Greedfall: The Dying World developer Spiders has confirmed that it is officially shutting down. The Paris-based studio says that it is being liquidated, with operations ceasing immediately.

"We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated," the studio said in a statement. "This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years."

The shutdown comes in the wake of Spiders' parent company Nacon filing for insolvency after the majority shareholder in the publisher, Bigben Interactive, began experiencing financial difficulties of its own. The Greedfall: The Dying World DLC will still be released--through Nacon--and the Spiders Discord channel will be handed over to the community, the studio added.

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It might still be the overwhelming favorite when it comes to PC gaming, but there's no arguing that Microsoft has allowed Windows to get worse and worse over time. It's accelerated a migration to Linux, especially with Valve's efforts to streamline gaming through continued work on Proton and SteamOS. Microsoft understands it's behind, and reportedly has a plan to catch up.

A report by Windows Central details what Microsoft is calling Windows K2. It's not a standalone version of Windows that is meant to replace Windows 11, but rather an initiative that will slowly roll out significant changes to the operating system in a bid to reclaim customer trust and overhaul many key aspects that have become pain points over the past few years.

Gaming is unsurprisingly a big focus for K2, with Microsoft reportedly acknowledging that SteamOS is now the benchmark it needs to aim for. The report doesn't go into detail, but mentions that Microsoft is looking to bridge the performance gap between Windows and SteamOS in two years, when comparing performance on identical hardware. That's a good target, especially considering how many of SteamOS performance wins are coming from Windows games running through Proton's translation layer--something that is meant to traditionally negatively impact performance, not improve it.

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Nintendo is well-known for the aggressive protection of its brands, and the YouTuber behind the popular series of "PokeNational Geographic" videos claims to be on the receiving end of copyright strikes from the company.

According to the creator of the video series, Elious, his channel has been hit with dozens of copyright strikes by Nintendo of America, and he only has a few days left until it is deleted. Because of the multiple strikes issued against 20 of his videos and YouTube's three-strikes policy, the channel is set to be deleted from the platform in a week. As for the videos in question, Elious has been producing short nature documentaries featuring Pokemon, using original custom-made animations.

"I have seven days until my channel is deleted," Elious explained in a video on a different channel. "Nintendo of America has copyright striked so many of my videos. They've done it multiple times now, within the span of 12 hours. "I'm downloading stuff of course--I have all the videos myself--but I'll never be able to post them again. And I'll never be able to use this channel again. Over 100,000 subscribers, over three years of making these animations, and it's all going to be gone in seven days."

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Recently, Xbox owners have reported that some backwards-compatible Xbox 360 games are not launching properly on Xbox Series X|S, and now Microsoft has responded.

Xbox executive Jason Ronald said the team is investigating what he called a "rare issue affecting a small number of players" pertaining to launching Xbox 360 backwards-compatible titles on Xbox Series X|S. Specifically, players are saying they're getting a "Can't Connect to Xbox Live" error.

Ronald said people who have received this message should DM him directly to help address the issue.

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PlayStation has revealed this month's batch of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. All PS Plus members will be able to claim a trio of freebies starting May 5: EA Sports FC 26, Wuchang Fallen Feathers, and Nine Sols. If you haven't claimed April's PlayStation Plus free games yet, make sure to do so before next Tuesday.

EA became the gold standard for soccer games with its FIFA series, but a few years back, it decided to branch out on its own with the EA Sports FC series. Just like the FIFA games, EA Sports FC 26 features an absurd amount of real-life teams, leagues, and players. The game also looks and feels great to play, and it's arriving just in time for the FIFA World Cup. As a bonus, PS Plus members will also receive an EA Sports FC 26 PlayStation Plus Icons Pack that can be redeemed until it leaves the subscription service next month.

We've seen a rise in video games that have a Wuxia flavor to them lately, and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers captures the energy of wire-fu and graceful swordplay inside of a souls-like frame. Set during the tumultuous final years of China's Ming Dynasty, players will master various weapons, battle terrible creatures, and uncover the truth behind a mysterious phenomenon known as Feathering and why it's mutating people into monsters.

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It's the 30th anniversary of Pokemon this year, and to celebrate, Pokemon-themed versions of the popular Goldfish snack are on the way.

The limited-edition Goldfish packs are inspired by the Pokemon's original starters--Charmander, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Pikachu. The snacks themselves are shaped and colored to match the four Pokemon, and like in the game series, the aim is to encourage you to collect them all.

As for the Goldfish taste? It's the same cheddar Goldfish flavor. If you're interested in eating Pokemon, you cannot do that, but here are some Pokemon that, frankly, look delicious.

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There's no shortage of Left 4 Dead-like games. It's become such a cottage industry that I once interviewed several teams making games inspired by it, to try to figure out what makes the game timeless and so inspiring to other studios. There have been many different takes on the co-op zombie horde-slaying experience, but the toughest, most unforgiving of them may be No More Room In Hell 2.

It's a game I've enjoyed in spurts since it first hit early access in 2024, but I've been waiting for the 1.0 launch before I really jump in for a bunch of hours. Now, that 1.0 launch draws near, with a summer release planned. But you can play it sooner than that--and for free.

No More Room In Hell 2 is offering a free weekend on Steam and the Epic Games Store, April 30-May 4, its second such event, taking place a year after the previous one. During the free weekend, you'll be able to jump into the new wave-based Survival mode, which challenges you and up to seven others on your team to survive three brutal rounds against the ocean of undead the game likes to send your way.

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Electronic Arts is among the numerous game developers who are embracing AI in their development processes, and now CEO Andrew Wilson has commented further on the controversial topic.

