Game News Round-Up

Voice actor Sam Mowry passed away at age 64

• Mowry's decades-long career in voice acting includes credits for Dota 2, Legends of Runeterra, Infamous, and Torchlight.

Concord won’t have a battle pass

EA cancels unpopular Apex Legends battle pass change following outcry

• It will no longer be removing the ability to obtain premium battle passes with Apex coins

Suda 51 and Shinji Mikami's Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered out this Halloween

• Releases on PC via Steam, PS 4/5, Switch, Xbox One/Series S/X "Halloween 2024"

Former Epic Games exec Alain Tascan is the new president of Netflix Games

• Tascan spent almost six years at Epic, serving as the Fornite maker's EVP of game development

Capcom aims to increase ratio of female managers to 15%

• Women currently only make up 21.2% of employees at the firm
• 13.6% of its core talent are female

Mario + Rabbids boss Davide Soliani leaves Ubisoft after 25 years

• Soliani spent 11 years working on the two Mario + Rabbids games, released on Switch in 2017 and 2022 in conjunction with Nintendo.
• The developer is yet to reveal what he'll be working on next, beyond embarking on "a new adventure".