One of those rare clarifying moments in my life came when I was told that the whale in Moby Dick didn't symbolise anything. Or rather, it didn't symbolise any one single thing in a fixed and coherent way. The whale might symbolise a handful of things, and those things might contradict one another and you'd just have to live with it. Also the whale was simultaneously a whale - no... Read more ›
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Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games is gearing up to release a sequel in 2026. The announcement comes from a filing from CI Games, shared by Polish site Bankier, which also confirms Epic will have the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the sequel on PC. Elsewhere, the rights to publish and distribute the game worldwide "on all other platforms, including the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S platforms for... Read more ›
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Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree is out soon, and in anticipation developer FromSoftware has asked that people are considerate with what they post on social media to avoid any spoilers.Greeting its many Tarnished players (it was recently announced Elden Ring has now shipped 25m units worldwide) the team wrote: "With the release of the expansion of Elden Ring, Shadow of the Erdtree, please be mindful of spoilers for... Read more ›
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Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is "still in the process" of creating his "ideal fantasy RPG", despite the huge success of the game and the previous Souls games. When interviewed by PC Gamer, Miyazaki discussed the influence of tabletop games on his work. "You might say that trying to capture that excitement of those old tabletop games and game books was one facet of making Elden Ring," he said. "But... Read more ›
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Join me as I pull six things you can do to prepare for playing Shadow of the Erdtree from Emma's recent Elden Ring DLC preview. These are practical tips from someone who's played the game so if you want to hit the ground running (away from terrifying beasts) this is something you'll likely want to watch. Shadow of the Erdtree promises to be a challenge for those who have already... Read more ›
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is set 10 years after Dragon Age: Inquisition.In a Q&A session held on Discord and relayed by Shinobi602, the team confirmed several hitherto unknown aspects of the highly anticipated sequel, including the news that The Inquisitor will "definitely be part of the story".We also learned a little more about how the game will be unfold, including news that, unlike Inquisition, there will be no power mechanic... Read more ›
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Plus FromSoft is happy to "consider ideas like that with our future games".Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is okay with you playing Elden Ring in co-op – even if you're using mods to buddy up "beginning to end".In an interview with PC Gamer, FromSoftware president Miyazaki was asked his thoughts on the modding community's efforts to tweak Elden Ring's features, including the Seamless Co-op mod that permits players to team... Read more ›
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Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has banned over 600 accounts after players used "multiple exploits" to "cheat and exploit" the game.In a brief but firm statement about the issues, senior director of player relations Will "Soulcrusher" Leverett said the team had now completed an investigation, resulting in over 600 suspensions and the removal of "the illicitly gained aUEC from the Star Citizen ecosystem"."We've completed an investigation into multiple exploits... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has donated $4311 (£3397) to the Save the Children charity after Helldivers chose morality over manslaughter earlier this week.Arrowhead CCO and Helldiver 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt confirmed the donation after Helldivers players chose to save the trapped survivors – which turned out to be thousands of sick children – on Vernen Wells rather than hunt down the raw ingredients they could use to... Read more ›
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Yacht Club Games has announced Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX.Described as the "definitive edition" "of the adventure that started it all", Shovel of Hope DX includes a number of new features – such as online multiplayer – and "fan-favourite" ones like Challenge Stage, Custom Knight, and Battle Ghost Arena.Check out the announcement trailer embedded below: Read more Read more ›
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Hello! Taskmaster VR is finally out and on this week's episode of VR Corner, you can watch me try my hand (and spatulas) at a virtual episode of the popular TV show!I'm playing the Quest 3 version in the video above because the PC version has been delayed due to technical issues, but I'm sad to say that the Quest 3 version is far from perfect. There are some really... Read more ›
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The galaxy is a big place. Within several of its planets lay your remaining clones, beings ripped from your body, causing a gradual cellular degeneration should you not locate and extract the vital fluid from each before it's too late. There are just five left, but you don't know where they are, and there are thousands of planets to explore. The outstanding clones, or numbers, can only be found by... Read more ›
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Wizard With a Gun developer Galvanic Games is closing down.In a statement posted to the Seattle-based studio's social media channels, president and founder Patrick Morgan said the announcement was made with "a heavy heart" and the "irony of spending a decade building [their] ideal team, only for it to end after [the team's] most productive year"."Despite the promising start of Wizard With a Gun, sales are not strong enough to... Read more ›
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Eight years into Pokémon Go's life, and the game's annual summer Go Fest events remain a firm fixture in the app's event calendar. More than a dozen of these meetups have now taken place around the world, with the most recent this weekend in Madrid, where tens of thousands of Pokéfans braved the heat to catch an enticing array of species ahead of other players. Go Fest's Global version, a... Read more ›
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Sea of Thieves was the most-downloaded game on PS5 across both Europe and North America/Canada in May.That's according to Sony's own metrics and a new blog post which revealed that Rare's 2018 swashbuckler tops the PS5 chart after Xbox finally brought the game to its competitor's system at the end of April.Other Xbox Game Studios games like Grounded, Fallout, 4 and Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – which... Read more ›
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Sorry, Helldivers, but no – Arrowhead has no plans to introduce a story mode for Helldivers 2.Responding to a commenter on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, newly-appointed CEO Shams Jorjani confirmed a story mode was "not happening".When asked if the team could "create a story mode for co-op [...] with epic moments and tragic scenes," Jorjani replied briefly but candidly. Read more Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows has finally been revealed. After a short CG trailer debuted a few weeks ago, Ubisoft has finally unveiled a lengthy gameplay demo for the upcoming title. As the first current-gen only effort in the long running series, it seems poised to take advantage of current-gen technologies, like ray tracing. At the same time, early impressions suggest a game that might provide a more iterative uplift over previous... Read more ›
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From Demon's Souls to Elden Ring, FromSoftware's games have had a singular impact on the last 15 years of design. Game by game, the studio has created beloved rituals, based around precise combat, intricate, looping maps, and storytelling that unfolds in weapon drops and item descriptions as much as cut-scenes and dialogue.Imitators have followed, some of them brilliantly. And so as new ideas have slowly entered the mix from outside... Read more ›
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Sure, everyone's excited about Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, but do you what's MORE exciting than Elden Ring's Shadow of the Ertree DLC? New hairdos, that's what! And FromSoftware is adding a bunch of them as part of a free update next Thursday, 20th June. Officially, the update is a bit of a one-two combo, incorporating a day-one patch for Shadow of the Erdtree and an various enhancements... Read more ›
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After flinging itself around the Scottish hills in A Highland Song and doing a spot of linguistic archaeology in Heaven's Vault, developer Inkle has announced it'll soon be venturing to 1922 where a mystery is waiting to be solved at Miss Mulligatawney's School for Promising Girls. Inkle hasn't exactly explained what its School for Promising Girls is just yet, but there are clues to be found over on Steam, where... Read more ›
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