Speaking at the iicon event in Las Vegas this week, as reported by Game File, Wilson said he recently saw some internal EA data that said about 85% of the company's quality-assurance work is being done today alongside "some kind of machine learning or AI-driven algorithm."

This has not led to lower employment at EA for QA work, he said. "We hire more QA people than we ever have," he said. The executive went on to say that EA's QA teams are using AI for "the simple stuff." Related to this, he said EA has needed to hire more QA workers to check the work, which sounds odd, though we do not know the specifics of the situation. This follows on from a Harvard Business Review report that said early findings suggest that AI doesn't reduce work, it intensifies it.

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Outside of a VR game that launched last year, it looks like the Thief series is on ice for now. So what's the next best thing? It might be a spiritual successor in the form of Thick as Thieves from veteran producer and Deus Ex creator Warren Spector's studio, OtherSide Entertainment. A single-player and co-op game that's all about the art of the steal, it's one of several new titles launching in early access next month, and it'll cost just $5 to get in on the ground floor.

Set in an alternate timeline and taking place in the city of Kilcairn, Thick as Thieves will offer an introductory campaign set across two dynamic replayable maps when it launches on May 20. The game will feature 16 missions and six pieces of gear to collect, and OtherSide is aiming to develop additional content based on player feedback.

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One of the biggest talking points surrounding Rockstar's upcoming open-world game GTA 6 is how much it will cost, and now the top boss at Rockstar's owner Take-Two has weighed in.

Speaking at iicon this week in Las Vegas, Strauss Zelnick suggested the game will have a "reasonable" price, but he did not say exactly what it will be.

"Consumers pay for the value that you bring to them, and our job is to charge way way way less of the value delivery," Zelnick said, as reported by IGN. "How you feel about something you buy is the intersection of the thing itself and what you pay for. Consumers need to feel like the thing itself is amazing and the price they were charged was fair for what they got."

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Game developers should embrace generative AI, according to The Witcher 3 game director Konrad Tomsazkiewicz. He said this in a new interview in which he also confirmed his upcoming new game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, used generative AI early in the process, but no AI-generated assets should be in the final game. He also said his studio Rebel Wolves wants to use AI to help support its existing workers, not replace them.

During a discussion attended by Eurogamer, Tomsazkiewic said Rebel Wolves used generative AI to create voices in the game "in the early stage" of development. He said an RPG like The Blood of Dawnwalker requires its developer to support multiple different languages, and this is "costly" and changes after initial recording can be "really expensive." Rebel Wolves utilized generative AI to hear NPC voices early in the development process to help team members determine if something is working or not.

If Rebel Wolves used real human voices at this early stage of development, and then realized a change was needed, that would be "really expensive" and not efficient game development, creating new pressure on the team, Tomsazkiewicz said.

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Getting into Pokemon Champions can be daunting for casual fans of the series, seeing how seriously players take competitive battling. But the game's rotating rosters of recruitable Pokemon should make building a viable team much easier, as the latest roster update shows.

The new 2026 Global Challenge Special Roster was added to the game on April 24, and it'll be available until May 4. It has a smaller lineup of 31 Pokemon compared to the 229 Pokemon in the Regular Roster M-A that Champions launched with. Recruiting out of this roster will give players a better chance of getting Pokemon popular in the meta like Incineroar, which should provide an extra edge in competitive play.

As with any roster in Pokemon Champions, players can recruit one Pokemon for free every 22 hours--any additional recruitment until the reset will require Victory Points, and Quick Coupons can be utilized to shorten the waiting period.

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Details on Resident Evil Requiem's upcoming minigame have begun to emerge, as Capcom has teased a mode that goes all in on action. The only catch here? You'll need to have beaten the game first before you can access it, Capcom says. If you haven't played Requiem yet and were planning to grab it purely for the action segments, now might be a good time to start working your way through the campaign.

"It's a minigame, and it's based on the battles in the main game," game director Koshi Nakanishi said to Japanese site Denfaminicogamer (via Google translation). "For those who have cleared the main story and are thinking, 'I still haven't had enough fun', I think you'll be able to enjoy this and go 'Whoa!', so sharpen your tomahawk and wait."

Producer Masato Kumazawa confirmed that the minigame will be unlocked after the campaign is completed for the first time. Requiem's two-protagonist approach was split between the game's traditional survival-horror gameplay that emphasized stealth and cunning, while the survival-action sections with Leon S. Kennedy draw from recent games like the remake of Resident Evil 4. In the first few hours of Requiem, Leon's sections are brief in comparison to Grace Ashcroft's missions, but once the veteran agent returns to Raccoon City, his style of gameplay dominates the second half of the game.

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Magin: The Rat Project Stories takes place in a dark fantasy world, where magic - or essence, as it is called - is directly tied to the desires and fears of its inhabitants. Shape the fate of Elester, a Magin and veteran hitman in an underworld syndicate, as well as young Tolen, who is about to realize that he too can use the essence to his advantage. Step into a mature, magical world standing on the edge of an industrial revolution and utter chaos. Overcome obstacles, play your cards wisely, and find your destiny in this immersive, story-driven adventure.

NTE is a supernatural open-world RPG developed by Hotta Studio. The story begins in the city of Hethereau, where you play as the first "unlicensed" Anomaly Hunter. You will join the antique shop Eibon, which relies on taking on Anomaly commissions from the public to stay afloat. Alongside your diverse and extraordinary partners, you'll explore various urban mysteries, experiencing an array of adventures filled with laughter and tears, and crafting your unique urban saga.