EA has finally pulled back the cover on the details of next week's Battlefield 6 update, patch 1.3.1.0., revealing new content, improvements, a new map, weapons, Battle Pass, and ranked battle royale quads, too. Read more Read more ›
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Blizzard has apologised as its PC server Battle.net is currently unavailable, leaving players unable to access games, such as Diablo 4, on PC. The company is in the process of investigating the cause of today's outages, which is said to have been caused by an issue with authentication servers. Blizzard said this may result in "failed or slow login attempts" for its games. "We apologise for the inconvenience... we're working... Read more ›
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Diablo 4 is coming to Steam on 17th October, following a period of Battle.net PC exclusivity. "We want to break down barriers to make it easier for wanderers everywhere to defend Sanctuary," Blizzard proclaimed in a new post detailing Diablo 4's move to an additional PC platform. Those looking to play Blizzard's latest Diablo release on Steam will still need to connect to a Battle.net account, something that is also... Read more ›
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The first of Konami's comeback titles for the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill: Ascension, will begin at the end of this month according to app store listings.Silent Hill: Ascension is an interactive streaming game where players will be able to affect the outcome of the story by voting on what happens next. Although Konami and Genvid have kept details on Ascension hush until now, pre-registrations on the Google Play Store... Read more ›
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When Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition is released, it will be the first two disc PlayStation 5 game. A social media post showing the back of the Complete Edition's box reveals that the physical copy of the game will be shipped on two blu-ray discs. Users will need to ensure they have plenty of free space before cracking on with Aloy's latest outings, as a minimum of 121GB is required... Read more ›
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The team of bug-fixing quality assurance (QA) staff who unionised while working on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf have all been laid off. That's according to a Polygon report which states that the 13 staff are no longer working on BioWare's long-awaited RPG project. These staff were formally employed by QA outsourcing giant Keywords, which was contracted to assist BioWare on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. The group faced something of a fight to... Read more ›
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Redwall, the setting of Brian Jacques' brilliant children's fantasy books, is making its way onto curren-gen consoles with The Lost Legends of Redwall: The Scout Anthology.The popular series is known for its anthropomorphic animals, including mice, moles and various other woodland animals. The series is centred on Redwall Abbey, where the animals live together. The game is a linear action-adventure and story-rich title comprised of three acts. The world includes... Read more ›
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A group of former BioWare staff members has launched a lawsuit to seek better severance pay from the maker of Mass Effect and Dragon Age. 50 staff were let go in August, as part of a move the company said would make the studio "more agile and more focused". Several veteran team members were included in the cuts, including two writers who had each worked at the studio for over... Read more ›
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Get your trigger fingers at the ready. Feral Interactive, the team behind the recent Lara Croft Switch ports, has announced Hitman: Blood Money - Reprisal will be coming to iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch. This release will be a souped up version of IO's 2006 release Hitman: Blood Money, promising a "suite of improvements" across the new platforms. This will include new features such as "Instinct Mode, an ever-present minimap,... Read more ›
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Humble Choice is going big on scares and spooks this month, just in time for Halloween.Titles being offered from Humble Choice in October include The Quarry Deluxe Edition, Metal: Hellsinger, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes. If you've been waiting for a decent price slash on any of those or are looking for some horror and thrills, subscribing to get this month's bundle may be worth it.Also up for... Read more ›
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Six years and five days have passed since the release of Forza Motorsport 7, and Turn 10 Studios have been hard at work on a new entry in the beloved racing series. The simply-titled Forza Motorsport is an advanced track-based racer developed for PC and current-gen console hardware, emphasising advanced detail and sophisticated ray tracing effects. It's an impressive effort, as John has detailed in his preview, but with the... Read more ›
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Twitch has seen another round of layoffs, though full details are unknown. The news comes from streaming insider Zack Bussey and has since been corroborated by GamesIndustry.biz. The layoffs are said to be limited to the customer experience team as the company shifts to outsourced vendors. The layoffs are also fewer than the 400 employees who lost their jobs during Amazon cuts in March. Read more Read more ›
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There's not much longer to wait for Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but that hasn't stopped fans from having their fun early.Presenting Elephant Mario 64, a combination of work between a group of modders, known as SM64ex-coop, to add Elephant Mario to Super Mario 64. He's fully playable, minus any Elephant form abilities, and is complete with a tiny tail sticking out from his overalls.The model was made by modder Koop... Read more ›
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Rockstar has quietly added a 60fps toggle to Red Dead Redemption on PlayStation 5. The version 1.03 update is now available and it's a small update that adds a new framerate option to the menu. The game was released in August across PS4 and Switch, and is available on PS5 through backwards compatibility. Read more Read more ›
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What would a world shared by humans and Pokémon really be like? It's something I imagine every Pokéfan has pondered, and yet it's also something the series' main games typically do a poor job of showing. Red and Blue, Gold and Silver, all the way to Scarlet and Violet - the story never really changes. You play as the 10-year-old version of an RPG murder hobo, storming about capturing monsters... Read more ›
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A new report has alleged that Hyenas, the recently cancelled space-set loot shooter from Creative Assembly, was Sega's "biggest budget game ever". YouTube channel Volound shared an eye-opening video on the recent cancellation, with claims from anonymous developers detailing a "total lack of direction" around the game, with one contributor stating many members of the leadership team were "asleep at the wheel but they never seemed to lose their jobs".... Read more ›
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Five former Ubisoft staff members have been detained by police and questioned over allegations of sexual misconduct while employees of the company. These ex-employees included the company's now-disgraced chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, once the right-hand man to Ubisoft's overall boss Yves Guillemot, as well as its former editoral boss Tommy François, French newspaper Libération reported today. The police action comes three years after claims of sexual misconduct involving the... Read more ›
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Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone, the creator of beloved farming sim Stardew Valley, has celebrated one million followers by sharing four new screenshots of forthcoming next game Haunted Chocolatier. Shared on X, formerly Twitter, the four screenshots show some new areas: an interior home and shop, a vivid forest, a mermaid fountain in (presumably) the town square, and a creepy library with a peering skeleton. That forest screenshot also shows the character... Read more ›
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Square Enix has clarified the correct pronunciation of Final Fantasy 7 character Cait Sith. Revealed as playable in the latest trailer for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, players have been debating how to say the name correctly for years. Wonder no more: it's officially "Kate Sihth". Read more Read more ›
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The free-to-play MOBA-meets-hero-shooter game Gigantic is being revived for a "limited time throwback event". Fans of the game began receiving emails yesterday from Gearbox Publishing, née Perfect World Entertainment, inviting them to play Gigantic from 5th to 7th October. Gigantic was released in 2017 as an Xbox One and PC exclusive. Almost exactly one year later, developer Motiga closed Gigantic following its struggle to "break through in a crowded market".... Read more ›
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Ahead of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's launch, Nintendo released a quietly devastating trailer for its game that showed a real life, 'everyday' man going about his business in a rather subdued manner. Even his home life seemed to have become mundane, with him and his wife only really seeing each other briefly after a long day in the office, before she popped off to bed. Well, thank goodness for... Read more ›
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