It looks like Star Wars: Galactic Racer will release on 6th October, 2026. Read more Read more ›
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Loud disapproval for Sonic's original film design has prompted far greater scrutiny within Hollywood for getting video game adaptations right. That's according to the company behind the now-very-successful Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise itself, Paramount Pictures. "Every design now is vetted within an inch of its life," marketing president Marc Weinstock told The Wall St Journal, reflecting on how Sonic was quickly redesigned after widespread upset online. Read more Read more ›
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Dragon's Dogma 2 has sold 2.5m units since its release on 22nd March. The action RPG was highly praised by critics and that's followed through with sales - despite drama around the game's microtransactions. These sales mean the series as a whole has now shifted over 10m units. Read more Read more ›
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Ascendant Studios' Immortals of Aveum is currently enjoying a new lease of life as a 'free' game on PlayStation Plus - and two major upgrades are coming soon. The first - patch 1.0.6.3 - adds support for high dynamic range and should be rolling out to all console versions of the game today. Perhaps more exciting is the upcoming 1.0.6.4, which brings AMD's FSR 3 frame generation to consoles for... Read more ›
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Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has acknowledged it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios.Talking to investors – as transcribed by RPS – Wingefors said that after shedding 1300+ jobs, cancelling dozens of games, and shutting down studios like Timesplitters developer Free Radical and Saints Row dev Volition, the team's "highest focus and priority" was to "increase profitability and cashflow generation by simply making better... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players who bought the game digitally cannot platinum the game.According to Kotaku, ever since Square Enix pushed out the 1.020 patch, one of the RPG's last side quests – Can't Stop, Won't Stop – can only be completed by those who bought the game physically."The questline is bugged for some people and no matter what you do it won't process your scores against him," said one... Read more ›
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Payday 3's Operation Medic Bag's second patch is now available.Described as a "focused effort to respond to community expectations and improve Payday 3", Operation Medic Bag "covers a range of sought-after features and improvements to gameplay, stability, matchmaking, content, and enhanced features".This particular patch includes new adaptive armour, the new Adrenaline feature – which functions as an extra but temporary health pool – the new mega-buff Fortitude skill line, and... Read more ›
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Do you find yourself at something of a loose end over the extended holiday weekend? Why not sit back and enjoy our first DF Retro marathon video, which combines multiple episodes of one of our most ambitious DF Retro projects yet into one mega-extended presentation. And it's good stuff, with John Linneman and Audi Sorlie revisiting the epoch-making release of the original Sony PlayStation across 1994 and 1995, examining the... Read more ›
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God, I adore flatscreen to VR mods. Honestly, they're just so much more exciting to me than the current crop of official VR releases. A large portion of anticipated titles have been fairly underwhelming to say the least, but thankfully there's absolutely nothing like the feeling of revisiting an all-time classic in VR to make you fall in love with the medium once again.Being able to explore digital worlds that... Read more ›
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I'm sitting opposite Saboteur's coder, Clive Townsend, at a retro gaming show in the Midlands. Two pints separate us: beer for me, cider for him - ever the West Country boy - and Townsend is affable, smiling and jovial. "20 years ago, I could have reached across this table and rendered you unconscious in two seconds," he grins. I laugh nervously while swigging a mouthful of Spanish lager. "But I've... Read more ›
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Hi-Fi Rush recently arrived on PlayStation 5 and as contentious as the idea of Xbox going 'multi-plat' in any way may be, the strategy so far is sound. Lower profile titles that aren't exactly triple-A juggernauts gain a new lease of life on competing console hardware. Giving titles like Hi-Fi Rush more of a chance to find a bigger audience can only be a good thing for the games themselves,... Read more ›
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Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and known to millions as the voice of Half-Life 2's vortigaunts, has died at the age of 87.Whilst the aliens were voiced by Tony Todd in Episode Two and Half-Life: Alyx, the original versions in Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One were voiced by Gossett.As reported by AP (thanks, PC Gamer), Gossett died yesterday morning in... Read more ›
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CD Projekt's chief financial officer, Piotr Nielubowicz, says the company does "not see a place for microtransactions in the case of single-player games".Talking to Polish site StockWatch.pl (via Insider Gaming and JuiceHead), Nielubowicz reiterated the studio's position on in-game monetisation, albeit acknowledging that the team couldn't "rule out that [CD Projekt] will use this solution in the future" when it came to multiplayer games."We do not see a place for... Read more ›
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Dredge, the sinister fishing game from Black Salt Games and publisher Team 17, has donated $100,000 New Zealand dollars to the New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Trust as it celebrates its first anniversary and teases that there's more to come for the wonderful indie horror game."Thanks to all of the players around the world, we’re in a position to give back to the environment that inspired our game," says Nadia... Read more ›
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At the age of 57, Chris Mandra has just released his first video game. This is something I find truly remarkable. For all the modern talk about portfolio careers and the death of a job-for-life, the idea of embarking on a completely new career in your sixth decade on Earth seems astonishing. At the age of 44, I sometimes daydream about starting out again, venturing into the unknown, maybe writing... Read more ›
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Earlier this month I reviewed the Asus ROG Swift PG32UCDM, a 32-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor that combines a 4K resolution with 240Hz refresh rate, impressive HDR and fewer downsides than your typical OLED panel - albeit at an eye-watering £1350 asking price. I noted that while the Asus monitor was a technical tour de force and the best gaming monitor I'd ever tested, it's not necessarily the best value 32-inch... Read more ›
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This is the second time I've written this week's Game of the Week. The game has remained the same, though. That's the first part of the trick. Our game this week is, of course, Timemelters, by Autoexec. It's the spiritual sequel to one of my all time favourites, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves.In both games you play a version of tower defence that's enlivened by unusual powers and unusual weaknesses. You... 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: swimming pools, crates and tombs.If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive.My wife is completely fascinated by the whole liminal spaces scene online. These are slightly Gibsonian faux-found-footage clips of office... Read more ›
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How much does someone who built the foundations of Pokémon Go still play the game, eight years on? It's the first question I ask Ed Wu, senior vice president of Pokémon Go, as we set off on a walk together around a leafy London park - our phones in hand, Pokémon Go open. "I spend as much of my time beating up the game as possible," he laughs. This is... Read more ›
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TimeSplitters Rewind - the fan-made recreation of TimeSplitters 1, 2 and 3's multiplayer that's been in development since 2013 - has re-emerged with its first update video in over the year, offering a fresh look at the project and urgent calls for assistance as its developers find themselves in an "incredibly challenging space" due to the current state of the industry. The TimeSplitters Rewind team secured permission to create the... Read more ›
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Certain Affinity - the renowned Texas-based support studio most recently reported to be working on a Halo battle royale project for Microsoft - has announced a round of layoffs, which will see 25 employees lose their jobs. CEO Max Hoberman confirmed the layoffs - which equate to around 10 percent of Certain Affinity's approximately 250 employees - in a lengthy post on the studio's website, explaining the cuts predominantly impact... Read more ›
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