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Sega Of America employees have successfully voted to unionise under the banner Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS). The new multi-department union represents over 200 employees at the company’s Irvine and Burbank offices, working across divisions including QA, marketing, localisation, product development, live service, and more. Yesterday’s vote had 91 workers voting “yes” and 26

Update, 7/10/23: AEGIS-CWA (Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega in partnership with the Communication Workers of America), the Sega of America union filed back in April, has won its union election, with 91 votes in favor of the union and 26 votes against it. With this election won, AEGIS-CWA is now the largest multi-department union of organized workers in

There’s no way The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom could have been inspired by Elden Ring, because everyone making it was just too busy doing just that. It’s not exactly a secret that Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki has taken a lot of inspiration from the Zelda series over the years. Elden Ring

Image: Bandai Namco With the Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster launching this September, we’re getting more and more details about these niche card-based RPGs from back in the GameCube days. And series director Yasuyuki Honne recently revealed that Baten Kaitos almost wasn’t called Baten Kaitos (thanks to our sister site, Time Extension!). Sharing

2023 has been a very bad year for Niantic. The company has been under fire for their changes to remote raids in Pokemon GO, they recently laid off 230 employees, and the mobile game has been dealing with all sorts of bugs and issues. That said, their woes are far from over, because there’s now

A confession – never have I ever played any of the games in the FLASHOUT series. So obviously it makes sense to start with the third game in the franchise, right? Of course it does.  Developed and published by Jujubee, FLASHOUT 3 wears its inspirations on its sleeve – If somebody crossed out the word

When we think about horror games there are common titles that come to our minds: Silent Hill, Resident Evil, or the most recent Amnesia or Layers of Fear, but where are the horror games that are suitable for a younger audiences? While on other media, like movies or books, the horror genre is not uncommon

In a new interview with Bloomberg, Sega’s co-Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi says the company is abandoning plans to develop blockchain games for the time being. According to a GDC survey from earlier this year only 23% of game developers are interested in using cryptocurrency or blockchain technology in their games. Sega won’t make blockchain

Hey everyone, Dylan Cuthbert here from Q-Games and I’m excited to reveal that PixelJunk Eden 2 is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4! This year marked the 15th anniversary of the PixelJunk series, which started way back in 2007 with our first release on PlayStation 3. We’re going all out for the anniversary celebrations,

Gaze ye upon the latest edition of our best Anti-Prime Day deals guide: RPS’ annual attempt to make Amazon Prime Day a little less, uhhh, Amazony, while keeping to the theme of highlighting choice savings on PC gaming hardware. Fancy a bargain SSD, gaming monitor or graphics card, but are steadfast in your refusal to

Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka has been given a suspended prison sentence for insider trading. News of this sentencing comes from IGN (via IGN Japan), which reports that the 57-year-old was “found guilty of violating Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act” for insider trading after a July 7 court appearance at the Tokyo District Court. The judge

I won’t lie. I’ve slept a little on PS VR2 since the initial hype around launch. I had a great time testing out Sony’s new VR hardware, but well, aside from a few thrills in GT7, the headset has been gathering dust. Until this last week. It’s not that there haven’t been new releases coming

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Black Salt’s “sinister fishing adventure” game Dredge has just received its second major update on the Nintendo Switch. This latest one adds new wildlife events, a “passive mode” – allowing you to swim about the sea in peace, a photo mode, a new character, and new aberrations. Update

Capcom’s had a big year so far, due in large part to the releases of Resident Evil 4 Remake and Street Fighter VI. Meanwhile, the company has Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice Trilogy releasing early next year. Of course, Capcom is more than just those 3 franchises, and that topic was brought up in a recent

DREDGE has a new Passive mode and new Photo mode One of our favourite games of 2023 so far is that of DREDGE; Team17 and Black Salt Games’ sinister fishing adventure. Already a stunner to play through DREDGE today gets updated – with new game modes front and centre.  What is DREDGE? If you have

