Divisive yet successful open-world fantasy game Crimson Desert notably does not come with a character creator. The game casts you as male hero Kliff and that's mostly who you are, besides some shorter stints as the characters Damiane and Oongka. You can change Kliff's hair and beard and tattoos later in the game, but you can't change his appearance structurally, or his gender. Until now, that is. Read more Read more ›
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Despite a shaky start in 2021, Konami's live service successor to football series Pro Evolution Soccer (PES), the online game eFootball, has now been downloaded an incredible number of times. Officially, it's surpassed more than one billion downloads worldwide, Konami has said, and it's having something of a celebration in its honour. Read more Read more ›
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"When we first started, there was a shooter genre, and there was a subgenre within that which was battle royale," says Taeseok Jang, Krafton's head of the PUBG IP franchise group, as we talk on an upper floor of one of the Korean publisher's many gleaming offices in Seoul. "But now it's become its own genre - and there's a shooter genre that's kind of a subgenre to battle royale."... Read more ›
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This is a strange thing to write but does the design of the limited edition 007: First Light DualSense PS5 controller look off to you? As in, wrong? Not wrong in the sense that someone made a mistake, but wrong in the sense the design doesn't capture one of the most iconic James Bond motifs there is: the swirly inside of the barrel of a gun. Read more Read more ›
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Home Safety Hotline, the wonderful analogue call centre horror from developer Night Signal Entertainment, is getting the movie adaptation treatment from Love and Monsters director Michael Matthews. Read more Read more ›
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Xbox is making some major changes to its Achievements, for Xbox Insiders to test out ahead of a wider release. These include customisation options for Achievement pop ups, the ability to highlight certain 100 percent completions you're especially proud of, and the ability to hide other games you're not keen to boast about. Read more Read more ›
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Blizzard has announced 51st Overwatch hero Sierra, a damage-role character, who'll be added to the game when Season 2 of Reign of Talon launches next Tuesday, 14th April. She's the first of five new heroes still to come to the competitive shooter this year. Read more Read more ›
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Pokémon Champions will be receiving some substantial bug fixes in upcoming patches, developer The Pokemon Works has announced. Read more Read more ›
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Hazelight Studios - the developer behind local co-op delights A Way Out, It Takes Two, and Split Fiction - has announced it has passed a surprisingly large sales milestone: more than 50 million sales. Read more Read more ›
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After years of relative silence, Tomb Raider's immediate future is looking busy with Legacy of Atlantis - a remake of the original game - arriving in 2026, and Catalyst following in 2027. Today, however, we're briefly revisiting its past. Read more Read more ›
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Pokémon Champions has been released, a battling focused competitive game hoping to capture the hearts of the series' dedicated players. However, some performance limitations and gameplay choices have a slice of the community feeling disappointed. Read more Read more ›
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007: First Light is a May release we've been playing close attention to for a long time, yet we now won't get every version at once: the Nintendo Switch 2 version has been delayed. Read more Read more ›
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With No Man's Sky's 10th anniversary hurtling ever closer, developer Hello Games has returned with another update for its sprawling exploratory space sim, and the big addition this time around is, well, it's basically Pokémon. Read more Read more ›
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Forza Horizon 6 has learned at least one neat trick from Ridge Racer. It's learned that for a certain kind of racing game, something that's dreamy yet exactingly arcadey by turn, it's quite nice to ghost around a corner every now and then and find something dramatic happening overhead. In Ridge Racer this something was often a jumbo taking off. In Horizon 6, it could be one of those chunky... Read more ›
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One of 2026's hottest gaming rumours came at the end of March when trusted leaker Nate the Hate revealed that a new Star Fox game and a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are to arrive this year on Nintendo Switch 2. Read more Read more ›
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Publisher Kwalee and developer Out of the Blue have announced a 12th May release date for Call of the Elder Gods, the sequel to 2021's stellar narrative puzzle adventure Call of the Sea. It's coming to Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X and Game Pass. Read more Read more ›
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A prototype for the original Mirror's Edge is now playable, thanks to some hard work from series enthusiasts. In a playthrough uploaded to YouTube, an early look at the beloved parkour game can be seen in all its lighting-less glory, including a truly horrendous opening monologue. Read more Read more ›
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Crimson Desert might not be everything we hoped it would be but it has undeniably found an audience and reminded everyone there's still significant interest in sprawling open-world games. A studio that knows a thing or two about such projects is Avalanche, best known for the Just Cause series, and it turns out it had a similar game in the works. Read more Read more ›
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Cyberpunk 2077's messy launch is a distant memory, and while public opinion on it has mostly changed, CD Projekt Red isn't ready to move on from the game just yet. Case in point: today's free PS5 Pro update. Read more Read more ›
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Marathon's development team has issued a statement about cheating in the game, pledging to improve detection and add better player reporting tools to the game. Read more Read more ›
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