Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it’s time to ‘pass the torch’ and head for an exit

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Longtime Bungie CEO Pete Parsons announced today that he is stepping down from the role, saying it’s “the right time for a new beginning” at the Sony-owned studio. He will be replaced by Justin Truman, formerly the studio’s chief development officer, who Parsons said “has been instrumental in bringing some of the most memorable moments … Read more

The creators of Deadly Premonition and No More Heroes are releasing a typically over-the-top roguelite ‘fever dream’ next month

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HOTEL BARCELONA – Xbox Launch Trailer | Coming September 26, 2025 – YouTube Watch On Back in 2019, Goichi “Suda51” Suda and Hidetaka “Swery65” Suehiro announced a forthcoming horror game under typically bizarre circumstances. As Fraser reported at the time, the duo—who are responsible for No More Heroes and Deadly Premonition respectively—basically brainstormed the project … Read more

‘I hope all your cars break down’: Destiny players bid good riddance to departing Bungie CEO Pete Parsons in a rare moment of unity

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Thanks to a decade of accumulated contradictory live-service grievances, Destiny players are rarely unified in their discontent. Today, however, is a special day: Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has announced his departure, offering the Destiny community a chance to join together in slamming the door behind the man whose leadership has become synonymous with studio mismanagement. … Read more

‘Legal inquiry’ shuts down one of Final Fantasy 14’s most popular mods, adding yet another blurry line in the sand from Square Enix

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Square Enix is putting its foot down once again when it comes to modding in Final Fantasy 14. The creator behind Mare Synchronos—a player-made plugin for synchronizing and sharing appearance mods between FF14 players—is shutting the three-year-old project down after apparently receiving a cease and desist order from Square Enix. It’s not the first mod … Read more

Cheese Rolling is the best free Steam game about the age-old English tradition of hurling yourself down a hillside in pursuit of tumbling dairy

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Every year since at least 1826, hundreds of questionably-hinged individuals from around the globe gather at Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire to enjoy the privilege of throwing themselves down a steep slope to chase a rolling wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Competitors risk any number of bodily injuries, as the annually overtaxed emergency medical services of … Read more

To the dismay of sweaty ‘movement kids,’ Battlefield 6 is nerfing Call of Duty sliding and jumping to maintain a ‘traditional Battlefield experience’

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Duck, dive, and dodge: Following feedback from the Battlefield 6 beta that its movement was too squirrely and unpredictable, Battlefield Studios is planning significant changes for the full release. The announcement came in an “Open Beta Debrief” blog published on Battlefield’s official social channels, which, in addition to movement, touched on hot topics like map … Read more