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"We're doing great," says id Software boss, despite losing "about half of our studio" amid devastating Xbox cuts

Iconic Doom and Quake developer id Software was among the most heavily impacted Microsoft-owned studios during Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's devastating business "reset" earlier this year, with around 136 employees reportedly losing their jobs. Read more

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Nintendo tried adding fast travel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, before devs realised "we were missing out on the moments of discovery"

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is being wrapped up in all kinds of modern touches for its imminent Nintendo Switch 2 remake (that owl seems to be less chatty , for starters), but there's at least one quality-of-life feature borrowed from Breath of the Wild that the develope

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COD Modern Warfare 4 has seemingly answered DMZ players' PvE calls with new Story Mission changes - but there are major caveats

For as long as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ extraction mode has been available, there've been calls for PvE-only servers . Developer Infinity Ward , for its part, has maintained the mode is designed as a PvPvE experience , but it's now seemingly made a change offering sol

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One World of Warcraft: Forever player is working on a first-person mod that's a love letter to retro RPGs like Hexen and Morrowind

One World of Warcraft: Forever player is attempting to turn Blizzard's new MMO endeavour into a Morrowind-esque first-person fantasy RPG, full of retro animations harkening back to the good ol' days. And there's no generative AI in sight. Read more

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As the controversy around AI-created video game copies continues, Anthropic seemingly restricts Claude's cloning abilities

An update to Anthropic's Claude AI software has seemingly blocked the creation of outright clones or copies of existing games. Instead, Claude has been altered to only create "original" games. Read more