Drastic – независимая студия разработки видеоигр, известная своей музыкальной экшен-игрой Soundfall. Компания специализируется на создании инновационных и захватывающих игровых проектов, сочетающих в себе уникальные механики и яркий визуальный стиль. Soundfall, их самая известная игра, представляет собой экшен-платформер с элементами ритм-игры, где действия игрока синхронизированы с музыкой. Drastic стремится создавать игры, которые не только развлекают, но и дарят игрокам новый и запоминающийся опыт.
Xbox leader Asha Sharma says there's "more demand than consoles available" as Xbox hardware sales dip by 14% "We're making progress, with a lot more work ahead." Xbox leader Asha Sharma has claimed there's "more demand than consoles available" when it comes to Xbox, and that console sales "remain constrained by supply". She was speaking after Microsoft announced its quarterly financial results yesterday, in which Xbox revenue declined two percent year on year. The financials also revealed a drop in Xbox hardware sales, which are down 14 percent year-on-year, driven by a "lower volume of consoles sold". Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (2026) Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S See 3 more PS5, Xbox Series X/S Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, iOS
Over 25% of Microsoft's workforce is reportedly eligible to apply for a 'voluntary exit offer' An employee buyout offer is reportedly being extended to roughly 60,000 Microsoft employees in the US, UK, India, and Canada. Microsoft has announced a new "voluntary exit offer" aimed at making drastic cuts to its headcount. A CNN report says roughly 60,000 of the company's employees are eligible for the buyout offer, a number that represents roughly 27% of its total full-time workforce, which the company's 2026 annual report says stands at approximately 223,000 people. 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
If there's one thing the GamesRadar+ RPG Club has taught me, it's that you've never seen it all. Just when you think you know an RPG inside out, it goes ahead and surprises you 10 years later. See, I thought I'd experienced every original side quest and monster contract in The Witcher 3 – given my many, many playthroughs – but the remastered re-release turned out to prove me wrong. On the shores of Skellige, after completing a particular contract at a particular time, a series of rather unfortunate events landed me in a pokey prison.
EA cancels unannounced The Sims project, trims the Skate team and reportedly plans to lay off 400 workers: "We're the number one publisher in Western HD gaming" Respawn is also collaborating with DICE on a new game. Not only is EA closing down BioWare and cancelling the next Mass Effect - Electronic Arts has now announced a heap of drastic changes that include cutting 400 jobs across the company, pausing development on a project connected to The Sims, and bringing together Respawn and DICE. A group of investment firms led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund took EA private earlier this summer, in a deal worth around $55 billion. PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S See 4 more Meta Quest, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S Mac, Nintendo GameCube, PC, PS2, Xbox
A new report sheds more details on Microsoft's plans for new Xbox hardware, including a new handheld device and console, and one of the biggest takeaways is the alleged price. According to Fortune , the Project Helix console could cost between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft opts to subsidize the cost. The system could launch in 2028, the report said. When the Xbox Series X and S platforms launched in 2020, then-Xbox CEO Phil Spencer said Microsoft was losing as much as $200 on every console it sold.
TL;DR - The Best Deals for October 19 Scroll through all of today’s highlight discounts, and find out more below: Save on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for Switch 2 and PS5 and More Square Enix Games A Game-Key Card for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Switch 2 is down to just $34.99 at Best Buy and Amazon. 3 Months of Audible for $0.99/month + $20 Audible Credit 3 Months of Audible for $0.99/mo + $20 Credit The incredible Audible deal from Prime Big Deal Days is back, but it ends today. 2026 Mac mini M6 Is Down $150 Apple 2026 Mac mini with M6 chip (256GB SSD) Apple 2026 Mac mini with M6 chip (512GB SSD) The latest Mac mini M6, which just dropped last month, is already up to $150 off at Amazon. Alan 2 Deluxe Edition for PS5 Is Under $30 IGN’s top horror game of 2023, Alan Wake 2, is down to 29.83 for the Deluxe Edition PlayStation 5 disc.
World of Warcraft: Forever devs say gear upgrades will stay relevant 'for a long, long time': 'It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content' Blizzard says items won't work like the modern version of the MMO. The developers of World of Warcraft: Forever, the venerable MMO's newest 'Classic+' flavor, say that even though the level cap is staying at 60, there will always be new gear to chase, and lower level gear has never been more powerful. Blizzard Entertainment developers are wary of the drastic increases in power in WoW's modern version, including the recent Midnight expansion, which render previous seasons of gear irrelevant, require massive resets between expansions and lead to periodic stat "squishes" to avoid players becoming omnipotent gods. 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Heather Newman has reported on games for more than 25 years, with an internationally syndicated column and stories in dozens of magazines.
