- While several Xbox studios regained independence or found new owners yesterday, Arkane's staff must negotiate their own future - 7 July 2026
Yesterday, Xbox announced that they were spinning off five major studios in the course of the latest round of "historic" restructuring , with 1600 jobs instantly chopped and 1600 more layoffs to follow over the next financial year. It's the latest in a string of failures on the part of Xbox leadership, who have repeatedly butchered the division after an evidently overambitious acquisition spree that dates back to the 2010s . It has, at least, not yet resulted in any outright studio closures. Double Fine and Compulsion are going indie again with a little funding from Microsoft, keeping ownership of their games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have been sold to unnamed new owners. And then there's Dishonored and Marvel's Blade developers Arkane, whose fate is still being negotiated. Read more
- Beloved cult classic FPS Deathloop is now 82% off - 30 July 2025
If you've never played the Happy Death Day-eque video game, Deathloop , now's the time as you can score a generous 82% discount over at Fanatical, bringing the price down to less than $11 / £9. Deathloop cleverly weaves exploration, puzzles, and stealth into a unique and innovative time-looping narrative, which, despite repetition, never gets boring. It's an artfully crafted sandbox of strategy and discovery that's worth diving into. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Time-turning FPS game and former GOTY can be yours without spending a thing Dying Light, Fallout 76, and more are yours for $28 Trepang2, Deathloop, Robocop, and more games now super cheap
- Arkane's timewarp shooter Deathloop is free on the Epic Games Store for the first time ever - 5 June 2025
Epic's game giveaways aren't quite the whiz-bang thrillers they used to be—after six years of freebies, it's all become a bit routine—but every now and then it still manages to hit one out of the park. Today is one of those days, because today, and until June 12, you can pick up Arkane's excellent Deathloop for the low, low price of absolutely zero dollars... Read more.
- Time-turning FPS game and former GOTY is yours for free right now, but be quick - 5 June 2025
Ever since the days of Doom and Quake, we've seen FPS games come up with all manner of creative ways to build on the core run-and-gun gameplay. Even before them, Ultima Underworld established the fundamentals of the more open-ended immersive sim, later popularized by Thief and Deus Ex. Arkane proved itself a modern master of the format with Dishonored and Prey, and then built upon those ideas for its magnum opus, Deathloop . It won our GotY gong in 2021 and now, thanks to the latest crop of Epic Games Store free games, you can snag a copy completely for free. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Dying Light, Fallout 76, and more are yours for $28 Trepang2, Deathloop, Robocop, and more games now super cheap Bethesda-published FPS and former GOTY Deathloop now cheaper than ever
- Dying Light, Fallout 76, and one of the best FPS games ever are yours for $28 - 3 February 2025
It's not every day you can get a bona fide game of the year for absolute peanuts. Even by Fanatical's standards, the Winter Superstars Collection is an embarrassment of riches, offering Deathloop , Fallout 76, Dying Light, and plenty more in a custom package for the grand total of $28. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Trepang2, Deathloop, Robocop, and more great FPS games now super cheap Bethesda-published FPS and former GOTY Deathloop now cheaper than ever One of the best FPS games ever is 80% off in Bethesda Steam sale
- Play Against the Devs! Outsiders Vs Arkanites - 31 October 2024
Think you can stop the devs from breaking the time loop? Jump into DEATHLOOP at 10 AM ET for a chance to have some PVP action against Arkane Lyon! The image below has a list of names to be on lookout for.
