Category: Video Games News

Ubisoft has laid off 60 people from its North Carolina and Newcastle, UK offices. The cuts seemed to have impacted Ubisoft’s customer service department the most.

“Ubisoft’s Customer Relation Center team is evolving its organization to focus on where we can have a significant impact while remaining steadfast in our commitment to consistently support our players anywhere in the world.” the company said in a statement.

Ubisoft continued: “We estimate that, due to organizational changes, 60 team members from our offices in Cary, North Carolina in the US and Newcastle in the UK could be impacted.

In recent months, Netherrealm Studios has been slowly teasing another installment in the Mortal Kombat series. But now, we’ve gotten a more firm confirmation that the next game is on the horizon.

On social media, the official Mortal Kombat Twitter account and MK co-creator Ed Boon shared a video of a ticking clock counting up to the number 12, only for it to pause and then skip over it and back to the number 1.

Does anyone know what time it is? #MortalKombatpic.twitter.com/pXY2wlidde

— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 10, 2023

This tease aligns it with a previous video focusing on a 30th-anniversary tribute to the series.

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Becoming a fashion icon can be hard work. It takes time, creativity, and an eye for perfectly crafted outfit composition. Not to mention a sense of design to create the perfect home in which to wear your new fancy clothes. It can take years to curate the ideal wardrobe and house.

Unless you have Life Makeover, the new social simulation game from Famous Heart Limited. The game already has over 15 million followers from around the world and over 4 million players from Southeast Asia, America, and Europe who have already pre-registered to unlock early rewards.

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Sony has revealed that the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog line-up for May 2023 includes Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Watch Dogs Legion, Humanity, and more.

Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 23 games will join the service on May 16, meaning they’re available at no extra charge to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members.

PlayStation 5 exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart headlines May’s offering, bringing the interdimensional adventure to even more players. What we called “a fantastic showpiece for the PS5’s power” in our 9/10 review is classic gaming fun full of wild and wonderful characters, levels, and weapons.

After Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Marvel’s Midnight Suns last year, I’m champing at the bit for more of the fantastic and challenging turn-based tactics that not enough games offer. So when I recently went hands-on with Shadowrun developer Hairbrained Schemes’ The Lamplighters League, it was like stepping into a warm bath. The alternate-history 1930’s setting evokes an Indiana Jones-like adventurer’s charm filled with fedoras and tommy guns, and that felt like the perfect backdrop for the mix of diabolical stealth and strategic combat I overwhelmingly enjoyed in this admittedly small taste.