Veteran French designers open up their own shop There’s a new developer in town and its liable to eat your grandmother and blow your house down. Well, that or make dark, mature role-playing games about things like choices and emotions. Big Bad Wolf, a new independent studio based in Bordeaux, France, is a team made up of industry veterans with experience working at Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Cyanide, developing games likeOf Orcs and Men,Blood Bowl,World of Warcraft, andGame of Thrones....

Life is all about second chances, right? A few weeks ago weshowed you an interesting iconat the bottom of the PlayStation 3 version ofBioshock’spackaging. It showed a cute littleHomeicon. The art was hosted at the developer’s website, so we all wondered what exactly theHomeintegration would be. Since then, the packaging has been pulled from Digital Extreme’s website for its “unnofficial nature,” and some new art has been found by the guys atPSNHome....

Shows how ports to touch devices should be done Earlier this week,Bastionwas releasedfor iPad (2 and newer). While it’s easy to be skeptical about how well a game of this nature would transfer to a touch-screen device, the end result is wonderful. Supergiant Games brought the new version to PAX Prime and I was surprised at how well it all came together. Tapping the screen moves the Kid around the environment, as does dragging, while double tapping causes him to evade....

That’s damn impressive PlanetSide 2is notorious for being one of the most visually impressive games on PC right now. Of course, that means it’s incredibly tasking to run, even for top-tier rigs. That won’t stop Sony Online Entertainment from aiming for the stars when it comes to the PS4 version. Matt Higby, the creative director onPlanetSide 2, toldNowGamerthat the studio’s plan is to “basically take the PC game with maximum settings and have that be running on the PS4....

Parachuting in early December After an assortment of rumours, datamines, and speculation, Sony has announced that battle royale pioneerPlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundsis making its way to the PS4, apparently arriving as early as next month. PUBG, as tha kidz call it, sees a posse of players dropped onto a deserted island where they scavenge for what weaponry they can, before fighting it out in a bid to be the last man or woman standing....

Thanks, Walmart! If you can’t wait for Black Friday to pick up a new PlayStation 4 Slim, there are discounts out already. Today you can use a$30 off coupon codeat Jet.com (recently acquired by Walmart). This is a coupon limited to “new customers” only and will slash $30 off the PS4 Slim. It’s the lowest price to date for the Slim that we’ve seen. For those who have bought things in the past from Jet, you’ll need to at the very least make a new account to get the code to work....

Off to Nether-Netherland ThoughtPokemon Gowas dying? It’s not, at least in the Netherlands apparently. A bunch of people have been collecting on protected dunes near the Kijkduin beaches. Niantic responded to requests to remove support from areas such as the Berlin Holocaust and Hiroshima atomic bomb museums, but have given the Netherlands the cold shoulder,The Guardian reports. So what do you do when a company that has caused damage doesn’t respond?...

Raven Software already gaveWarzoneplayers a good idea of what they should expect from the upcoming seasonal update. However, there was one surprise that nobody saw coming: even biggerWarzonelobbies. One day beforeWarzoneSeason 4 begins, Raven Software hastweeted,“120. BR.” The post all but confirms that the lobby size on Urzikstan will be increased from 100 to 120 once the patch goes live on May 29 at 1 p.m. ET.Warzone 2initially featured 150-player battle royale lobbies, but the developer controversially slashed that number down to 100 in August 2023 as part of the Season 5 update....

Originally announced for PS4 A few months ago a developer named Climax Studios introduced their newest project,Riftstar Raiders, to the world. As a four player shoot ’em up I figured it would get more buzz, but I haven’t really seen anyone talking about it. That may change as of this week though, as they’ve also confirmed that it’s coming to the Switch. That completes the circle as it was previously slated for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, so now it’s hitting nearly every major platform....

Feudal warfare waged on Nintendo Switch Arc System Works and developer APlus Games announced a release date for the Japanese edition of the next entry in theKunio-kun/River Cityfranchise.River City Saga: Three Kingdomswill launch on the Switch platform December 16. Unfortunately, at this time, we are still waiting on a release date, or even a confirmation, for a western localization. Announced back in September of this year,River City Saga: The Three Kingdoms, (or, to give it its full title,Kunio-kun no Sangokushi dayo: Zeiin Shuugou!...

Look out for the Game Preview launch on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One this spring Second Extinction, a dinosaur-horde-blasting co-op shooter, reminds me of eating sugary cereal for dinner. It’s not something you can pull off on a regular basis, but there’s a time and a place, for sure. This would go over well in Game Pass, wouldn’t it? That electrified tripwire speaks to me. I first heard about the game in the Xbox Series X showcase eventlast May, where it stood out in the crowd as a not-so-guilty-pleasure....

The number ‘very, very low’ Theinsanely fundedspace gameStar Citizenhas been offering refunds to players following constant delays and brewing disenchantment. Its executive producer recentlyquit the project, the first-person shooter mode wasdelayed multiple times, and the team is struggling with all sorts of technical hurdles perhaps exacerbated by the expanding scope of the game as more and more crowdfunding dollars roll in. (Seriously, near$88 million?Stop) All that said, Cloud Imperium has only issued 1,269 refunds out of 964,995 backers....

A European Community Manager for Rocksteady Studios has revealed the voice actress who will be performing the role of Harley Quinn in the upcomingBatman: Arkham Cityand, surprisingly, it’s not Arleen Sorkin. Sorkin, a partial inspiration for the character who has voiced it in numerous television series, features and games, had portrayed The Joker’s ditzy sidekick in Rocksteady’s prior title,Batman: Arkham Asylum. The role has instead been given to Tara Strong, whose experience in the Batverse prior to this has been playing Batgirl in a number of television series and the 2003Batman: Rise of Sin Tzuvideogame....