Naraka: Bladepoint has been on Xbox consoles and PC and is now coming to PlayStation. 24 Entertainment announced a Naraka: Bladepoint PS5 release date, as well as revealing that the melee-focused battle royale would be going free-to-play across all platforms. When is Naraka: Bladepoint coming to PS5 and going free-to-play? As 24 Entertainment announced at

Prepare for the incoming storm, World Warriors. Rashid of the Turbulent Wind makes his Street Fighter 6 debut in Fighting Ground and the single-player World Tour mode starting on July 24. With a whirlwind of moves that will send him flying through each fight, Rashid leaves all opponents in the dust – unless they decide

Sweltering summer heats are alright and all, but subscription service Game Pass is still adding new games for those of us who would rather stay inside. Microsoft have announced the next batch of games coming to the service in July, headlined by the likes of dino-shooter Exoprimal and other-player-shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm.

If Ubisoft’s summer showcase was any indication, it’s going all-in on Assassin’s Creed. But a recent report from Kotaku suggests that the company’s commitment to the franchise might be going even deeper than we thought; Ubisoft has recently begun the process of remaking Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.  The remake is currently in “its earliest stages,”

You know the worst thing about E3, towards the end? It felt so false. It was the event equivalent of that Steve Buscemi ‘how do you do, fellow kids?’ meme – corporations rocking up and asking you to ‘hang out’, watch some ‘rad gameplay trailers’, and engage with its ‘poggers’ branding. Opening up to the

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube In his latest video in the ‘Game Concepts’ series, Masahiro Sakurai once again goes back to Kid Icarus: Uprising. This time, the legendary game designer breaks down the game’s “unique” control scheme and explains the difficulties that the team had in developing the title. Part on-rails shooter, part

The Tetris 99 34th MAXIMUS CUP event runs from 12 a.m. PT on July 7 to 11:59 p.m. PT on July 10. To participate, any Nintendo Switch Online member* just needs to play the Tetris 99 online mode during the event period. Players will earn event points based on their placement in each match. Once

In a sea of roguelite games, its becoming increasingly hard to find games that truly differentiate themselves. Shared mechanics are common within the genre and even when new subgenres appear, such as deck-building roguelites, they are often quick to be copied. It comes down to how well a game manages to adopt and implement these

Following rumors and leaks, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has confirmed that he’s working on having Roblox release on the PS5 in the near future. While Ryan didn’t mention a specific platform, we can safely assume that PS5 is a lock. Whether the game releases on the PS4 or not remains to be seen.

Last week, we continued celebrating ten years of The Last of Us by asking for memorable moments with Joel and Ellie using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s #TLOU10 highlights:  Photoingame shares Joel and Ellie posing in a field. RevolutionAndre shares Joel and Ellie laughing around a campfire. MSTakesPictures shares Joel and Ellie running from

Homeworld and its sequel were real-time strategy games that stuck in the memory mainly due to the atmosphere they managed to create via dialogue, music choices and striking ship designs. I had mentally labelled coming sequel Homeworld 3 as “more of the same, but better looking”, without thinking much more about it. A new development

Scorn was one of the most enigmatic and polarizing games when it crept to Xbox and PC last fall. Some love it, some despise it, and PlayStation fans will get to see which side of the fence they fall on when it hits PlayStation 5 this fall. Despite appearing like a shooter on its surface,

Capcom has announced sales figures for Monster Hunter Rise and its large expansion, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. The company reports that shipments and digital sales for Rise surpassed 13 million units, and Sunbreak has surpassed 6 million worldwide. The final update to Sunbreak was released on June 8, and it featured the final monster, Primordial

Image: Nintendo Life In case you missed it, we’re already in July, and that means it’s time to reflect on the first half of the year and talk about the best games of 2023 so far. Now, dear readers, you might be thinking “but wait, isn’t it Zelda?” and to that we say “we’re not

The 3D Banjo-Kazooie games were two of the best video game platformers to grace the Nintendo 64 and really any other console since, rivalling Nintendo’s very own Super Mario 64 at the time. VGC has gathered together a number of key developers behind the two hit N64 games and asked them whether or not they