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What Obsidian Entertainment learned making Avowed a first-person fantasy RPG

Game Developer

The world of Pillars of Eternity looks very different up-close and personal.

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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

PreMortem.Games

Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. It led him to realise that Kiro’o Games was not just about entertainment anymore. This is his story.

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The sense of wonder in Verne: The Shape of Fantasy by Gametopia “It’s a tribute”

PreMortem.Games

In Verne: The Shape of Fantasy players take on the role of famous sci-fi writer Jules Verne and venture into a fantastical, parallel world built from his own imagination. Daniel Gonzáles (top) and Diego Adrada Verne: The Shape of Fantasy has been out since the summer and sales have been steady but not spectacular.

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Bucking the fantasy hero trend with The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

GamesIndustry.biz

Most games protagonists are heroic figures, power fantasies for the players that can take on great numbers of evil foes and triumph with barely a dent in their health bar. The works of JRR Tolkien are not short of such figures, from wizards and kings to elven archers and dwarven warriors.

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Square Enix embarking on "aggressive multiplatform strategy" as profits drop 70%

GamesIndustry.biz

As a result, the firm is set to implement a brand new strategy going forward, hoping to achieve "stable profit generation" in its digital entertainment segment by 2027. Square Enix's digital entertainment sales were ever so slightly up, mainly thanks to its HD Games sub-segment, the firm said. billion ($636 million) versus ¥78.5

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The sense of wonder in Verne: The Shape of Fantasy by Gametopia “It’s a tribute”

PreMortem.Games

The Jules Verne Museum in Nantes, his hometown, has recently selected the game Verne: The Shape of Fantasy to be part of their collection. In Verne: The Shape of Fantasy players take on the role of famous sci-fi writer Jules Verne and venture into a fantastical, parallel world built from his own imagination.

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Square Enix's Q1 profits rise 68% to $72m despite sales decline

GamesIndustry.biz

The publisher attributed the drop in its Digital Entertainment revenue – which encompasses its video games business – to a decline in sales of new titles in Q1 2025, including SaGa: Emerald Beyond and the Steam launch of the HD remastered collection of Kingdom Hearts. Square Enix's HD games subsection generated ¥12.3

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