Developer Frogwares' Lovecraftian horror sequel, The Sinking City 2, is launching 18th August on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Additionally, an hour-long The Sinking City 2 demo is now available on Steam. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft's newly appointed gaming boss Asha Sharma has made more leadership changes at Xbox, this time hiring a handful of executives to help lead the company that include an industry analyst who said games were losing the attention war to gambling, porn and crypto. Read more Read more ›
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Confession time: I never actually finished the original Subnautica. It’s not that I didn't love its clever mix of sandbox survival and structured narrative; it's just that I'm a massive wuss when it comes to the sea. Or what lies beneath, at least. Subnautica's sun-kissed Safe Shallows? Fine, lovely. Kelp Forest's increasing murk? Nerves starting to tingle. The yawning abyss of oceanic horrors pretty much everywhere else on the map?... Read more ›
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Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds has poured cold water on hopes it will add more ways to defend yourself in the popular underwater survival game and potentially fight off dangerous fish. Read more Read more ›
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Ubisoft has outlined its future slate of releases as part of its latest financial results, confirming the next Assassin's Creed game - possibly a reference to the previously announced Codename Hexe - will be launching before the end of its 2028-2029 financial year, as will new entries for Ghost Recon and Far Cry. Read more Read more ›
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Quantic Dream, the developer of Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, is closing down its MOBA-with-flying game Spellcasters Chronicles, which only launched in early access in February this year. Read more Read more ›
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Crowdfunding website Kickstarter - a place many video game projects have originated - has issued an unflinching apology after 'botching' new guidelines it released last week. The changes had sought to tighten the rules around adult-oriented projects raising money there, resulting in a fierce backlash and calls of censorship. Read more Read more ›
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Many indie games are finding success as larger publishers and studios try to navigate a difficult market, but Titanium Court stands out as a particularly special and unique one. After a relatively quiet launch a month ago, it's now sold over 25k copies. Read more Read more ›
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Last week, Recreate Games apologised after an AI-generated video competition for its popular casual brawler Party Animals drew significant criticism from its community. Now, it's cancelled the competition entirely. Read more Read more ›
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Earlier this week, Final Fantasy legend Hironobu Sakaguchi praised an AI-generated trailer for a hypothetical remake of FF6, sparking some backlash, before being told to "please stop" by SaGa creator Akitoshi Kawazu, another Square veteran. The comments by Sakaguchi sparked a degree of backlash, and his answer has been... to double down on his interest. Read more Read more ›
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Earlier in May, Sony released its fiscal year report for the past twelve months. Amongst the inevitable dryness of financial reporting it offered an intriguing look into the wider economic challenges the PlayStation platform-holder is facing, and the solutions it has in mind. And all that is framed, notably, in the run up to the inevitable next generation of consoles. Read more Read more ›
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Sony has just announced its next State of Play, which will return on 2nd June - kicking off the Summer Games Fest week with an hour-long showcase that will reveal more information about Marvel's Wolverine, as well as "news and updates on upcoming PS5 games". The wording on the PlayStation Blog more specifically reveals "updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals" will follow "a closer look at Marvel's Wolverine". Read more Read more ›
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Pokémon Pokopia has been a hit on Nintendo Switch 2, and its ongoing events are keeping players glued to it. One especially dedicated player has been working on a recreation of the first-generation Kanto map with Pokopia's Minecraft-like tools, and they're almost finished now. Read more Read more ›
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Housemarque is the talk of the town again following Saros' launch, and now another veteran from the Finnish studio, Returnal game director Harry Krueger, is aiming to deliver something that feels familiar with a new game studio. Read more Read more ›
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The rumours are true: Kingdom Come Deliverance studio Warhorse really is making a Lord of the Rings role-playing game. More specifically, it's making an open-world Middle-earth RPG. Read more Read more ›
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That was quick. Hasbro has reportedly cancelled the single-player Dungeons & Dragons action-adventure being made by Star Wars Jedi director Stig Asmussen, less than a year after it was announced. Read more Read more ›
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Hitman studio IO Interactive has gone to great lengths to ensure 007: First Light feels James Bond enough. We've had entire videos documenting the watch Bond will wear, or the Aston Martin he will presumably drive, and there's a celebrity making a villainish cameo. There's even a 007: First Light Bond Theme recorded by famous singer Lana Del Rey. But what about the game's, ahem, sexiness? Read more Read more ›
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Embracer Group is slicing itself in half, resulting in two legally distinct public companies. The split, which is set to take place next year, could potentially provide a lifeline for many of the intellectual properties currently in hibernation under Embracer's umbrella. Read more Read more ›
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The boss of toy giant Hasbro believes the sci-fi role-playing game space, which famously counts BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy among it, "hasn't had a good game in a long time". Moreover he - Chris Cocks - believes Hasbro's new game Exodus will change that. Read more Read more ›
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As strange as it was, the first Outward managed to sell over 1m copies and build a solid following. With Outward 2, developer Nine Dots Studio, which is now self-publishing the game, aims to improve on that start and now we have a release date for the new open-world action RPG. Read more Read more ›
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Far Far West - a sci-fi fantasy co-op shooter that launched on 28th April - is off to a fantastic early access start on Steam, and its publisher is now making it very clear it's not interested in working with developers that use generative AI tools. Read more Read more ›
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