy 14 & 16’s composer, featuring Nobuo Uematsu. Omega returned to the ring this weekend during Wrestle Dynasty, which is taking place at Japan’s Tokyo Dome. Omega announced that he has commissioned a new theme song by Masayoshi Soken, who composed music for both Final Fantasy 14 andFinal Fantasy 16 Jason Miller, a veteran voice actor with hundreds of video game credits, has provided vocals for the new song....

Square Enix and Tencent are reportedly planning a mobile version of hit MMO Final Fantasy XIV. That’s according toExputer, which claims that the mobile port is the result of a strategic alliance between the two companies, originally announced back in 2018. So far, no project has been announced between the pair. However, earlier this year, it was claimed thatTencent cancelled an unannounced mobile game based on Square Enix’s Nier series....