After numerous studio closures and hundreds of job losses, embattled publisher Embracer will now split into three distinct entities, including one focused on its big bet to successfully develop games set in the same world as The Lord of the Rings. Embracer announced details of the plan this morning, and charted how parts of the company would now be named: Middle-earth Enterprises and Friends, Coffee Stain and Friends, and Asmodee... Read more ›
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Fallout fever continues to grip the world, with Fallout 4, New Vegas, and Fallout 76 all seeing a resurgence in popularity, and the latter breaking its own concurrent user record on Steam years after it first released.As noted in SteamDB, the 2018 action RPG – which debuted on Steam in 2020 – has hit 66,045 simultaneous players on Steam, the most concurrent users the game has ever had.Before this weekend... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 is "suffering a minor outage" that is affecting progress tracking.Developer Arrowhead confirmed the issue on social media earlier today, announcing that the team was "looking into the issue". Read more Read more ›
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Stellar Blade will be "uncensored" in all regions, including Japan.That's according to the game's official Twitter channel, which announced the news earlier today."Stellar Blade offers the same uncensored version in all countries, including the Japanese version," the tweet said in both English and Japanese, appending the message with a pixellated image with red X emblazoned across it, and the words "uncensored all countries". Read more Read more ›
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EA Sports FC 24's Team of the Season (TOTS) is now live.Designed to celebrate the "best and brightest players in the world", EA Sports FC 24 marks "an incredible season of global football" which, for the very first time, will "recognise the most deserving players in women's football", too.Whilst a long-standing staple in FIFA, this is the first time TOTS has come to EA Sports FC 24. Read more Read more ›
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7 Days to Die – an open-world zombie game that first released back in December 2013 – is finally leaving early access.Developer The Fun Pimps says that the next update will not only usher in new gore, challenges, and improved controller support, but also move the 11-year-old game out of early access for the very first time.It's not all good news, though, particularly if you already own the £30 zombie... Read more ›
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Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes is exactly what its lofty crowdfunding campaign promised it would be: a Suikoden successor in all but its name, built by a team of veterans who first made that classic in 1995. And so Hundred Heroes is another impossibly massive, turn-based, party-centric RPG. It tells another wartorn story about resisting an empire, cut through with goofball moments where an eyepatched Aussie kangaroo might yell made-up words.And... Read more ›
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The Palestinian Relief Bundle available on itch.io is offering 373 games, soundtracks, comics, and other digital goods worth over $1600 (almost £1300) for a starting donation of just $8 (around £6.50).Initially, the bundle organiser had hoped to raise $100,000 for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, but that goal has since been stretched to $250,000."Palestinians are being persecuted from their homes in an ongoing genocide. Due to the armed actions of... Read more ›
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The first time I played Fallout 4 VR was in a tiny little booth after Bethesda's 2016 E3 conference. I called my short time with the game 'underwhelming' back then because the whole experience was little more than a stationary shooting gallery with bottles for targets. Even then though, it was still a thrill to feel like I was actually standing next to a real-life Red Rocket gas station.Fallout 4... Read more ›
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Oh to be a fly on the wall when they pitched the Street Fighter 6 intro movie. See, there are rules for fighting game cinematics. You need a montage of assorted beefcakes, flexing and strutting for the camera, then coming to blows against the crescendo of a heavy rock track. These conventions are sacrosanct and cannot be broken. Everything from Tekken, to Guilty Gear, to King of Fighters, to Street... Read more ›
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Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy may play the villain in Far Cry 7.According to leaker j0nathan – who has successfully leaked Ubisoft details before, including accurate reports of Assassin's Creed Mirage ahead of release – Cillian Murphy could be following in the footsteps of Better Call Saul's Michael Mando and Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito by portraying the chief antagonist in the open-world adventure game.In a cryptic tweet that was posted to... Read more ›
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Take-Two has successfully defended itself against a lawsuit in which a tattoo artist claimed the publisher had used their copyright without permission when recreating the likeness of Lebron James' tattoo in NBA 2K.Yesterday, Friday 19th April, a jury in Ohio returned the verdict that Take-Two had not infringed on tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden's copyright after Take-Two's lawyers convinced the jury that – as it had secured permission to use James'... Read more ›
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Sonic x Shadow Generations has been rated in South Korea.The South Korean Game Content Rating Committee didn't have much else to say about the game when it published the rating yesterday, but did at least confirm the "action" game was suitable for "all" users.Perhaps more interestingly, though, the publication of yet another rating for the recently-announced remaster will go some way to confirm to fans that the release window remains... Read more ›
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No Rest for the Wicked's first early access hotfix has been rolled out, and a second patch is "already in progress".As Victoria summarised for us yesterday, the Diablo-like game from Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios released to mixed reviews on Steam, but already the team is on the case in a bid to address "balance, durability, stamina, loot, stability, and immediate Quality of Life".In a lengthy update... Read more ›
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Bloober Team has seemingly amended the face of James Sunderland in its highly-anticipated Silent Hill 2 Remake.The switch came to light via an updated icon on SteamDB, leading some fans to speculate that the studio revised James' face in response to community feedback.Whilst it's not been confirmed by Bloober itself – or been replicated on any other of the game's storefront assets or screenshots – James' haggard, grief-soaked face has... Read more ›
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Sea of Thieves stared off life as an Xbox exclusive, growing over time into a genuine hit with a large, committed community. Now, in an effort to increase its audience still futher, it's become a key part of Microsoft's multi-platform push. Yes, Rare's pirate co-op title is headed to PlayStation 5, kicking off with an open beta last weekend. So just how good is the port and to what extent... Read more ›
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Sony has confirmed LittleBigPlanet 3's servers will remain "offline indefinitely".The servers were taken down in January, although it was hoped at the time that it would be a "temporary" situation.Now, however, "ongoing technical issues" mean the servers will not be coming back online and all online services – including access to other players' creations – "are no longer available". Read more Read more ›
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There's something quietly quiet exciting happening, and I wonder where it's going to lead. Earlier this week, Grounded - the Honey I Shrunk the Kids backyard survival game - arrived on PlayStation, and at the end of the month (30th April) pirating game Sea of Thieves arrives on PlayStation too. It's a momentous occasion, even though it might not sound it, because we've never had games conceived as Xbox exclusives... Read more ›
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As the calendar continues its ceaseless onward march, Epic has announced its next batch of weekly Epic Games Store freebies, which this time look very much like Cold War shooter Industria and post-apocalyptic RPG bundle Lisa: Definitive Edition. Both games are free to add to your Epic Games Store library starting Thursday, 26th April, and if you need a nudge toward the 'download' button, here's what you can expect from... Read more ›
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Telltale Games' long-in-the-works The Wolf Among Us 2 has resurfaced with new screenshots following last year's delay, with the studio saying it's "been heads down" on the project. The Wolf Among Us 2 - again set in the world of Bill Willingham's Fables comics - was originally announced back in 2017, but development halted when Telltale Games shut its doors the following year. That appeared to be the end for... Read more ›
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