PlayStation maker Sony is currently in talks to acquire FromSoftware, the developer behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls and Bloodbourne, as part of a buyout of its owner, the Japanese publishing giant Kadokawa. Read more 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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More details have come to light on the cancelled standalone spin-off for acclaimed RPG Disco Elysium. Back in February, it was revealed that work on this expansion, codenamed X7, had been stopped, along with news of layoffs at developer ZA/UM. At this time, it was claimed the expansion was only "one to two years away from completion". Now, in a report by PC Gamer with current and former employees of... Read more ›
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Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 is the most visually accomplished game released in 2024 to date, and for me it represents the most significant Unreal Engine 5 release next to Epic's own Fortnite. As well being a game with fascinating technology in its own right, with so many developers jumping on the UE5 bandwagon it seems inevitable that Hellblade 2 will be instructive for future developers. There's a lot that the... Read more ›
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Square Enix has released a launch trailer for Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, giving a new look at the MMORPG expansion's story. Until now, we've only been given details of the story at the Fan Fest events from director and producer Naoki Yoshida, along with a CGI trailer of the expansion's new setting and Jobs. This launch trailer provides an in-game look at what players can expect from the world of... Read more ›
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It always amused me, watching Buffy on TV, that nobody else in the school seemed to be aware of what was going on. Buffy and her friends were off slaying vampires and demons and investigating strange happenings that mysteriously occurred repeatedly in this one school, but her peers remained seemingly oblivious. At least, until that prom episode where they finally bothered to thank her. There's a similar occurrence in Demonschool,... Read more ›
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Few games generated as much joy in the room of their Summer Game Fest demos as Astro Bot, the latest from Astro's Playroom and Astro Bot: Rescue Mission developer Team Asobi. During my three quarters of an hour or so with Astro Bot I just about cleared all of its demo. I say "just about" because, while the main missions accessed from its galaxy-style menu were a family-friendly breeze, a... Read more ›
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Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP - the rerelease of cult classic Lollipop Chainsaw, which sees highschool cheerleader Juliet fighting off scores of zombies while wearing her boyfriend's severed head on her belt - has secured itself a release date. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP will launch digitally for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC via Steam on 25th September. A physical release will then follow, with developer Dragami Games stating more details... Read more ›
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David Gaider has shared his thoughts on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's romance options.Gaider, who is the creator of Dragon Age and lead writer on the series' previous instalments, offered up a lengthy thread on social media platform X where he compared the romance approach to the popular Baldur's Gate 3. "I guess the move in [Dragon Age: The Veilguard] to 'all companions are romanceable by everyone' isn't a huge surprise,... Read more ›
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With over 50 games spread over multiple individual packs, it can be a pain to play Jackbox Games with all the switching around. Thankfully, Jackbox Games has heard your pleas and is introducing The Jackbox Megapicker. A free product exclusive to Steam, the Megapicker will allow players to view their complete game library, sort and filter them, and switch between multiple games without having to exit to Steam and load... Read more ›
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