PlayStation maker Sony is currently in talks to acquire FromSoftware, the developer behind Elden Ring, Dark Souls and Bloodbourne, as part of a buyout of its owner, the Japanese publishing giant Kadokawa. Read more Read more ›
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Towerborne was first revealed at last summer's Xbox Games Showcase, but little has been shared of the game since so you'd be forgiven for not being up to speed.However, the game launches in early access on PC today, with a game preview and full release expected on Xbox (and Game Pass) next year. Indeed, early access is a major strategy as part of the game's launch, following in the footsteps... Read more ›
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Over 340,000 Team Fortress players have amassed as part of the ongoing #SaveTF2 campaign, lending their signatures to an anti-bot petition that has now been lovingly assembled into a hardback tome and hand-delivered to Valve's offices in Washington. #SaveTF2 was born in 2022, amid a bot situation so severe, it was threatening to make Valve's classic team-based shooter literally unplayable. The community faced daily battle bots using game-ruining hacks, racist... Read more ›
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Apple has unveiled the iPhone 16, claiming it'll be possible to play AAA games on all devices in the line-up - and not just on the pricier Pro models, as was the case last year. Apple started bigging up the iPhone's AAA gaming credentials with 2023's iPhone 15 range, announcing the likes of Assassin's Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 Remake would all be playable exclusively on the £999 and... Read more ›
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Developer Mojang has unveiled changes to Minecraft's content release schedule that'll see the blockbusting sandbox adventure trade its traditional single summer update for multiple content drops throughout the year. And that's on top of plans for a native PS5 release and more. In a blog post outlining the future of Minecraft's development, Mojang said its new release model is designed to satisfying players' desires for "new Minecraft content more often",... Read more ›
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A month after Bungie acknowledged player "uncertainty surrounding the future of Destiny" following mass layoffs at the studio, the developer has announced "major changes for the future" of its live-service shooter, which will now receive multiple paid expansions a year. More specifically, Bungie's overhauled release model, announced to coincide with Destiny's tenth anniversary, will see two "medium-sized" paid expansions release annually, alongside four "major" free content updates. All this will... Read more ›
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PlayStation's 30th anniversary celebrations kicked off last week - and in a somewhat unexpected way. Key art on the PlayStation Blog showed a range of Sony hardware old and new in the background and carefully tucked away was a console we hadn't seen before. Or rather, we had seen it before, but only via a sketch from billbil-kun. This looks to be our first look at PlayStation 5 Pro and... Read more ›
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A new film chronicling the rise and fall of Clive Sinclair's "now legendary" ZX Spectrum is set to premiere in London on 3rd October, 2024.From Gracious Films, GEL, and MusicFilmNetwork, The Rubber Keyed Wonder "charts the development and creation of the ZX Spectrum from concept through to its first release, and the financial and reputational success it brought Clive Sinclair".It also examines the enduring impact of several Spectrum games, including... Read more ›
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Sony has announced a PlayStation 5 technical presentation.The presentation is set to last for nine minutes, and will be hosted by Mark Cerny. Cerny is the PlayStation 5's lead architect.Further details are still slim, with Sony merely stating the presentation will "focus on PS5 and innovations in gaming technology". Read more Read more ›
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Can't wait until 8th October to revisit Silent Hill? Here's a free visit to everyone's special place courtesy of a Japanese content creator who has streamed the first 90 minutes of Silent Hill 2 Remake to YouTube.The hugely popular 兄者弟者 (Siblings) YouTube channel has seemingly shared the footage by official sanction from Konami, which suggests this shouldn't get struck or pulled down by a pesky copyright notice. Which is just... Read more ›
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Embracer-owned studio Lost Boys Interactive is facing another round of layoffs.Writing on LinkedIn, the studio said it had "made the very difficult decision to reduce our overall headcount in accordance with local laws and consultation processes". It noted Lost Boys needed to "adapt to shifting market conditions" within the video game industry, which has seen multiple layoffs and studio closures in recent years.Lost Boys said it is "committed to supporting... Read more ›
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Sony has quietly increased the price of a DualSense controller for its PlayStation 5 console.As spotted by social media account Wario64, the price of various DualSense colour models has increased by $5 in multiple US retailers, but more importantly on Sony's official store PlayStation Direct.The basic white DualSense controller has increased from $69.99 to $74.99. Over on the UK PlayStation Direct site, the same controller costs £64.99 - up from... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3's latest and much-anticipated seventh patch is here, and we're already making the most of it. As announced by Larian Studios' Swen Vincke, "modding is pretty big - we had more than a million mods installed in less than 24 hours".Fans have taken it even further, though, with one uploading a mod that "unlocks all the disabled features and enables writer permissions for the Baldur's Gate 3 toolkit",... Read more ›
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We all know The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was (and still is) called The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but once upon a time Nintendo was thinking of a slightly different name for its Breath of the Wild follow-up.Please be aware of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom spoilers below.According to Tears of the Kingdom's producer Eiji Aonuma, the team was once thinking about calling the... Read more ›
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Every time I come to play Link's Awakening, there's one moment I always look forward to: getting Roc's Feather. That first dungeon treasure can never come soon enough, as it's the all-important item that lets Link jump about like he's suddenly grown a pair of kangaroo legs. It's oddly freeing in many ways - not just as a traversal tool, but the feel of it - the glide, the airtime,... Read more ›
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Amazon's Fallout adaptation now has two Emmy awards to its name.The show, which was released earlier this year on Amazon Prime, follows the story of Ella Purnell's Lucy, Walton Goggins' Ghoul and Aaron Moten's Brotherhood of Steel member Maximus as they each make their way through the post-apocalyptic wasteland with varying degrees of success.The series quickly became a hit for the streaming service, with scores of praise across the industry.... Read more ›
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You know how humans will sometimes say "Well, there's good news and there's bad news"? And you know how that clues you in on there being good news as well as bad news so that you wait until you have the whole picture before you start rending garments and gnashing teeth and shaking your fist at the skies? Well, that's not how Nintendo handles emails about ceasing support for its... Read more ›
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Astro Bot is set to receive DLC with more yet-to-be-revealed VIP bots, though the game's credits hint towards which characters we may see.The free DLC will arrive this year, confirmed Team Asobi's Nicolas Doucet in an interview with Quest Daily, but it will be "small" and focus on speedruns following its popularity in Astro's Playroom. Leaderboards will be included.What's more, "some characters that we didn't include yet will appear," said... Read more ›
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Two-thirds of female players still report being harassed when playing online.In a report entitled "Why gaming still has a women problem", Sky News reflected on the propensity of misogyny and hatred against women in gaming spaces, particularly on Discord and in multiplayer games.In primary research conducted for the report, tech journalist Mickey Carroll said she was harassed and called a host of slurs simply because her "profile picture showed that... Read more ›
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Director John Garvin says it's "kinda sad" that the leading man of his Days Gone game has been "reduced to a cartoon shill" by an image posted by his former studio, Bend.The picture - released to mark fellow Sony studio Team Asobi's hugely successful Astro Bot launch - shows a Bot dressed in Deacon's garb reclining on a beach.Garvin said, "[Deacon] has been reduced to promoting other games", adding: "Well... Read more ›
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Star Wars Outlaws director Julian Gerighty has confirmed a patch is coming "maybe in 10 days" to address the game's "unfair" and "incredibly punishing" insta-fail stealth sequences.In an interview with GamesRadar+, Gerighty admitted that whilst the team had intentionally designed the sequence to build "tension", it "just [didn't] want it to feel unfair. And today, I think it feels unfair"."This is more of something that crept in in the last... Read more ›
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