- Trepang2, Deathloop, Robocop, and more great FPS games now super cheap - 19 August 2024
Strategy games and first-person shooters - these are the genres that define PC, from its very beginnings up to the modern day. Doom was a breakout moment. Half-Life remains one of the defining PC games of the '90s. But now you can get some of the best modern classics, and some golden almost-oldies, for a seriously big discount. Perhaps you've not played the incredible Robocop Rogue City or Trepang2 . Maybe you've steered away from Far Cry 6 so far, or never ventured into the mind-mashing world of Deathloop. Thanks to a new Humble deal, if you want to try some of the best FPS games ever, for cheap, now is the time. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Bethesda-published FPS and former GOTY Deathloop now cheaper than ever One of the best FPS games ever is 80% off in Bethesda Steam sale Unique, 10/10 FPS game, and a former GOTY, is now available for free
- Bethesda-published FPS and former GOTY Deathloop now cheaper than ever - 5 July 2024
If you ever feel like too many games slot too neatly into one category - this one's a platformer, this one's an RPG, this one's a city builder - it's because combining tropes and layering mechanics on top of one another is riskier than just making a straight genre piece. We know what an FPS is. But an FPS mixed with time travel, immersive sims, stealth games, and a roguelike? That's trickier. Nevertheless, it's these genre mashups that are normally the most compelling games. Published by Fallout, Starfield, and Skyrim legend Bethesda and developed by Dishonored's Arkane, Deathloop is one such example. Our own GOTY for 2021, it's now available cheaper than ever. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: One of the best FPS games ever is 80% off in Bethesda Steam sale Unique, 10/10 FPS game, and a former GOTY, is now available for free Deathloop update adds cross-play and loads of new…
- One of the best FPS games ever is 80% off in Bethesda Steam sale - 7 February 2024
Steam, Xbox Game Studios, and Bethesda have a sale on right now, creating deep discounts from many of the top releases from the two publishers. Among the fine choices from franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Halo, one you should definitely not gloss over is Deathloop , the brilliant timeloop immersive sim from Arkane Studios. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Unique, 10/10 FPS game, and a former GOTY, is now available for free Deathloop update adds cross-play and loads of new content Deathloop update adds photo mode and accessibility options
- Unique, 10/10 FPS game, and a former GOTY, is now available for free - 30 November 2023
Between Doom , Half-Life, BioShock, and dozens more, what I love about FPS games is how their simple mechanics - you aim, you shoot, you try not to get shot in return - can be modified and malleated into myriad different setups and circumstances. The principles remain the same, but developers can bend them around subjective visions and new, imaginative, additional mechanics. From Arkane, the creator of Dishonored, Prey, Dishonored 2, and this year's Redfall, Deathloop remains one of the best examples of how the simple systems of the shooter can be reworked into a grander, completely unique, new type of game. Published by Bethesda, and recipient of PCGamesN's Game of the Year for 2021, you can now get Deathloop for free with Prime Gaming. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Deathloop update adds cross-play and loads of new content Deathloop update adds photo mode and accessibili…
- Deathloop exists because Dishonored 3 ain't happening - 21 April 2023
Deathloop: Now there's one that came and went. Though the game was received very positively and many still swear by it now, personally I haven't played anything so irritating in recent memory: The way the characters yap constantly, the graffiti all over the place, the completely unfulfilled promise of time-travelling flexibility… yeah, OK, it didn't land for me... Read more.
- Bethesda finally confirms it: Deathloop is a Dishonored game - 7 October 2022
lmost immediately after the release of Deathloop in 2021, fans began theorizing that it might somehow be connected to Dishonored , Arkane's previous game series. The two games are very different in many ways, but there are quite a few shared elements too, some overt and others quite subtle. Today, Deathloop creative director Dinga Bakaba made it official during an Xbox podcast: Deathloop is "one of the futures of the Dishonored world.".. Read more.
- DEATHLOOP Game Update 4 – GOLDENLOOP Update Patch Notes - 20 September 2022
Check out the full patch notes for the GOLDENLOOP Update, which includes a new weapon, a new power, new enemies, crossplay and more. Learn more about the GOLDENLOOP Update in our in-depth feature. NEW CONTENT - Added a new ability, Fugue Slab: Stun and confound your foes with this ability and it’s 4 upgrades - Added a new weapon, HALPS Prototype: Use it to fry your enemies - Added 2 new enemies: Face off against the armored Garbage Collector and the dangerous Paint Bombers - Added an extended "Break the Loop" ending - Added 4 upgrades to the Masquerade ability: Customize Julianna’s Masquerade Slab with new Trinkets while protecting the timeloop - Added new Double Trinkets: Enhance yourself with 19 new two-in-one trinkets - Added 11 new Trinkets and 4 new Weapon Perks - Added a new explorable area to Karl’s Bay - Added new player idle animations: Show off your mastery of weapons and slab…
- Deathloop hits Game Pass alongside big Goldenloop update and crossplay - 15 September 2022
s part of a Tokyo Game Show presentation, Xbox has announced that Deathloop will come to Game Pass on September 20th alongside its release on Series X|S. With that debut comes Goldenloop, a free update that adds a new weapon, ability, enemy, and more to the time looping action-murder-puzzle immersive sim... Read more.
