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There are famously only 22 countries in the entire world that Britain has not invaded at some point during its history. But now you can add Fortnite to that list, as the British Army has given up its plan to hold a livestreamed competition later this week between influencer-led teams on its very own custom Fortnite map.
After a week of rumors, Embracer-owned studio Piranha Bytes, the developer of the Gothic, Risen, and Elex games, has acknowledged that it is in «a difficult situation» but says it's still trying to find a way forward for its next project. Should it be unable to do so, the studio will be closed.
Microsoft said today that it was hacked by a «Russian state-sponsored actor» called Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. That's the same group of hackers suspected to be responsible for the major SolarWinds supply chain hack that occurred in 2020.
America's Army was at one time the world's most (in)famous videogame military recruitment tool, but now that it's out of the picture the British are taking their shot. The British Army has revealed a new «Fortnite experience» called Operation: Belong, and it plans to livestream an influencer-led competition on it next week.
The Pokémon-with-guns-and-abusive-labor-practices game Palworld is off to a roaring early access launch on Steam, racking up 370,000 concurrent users (and counting) in its first day of release. That's proving to be a bit of a problem for the game's servers, which are buckling under the stream, but developer Pocketpair says it's working on the problem, and in the meantime says you should just keep hammering on it until you get it.
The last couple of years have seen some blockbusters deals in the games industry. Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is obviously the biggest of them all, but Sony's buyout of Bungie is up there too, and even (relatively) smaller deals, like NetEase's purchase of Quantic Dream or Nacon's takeover of Daedalic, can't be overlooked. And while we on the outside can debate the relative merits of this industry consolidation, GDC's latest State of the Game Industry survey indicates that it's making people who actually work in the business a little nervous.
MachineGames gave us our first real look at its long-awaited Indiana Jones game at today's Developer Direct showcase, confirming the title—Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—and revealing details on the setting and story, and—this is the important part—a release target of later in 2024.
The seemingly endless litany of layoffs that's plagued the game industry through 2023 and into 2024 continued today as two more studios have confirmed cuts to their workforces: Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has let 40 employees go, while Lord of the Fallen publisher CI Games has reduced its workforce by 10%.