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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The rumoured Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is reportedly real, according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier. Rumours of a remaster of the cult PS1 classic began back in 2021 after an infamous Nvidia leak included a list of datamined yet-to-be-announced games - including Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy 9 alongside the now-released Chrono Cross remaster, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and more. The likelihood of a Tactics remaster, however, was pulled into... Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté has spoken on the discourse surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows' co-lead character Yasuke, an African samurai.When Ubisoft unveiled Assassin's Creed Shadows in May, there was backlash directed at the inclusion of this historical character, with many overly-vocal individuals on the internet affronted by the game's supposed 'wokeness'.This discussion was amplified when controversial owner of social media platform X Elon Musk joined in. Replying to one user... Read more ›
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After the reveal of Astro Bot on PlayStation 5 at the recent State of Play, Astro's Playroom received an update adding iconic Bloodborne boss Lady Maria and an associated trophy. That's on top of Bloodborne costumes as a pre-order bonus for the new game. Of course, this led to speculation from Bloodborne fans that something was afoot. Alas, it appears that's not the case. "There's no secret meaning," Team Asobi... Read more ›
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I did not expect to be walking through a forest at eight this morning. Trees rising out of the sandy earth around me and forming a dense canopy overhead. Buildings poking through the mist. Gnomes or goblins of some kind. Oh god, they're shooting at me! Duck! Run! Get out of here!This is The Explorator, but it could have been something else - Parcel Corps, which combines Crazy Taxi and... Read more ›
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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week it’s caverns, knowledge and doors.What have you been playing?If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive. Read more Read more ›
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Life is Strange: Double Exposure will support and respect whichever ending you chose in the original Life is Strange game, developer Deck Nine has said as part of an extended look at its upcoming sequel. Announced last week during Summer Game Fest, Double Exposure continues the story of the Life is Strange series' original teenage protagonist Max Caulfield, now an adult. But the surprise return to Max's story immediately prompted... Read more ›
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The Internet has been devoted to cats since its very beginning. We’ve had cat focused forums, cat-themed flash games, art and even a website dedicated to pictures of cats in sinks, aptly named Cats in Sinks. Not to forget about I Can Haz Cheezburger and Nyan Cat. (Look I can’t list them all, we’d never get to the video game part.) The rise of social media has brought us accounts,... Read more ›
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We've seen some poorly optimised Unreal Engine games over the last few years, especially on console as developers try to implement new and impressive visual features within a limited performance budget. Ark: Survival Ascended, a UE5 remake of 2015's Ark: Survival Evolved, might just be the worst to date. In remaking Survival Evolved, originally an Unreal Engine 4 game, over to the new UE5, developer Studio Wildcard opted to tap... Read more ›
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