Eidos Montreal wanted to put its own stamp on Deus Ex after it took over the series, and that meant it wanted music from an entirely different composer.

With its soft color palette and cheery cow mascot, Milky Way Idle doesn't look like the sort of game that would throw gamers into a fit of unbridled rage. And yet, according to one of the developers behind the galactic RPG idler, the game has been at the center of an ongoing bullying campaign that shows no signs of letting up. It all started with a single banned player, the developer says.

Now in early access for the next year or so, the sci-fi base builder StarRupture sounded the happy klaxon alarm — yes, there’s such a thing — to alert the community that Update 1 is on the way. While the patch has yet to be dated, it sounds as though it’s going to slather the […]

It has been reported that Microsoft might further shake up Xbox Game Pass with new tiers of the service, and now one of them may have been revealed.

X user @redphx (via Windows Central) discovered references to something called "Triton," and it is said to be the name of a new tier of Game Pass that would only include first-party games from Xbox Game Studios. This could include games like Doom Eternal, Dishonored 2, Fallout 4, Halo 5, The Elder Scrolls Online, and State of Decay 2, among others. It's unclear if the supposed new Game Pass tier would include all first-party Xbox games or only some specific selection of them.

It's also possible Triton is an experiment and isn't planned for release at all. There is not much to go on at this stage, so the possible price, release timing, or other specifics are not available. GameSpot has contacted Microsoft seeking clarification.

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The latest development diary about Kickstarted multiplayer sandbox My Time At Evershine is about having some difficult discussions with fans. No, not the kind of difficult discussion wherein the game is being abandoned, nothing like that, but the kind where original concepts from the Kickstarter don’t work out. For example, the brick-by-brick style for building […]

Friday March 27 - Updated to clarify the nature of the bans. Valve has just handed out almost a million bans in a major clampdown on Counter-Strike 2 bots and case farming. Project lead Ido Magal has confirmed the sheer size of the ban wave in response to players noticing a spike in the number of accounts being hit. The developer states that its focus was on "farming bot accounts," and thanks players for assisting in its ongoing investigation with reports of any suspicious activity.