Game News Round-Up

Red Barrels partners with Lionsgate Studios for movie adaptation of horror series Outlast

• It and Strange Darling producer Roy Lee will lead the production

The Room studio Fireproof Games returns with spooky, 80s-set VR puzzle-adventure Ghost Town

• Coming to Quest, PSVR2, and PC

PUBG studio unveils top-down PvP shooter Project ARC, with 'real-time shared line of sight'

• There's no word of a release for Project Arc just yet or platforms beyond Steam

The first gameplay footage of Ghostface in Mortal Kombat 1 has been revealed

The Scream villain will be available in November

Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs division records further losses of $4.4 billion

• And it expects operating losses to "increase meaningfully year-over-year"
• This is the third reported loss of the year in this segment, with Reality Labs reporting a loss of $3.8 billion during its first quarter, and $4.5 billion in the second.
• For its Reality Labs business, Meta said Q3 revenue was up 29% to $270 million, which was "driven by hardware sales."
• Reality Labs expenses were also up 19% year-on-year to $4.7 billion, which Meta said was driven primarily by higher headcount-related expenses and infrastructure costs.

Call of Duty’s development structure ‘won’t change under Microsoft

• 15 different Activision studios are currently working on the franchise