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The Open Roads Team is no longer a part of Fullbright after splitting with the company.

According to Fullbright co-founder Steve Gaynor , the team — now known as The Open Roads Team — will continue to work with Annapurna Interactive, but is no longer connected to its former studio.

“After a great deal of consideration, it’s just no longer Fullbright’s place to represent Open Roads publicly going forward,” he confirmed. “It will be credited to The Open Roads Team at launch.”

It’s been almost two years since Gaynor stepped down as creative lead on Open Roads following accusations of creating a “toxic work culture”.

“I stepped away from the project,” he reflected.

Following a tease from Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon, rumors around Mortal Kombat 12 have already started circulating ahead of any official announcement from Netherrealm Studios.

Days ago, Boon posted a short video of a ticking clock on Twitter counting down to something, and that something is most certainly Mortal Kombat 12. The clock almost reaches the 12th hour before an explosion rockets it ahead to land on “1.”

Today, another Twitter account associated with previous PSN leaks, @billbil_kun, alleges that the next grizzly fighter is titled Mortal Kombat 1, making that “1” in Boon’s video seems a little more significant.

Deviation Games has laid off a number of developers as Sony reevaluates its portfolio. The studio is currently working on a new original AAA IP with PlayStation.

Several developers from Deviation Games took to LinkedIn to announce that they had been let go of their current positions. These include now-former associate producer Jared Bailey, technical combat and encounter designer Luke Stumpf, and software engineer Kyle Perras.

Not much context or information was provided about the reason for layoffs, but Perras mentioned that Deviation Games “ran into a difficult situation and was forced to make a number of layoffs which I was a part of.

Between the releases of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, Forspoken, and Octopath Traveler II, it’s been another busy year for Square Enix. Still, though, the company hopes to expand, and this might include forming or acquiring new studios.

Today, Square Enix revealed that it is thinking about creating new studios and acquiring existing studios as part of its plan to grow its in-house development resources.

According to slides from the company’s full earnings report released today, Square Enix plans to “consider M&A, creating new studios, and taking minority stakes” to bring in more external development resources.

Nintendo has been receiving messages of congratulations from across the industry regarding the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This includes messages from both PlayStation and Xbox.

Both the official PlayStation and Xbox Twitter accounts tweeted out commemorating the launch day. While the three companies are actively competing in the home console hardware market, it’s always refreshing to see the companies publicly supporting one another every now and then, especially when a highly anticipated product is released.

It’s good to be back in Hyrule.

Patricia Summersett had no idea what she was auditioning for after being summoned in for a mysterious casting call in the mid-2010s. She was a veteran actress by this point of her career, lending her talents to a wide gradient of interstitial characters in both animation and film. (Summersett pops up in Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. Rainbow Six fans will know her as Ash, the spunky FBI agent who brings a grenade launcher to a gunfight.)

So, when Summersett was handed a blank script with a few faint, Arthurian motifs, she treated it like another day at the office.

“It just looked like an RPG fantasy,” said Summersett.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out today, and like its predecessor Breath of the Wild, it includes numerous references to other Zelda games. But there’s one specific reference, new to Tears of the Kingdom, that has us simultaneously baffled and cackling over its utter silliness and specificity. And it has to do with Link’s Awakening.

WARNING: Spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom follow under the video. Proceed at your own risk!

Tears of the Kingdom, like Breath of the Wild, includes a number of outfits and locations that pay tribute to other Zelda games.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy has achieved good results on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but fans will have to wait a little longer to see if the Switch version can offer the same results.

Originally set to release in July, Avalanche Software announced on Twitter today that Hogwarts Legacy is being delayed until November for further optimizmation.

“We know fans are looking forward to playing on Switch, therefore creating the best possible experience is our top priority. Thank you for your patience,” the team wrote on Hogwarts Legacy’s feed.

Hogwarts Legacy launches on Nintendo Switch on 11/14/23.

The day has finally arrived. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is officially out in the world and you can check out our full review and our extensive Zelda guides, maps, and more that will help you in your quest to save Hyrule. However, we’re here today to talk about what game from The Legend of Zelda series’ past you chose as the best of the best before we all dive deep into this newest adventure.

After thousands and thousands of 1v1 battles in our latest Face-Off with matchups like Breath of the Wild vs. The Wind Waker and Majora’s Mask vs. A Link to the Past, the ultimate Legend of Zelda game has been chosen.

We already knew that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom includes a pretty major improvement to Breath of the Wild’s cooking systme in the form of recipe cards. But there are some brand new recipes to cook up too, including everyone’s favorite lazy dinner night dish: pizza.

Warning: Minor spoilers for a Tears of the Kingdom sidequest follow the image. Read on at your own risk!

Incredibly, Tears of the Kingdom’s pizza is actually not that easy to make.