Developer Frogwares' Lovecraftian horror sequel, The Sinking City 2, is launching 18th August on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Additionally, an hour-long The Sinking City 2 demo is now available on Steam. Read more Read more ›
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Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the personal information of 6,791 former and current employees was exposed as part of a cyber-attack in June.The data breach was carried out by the Clop ransomware group, Bleeping Computer reports. Sony is now contacting anyone affected and is offering credit monitoring and identity restoration services.In correspondence notifying affected individuals of the breach, Sony said it is "not aware of publication or misuse" of the... Read more ›
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After six years, the latest Forza Motorsport entry has arrived on PC, with developers Turn 10 having crafted a new renderer, dynamic weather and enhanced AI. However, expectations have evolved too, especially on PC where the racing genre has set new heights for visual excellence and ray-traced effects with series like F1 and Forza Horizon. AAA PC gaming over the past two years has also seen plenty of disastrous releases,... Read more ›
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After a decidedly rocky launch almost three years ago, CD Projekt Red has announced that Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold 25m copies. This latest figure comes hot on the heels of the game's Phantom Liberty expansion, and that rather hefty 2.0 update that added new content to the base game. The news was welcomed with many congratulating the developer on its latest milestone. Read more Read more ›
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TV Tokyo has released the first trailer for a new live-action Pokémon drama series called Pack Your Pocket With Adventure (literal translation), or Pokétsume for short.Pokétsume has been made in collaboration with The Pokémon Company, and stars actress and former girl group member Nishino Nanase as Madoka Akagi, an adult who finds out the working world is not how she dreamt it would be. Her mother sends her her old... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, Rockstar quietly added a 60fps toggle to Red Dead Redemption on PlayStation 5. The game, which was released back in August for both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, can be played on PS5 thanks to backwards compatibility. And now, that little toggle gives PlayStation 5 users a new framerate to play around with while exploring the Wild West. However, there are some Xbox Series X/S players who... Read more ›
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As far as The Alters is concerned - the new game from the This War of Mine team 11 bit Studios - every time we reach a major junction point in our lives, another version of us is theoretically created. Had you chosen to pursue a different subject at school, for example, it could have led to a different career. That's maybe an obvious example but junctions can apparently happen... Read more ›
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The rumoured Animal Crossing and Lego collaboration has been confirmed by Nintendo, which released a short teaser video for the sets.Images of five different Lego Animal Crossing sets leaked in August, with a release date of March 2024 floating around.This is the first official confirmation of the sets, which will include models of villagers, trees, and flowers. Read more Read more ›
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I’m jumping to a new planet in Starfield and my space cowboy companion Sam Coe needs to have a serious conversation. He launches into a long story about his estranged partner but he’s facing the wrong way. Stuck on a ladder in the middle of my ship, he tells his sad tale to a blank wall. Restarting the conversation helps a little. Sam is looking at me now, but his... Read more ›
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The UK competition regulator will launch a fresh investigation into cloud services, with Microsoft once again in its sights. The Competition and Markets Authority is still wrapping up its original extended investigation into Microsoft over its proposed $68.7bn Activision Blizzard acquisition, with concerns over the deal's impact on cloud gaming proving a key issue. Now, Ofcom has referred the public cloud infrastructure services market to the CMA for investigation over... Read more ›
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Mobile developer Hutch Games has corrected store listings for two of its free-to-play games following complaints filed with the UK Advertising Standards Authority, and described its omission of explicit disclosure of loot boxes a "mistake".The complaints were made by researcher Leon Y. Xiao, who has conducted studies on the effectiveness of Belgium's loot box ban and the consistency of loot box warnings on games. Xiao filed complaints regarding Hutch Games... 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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