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Former founder Drew McCoy and fellow Respawn alumni programmer Jon Shiring have announced a new AAA studio called Gravity Well, which will look at using the hardware potential of next-gen consoles to innovate the AAA game space.

In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, via Wccftech, McCoy has talked about the new studio’s top-level game goals, and how it aims to use the new generation of hardware. With Gravity Well’s founding, the focus is on finding new ways to do things–starting with its flexible work structure and going all the way through to how their games will be designed.

“We feel that the AAA space is losing the hunt a bit in terms of finding new things,” McCoy explained in the interview. “When you look back, big explosive growth in a genre or in the industry itself doesn’t usually come from an iteration on a thing that already existed; it comes from a new thing that hasn’t been seen before… It probably means we will fail finding big massive hits sometimes, and that’s okay because you’re not always going to land perfectly.”

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Cassette Beasts is an indie open-world RPG, where characters can transform into unique monsters using cassette tapes. While on paper the concept sounds a little weird, the trailer will absolutely sell it for you.

The Pokemon-esque RPG also has a fusion feature, where you can fuse any two monsters to come up with unique, more powerful forms. While never in the actual Pokemon canon (aside from one instance in Sun & Moon), this concept went viral thanks to the Pokemon Fusion website, which automatically creates a new Pokemon from a combination of two existing ones.

With monsters appearing as transformations rather than individual creatures, the player’s relationships with different characters will also play a role in their combat success.

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A hacker has been able to gain access to personal information in Roblox users’ accounts, as well as disable two-factor authentication and change passwords, after bribing a Roblox worker for access to the customer support center.

Apparently only intending to point out the flaw in Roblox’s security, the hacker shared screenshots and details of the attack with Vice’s Motherboard. With Roblox enjoying huge popularity among children, any exploit with the potential to expose personal data is taken incredibly seriously.

Initially, the hacker paid an insider at the company to access the data for them, they claimed, but then targeted a customer support representative in order to gain access themselves. With that access gained, the hacker could view and change a user’s data, including passwords and two-factor authentication.

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Capcom has released their report for the latest financial year, ending March 2020, and it paints a strong picture of how well the company is doing. There are a few major takeaways from this report, which shows Capcom’s plans for continued growth (particularly in the mobile market) and the methods they’re using to expand their brands. Most interestingly, this report shows that Capcom is expecting financial year 2021 to hit new heights, thanks to some new games.

Page five of the report suggests that Capcom is aiming for a new record of 28 million units sold in this financial year, which they’re looking to achieve through the following three steps:

• Promote digital strategy via expansion of sales regions and flexible pricing
• Aim to release multiple major titles
• Pursue ongoing sales for major titles from past years

Point two suggests that Capcom will release some as-yet unannounced games before March 2021, and that they’re expecting high sales from those titles. Capcom is looking for 10% year-on-year growth across all its operations, so they’re clearly gearing up for a successful year. The upcoming Monster Hunter movie is cited throughout the report, and it seems Capcom is betting on the film’s success.

Some new sales figures are also given for recent Capcom releases. The Resident Evil 3 remake has done well, securing 2.5 million sales. It’s still someway off Resident Evil 2, which sold 5 million units as of December 2019, but it’s a good figure.

Monster Hunter: World, meanwhile, is a genuine phenomenon, with 15.5 million sales between the base game and its expansion Iceborne. That’s up another half million from the 15 million reported in early February, and it’s worth reiterating that this figure is accurate as of the end of March 2020, meaning that those 500,000 extra units sold across roughly two months.

It’s unclear what titles Capcom will release across the next financial year, but rumors persist of a Resident Evil 4 remake. We’ll have to wait and see what the company announces, though.

The hotly anticipated Friends reunion special was meant to launch on day one of WarnerMedia’s new streaming service HBO Max, but ended up delayed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, WarnerMedia’s Bob Greenblatt has indicated that the plan is to film the reunion by the end of summer, Variety reported.

Like many companies, TimeWarner hadn’t expected the lockdown situation to last as long as it has, but is now starting to put plans in place for production again. When the Friends reunion is filmed, however, Greenblatt has said they want to do it properly as much as possible. With over 15 years since the cast has filmed an episode together, there’s no wonder this reunion is such a big deal to both TimeWarner and fans.

“We’re holding out for being able to get this special done hopefully by the end of the summer, if the stars align and hopefully we can get back into production,” Greenblatt told Variety. “We do think there’s a value to having a big, raucous live audience to experience these six great friends coming back together and we didn’t want to just suddenly do it on a web call with, you know, six squares and people shooting from their kitchens and bedrooms.”

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