A game called "Hunt: Showdown 1896" has popped up on the ESRB website.Although a follow-up to the acclaimed PvEvP bounty-hunting horror shooter from developer Crytek has yet to be formally announced, a rating for Hunt: Showdown 1896 on the US' Entertainment Software Rating Board intimates either a sequel is on the way, or the eagerly-anticipated update scheduled to drop on 15th August is big enough to necessitate a new rating.The... Read more ›
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241 workers at Bethesda Game Studios are unionising.Bethesda Game Studios' union recognition with Communication Workers of America (CWA) marks the "first wall-to-wall union at Microsoft"."We, a majority of developers at Bethesda Game Studios Dallas, Rockville, and Austin, are ecstatic to announce the formation of our union with CWA Union. Together as #OneBGSUSA, we advocate for the betterment of every developer at BGS, setting the new standard for our industry. Read... Read more ›
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There was some level of disappointment when the long-awaited Forza Motorsport finally arrived for review, as visual quality didn't quite meet expectations - especially as promised features like ray traced global illumination didn't arrive in the final game, while PC technical performance was troublesome. However, a short while ago, we learned from user LJT that the PC game can be modded to add extra detail, improved RT reflections and RTGI,... Read more ›
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If ever a game muddled with time, it's Tetris. I'm not just talking about the idle hours that somehow disappear as you play, but the way that the whole game sits within the flow of time itself. Tetris' 40th anniversary is upon us this summer (the exact date is a little woolly, with the Tetris Company putting it in June, but still announcing official celebrations this weekend), and that feels... Read more ›
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Pleasingly bizarre four-wheeled survival game Pacific Drive has officially sold 1m copies, and its developer Ironwood Studios has announced it's celebrating that milestone with a series of content updates throughout the rest of this year. And the first of those updates is now live, offering a bunch of free additions, as well as a bit of daft cosmetic DLC. Pacific Drive's first free update lets players document their travels across... Read more ›
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Things are about to get lively in Sea of Thieves! After spending far too long as giant, trash-talking disembodied head, the nefarious Captain Flameheart finally makes a proper to Rare's multiplayer pirate adventure next Thursday, 25th July - and he'll be terrorising players with his formidable fire-belching warship when Season 13 gets underway. That warship, The Burning Blade, forms one half of what's looking like a fairly hefty update for... Read more ›
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Following a bit of a tease at least year's BlizzCon, Blizzard has given Overwatch 2's 41st hero the full reveal treatment. And that's not all! Juno, as the shooter's new Martian space ranger is known, is available to play right now for a limited-time. When Blizzard first teased Juno last year, she was known only by the codename Space Ranger. It was, however, confirmed, she'd be Overwatch's first Martian character,... Read more ›
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Arcade-style aerial combat games have been thin on the ground in recent years, with the notable exception of Bandai Namco's Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. This 2019 high-altitude genre revival gave us a high-quality jet combat game, built for modern visual expectations with the help of Unreal Engine 4. Now, with little build-up or fanfare, Bandai Namco has dropped a Switch conversion, which promises the full Ace Combat experience at... Read more ›
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Atlus has released an official Persona 5 coffee line, so you can set up your own iconic Café Leblanc. In collaboration with Jade City Foods, the coffee line includes three different roasts: the Café Leblanc dark roast, Phantom Thieves of Hearts medium roast, or Shujin Academy light roast. The dark roast offers chocolate and caramel notes, the medium roast has fruity acidity, and the light roast has a cherry and... Read more ›
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The Mortuary Assistant is finally coming to all consoles on 2nd August, 2024 – two years to the day the influential indie horror hit PC.Called The Definitive Edition, the base game has been spruced up to include new haunts, bodies, embalming-only mode, and numerous stability and bug fixes.In The Mortuary Assistant, you take on the role of Rebecca Owens, a newly graduated apprentice at River Fields Mortuary – but the... Read more ›
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Nintendo has announced a new Pikmin game, but no - it's not Pikmin 5. Instead, Japanese Pikmin fans can enjoy Pikmin Counting, a web-based edutainment game where you count from 1 to 100 using Nintendo's colourful garden characters. (It's primarily designed for young kids.) Pikmin Counting is one of several mini-games available on Nintendo's Japanese website Pikmin Garden, a hub of information on the series with regular news updates of... Read more ›
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PowerWash Simulator's all-new free update, Muckingham Files 3, is now available.Available for free on PC via Steam, Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and last-gen consoles, Muckingham Files 3 introduces two new maps selected by the PowerWash community itself."The Muckingham Files have returned in PowerWash Simulator's latest free content update," developer FuturLab teased as it marks PowerWash Simulator's second "Washer-Versary". Read more Read more ›
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Devolver has announced Forestrike, a "tactical kung-fu fighter" from the developer of Olija. Players will take the role of martial artist Yu who's blessed with the Foresight, which allows him to perceive battles in his mind ahead of time to find a winning sequence, before enacting the movements in reality. Progression is through a roguelike game loop, providing unique encounters each run for players to perceive in advance. Read more Read more ›
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Nintendo has announced plans for a big September in-game event for Splatoon 3, accompanied by the launch of new amiibo figurines. Fans say this autumn's Grand Festival will likely mark the end of new content for the paint-based shooter threequel, akin to Splatoon 2's Final Fest - though the possibility of other, returning Splatfests remains. Nintendo will launch four new amiibo figures on 4th September, divided into two specific packs:... Read more ›
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Fresh from its nominations for 16 Emmy Awards, the second season of Amazon's Fallout TV show is "ahead of schedule". Amazon's head of TV Vernon Sanders was interviewed by Variety, along with Amazon MGM Studios chief Jennifer Salke. "I think we're ahead of schedule, in terms of being able to get Season 2 back," said Sanders. "We don't have an exact launch date yet, but we've already gotten scripts in... Read more ›
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Images showing Jack Black as Minecraft character Steve have leaked online, giving the internet an early look at how the upcoming Warner Bros-backed Minecraft movie plans to stylise Mojang's blocky world. The designs, which reportedly first surfaced via notorious webforum 4chan, are now being pulled from social media platform X by copyright claims, Eurogamer has noticed. The takedowns all but confirm the images' legitimacy. Photos show a bearded Jack Black... Read more ›
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Ubisoft's massive open-world adventure, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is free to play until 28th July.Right now, the trial is only available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (sorry, PC players), but those who can jump on are able to sample the first five hours, or until you reach Hometree in The Aranahe Clan mail quest – whichever comes first.As you may well expect, you can only participate if you're prepared,... Read more ›
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Sega has unveiled a first look at two new Shadow x Sonic Generations levels, delving into the Sonic nemesis' past. As with the original Sonic Generations, the new separate Shadow campaign will reimagine stages from Shadow's past. So far we've seen the Space Colony level, inspired by Sonic Adventure 2's Final Chase. Now, in a new teaser video comparing old and new, two more stages have been revealed based on... Read more ›
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The creators of the cult classic Chibi-Robo! series have announced a spiritual successor, koROBO. Key members of Chibi-Robo!'s development team are working on the project together under the banner of Tiny Wonder Studios, following the closure of their previous studio Skip back in 2020. Founded in 2000, Skip worked closely with Nintendo on more than two dozen games, including Japan-only cult classics such as GameCube title GiFTPiA and bizarre Wii... Read more ›
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slammed Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass tier changes as a "degraded product", citing that by "removing the most valuable games from Microsoft's new service", Microsoft has delivered "exactly the sort of consumer harm from the merger the FTC has alleged".Microsoft confirmed sweeping changes - including price increases - to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service earlier this month. The changes come ahead of October's launch... Read more ›
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