New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games’ MMO, is set during the Age of Exploration, on an island where no one can die–but immortality isn’t always a gift. For some, living forever leads to madness, while others lose their souls. Some corpses are long since hollowed out but live on, unable to find peace.That idea gets pretty dark pretty fast, but in the episode of animated anthology series Secret Level that’s based on New World, the focus is on a slightly different take on the material. “[New World: Aeternum is] not quite as light as [the episode] presents it,” said New World: Aeternum narrative director Rob Chestney, during a question-and-answer session with press following a recent screening of Secret Level’s first episode. “We talk about it as grimdark. We talk about it as supernatur…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches later this month, and now Activision has revealed the audio innovations Treyarch has implemented into the game. The publisher claims gameplay audio will be even more dynamic and accurate than ever before. It also includes a new accessibility setting to help people with tinnitus.Activision says Treyarch’s audio team has greatly enhanced the 3D sound for Call of Duty, allowing players to better sense the location, speed, and direction of nearby activity, which are all crucial elements for audio in a competitive shooter game.

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One of Activision’s newest development teams, Elsewhere Entertainment, is continuing to hire and seems to be expanding to a new region, suggesting the team’s mysterious project may be ramping up.Elsewhere is making an “all-new franchise” that is a “narrative-based IP,” but there continue to be no other details available as of yet. But now, Elsewhere is hiring for jobs based in Malmo, Sweden, which is noteworthy because previously the studio was only known to have a presence in Warsaw, Poland.Malmo is also home to Just Cause studio Avalanche and Star Wars Outlaws developer Massive. Hitman developer IO Interactive also has an office in the Swedish city.Elsewhere is actively hiring for a variety of roles currently across a number of disciplines, though the jobs ads don’t give much away. It so…