Xbox has announced a new VR headset designed in collaboration with Meta – the Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition. Corporate VP of Xbox partnerships and marketing, Lori Wright, said it would be a “limited edition release” as part of an “ongoing partnership” that “celebrates the expansion of Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) on Meta Quest headsets.” … Read more
Sega has confirmed plans to open a flagship store in Tokyo, Japan. The publisher shared the news on social media, but didn’t specify where in Tokyo the new store will be located. VGC previously reported that Sega Store Tokyo is expected to open in Shibuya Parco – a department store complex that also houses Capcom … Read more
Still Wakes The Deep developer The Chinese Room appears to have made a small number of layoffs following the release of the BAFTA-winning game’s Siren’s Rest DLC this week. A lighting artist and level designer from the studio have posted notices that they’re looking for work on LinkedIn over the past 48 hours (those posts … Read more
When Microsoft first announced its intention to enter the games console market almost exactly 25 years ago, there was a widespread assumption that the Xbox would essentially be a stalking horse for the Windows operating system. It seemed like a strategic move designed to ensure that, as powerful multimedia devices took over people’s living rooms, … Read more
“I would like Citizen Sleeper 2 to have been on Switch 2 at launch, but that wasn’t possible,” says Gareth Damian Martin. They’re not the only indie developer that wasn’t invited to the Switch 2 party. Looking at the current list of titles for Nintendo’s latest console, there are very few games from indie devs. … Read more
How many people came up with the idea to launch a Squid Game video game after the Korean TV show broke Netflix records in 2021? The answer, with one glance at the cursed depths of mobile game stores, was plenty. In his ‘Demystifying Creativity’ talk at this year’s Nordic Game conference, Ubisoft’s Fawzi Mesmar – … Read more
Though sales of Nintendo’s new Switch 2 hardware had become one of the fastest-selling consoles ever, sales of third-party games have reportedly been sluggish and “below estimates.” That’s according to a new report by The Game Business, which intimates that despite attracting strong buy-in from partners like EA, Take-Two, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sega, Capcom, Bandai Namco, … Read more
Capcom Spotlight stream set for June 26 | News-in-brief