The new Arc Raiders 2.0 update has triggered a seven-month high for its concurrent player count on Steam as fans show up for its "Spider-Man" grappling hook, a new map, a free weekend, and more. Highlights - New Map - Pendola Pass - New Map Conditions - Frigate & Redirection - New Enemies - Bully, Skulker, Hydra - New Weapons - Bantam & Stiletto - Amplified Weapons - Revamped Skill Tree - New Items - Grappling Hook, Basic & Advanced Cameras, Tether Launcher, Yank Grenade, Mountaineer’s Detector, Banjo & Harmonica - The Outpost, including a new Research Bench - Lootable “Design” items that unlock craftable Outpost furniture - Quest System improvements, 22 new quests added - New Reward Pass system - Weapon Stencils - Updated default gamepad mapping - Reworked Map Selection screen, including visual and usability improvements - Collector DLC is available now - Max Stash Size increased by 2 new levels (328 Max without Expedition bonuses) Skill Tree Revamp Changes to the Raider Skill Tree include new skills and improvements to existing skills, enabling players to better embellish their playstyle with more impactful skill choices. - 100 Furniture Designs have been added to the game - 4 Furniture Designs are exclusive to Frozen Trail Pass - 1 Furniture Design is exclusive to DLC - 73 Furniture Designs can be found Topside - 22 Furniture Designs are unlocked by upgrading the Outpost Reward Pass The Reward Pass is our new progression system and the evolution of Raider Decks. Weekly milestones are granting 250 Reward Points each, there are 3 of them available per week: - Milestone 1: Get 4 weekly milestone progress - Milestone 2: Get 8 weekly milestone progress - Milestone 3: Get 12 weekly milestone progress After completing your weekly milestones, you can keep completing Feats, but no major milestone rewards will be granted until the weekly timer is reset.
What we've been playing - "It's pure video game popcorn movie stuff" A few of the things that have us hooked this week. 10th October Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Dom enjoys being back in Gears of War, which they should with a name like that; and Bertie ekes every last drop he can get out of The Blood of Dawnwalker before saving his family. -Bertie Read this next - Gears of War: E-Day reportedly courts over 1.7m Xbox Game Pass players and makes over $37m since launch - Gears of War boss says the next game won't take seven years to make as he dances around the question of layoffs - "After an all-time low, we've started to return to growth" - Asha Sharma touts Xbox turnaround after drastic restructuring and many hundreds of layoffs
Blizzard is changing the appearance of WoW: Forever's new Skyborne race in response to community feedback Model matters. World of Warcraft: Forever's developers have announced drastic visual changes to the game's new Skyborne race following passionate community feedback. These include new in-game models that better represent the game's early MMO aesthetic, much to the community's delight. The World of Warcraft community first caught wind of these changes during a recent episode of the official World of Warcraft: Forever podcast, in which senior game designer Josh "Aggrend" Greenfield acknowledged impassioned feedback of the Skyborne humanoid and druid character models.
"After an all-time low, we've started to return to growth" - Asha Sharma touts Xbox turnaround after drastic restructuring and many hundreds of layoffs "We're making the right decisions to reinvest in the business." Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has reportedly told the company that Xbox has "started to return to growth" following wide-ranging restructuring that has reorganised the gaming division and resulted in more than 1,800 job losses. "We're making the right decisions to reinvest in the business," Sharma reportedly said during an Xbox 'town hall' meeting, according to a transcript seen by Windows Central. "After an all-time low, we've started to return to growth, more than two to three times what we were, and we expect that continue." Sharma specifically named the games Gears of War: E-Day, Minecraft Dungeons 2 and World of Warcraft: Forever - all recent releases - as having had "strong" starts and contributing to this. PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S See 2 more Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
Bullet heaven battler Warhammer Survivors arrives in November, with a new demo out now to whet your appetite for destruction Let loose as the Legend of Catachan and Lyssa Ravenya Warhammer Survivors, Auroch Digital's take on injecting the bullet heaven popularised by Vampire Survivors with characters you can buy little figures of, finally has a release date. It's out next month, and has a new demo to fill the gap between now and then. November 10th's the date to circle in your calendar as outlined by the trailer above. It'll cost £6.39 / $7.99 / €7.49 or equivalent, the devs revealed in a Steam post, adding that there'll be "a 10% discount on Steam from the first week when the game launches".
Following through on their warning, Until Dawn and Directive 8020 devs Supermassive lay off "more than 70" staff "Any studio would be lucky to have them" Horror game makers Supermassive Games, the studio behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, have followed through on plans to lay off staff not long after the launch of Directive 8020. In August, Supermassive put out a statement signalling the beginning of redundancy consultations they anticipated would see up to 75 of their staff let go. A few weeks ago I posted that my role at Supermassive Games was at risk," Supermassive veteran Frank Tindle wrote on LinkedIn, as spotted by Insider Gaming. Read this next - Supermassive Games are the latest studio to announce layoff plans, with 75 jobs at risk just three months after Directive 8020 launch - This week in PC games: Subnautica 2 early access, a Battlestar Galactica roguelite, and Directive 8020 disproving the old saying about space and screaming - Galaxies Spring Showcase: How to watch and what to expect
Valorant player claims to have inherited hardware ban through secondhand CPU, Riot anticheat boss disputes parts of story Unlikely, but not impossible? - User After-Cartoonist-196 on the German-language PCBaumeister subreddit claims to have bought a CPU secondhand, but that it carried the previous owner's Valorant ban. - Extreme surveillance measures have been adopted by esports devs in recent years to combat and punish endemic cheating in their games. 2026 games: All the upcoming games Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
AMD and PlayStation continue to challenge the likes of NVIDIA and their recent DLSS 5 debacle with the introduction of Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR. It's an extension of the existing PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), that offers image quality enhancements for the PS5 Pro. Now similar features will be available for all PS5 users whether they're on the base unit or Pro system. What this means is that QSSR is a new performance tier using AI upscaling, providing improvements to both image quality and stability beginning with both Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yotei.
