Robert Prince III – best known as Bobby Prince, the man behind the iconic score of the original Doom game – has died aged 81. Read more Read more ›
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LGBT+ Twitch streamers who took part in the platform's Pride Month celebration are disappointed by the lack of support, but the company is looking to improve in future. Twitch created a team of LGBT+ streamers from the UK and Ireland who were added to a specific Pride Month "shelf" on the front page during the month of June, though this was located beneath other recommendation feeds and lacked promotion on... Read more ›
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Splash Damage, the developer behind Brink, Gears Tactics and the upcoming Transformers: Reactivate, has announced it is moving to a four-day work week for in-office staff. The London-based studio announced the change to employees yesterday, before making it public today via Twitter ahead of the games industry conference Develop held in Brighton this week. Reaction from staff on social media has been positive, with numerous staff sharing the news via... Read more ›
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Nearly three years after Unreal Engine 5 was first revealed, we're on the cusp of the first major UE5 game releases, including Immortals of Aveum, The Lords of the Fallen and Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl. With the release of Unreal Engine 5.2, the time seems right to take another look at what new features have been added in the latest revision and how these additions will colour the games... Read more ›
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Football governing body FIFA has announced a new officially-licensed video game for the upcoming Women's World Cup. It's called Matchday Challenge, and is a free-to-play trivia title. The game - available to play at challenge.matchday.com - offers trivia questions themed around Women's Football and the countries involved in this summer's World Cup, put to players against a ticking clock. By answering questions correctly you can score goals and earn virtual... Read more ›
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Dave the Diver has been making waves since its full release on Steam last month, and the indie game has sold over 1m copies in its first 10 days. Dave the Diver is part-adventure RPG, part-sushi restaurant management sim, and has been reeling in positive reviews from players for its gameplay loop and cutscenes. The game featured in the latest edition of our new What To Play This Month series... Read more ›
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A new study conducted by the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network has revealed that 87 percent of classic games released in the US are out of print. The remaining 13 percent can be easily accessed - whether that's through a re-release on modern platforms or through an officially provided emulation service, but the majority of older games remain unavailable through easy means. The study was produced... Read more ›
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We're just days away from the arrival of Capcom's Exoprimal - the publisher's new online squad-based live service game with lots of dinosaurs. Ahead of Exoprimal's launch this Friday 14th July for PC, PlayStation and Xbox (including through Xbox Game Pass), Capcom has now laid out what to expect from the game over the coming months. At launch, Exoprimal offers a mode called Dino Survival, which lets you pick between... Read more ›
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Homelander has been confirmed for Mortal Kombat 1. The character is from the comic book series The Boys, which was made mainstream after the Amazon TV show of the same name blew up in popularity. His inclusion in NetherRealm's upcoming fighter was rumoured earlier this year, but The Boys' TikTok account has now confirmed the DLC addition. Read more Read more ›
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Sega and Nihon Falcom were at one point working on a Sonic RPG for the Mega-CD console, featuring a "flirtatious and sexy" female hedgehog. The project was known as Sister Sonic, though the character wouldn't have actually been Sonic's sister but a long lost relative and "more mature girl" with "sexy charm". No footage of the game exists. Though the game was previously rumoured, YouTube channel DidYouKnowGaming has unveiled the... Read more ›
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Tears of the Kingdom did not copy from Elden Ring because no one on the Zelda team had time to play it, despite hearing about FromSoftware's epic adventure. In an interview with Dutch website NTL Nieuws, Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's producer and director respectively - shared more about the game's conception. When asked if the team had taken any inspiration... Read more ›
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Baldur's Gate 3 made headlines recently with the eye-catching claim that it has more than 170 hours of cinematics in the game.Wrote Larian in a community update: "Baldur's Gate 3 has more cinematic dialogue than three times all three Lord of the Rings novels combined. It has 174 hours of cinematics, making it more than twice the length of every season of Game of Thrones combined."This, however, raised concerns over... Read more ›
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Blizzard has suggested Diablo 3's Rebirth feature could come to Diablo 4. Earlier this year, Blizzard confirmed that Diablo 4 required players to create new characters each season. This sparked debate across the board, with many believing the decision would leave a sour taste in the mouths of Diablo 4's more casual players. But while controversial, this move is similar to how seasonal content worked in Diablo 2's ladders and... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy 16, Square Enix's latest game in the renowned series, is being adapted into a musical in Japan. The Takarazuka Revue are responsible for the show, which will be performed in Tokyo in two runs from May to June and then from July to August next year (details here). The Takarazuka Revue theatre company is known for the fact its members are all women, who play both male and... Read more ›
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Sega of America workers have formally voted to unionise, under the name the Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS-CWA), after announcing plans to do so earlier this year. A "supermajority" of 144 employees spread across marketing, localisation, product development, and quality assurance at Sega of America revealed its intention to unionise back in April, with the aim of securing higher base pay, improving benefits, and more. At the time, the... Read more ›
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Amazon Prime's superhero TV series The Boys is infiltrating Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2 as part of this week's Season 4 Reloaded update, which launches on 12th July. Call of Duty's The Boys collaboration was first teased via a telltale bit of graffiti spotted during a Summer Game Fest trailer for Modern Warfare 2's new 6v6 Vondel Waterfront map - also arriving as part of Season... Read more ›
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We're just a couple of week's away from the launch of Peacock's Twisted Metal TV show, and with the publicity machine now in full swing, we've been given out best look yet at the vehicular combat series live-action adaptation, courtesy of a new two-minute trailer. This isn't our first glimpse at the Twisted Metal TV series, of course; April offered a brisk introduction to Anthony Mackie's "motor-mouthed outsider" protagonist and... Read more ›
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Last week, the press reported that Microsoft expects Sony to release a revised Slim model of the PlayStation 5 along with the already announced Project Q handheld, with the documents even mentioning a Pro model. While confirming nothing, Microsoft's expectations are in line with rumours that continue to persist, suggesting that Sony is looking to reshape its hardware line-up this year and moving into 2024. So what should we expect?What's... Read more ›
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EA Sports has announced a livestream for this coming Thursday, 13th July, to unveil the first proper information on EA Sports FC24, its maiden game under the new branding since leaving the official FIFA license behind.But much more importantly than that, the publisher also unveiled its first bit of cover art for the game - this one being for the premium-priced Ultimate Edition, with the standard one still to come... Read more ›
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EA has officially revealed its Black Panther game, which is being developed by new Seattle studio Cliffhanger Games in collaboration with Marvel Games. Rumours of the title first surfaced a year ago, when journalist Jeff Grubb spoke about it to Giant Bomb. As previously reported, Black Panther will be a single-player game. It's being developed by EA's new Seattle studio which in turn is being led by former Monolith Productions... Read more ›
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Sonic the Hedgehog maker Sega plans to bring one of its biggest franchises to blockchain platform Game Dosi. Operated by Korean mobile messaging firm Line Next, Game Dosi is designed to host Web3 and NFT games, with Sega now signed on via a memorandum of understanding. It's not clear which of Sega's big franchises will be used, though that memorandum of understanding makes note that is an "immensely popular" brand... Read more ›
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