Gaming revenue for Warner Bros. Discovery has declined by 41 percent year-on-year due to the "weak performance" of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The decline was part of an overall four percent decrease across studio revenue (gaming, TV, cinema) as revealed in the company's latest quarterly earnings report. Warner Bros. Discovery is still yet to give exact sales figures for Rocksteady's Suicide Squad game, though in an earnings call... Read more ›
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Eli Roth's Borderlands movie is nearly here, and early impressions are starting to trickle in - and, well, they're not great. Critics have taken to social media to brand the live-action film adaptation of Gearbox's looter-shooter everything from a "huge misfire" to a "disaster". The Borderlands movie has, of course, been in the works for some time now. It was initially announced back in 2015 before utterly vanishing in a... Read more ›
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Ready at Dawn, the studio behind the likes of Lone Echo and The Order: 1886, has reportedly been shut down by its currently owner, Meta, after over two decades of operation. The news follows heavy job cuts at the studio last year. Ready At Dawn Studios was founded in 2003 by former members of Naughty Dog and Blizzard, and was initially known for its work adapting Sony's Daxter and God... Read more ›
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Epic Games has announced it's ditching a long-standing Fortnite promise that Battle Pass items will never be made available to buy at a later date - although it's implementing an 18-month wait period before items can appear in its in-game shop. It's a rule Epic has been accused of breaking before, specifically when it released a beachwear version of Fortnite's season 5 poster boy Drift for purchase in 2019 -... Read more ›
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Exactly one year (and four days) after Baldur's Gate 3's version 1.0 release, developer Larian is celebrating the highly acclaimed RPG's first anniversary by releasing a whole bunch of revealing players stats. Which, among other things, confirm that 30 percent of the 30 percent of players who opted to sex Halsin sexed Halsin in bear form. Larian's newly unveiled birthday stats get pretty granular, and I'll be glossing over the... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, Nintendo released a fresh trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, that's due out next month. The game stars the titular princess in the leading role for the first time and includes a new Echo mechanic, where Zelda can essentially copy and paste elements from the world to explore and solve puzzles. The new trailer focused on giving a tour of Hyrule, showing off its... Read more ›
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Popular deck-building roguelike Balatro has now passed 2m sales and a major update is due next year. The game was released across PC, Switch, PS5 and Xbox back in February and has proven particularly successful over the past six months. Publisher Playstack and solo developer LocalThunk has a series of three announcements it's sharing across August and September, what it's calling a "Three-of-a-Kind of Surprises" campaign. Read more Read more ›
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Kung-fu roguelite Sifu and comedy shooter High on Life lead the Humble Choice games this August. Also available is Gotham Knights, the DC universe action-RPG from Batman: Arkham Origins developer WB Games Montréal. The full list of available Humble Choice games for August are as follows: Read more Read more ›
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AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs have arrived, marking the debut of the more powerful and efficient Zen 5 architecture and a quartet of Dragon Ball Z meme-adjacent processor numbers: 9600X, 9700X, 9900X and 9950X. Today we're looking at the first two processors, the six-core 9600X at £269/$279 and eight-core 9700X at £339/$359. These mainstream offerings are due to go on sale on August 8th, with the 12-core and 16-core Ryzen 9... Read more ›
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Often, the first question for any Warhammer 40K game is simply, "Is it Warhammer 40K enough?" This is one of those franchises where the brand itself becomes the thing some fans want to play: it must be grim, it must be dark, it must have sufficient gore, and must have both recognisable nods and oblique references that adhere strictly to our "Core Brand Values". Also, I suppose, there should be... Read more ›
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I'm not ashamed to say this: one of the easiest ways to make me excited about a game is still to chuck the word "super" into the title. This is Nintendo's fault, inevitably. Super Mario Bros, sure. But then when the Super Famicom came around, they threw Super into almost every game that came out. It remains the easiest upgrade pitch of all time, and the most intoxicating. Why do... Read more ›
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Equity, the UK actors' union, has introduced new minimum rates in a bid to address "systemic low pay" for performers and improve working conditions in the industry. Pay for actors in the UK has not only stagnated beneath inflation rates, but has been significantly lower than in America and Canada despite working with the same game developers. The new rates are solely intended for AAA game development, rather than indie... Read more ›
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Free-to-play tactical extraction shooter Arena Breakout: Infinite will launch into early access next week on 13th August. Early access will be available on PC exclusively via the game's official website, following a closed beta test earlier this year. During early access, developer MoreFun Studios will focus on optimisation, introduce new features, and adjust gameplay and monetisation systems, and aims to quickly iterate on player feedback. Read more Read more ›
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A hotfix for Fallout: London to address crashing issues is still on the way, with developer Team Folon planning a "huge" patch soon after. The game-size fan-made mod for Fallout 4 set in the English capital released at the end of July, but players have experienced a high number of crashes and issues, including Eurogamer's Ian Higton when he streamed his playthrough. Soon after, Team Folon promised a fix was... Read more ›
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A profile for Final Fantasy 16 has been spotted in the latest Nvidia driver, leading to speculation a PC release could be imminent. Nvidia has just released its latest driver, 560.81, and users on reddit have pointed out it includes game ready driver profiles for both Final Fantasy 16 and Once Human (thanks PC Gamer), though they're not in the official release notes. There's mention of a Final Fantasy 16... Read more ›
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Sega's acquisition of Angry Birds maker Rovio has helped boost the company's video game profits by 181.5 percent year-on-year. According to its latest financial report, Sega's net sales for video games increased by 34 percent, leading to a huge rise in profits. It attributes this increase in part to the inclusion of Rovio, along with the release of Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance in the most recent quarter. Read more Read more ›
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Sony has now sold over 61m PlayStation 5 consoles, but hardware unit sales have fallen by 32 percent year-on-year. The company has released its latest financial report today, revealing 2.4m PS5 consoles were sold in the most recent quarter. That compares to 3.3m compared to the same quarter in 2023 (and 4.5m in the previous quarter). However, Sony has seen an overall 12 percent increase in game revenue year-on-year, resulting... Read more ›
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's October release date is inching ever closer, with Activision growing looser-lipped with each passing day. Which brings us to the company latest reveal: a first look at Black Ops 6's Zombies mode, courtesy of a two-and-a-half-minute cinematic trailer, ahead of a full gameplay breakdown this Thursday, 8th August. "After being imprisoned for over five years at a remote outpost in the Philippine Sea, the... Read more ›
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Between its animated adaptations and video game collaborations - which so far includes the likes of Dead Cells and V Rising - Konami's legendary Castlevania series is alive and well and shows no signs of stopping (although an actual new game would also be nice, Konami). And up next is Dead by Daylight's previously announced Castlevania Chapter, which is now confirmed to be launching on 27th August, with a public... Read more ›
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A little over a year after confirming a last-gen release for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was in the works, EA has announced the action-adventure sequel will be launching for Xbox One and PS4 on 17th September. Additionally, improvements to the much-maligned PC version are coming. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor initially released for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC last April, picking up its story some five years after the events... Read more ›
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