Arc Raiders' is taking no prisoners when it comes to cheaters with permanent bans becoming the new normal: 'No warnings. No second chances' Embark is really pulling out all the stops for Frozen Trail. Embark is bringing forth a monumental effort ahead of Arc Raiders' anticipated major Frozen Trail update scheduled for next week . We are making progress, and we’re continuing to work to identify cheating more effectively, act on it more quickly, make it harder for repeat offenders to return, and improve the experience for Raiders who are playing fairly." Arc Raiders guide: What's hot this week Arc Raiders roadmap: New and improved Arc Raiders best skills: Survive the surface Arc Raiders best weapons: Just don't lose them Arc Raiders Expeditions: Retire your Raider Arc Raiders quests: All the missions and how to beat 'em Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased.
The BBC's new director general has described a 50-minute AI-generated episode of Doctor Who as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology now enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood studio." Brittin became boss of the UK's iconic broadcasting company in May this year, after almost two decades at Google, where he wound up working as the company's UK managing director. Now in charge of the BBC, Brittin faces a tough task of making further drastic cuts to the corporation's spending, while it continues to try and produce world-class programming — including its flagship sci-fi adventure series that's currently on hiatus after a disastrous few years. Doctor Who fans largely agree that their favorite show has declined in quality over the years, but especially over the past two seasons which featured Ncuti Gatwa in the role, and the return of Russell T Davies as showrunner. "Somebody sent me a 50-minute episode of Doctor Who that was AI-generated the other day," Brittin said, speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in London this week (thanks, Variety).
What insiders say Halo Studios was up to before losing Halo: 'The next Halo game was years away' The studio reportedly had big plans, but nothing in production. In the wake of Microsoft gutting Halo Studios to a skeleton crew and passing off the series to Activision, new reports from insiders tell a believable story about what was happening in Halo Studios as the plug got pulled. The accounts come from The Verge's Tom Warren (longtime Microsoft beat writer) and YouTuber Rebs Gaming (whose sources within the Halo machine are often accurate). According to sources - The drastic cuts were a surprise to some Halo Studios employees, who had to wait hours to learn if they still had a job: "The first communication came in a public Xbox blog, before notifications were sent to employees throughout the morning." (via Warren) - The next mainline Halo game was, at minimum, "years" away (via Warren and Rebs) - No games were in full production when the layoffs happened, but work on Halo 2 and Halo 3 remakes, Halo 7, and "spinoff campaigns" was underway (via Rebs) - One of the shorter spinoff games would've been based on the First Strike novel, to be released between remakes (via Rebs) Rebs' source also claimed that Halo Studios is now around 30 people, with Warren noting that they'll be servicing existing Halo games Infinite and Campaign Evolved.
"It genuinely breaks my heart"- Confusion and frustration reign as gaming communities react to Xbox's drastic restructuring this week "Finally gonna put COD into the sea?" It's been another difficult week for Xbox and the many studios it operates, as a second wave of layoffs has ripped through the company. The saddest news surrounds the impending closure of Hellblade studio Ninja Theory, but layoffs have all but dismantled Halo Studios and halved Age of Empires developer World's Edge as well. Turn 10 and Playground Games The decision to merge Forza developers Playground Games and Turn 10 hasn't caused much commotion, partly because, as many people on the Forza subreddits point out, Turn 10 doesn't seem to exist in a meaningful capacity any more. Read this next - Xbox's version of PlayStation's Platinum Trophy achievement seems to leak, and it's got a sound-effect that's 15 seconds long - As Halo goes to Activision, fans are worried about this year's Halo Fest and a potential lore reboot from the Call of Duty publisher - Obsidian's "creative identity and strengths" will remain intact, promises Bethesda, as it takes control of Fallout: New Vegas studio
Obsidian's "creative identity and strengths" will remain intact, promises Bethesda, as it takes control of Fallout: New Vegas studio "This structure supports the franchise-led model we've been strengthening" Xbox's massive and still ongoing reorganisation has pushed Obsidian Entertainment under Bethesda's umbrella. Despite the quite drastic corporate shakeup, Bethesda's president is promising folks the iconic RPG developer will hold onto its "creative identity." Xbox's so-called "reset" kicked off earlier this year with the console maker laying off 1,600 workers and parting ways with five first-party developers. This week's continuation saw a further 268 roles cut across the division, and plenty of studios have moved around Microsoft's various gaming divisions as a result. Halo, Rare (Sea of Thieves) and World's Edge (Age of Empires) are now under Activision's control, while Obsidian Entertainment is being folded into Bethesda - all of them used to fall under the Xbox Game Studios banner.