Last Flag, a third-person hero shooter that launched just two weeks ago, is halting production. Read more Read more ›
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"Explore Jonesy's whimsical chocolate factory!" says the tagline for Jonesy's Chocolate Factory Experience. Billed as appropriate for 3 years and above, and advertising fun and exploration, I used up 40GB of my precious, SSD space to install Fortnite and visit Jonesy's whimsical chocolate factory.Yes, I'm still thinking about the infamous Willy Wonka Experience held in a sadly-decorated warehouse in Glasgow. I didn't visit it in real life for myself, but... Read more ›
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It's hard to think of a science fiction universe as inseparable from its canon as Dune. And yet at the same time, it's a universe where so much can vary from one interpretation to the next (as you'll be swiftly reminded any time you catch a stray set photo of a greased-up Sting.)With that in mind it probably makes a lot of sense for Dune: Awakening, the survival MMO from... Read more ›
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Xbox has announced its latest Partner Preview broacast will air this Wednesday, 6th March at 6pm UK time, showcasing upcoming third-party games.The video presentation will last 30 minutes, Microsoft said today, and contain a mix of trailers, gameplay videos, and additional behind-the-scenes information posted to Xbox Wire.Xbox has teased a closer look at combat and traversal in the EA-published MetroidvaniaTales of Kenzera: Zau from Assassin's Creed Origin star Abubakar Salim,... Read more ›
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There's a Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth patch in the pipeline, which will aim to improve the graphics in the game's Performance Mode, and "very scary" lighting on some character's faces.Speaking to One More Game, the game's director Naoki Hamaguchi said the Rebirth team had received "a lot of feedback" on the graphics in the game's Performance mode from fans wondering if anything will be improved."We hear you, and we are... Read more ›
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Sony's Xperia 5 V was described to me by a representative as their more trendy flagship, designed for younger people and influencers. Well, on the first part, I feel like I'm the target market; the second part perhaps not so much. Priced at £819 and seemingly only available in the UK at present, the Xperia 5 V represents the mid-range option with Sony's latest Xperia lineup of handsets, flanked by... Read more ›
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Marty O'Donnell, the former Bungie composer best known for his Halo and Destiny soundtracks, has announced his intention to run for US Congress as a Republican candidate. In a lengthy post on social media platform X, O'Donnell said he “I "never wanted to be a politician and I still don't" but felt he needed to "step up" after seeing "the leaders of our country being influenced by the toxic divisions... Read more ›
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Xbox recently updated its Game Pass page, revealing three games that will be leaving the service soon.Shredders, Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch Remastered and Hardspace: Shipbreaker will all be removed from the Game Pass catalogue in the next two weeks.If you want to keep playing any of these games once they have left the service, you will need to purchase them. Game Pass members will get a... Read more ›
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Square Enix's RPG Octopath Traveler has been delisted - temporarily, at least - from the Nintendo eShop.The game's disappearance was noticed at the end of last week, though it's still available on Steam and the Microsoft Store.Some fans have linked Octopath Traveler's delisting due to an apparent change in publisher. Archived versions of the game's eShop product page show that its publisher was changed from Nintendo to Square Enix a... Read more ›
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The Star Wars strategy game from Bit Reactor and EA is still in development, following the cancellation of a Star Wars shooter by Apex Legends studio Respawn last week. EA's latest round of layoffs will affect five percent of staff - around 670 employees. The publisher said it planned to move away from "future licensed IP" toward its "owned IP, sports, and massive online communities". EA said this decision would... Read more ›
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom shipped 10m copies in a weekend. Hogwarts Legacy sold 24m units in a year. Palworld is on 25 million players. Spider-Man 2 was Sony's fastest-selling game. Starfield broke Bethesda records. And then there's been Diablo 4, Super Mario Bros Wonder, Baldur's Gate 3, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Resident Evil 4... sales records have been broken consistently over the past 12 months. But then there have... Read more ›
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Steam's done it again: another weekend, another concurrent user record broken and a new one set.According to SteamDB, over 34.5 million of us were simultaneously online earlier today, setting an all-new concurrent user record of 34,649,583 players.And of those players, 11,146,564 users weren't just idling, but actively playing a game when the record was set. Read more Read more ›
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Greedfall 2: The Dying World will launch in early access.Citing the game's ambition as a reason, producer Reda Isber explained in a recent livestream that the team would be "relying heavily" on the feedback of players during the early access period to ensure development was "heading in the right direction".The team also alerted players that saves won't be "compatible between the various updates", so that's something to bear in mind... Read more ›
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Helldivers 2 creative director has hit back at fans pitting the Helldivers 2 franchise against Halo, saying we "need more compassion and union in the world, and less rivalry."Responding to the rivalry on X/Twitter, Arrowhead Game Studios' CEO and Helldivers 2's creative director, Johan Pilestedt, said that we should just "let gamers love and enjoy both, either or neither". Read more Read more ›
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Tropic Haze – the company behind the emulation software Yuzu – has responded to Nintendo's summons that accuses the company of "illegally circumventing Nintendo's software encryption".Earlier this week, Ed reported Nintendo was suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu, claiming more than one million copies of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom were pirated ahead of its release.In the lawsuit, Nintendo claimed that by allowing Yuzu emulator users to play its... Read more ›
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Amazon Prime's original Fallout show is "almost like Fallout 5".That's according to showrunner Jonathan Nolan, who told Total Film that it was the idea of telling an original story set in the Fallout universe that got Bethesda and the team "most excited" about the idea of a TV Show."From the first conversation with Todd [Howard], we were most excited about an original story," Nolan said. Read more Read more ›
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Alan Wake 2 was one of the most visually stunning games of 2023 - but also one of the most demanding for older hardware. Owing to its use of DX12 Ultimate mesh shaders, the game could run on older hardware but often delivered an unplayable experience, especially on Nvidia's GTX 10-series GPUs built on the Pascal architecture. This is an issue because so many of them are still in use:... Read more ›
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Arcade Paradise was a charming management/simulation game set in an old laundrette. In it, the player had to complete menial tasks in order to earn enough cash to build an awesome 90s video game arcade at the back of the building in an attempt to prove themselves to their cranky dad.The wonderful Chris Donlan, who reviewed the game for us in 2022 called Arcade Paradise a "quirky slice-of-life that will... Read more ›
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According to SteamDB, Starfield's Steam listing was recently updated, adding an "unknown app" to the Steam backend that's widely speculated to be the Shattered Space DLC.Whilst there's been no formal word that the new content – which was bundled in with premium editions of the game – is coming any time soon, similar "unknown apps" were added to prior Bethesda games like Fallout 4, which later turned out to be... Read more ›
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Still looking for that perfect gift for Mother's Day? How about a curated selection of jewellery inspired by The Sims 4?Based upon the Crystal Creations Stuff Pack that dropped last week, EA has released The Sims Plumbob Collection. Consisting of a necklace, ring, and earrings – all of which are sold separately – the set is made from 18k gold electroplated stainless steel with natural green agate.All three pieces are... Read more ›
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It's evident in one of the very early scenes, a flashback where two children (the central character, Cloud, and another main character, Tifa) sit by their village well at night and make a promise together as stars shine overhead. A woman named Elmyra cries at her kitchen table, reading a letter that tells her that her husband has died in a war. Two former friends, Barret and Dyne, try to... Read more ›
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