- Beginner's Guide to DEATHLOOP - 23 June 2022
Headed into Blackreef for the first time? Check out these tips to help guide you through breaking the timeloop.
- Deathloop update adds photo mode and accessibility options - 13 May 2022
One of the big things about Deathloop is that it looks extremely cool at all times. The FPS game was our pick of the year in 2022 , and in addition to featuring two memorably cool playable characters, there's a groovy and striking visual style throughout. Now you can show that off with precision, thanks to the addition of a new photo mode in the latest Deathloop update, which also adds an impressive suite of new accessibility features. Deathloop's new photo mode includes an impressive array of options for setting up your perfect screenshot. In addition to the usual positioning controls for the camera, you also have options for the visibility of the player character and NPCs - you can shut those off if you're just interested in scenery shots. Colt and Julianna can also be posed, and you'll have access to all the unlockable outfits included in whichever edition of Deathloop you own. The a…
- Deathloop now has a photo mode and better accessibility options - 13 May 2022
Deathloop, for me, was one of the most stylish games of 2021. Though firmly set as a shooter on a little dystopian island, there was something very Met Gala about a man in hot pink trying to kill you as you run away screaming. The fashion of the characters and NPCs is something special, as is the highly stylised world they inhabit, so it's only natural that Arkane has finally introduced a photo mode along with other accessibility options in a recent update... Read more.
- AMD FSR 2.0 launches today and can now be used in Deathloop - 12 May 2022
Following its reveal earlier this year, AMD FSR 2.0 has finally arrived in on the gaming PC scene, with team red hoping its revamped upscaler can usurp Nvidia DLSS from its throne. This launch is limited to Deathloop in terms of supported titles, but more will arrived "in the coming months." In case you missed the memo, AMD FSR 2.0 is a much improved version of FidelityFX Super Resolution . It swaps out the spatial upscaling approach of old for a temporal one, allowing you to boost fps with decidedly higher fidelity images. Better still, the technology is still GPU agnostic, meaning that you don't need one of Nvidia's best graphics cards to use it. However, AMD has recommended using more powerful pixel pushers to run AMD FSR 2.0 and so some ageing systems may fall behind. That said, as AMD and Nvidia GPU prices edge ever closer to MSRP , this may be as good a reason as any to upgrade yo…
- DEATHLOOP’s Game Update 3 Includes Photo Mode, New Accessibility Options & More - 12 May 2022
DEATHLOOP’s third major update is now available on PC! Game Update 3 introduces a brand-new Photo Mode, added accessibility options, and more, all for free. Check out the full patch notes for Game Update 3 here, and read on for highlights on Photo Mode and the new accessibility options, with insights from members of the team at Arkane Lyon. Photo Mode Express yourself with a wide variety of filters, stickers, poses and other customization options in DEATHLOOP’s brand-new Photo Mode. Available only in single-player, Photo Mode is accessible through the Pause menu in any map or by activating the Photo Mode shortcut (set to “P” on PC keyboards by default). “This Photo Mode is such a great way to allow our players to get creative by using the unique art and levels of DEATHLOOP,” says Producer Jeremy Leulier. “The only creative limitations are defined by our players’ imaginations. We’re very…
- DEATHLOOP – Game Update 3 Full Patch Notes - 12 May 2022
Check out the full patch notes for Game Update 3, which includes a new Photo Mode, a slew of accessibility options and more. Detailed descriptions of the accessibility options have been provided by Elisabeth Whyte, Senior User Researcher (Accessibility). For more details on Game Update 3, including insights from members of the team at Arkane Lyon, check out the in-depth feature here . PHOTO MODE Game Update 3 introduces a new Photo Mode allowing players to take their own stunning in-game screenshots. - Players can access Photo Mode from the Pause menu in any map of the game - Player can also access it by activating the Photo Mode shortcut - Available in Singler Player mode only - "Camera” options: Mode Third -person view First-person view Player (show/hide) NPCs (show/hide) Floating Messages (show/hide) Field of View Tilt Blur Intensity Autofocus Focus Min Distance Focus Max Distance Fl…
