guerrilla

It’s another bleak day for the gaming industry as there’s more news of . This time around, its that’s gutting its studios. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) it’s laying off around 900 staff from its PlayStation division, roughly 8 percent of that department’s headcount.Insomniac (Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and Guerrilla (Horizon) are all affected by the cuts. Those studios are behind some of PlayStation's most important franchises. For instance, within three and a half months,…

Another former PlayStation 5 exclusive is coming to PC very soon. It's been known for a while that  would be Sony's next title to make the leap, and now the company has revealed that the PC version of the game will .This is the game's Complete Edition, which includes last year's (which is next up on my list of things to play). It also has a bunch of additional features for PC, including ultra-widescreen support, unlocked frame rates, DirectStorage and NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR and Intel XeSS upscaling…

The Guerrilla malware has targeted nearly 9 million Android devices globally, including smartphones, watches, TVs, and TV boxes. The malware is distributed by Lemon Group, which is one of the most notorious cybercrime organizations. Gadgets are always at risk of getting infected with malware, and once in a while, we hear about a new malware that targets users. Recently, McAfee researchers warned users to remove 38 Android games as soon as possible because they were running advertising in the background. Now, the…

Developer salutes the Queen of the Machines Guerrilla Games has announced that PlayStation sequel Horizon Forbidden West has surpassed 8.4 million copies sold since its launch back in February 2022 — This number, as noted in an anniversary post on PlayStation Blog, brings the total sales of the fantasy franchise to an impressive 32.7 million units. The 32.7 million copies of Horizon Forbidden West, its 2017 predecessor, Horizon Zero Dawn, and VR release Horizon Call of the Mountain are defined as “sell-through”, as in,…

Horizon Forbidden West developer Guerrilla Games has confirmed that its co-studio director, Angie Smets, is departing to lead PlayStation Studios‘ development strategy. In a blog published today (April 24), Guerrilla shared that Smets will be moving to work as head of development strategy at its parent company, PlayStation Studios. During her 20 years at Guerrilla, Smets served as executive producer for Horizon Zero Dawn and last year’s follow-up Forbidden West, along with the studio’s Killzone series. Exciting news!…

Our Techno-Utopian Nightmare Artificial intelligence has become an unavoidable trend, and with that comes an explosion of possibilities and fears. Though A.I. promises to free the masses from the suffering of alienated labor, it also threatens to render many redundant. In some sense, the blessing and curse of A.I. is that it may become too good, painfully exposing just how inadequate our biological modes of being are. In Guerrilla Games’ Horizon franchise, A.I. appears as both the villain and the hero, illustrating the…

When it finally drops, you won’t see me for weeks It’s been rumored for years at this point, and fans of the series have been desperately trying to manifest it into existence, but now it’s official: Guerrilla is working on a Horizon multiplayer project, as they confirmed via their Twitter account today. It wasn’t so much of an announcement specifically highlighting the upcoming multiplayer game as it was a post of job listings, but it’s confirmation and that’s all I care about. Even when these big studios try to play…

Guerrilla Games, the Sony-owned studio most recently known for Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, is shutting down online multiplayer for three games in August (via Polygon). The shutdowns, which will happen on August 12th, will affect Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall, and Rigs: Mechanized Combat League. “Online features (including online multiplayer modes) will cease on that date,” Guerrilla wrote in a tweet on Friday. “Single player offline modes remain available.” On 12 August 2022, online…

In August, PlayStation first-party developer Guerrilla Games will be shutting down online servers for three of its games.  The announcement comes from Guerrilla’s official Twitter account in a post that reads: “On 12 August 2022, online servers for Killzone: Mercenary, Killzone Shadow Fall (including Intercept Mode) and Rigs: Mechanized Combat League will shut down. Online features (including online multiplayer modes) will cease on that date.” However, the single-player offline modes will still persist. On 12 August…

In Far Cry 6 — releasing October 7 worldwide — you play as local guerrilla Dani Rojas (Sean Rey/ Nisa Gunduz) who's trying to liberate their fictional Caribbean home island of Yara from the grip of dictator Antón Castillo (Giancarlo Esposito). Far Cry 6 developer Ubisoft Toronto built an entire (tiny) country, the biggest ever map for a Far Cry game. You will spend most of your time shooting your way through Yara, but Ubisoft Toronto also want you to slow down, take a breath, and explore the beauty of Yara. That's why it…