It looks like Star Wars: Galactic Racer will release on 6th October, 2026. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to launch this year's Call of Duty via Xbox Game Pass for the first time, in a first for the franchise. That's according to The Wall St Journal, which today reported that Microsoft had now made the decision ahead of the game's formal unveiling next month. While Xbox has always brought new first-party games to Xbox Game Pass on day one, and Activision Blizzard is now a Microsoft... Read more ›
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Fortnite players were last night treated to a mini live event, as the battle royale capped off its current Greek god season, and set up a grittier, heavy metal-infused new season to come. The event seemed to show a moment of revenge from the now-felled Greek god Zeus, as his statue charged up the map's enormous Pandora's Box and unleashed a new threat to the Island. The action began at... Read more ›
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Creative Assembly is reportedly working on three new Total War games, including an officially licensed Star Wars game. The news comes from DualShockers, which has reported as of October 2023 Total War: Star Wars was one of three games in development at the studio. The studio's most recent game was Total War: Pharaoh, but a Star Wars game would see it return to the more fantastical settings of Total War:... Read more ›
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Microsoft is adding the ability to pre-download game updates before their scheduled release. The feature, which is already available on PlayStation, allows you to download hefty game updates days before their release. Then, when the update is formally released, the update simply installs - meaning less wait time to get playing. Microsoft has begun rolling out the feature to those in the Alpha ring of Xbox Insider testers, before it... Read more ›
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There's a lot of good stuff out this week. For starters, Indika looks weird and fascinating, while Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, the latest from the geniuses at Simogo, promises to tie my brain into bows for the next few months: more on that game soon. Either of these would be an ideal game of the week. But then Danny DeVito entered the picture, with the hopeful suggestion that he... Read more ›
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Fae Farm and Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs is undergoing a significant restructure, cancelling all other projects and laying off around 140 staff. The studio shared the news in a LinkedIn post, stating that after a "long period of evaluating how to navigate our economic environment, we have had to significantly restructure the company to pave a path for a strong future." The statement does not specify how many staff are... Read more ›
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Hades 2 creative director Greg Kasavin said the game will be in early access "at least through the end of this year". The much-anticipated rogue-lite sequel released into early access on PC on 6th May, though it's unknown when the game will be fully released. Speaking to PC Gamer in the wake of the game's first patch, Kasavin detailed Supergiant's plans for the foreseeable future. Read more Read more ›
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Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week, we look up at the sky, with our eyes and through our phones; we live out our fantasies as a tiny fire trying to find their way home; and we find the best cat game you have probably never heard of.What have... Read more ›
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Valve's next game is an Overwatch-style third-person hero shooter named Deadlock, a new report has stated. Details have emerged from an ongoing closed alpha playtest of the game, which veteran Valve reporter Tyler McVicker said currently has "hundreds" of people playing, ahead of an imminent public announcement for the project. Competitive gaming YouTubers have also now been invited to try the build - and perhaps inevitably, it looks like someone... Read more ›
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Rockstar's GTA 5 has now sold over 200m copies. This news, said Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, exceeded the company's forecast. By its previous financial report, GTA 5 had sold 195m copies - so that's another 5m copies since February. "We are thrilled that more than a decade after their initial releases, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online grew their audience size by an incredible 35 percent... Read more ›
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Wayfinder, the free-to-play online action-RPG from Darksiders developer Airship Syndicate, has been reworked and reannounced as a single-player paid title following Warframe developer Digital Extremes' decision to hand back publishing rights late last year. Wayfinder released into early access last August as an online fantasy action-RPG with a free-to-play monetisation model similar to Warframe. This initial version combined small-scale dungeon crawling for up to three players with larger open zones... Read more ›
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Take-Two Interactive chief exexutive officer Strauss Zelnick has claimed the publisher has not shut down OlliOlli developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 studio Intercept Games, despite reports and evidence to the contrary earlier this month. Word of Intercept Games' demise - and the loss 70 jobs at the studio - came via a Washington state closure notice submitted by Take-Two itself, and was corroborated by affected employees on social... Read more ›
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2K Games is poised to reveal the next game in one of its "biggest and most beloved" franchises, with the grand unveiling set to happen in June. More specifically, the big reveal is scheduled for Friday, 7th June, and will take place during Geoff Keighley's big Summer Game Fest live event. News of 2K impending reveal came via Summer Game Fest's official social media account, but details remain vague. It... Read more ›
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Rockstar and publisher Take-Two have narrowed the release window for GTA 6 from the previously announced "2025" to "fall" of next year. Take-Two shared the news during its Q4 2024 earnings report, saying it was "highly confident that Rockstar Games will deliver an unparalleled entertainment experience". "Our expectations for the commercial impact of the title continue to increases", it added, noting it expects to see "tremendous growth" with sequential increases... Read more ›
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US rapper Doja Cat has fired off a series of social media posts blasting "horrible" and "garbage" Fortnite players who use the game's powerful (many would say over-powered) Chains of Hades weapon. The Grammy Award-winning artist, whose hits include Say So, Paint the Town Red and Kiss Me More, posted a series of messages complaining about the Fortnite weapon in quick succession yesterday. A warning: Doja Cat uses extremely strong... Read more ›
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Activision has announced a new game development studio opened in Poland named Elsewhere Entertainment. Based in Warsaw with additional resources in the US, the studio is developing a "new narrative-based and genre-defining AAA franchise". It's the second Activision studio in the country after the Krakow-based Infinity Ward Poland and, while this is its public unveiling, it's already been working on its first project. Read more Read more ›
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I'm in a bit of an odd position when it comes to the idea of building a computer for gaming. Having written about computer hardware for years, I'd like to think I've got a good handle on what the best components are for the job. However, I've never actually built a PC, despite wanting to for years. After years of using an older HP Envy machine with quite dated components,... Read more ›
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Epic Games has announced its Mega Sale 2024, which begins today and offers a free game each week. The offer kicks off with Dragon Age: Inquisition - Game of the Year Edition, which you can nab from the Epic Games Store now. The offer of BioWare's brilliant RPG is well-timed, ahead of the long-awaited Dragon Age: Dreadwolf finally arriving later this year. Expect to see more of that very soon.... Read more ›
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It looks like PS2 game Star Wars: The Clone Wars will join PS Plus next month. As spotted by PlayStation Store price tracker PS Deals (thanks Gematsu), the game will release on 11th June and will likely be part of the next wave of classics available to Premium subscribers. This version of the game will include new modern features, including up-rendering, rewind and quick save functions, and custom video filters.... Read more ›
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Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Danny DeVito has been asked whether he'd take on the role of Wario in a Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel, after having been suggested for the role by Luigi voice actor Charlie Day. Day, who co-stars with DeVito in Always Sunny in Philadelphia, previously told Digital Spy he wanted the actor to take on the role of Mario's moustache-twirling, nose-picking nemesis in a future film.... Read more ›
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