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Devolver has acquired Croteam...or maybe Croteam has acquired Devolver...who could really know at this point in the relationship. What’s certain is that our future together is ultra exciting with new projects like The Talos Principle 2, more Serious Sam games, and original IP from Croteam and the Croteam Incubator studios. Croteam will of course keep total creative freedom and Devolver Digital gets to keep making dumb recommendations that Croteam just ignores - we prefer it that way.

Both companies are thrilled to share this news and hope that you’re as excited about our future together as we are - it’s going to be a lot of fun. Also, buy Serious Sam 4 on Steam or Stadia. It’s got a chainsaw rocket launcher.

Arriving as part of the game’s 15th anniversary, Samorost 2 has been updated to support widescreen resolutions. Visual assets have been upscaled in kind, with the devs using a “custom trained AI” to increase the fidelity. It seems to have worked well enough, too – Samorost may be old, but it still boasts the studio’s wonderfully evocative mix of photo collage and hand-drawn characters.

It’s not all visual, either. Sounds have been re-recorded, with your wee man now boasting “a wider range of vocal expressions”. Saves have been overhauled, with an honest-to-god autosave replacing the original’s level passwords. You can now zoom in on the environments, both the main menu and in-game UI have been overhauled, and the game now sports achievements and full Mac support.

Take-Two announced today it had shook hands on a $994m (£759m) deal which is expected to be completed in spring 2021.

Codemasters will join fellow Take-Two-owned labels such as 2K, Rockstar Games and Private Division.

DANiel wrote: ↑10 Nov 2020, 19:44 GTA publisher Take-Two confirms purchase of Codemasters in deal worth nearly $1bn

Take-Two announced today it had shook hands on a $994m (£759m) deal which is expected to be completed in spring 2021.

Codemasters will join fellow Take-Two-owned labels such as 2K, Rockstar Games and Private Division.

Take-Two's attempted takeover of Codemasters has been interrupted by Electronic Arts. According to Sky News, EA has put up a bid higher than Take-Two's £725 million, or $960 million, bid for Codemasters

Ubisoft will be publishing an open-world Star Wars game developed by The Division studio Massive Entertainment, the companies announced in a Wired story this morning.

Details are sparse, as even the specific characters and setting have yet to be revealed. But Wired's reporting suggests the game will be an open-world title, aiming for a longer play-time than a more linear story-driven game like 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order. The Division 2 and The Crew Director Julian Gerighty will serve as creative director on the game, which will use Massive's Snowdrop engine.

The Ubisoft-published game will mark the apparent and abrupt end of Disney's exclusivity deal with Electronic Arts, signed in 2013. That deal was reportedly planned to last ten years, which would have taken it through most of 2023.