Nintendo has made its first acquisition in two years.The company has entered a deal with embattled Swedish games company Embracer to purchase Shiver Entertainment, a studio responsible for porting the likes of Mortal Kombat 1 and Hogwarts Legacy onto Nintendo Switch.On the deal's completion, which is "pending satisfaction" of all relevant customary closing conditions, Nintendo will acquire 100 percent of Shiver's outstanding shares, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. Read... Read more ›
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The Kingdom Hearts series is coming to Steam, following PC exclusivity on the Epic store. The games will be available from 13th June in four different bundles, essentially covering the main games in the series comprising the Dark Seeker Saga. The first of these bundles, Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX will feature improved textures, while purchasing either Kingdom Hearts 3 + ReMind DLC or the Integrum Masterpiece bundle... Read more ›
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I think it's fair to say Ninja Theory had quite a daunting task when it came to producing a sequel to 2017's Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. The original was rightly praised for its exploration of grief, trauma and mental illness, but how do you tell more of a story about a woman's struggles with psychosis without seeming repetitive or worse, exploitative? The answer, it turns out, is you make Hellblade 2... Read more ›
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Last year, Dead Cells developers Motion Twin revealed the acclaimed rogue-like action-platformer was being turned into a 10-episode animated series, and a first proper trailer has now been shared ahead of its launch this June. Dead Cells' upcoming series is the work of Paris-based animation studio Bobbypills - the team behind Dead Cells' animated trailers, as well as last year's excellent Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon spinoff, Captain Laserhawk -... Read more ›
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Microsoft has reportedly already greenlit Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 developer Ninja Theory's next project and has "no plans whatsoever" to close the studio - news that comes amid fan concerns for its future following the closure of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. The relative lack of promotion for Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 in the run up to tomorrow's launch had some Ninja Theory fans worried the game might ultimately slip... Read more ›
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Paradox Interactive has indefinitely delayed Life By You - the new Sims-like from its Paradox Tectonic studio - saying "additional development time is needed" and that it doesn't want to commit to a new release date it "cannot be certain to meet". This marks the third delay for Life By You, which was announced last March with a bunch of features intended to get one up on The Sims. It... Read more ›
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Geography of Robots - the developer behind 2022's acclaimed narrative adventure Norco - has revealed its new project, Silenus, and there's an "experimental" Steam demo to try right now. Silenus is described as a "micro-adventure" - lasting 2-2.5 hours - set on a Gulf Flow oil refinery recently acquired by Rubens Link, an "enigmatic company with an unclear agenda". Cast as an android called Titian, players will need to investigate... Read more ›
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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the excellent side-scrolling revival of Ubisoft's beloved platform series, has just received the second of three previously announced free post-launch content updates, this one adding a new Boss Rush mode and more. Once today's update is installed, two new boss-based challenges can be access via Artaban in The Haven. There's Boss Revenge, giving players a way to take on previously defeated bosses again -... Read more ›
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When you first meet Songs of Conquest's Captain Xavier Silkspool (a brilliant fantasy name if ever I heard one), his role begins and ends as a boss tutorial for your first main campaign hero, Cecelia Stoutheart. He gives you a little runaround the game's gorgeous 3D pixel art maps, actively chasing you down and claiming resources, monuments and territory of his own (at least compared to the altogether more static... Read more ›
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If you have been waiting patiently for the PlayStation 5 release date for vampiric survival game V Rising, I have some fang-tastic news for you to sink your teeth into. Developer Stunlock Studios announced V Rising will make its way to Sony's console next month, on 11th June. That being said (and as is becoming increasingly common these days), if you choose to pre-order one of the game's bundles, you... Read more ›
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When a game arrives for review on the same day it's released to the general public, this does tend to raise a red flag. I mean, if the quality of the game is good, why not tell people ahead of time? And yet that's the situation that faced us on the release of Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut - the latest PC port from the masters at Nixxes. The pedigree... Read more ›
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Free-to-play platform fighter MultiVersus has confirmed the inclusion of Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th and Agent Smith from The Matrix, ahead of the game going live (again) next week, on 28th May. Warner Bros' take on Super Smash Bros originally launched in early access last summer, but has been offline for the past 11 months while it was upgraded to Unreal Engine 5. MultiVersus will arrive next week compatible... Read more ›
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Take-Two is "highly confident" GTA 6 will make that recently-promised autumn 2025 release window.The company's CEO Strauss Zelnick was asked about the timing of GTA 6's release during an interview with CNBC. Here, the company exec said the team generally decides upon a release window by factoring in measurable elements, using the "number of bugs in a title" as an example."Every one of us will make sure we have as... Read more ›
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What looks to be a previously-unseen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 post-credits scene has been uploaded to YouTube after 13 years, solving a mystery surrounding unused audio in the game's files, and offering a bleaker coda to the hugely-popular shooter's campaign. Infinity Ward's first Modern Warfare 3, released in 2011, famously ends with the trilogy's main villain Makarov swinging from a rope, after he and hero Price fall through... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian is to open a seventh studio in Warsaw, Poland.This new location will allow the team to "boost its existing 24-hour development cycle", with Larian CEO Swen Vincke stating the plan is to build a team to work on its two "very ambitious" new RPGs."Visiting [Polish games industry conference] GIC last year confirmed what I'd been thinking for a while - there's a lot of talent... Read more ›
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Delta, the popular app that allows users to emulate thousands of Nintendo games on iPhone and iPad, has finally found itself in legal hot water - but not from Nintendo itself. Instead, Delta's developers were accused of copying their app's icon from Adobe, the company behind PhotoShop - and have now rushed to change it to avoid being kicked off the App Store by Apple. "Adobe threatened legal action unless... Read more ›
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Fans have released Mario Builder 64, a PC toolbox to create levels based on the N64 classic. Where Nintendo's own Super Mario Maker games allow players to create 2D courses using NES, SNES and modern visuals, Mario Builder 64 allows for 3D courses filled with familiar assets, enemies, and stars to hunt for - all running on N64 open source. A trailer for the game shows building and Mario platforming... Read more ›
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Less than 18 months after it was first rolled out, Tesla is allegedly pulling Steam support from its vehicles.Back in December 2022, Tesla confirmed games like Cuphead, Sonic, and Cyberpunk 2077 could be played as part of a native beta Steam app in the company's S and X models.Now, according to Electrek, the company is seemingly reversing that decision. Read more Read more ›
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Capcom is once again remaking Resident Evil 1.That's according to noted horror genre leaker Dusk Golem and survival horror YouTuber Biohazard Declassified, both of whom have stepped up this weekend with rumours that Capcom is looking to breathe new life into the game that started it all, the very first Resident Evil.Biohazard Declassified says they received an anonymous email that claims the game – with the working title, Biohazard: Resident... Read more ›
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Palworld developer Pocketpair wants you to know it's been hard at work developing some "long-awaited features" that we "don't want to miss".In a statement posted to social media, the Palworld team teased that the viral game will be stopping by at next month's Summer Game Fest with "a LOT of exciting things to reveal".As for what those things will be? Sadly, Pocketpair has been taciturn ever since, but the tease... Read more ›
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