Safe In Our World, a new charity designed to promote awareness of mental health issues and drive positive change within the video games industry and beyond, has launched to coincide with World Mental Health Day. Established by games industry professionals and backed by a group of luminaries and ambassadors from within the sector, the charity will promote mental wellbeing through its website and a range of initiatives. Its websitewill act as a resource for users to seek help, get mental health information, and learn about and take inspiration from the personal experiences of likeminded individuals....

Annapurna Interactive has released a PlayStation 5 version of acclaimed rhythm action game Sayonara Wild Hearts. The game’s surprisePS5launch was revealed at the conclusion of an Annapurna digital showcase on Monday, which is viewable below. The PS5 version of the game is priced at $12.99, but players who own the title onPS4can upgrade to the new version for free as long as both platforms are linked to the sameSonyaccount....

Sega’s Sonic Team has been forced into defence mode this month, after reveal videos for its next game elicited a surprisingly mixed response from some fans. #DelaySonicFrontierswas briefly trending on Twitter earlier in June,after many Sonic fans took to the social media platform to vent their disappointment over the first videos showing the game in action. At the recentSummer Game Fest: Play Days event in Los Angeles, hands-on sessions also resulted in wildly mixed reactions from the press....

Sonic Frontiers is being streamed online ahead of the game’s official release next week. The game’s street date hasreportedlybeen broken by some retailers, allowing players to purchase the game early and share large portions of it online, leading to a flood of spoilers. A pirated version of theSwitchversion of the game is also reportedly being widely circulated. While most of these streams are being taken down within minutes of starting, in some cases up to an hour of the game has been streamed before being removed from Twitch, Twitter and YouTube....

A movie adaptation of Sony’s Gran Turismo series is reportedly in the very early stages of development. That’s according toDeadline, which claims Sony is eyeing Neill Blomkamp, the director of films including District 9, Elysium and Chappie, to helm the movie. During a business briefing on Thursday, Sony Pictures Entertainment reportedly confirmed that the company was working onTV adaptations of God of War with Amazon, Horizon with Netflix, and Gran Turismo....

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has reportedly cancelled a Twisted Metal game as part of restructuring plans announced on Tuesday. PlayStationsaid today that it plans tolay off 900 employees worldwide, or about 8% or its global workforce, in a move which will include reductions at Liverpool, UK-based studio Firesprite. As part of today’s changes at the company,Sonyhas cancelled a Twisted Metal live service game that was in development at Firesprite, according toBloomberg....

Sony has reportedly founded a new studio within PlayStation, made up of former Deviation Games employees. That’s according to Michael Anthony, a former Deviation Games employee onLinkedin. “Hey, I hear that a lot of previous Deviation Games employees have setup their own studio atSonyworking on an undisclosed new IP,” he wrote on the platform. “All the people I see working there that have signed up are top-class developers and hope that you can create a top-class new IP with your studio that hopefully gives you all the time you need to create a quality product and not have to deal with red tape from previous projects....

Latest update4th Jul 2024 / 3:00 pm We’re looking around for any new Squad Busters codes content creators might have dropped. Squad Bustersis about as clear-cut a mobile game as they come. You attempt to craft the perfect team with its wide variety of Supercell characters and use them to bust up others on the map. Squad Busters codes How do I use Squad Busters codes for free gold? There are two ways to use the Squad Busters codes above....

Google has announced a new revenue system that it hopes will encourage developers to make their games available as part of the Stadia Pro subscription service. StadiaPro is a paid subscription that offers players a selection of ‘free’ games, store discounts and improved visual streaming quality. Games currently available as part of a Pro subscription include Dead by Daylight, Hello Neighbor,Hitman 2and Human Fall Flat. As part of its Stadia Keynote for theGooglefor Games Developer Summit, strategic business development head Careen Yapp announced that starting this month, any new title that is added to Stadia Pro’s library will earn developers monthly revenue based on how many days players launch their games....

Veteran former Bethesda designer Bruce Nesmith has said that a potential Starfield sequel would be “one hell of a game”, thanks to the developer learning from the mistakes of the first. Speaking toVideoGamer, Nesmith, who left the company in 2021 after working on many of its biggest series, including acting as lead designer for Skyrim, comparedStarfield‘s first entry to that of Mass Effect orAssassin’s Creed, both of which received sequels that were much more positively received than their initial release....

Steam now has official support for the classic controllers available to Nintendo Switch Online members. The patch notes for the July 27 build of theSteam Clientsimply say: “Added support forNintendoOnline classic controllers.” However, aValvespokesperson confirmed toThe Vergethat this specifically referred to the NES, SNES, N64 and Mega Drive controllers. Naturally, these controllers have fewer buttons than a more conventional Steam-supported controller (such as anXboxorPlayStationcontroller), but they can at least be used for games that only use a limited number of buttons, including smaller indie titles and retro compilations....

Depending on who you ask, Welcome Tour is either a $10 app that in an ideal world would have been preinstalled on every Switch 2, or the most egregious example of bare-faced capitalist greed ever committed to binary. Being of the less sensationalist nature, I’m very much in the former camp. While it certainly would have been nice to have had Welcome Tour included in everyNintendo Switch 2system, for only around a third of the price ofthe VGC book(if you’ll pardon the shameful shilling) it’s far from an insult....

It’s hard to believe that there was once a time when the karting genre didn’t exist. Over the past three decades we’ve seen countless IPs turned into ensemble racing affairs, to varying levels of success. From gaming mainstays like Sonic, Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy to more unusual licenses like Power Rangers, The Muppets and Crazy Frog, there have been hundreds of karting games over the years all too happy to jam in a bunch of well-loved characters....