Blizzard has recently cancelled one of its largest projects, the survival game codenamed Odyssey. The announcement came as part of a reorganisation of Microsoft's game studios, resulting in 1,900 layoffs, or 8% of the gaming division's workforce. According to Bloomberg, the game was designed as a survival game similar to …
Read More »Splash Damage unveils ‘Project Astrid’ an upcoming open-world survival game
It has been a while since we've heard from Splash Damage but that is changing this week with a new game announcement. The UK-based game studio is now working on a new survival game, with streamers Shroud and Sacriel lending their ideas to the team. Unlike other recent streamer-developer collaborative …
Read More »Blizzard’s upcoming survival game has been in development since 2017
In a surprise announcement last week, Blizzard revealed that it is working on a brand new IP. While the low-key nature of this reveal would usually indicate that development is very early on, it turns out that this survival game has been in the works for nearly five years. During …
Read More »Blizzard is working on a survival game for PC and console
Blizzard is mostly known for its pillar franchises and less so for new IP, but that doesn't mean the studio isn't experimenting with new ideas behind the scenes. This week, Blizzard revealed that it is working on a survival game for consoles and PC. The “unannounced survival game” for consoles …
Read More »Far Cry Primal won’t include a co-op mode
This year, Ubisoft will be spinning off the Far Cry franchise with a more survival-focussed game- Far Cry Primal. When it comes to survival games, most studios tend to focus on the multiplayer experience but Ubisoft is going about things a bit differently and has revealed that Far Cry Primal …
Read More »Ubisoft is probably announcing its own survival game
Ubisoft might not be your favourite publisher these days but its studios do occasionally churn out something good. Today, Ubisoft has kicked off a surprise livestream over on YouTube, promising an announcement ‘coming soon'. It also comes with the tagline “Survival is timeless”, which seems to be an obvious hint …
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