Last Flag, a third-person hero shooter that launched just two weeks ago, is halting production. Read more Read more ›
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This is a quick public service announcement to let you know there is a free trial for Vampire Survivors - Poncle's award-winning gothic horror - over on Nintendo Switch. So, if you fancy your chances mowing down "thousands" of night creatures but haven't quite managed to get round to it yet, now is your time to shine.This trial is available to Nintendo Switch Online members. It runs from today, 14th... Read more ›
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Troubled video game publisher Embracer has announced the sale of more of its assets - this time, large portions of Saber Interactive, for the price of $247m. In a financial call this morning, Embracer said the sale means it will cease all operations in Russia, something that will help it "reduce [its] geopolitical risk" - though the buyer, a company named Beacon Interactive, is founded by Saber Interactive co-founder Matthew... Read more ›
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RimWorld, the acclaimed sci-fi colony sim from Ludeon Studios, is about to be besieged by "monstrous creatures, mind-bending mysteries, infiltrating parasites, and sanity-shredding phenomena" as part of a new horror-themed expansion, Anomaly, which arrives next month on Steam. Anomaly will be RimWorld's fourth paid expansion, and its horrors are unleashed when colonists accidentally provoke a mad superintelligence, twisting the world with "ominous, puzzling, mind-controlling, and earth-shaking" threats.. Read more ›
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Ubisoft has shared its post-launch roadmap for its acclaimed series revival Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, which promises to introduce the likes of a permadeath mode, boss rush mode, and story DLC across four updates starting next Wednesday 20th March. Next week's free update, officially titled Warrior's Path, includes the aforementioned permadeath mode alongside a speedup mode and new outfits for protagonist Sargon. It'll be followed by another free... Read more ›
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V Rising's two years of early access development are almost at an end; Stunlock Studios has announced its acclaimed vampire survival game will get its 1.0 release for PC on 17th may, with a PlayStation 5 release to follow later this year. V Rising, if you're unfamiliar, launched into early access back in May 2022, delivering an isometric survival adventure in which players and their friends explore a gloomy open-world... Read more ›
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Sony has announced the games joining its PlayStation Plus Extra catalogue this month, with Capcom's Resident Evil remake and the Firaxis' stellar superhero strategy game Marvel's Midnight Suns leading the charge. Marvel's Midnight Suns, which will be available for both PS4 and PS5, challenges players to take on the forces of Lilith, Mother of Demons with their superhero chums. It melds turn-based action with surprisingly enjoyable relationship-building interludes, somewhat similar... Read more ›
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Following Enshrouded's 1m-strong early access launch back in January, developer Keen Games has shared the first iteration of the co-op survival action-RPG's 2024 roadmap, featuring the likes of animal farming, weather, world events, and more. Keen Games revealed its roadmap - which is heavily inspired by the community's most-requested features - in a on Steam, explaining, "On the one hand, we have big ambitions for the game, and loads of... Read more ›
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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster is coming to Nintendo Switch next month. Today, developer Crim announced the digital Switch port will arrive on 28th April - the same date as previously announced just for Japan. "Players take on the role of Enoch and must harness his natural combat skills to master a range of powerful and Heavenly weapons under the guidance of the watchful Archangels," the game's... Read more ›
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E3 may be dead, but its spirit will once again hang around downtown Los Angeles this year for a week of game announcements and updates in early June. Kicking things off, as has now become tradition, will be Summer Game Fest on Friday 7th June. The Geoff Keighley-fronted show will broadcast live from the YouTube Theatre in Los Angeles at 10pm UK time - that's 2pm Pacific or 5pm Eastern.... Read more ›
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A Palworld player has modded unused Pals back into the game, including the previously discovered Mewtwo dead ringer.Breed Unreleased Pals was uploaded to Nexus Mods earlier this week by ShameIHaveNoFriends. Rather than plonking the unreleased Pals into the open world to be encountered, they must be obtained by breeding existing Pals.Dark Mutant, Dragostrophe, and Bolt Mane (as its original Electric Type or a Fire Type variant) have been added, and... Read more ›
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It only lasted for a little while, but Insomniac Games gifted us a fascinating insight into the inner workings of Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The studio inadvertently released developer tools in version 1.002 of Spider-Man 2, enabling debug options and level selections that offered us a peek under the hood of one of the most technically advanced open worlds in any video game. A hotfix patch was quickly deployed that blocked... Read more ›
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Sea of Stars will receive a co-op mode allowing three players to adventure together. What's more, the indie RPG has now surpassed five million players since its release last year. In Single Player+, as it's known, a new "co-op timed hits" mechanic will require all three players to engage in the game's rhythm-based battle system. The mode is "currently in development" with more details due soon. Read more Read more ›
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Swedish non-profit Talita has created a new mod for GTA 5 to highlight real-life issues of sex trafficking. The organisation helps women out of prostitution and trafficking for sexual purposes and, through this mod, aims to raise awareness of these issues among young men - an audience key to shifting attitudes. The mod, titled Mission Talita, includes four playable missions based on the true stories of four women the Talita... Read more ›
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Development on free-to-play MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic is still going strong after 13 years, with its latest patch adding a new storyline surrounding House Inrokini and highly requested date nights with romanced companions.SWTOR's sixth season of content, Building a Foundation, and game update 7.4.1 rolled out yesterday and included all of the above. Building a Foundation adds three new story missions related to the Inrokini Chiss family, who... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 is continuing its strong reign by introducing yet another round of space bugs for us to deal with. Also, some of them seem to be flying. What's that all about Joel?!Earlier this week, developer Arrowhead released another patch for Helldivers 2 that made adjustments to the spawn rate of those heavily armoured Terminid enemies, sorted out some lingering crash issues and made other general UI improvements.But, it also... Read more ›
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If you were hoping for more of a classic experience in Resident Evil 2 Remake, then here's the mod for you. Created by alphaZomega and uploaded to NexusMods, the RE2R Classic mod allows fans to play the game with fixed camera angles and tank controls like it's 1998 but prettier. The remake notably used an over-the-shoulder camera view popularised by the original Resident Evil 4, but some fans of the... Read more ›
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Pocketpair, the developer behind this year's breakaway hit Palworld, is on the lookout for players to participate in a new testing program.Sharing the news on the Palworld Discord server, community manager Bucky said the team had some new content lined up, but before it goes live the studio wants to put it through its paces. This is so Pocketpair can hunt out any bugs and the like ahead of its... Read more ›
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Epic Games has announced its pricing for the use of Unreal Engine by non-game creators, who will now typically pay $1850 a head each year to use the powerful development software. The upcoming change, first telegraphed last year, will kick in with the launch of Unreal Engine 5.4 next month - details of which we're expecting to hear in the coming days from Epic during its annual State of Unreal... Read more ›
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Obsidian Entertainment has addressed the "bug" in Pentiment which meant the game ran at 120fps on PlayStation 5 - but not its native Xbox Series X/S.Players found the game ran at a higher frame-rate on PS5 when the former Xbox exclusive was released on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch last month, while the Xbox version ran at 60fps.Pentiment director Josh Sawyer said 120fps being disabled in the Xbox version was "just... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu believes game music has become too similar to film and "cannot develop further" if continuing in this direction. Uematsu was interviewed by Japanese outlet NewsPicks (via Automaton) about his thoughts on video game music and its future, stating "music played the role of oxygen" for 8-bit games in expressing the stories and characteristics of sprites. Now, though, developers are "satisfied with movie soundtrack-like music in... Read more ›
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