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Starbreeze, best known as the developer of the Payday first-person shooter series, has announced it is developing a new Dungeons and Dragons-themed game for a launch sometime in 2026.

CD Projekt RED is ramping up the development of the next The Witcher trilogy. Almost half the studio is currently working on the highly-anticipated project, which will be powered by Unreal Engine 5.

Embark's highly destructible first-person shooter The Finals has ended its open beta test, stating that it had a total of over 7.5 million players join in. There's no word yet on a final launch date.

Madfinger Games, the mobile game developer of titles like the popular Dead Trigger series, has announced it is making its first PC game, Gray Zone Warfare, which is being hyped as a realistic FPS.

Immortals of Aveum, the recent Unreal Engine 5-based first person shooter, will get a free console trial and a PC demo on Steam later in November. It will also get a free content update as well.

The newly released fantasy RPG Lords of the Fallen has already received a PC patch, mostly to address issues many of its players have reported, including fixing many game crash issues.

The reported mass layoffs at Immortals of Aveum studio Ascendant come just a few weeks after the fantasy-themed first-person shooter was released, and allegedly generated poor sales.

The unconfirmed reports claimed that Nintendo showed off a tech demo of an enhanced Zelda: Breath of the Wild at higher resolutions and frame rates, along with an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo.

The latest major update for Epic Games' game graphics engine and development tools include a number of improvements designed to make games run at 60fps on next-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X.

Tripwire Interactive's next game in the Killing Floor series will use Unreal Engine 5 and is set in the year 2091. The game is coming to Xbox, PlayStation and PC platforms but there's no release date.

Samsung is helping game publisher Nexon promote the upcoming Unreal Engine 5-based game The First Descendant as the first game to support the HDR10+ GAMING display standard for some Samsung monitors.

Drama co-founder Alexandre Spindler has posted word that he has seen fake YouTube ads that promote a way to get Unrecord for free, even though the game is still in early development.

A claim from an alleged former employee of Virtuos states that the developer is working on either a remake or a remaster of Bethesda's hit open-world RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

A new report claims that there have been a number of issues that have affected the development of the Perfect Dark reboot since Microsoft first announced the game back in December 2020.

Immortals of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios says that the one-month delay will allow the team to "further polish the game, finish optimizing all platforms, and deliver a strong launch"

NVIDIA ACE for Games uses AI in the cloud to allow video games to support NPCs that can talk to players with responses that are not scripted ahead of time, along with the correct facial animations.

The new version of the fantasy RPG game Lords of the Fallen will be one of the first games that will use Unreal Engine 5. It will be released for the PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S consoles.

The Steam demo for the Unreal Engine 5 horror game is out, and will only be available until May 22. The full game will be released on June 15 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S and X platforms.

The Unreal Engine 5-based reboot of the horror game Layers of Fear is due in June, but you can get a demo of the game on Steam starting May 15. You can also check out the PC system requirements now.

Drama, the development team that's behind the upcoming first-person shooter Unrecord, is currently in talks with investors to fund the game, and that means a "temporary lull" in news updates

The upcoming horror game will be one of the first titles released to use Epic's Unreal Engine 5, and a new trailer showcase how it will use its advanced graphics and lighting features.

The upcoming fantasy-themed first-person shooter Immortals of Aveum will have some very high PC hardware requirements if you want to play the game on its current Recommended settings.

ARK developer Studio Wildcard is delaying the sequel project while also releasing a remaster of the original RPG. The Unreal Engine 5-based ARK: Survival Ascended remaster is coming in August.

The Unreal Editor for Fortnite will allow people to create new games and experiences within Epic Games' hit battle royale title leveraging powerful tools used in Epic's Unreal Engine 5.

Developer Telltale Games is pushing back the release date of The Wolf Among Us 2 once again because the developer wanted to keep its team members from burning out, and also to switch its game engine.

343 Industries had reportedly lost almost 100 developers in the latest layoffs round of Microsoft. Going forward, the shooter franchise is said to be switching to Unreal Engine and ditching Slipspace.

Geralt of Rivia's adventures from the very first The Witcher game are being brought back from the past. CD Projekt and Fool's Theory are working on remaking the game using Unreal Engine 5.

In this edition of Microsoft Weekly, we talk about Microsoft switching up its Windows release cadence (again), all the updates from Patch Tuesday, and a relatively significant Dev Channel build.

A small group of developers has released a new unofficial benchmark tool which allows for testing how well your graphics cards can handle Unreal Engine 5. The benchmark is called "EzBench".

The Tomb Raider franchise is returning. During the Unreal Engine reveal today, Crystal Dynamics confirmed development of a brand-new entry has begun to the long-running action-adventure series.

Following the launch of Unreal Engine 5, AMD released a new graphics driver for its Radeon GPUs. Version 22.4.1 is now available for download with Unreal Engine 5 support and various fixes.

CD Projekt RED, the developer behind The Witcher trilogy and Cyberpunk 2077, today announced it is returning to The Witcher universe with a new game. Epic Games' Unreal Engine is powering it.

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A year after its original reveal, Unreal Engine 5 is now available in early access. The Epic Games-developed engine offers game developers access to its toolset for prototyping next-gen games.

The past week has brought in news about platform updates on Xbox - including Dolby Vision HDR support -, Patch Tuesday updates, and much more. Be sure to catch up via our handy overview.