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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An unofficial Elden Ring lore book is on the way courtesy of a YouTuber expert. Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring will be a 500+ page book from Geoff "SmoughTown" Truscott, and will include beautiful artwork from fans of the game. While not an official product - the description notes it's not endorsed by FromSoftware or Bandai Namco - it's certainly a lavishly created book. But, at £215.00, you'd... Read more ›
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Let Me Solo Her has once again changed their name as part of an effort to help other players defeat Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree's final boss. Last week, the legendary player changed their name to Let Me Solo Him to help with a certain boss encountered around halfway through the DLC. Now they've turned their attention to the notoriously tricky final boss that's had players stumped. Spoilers... Read more ›
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Amazon has announced three more games Prime subscribers can scoop up as part of their membership this month.For a limited period of time, users will be able to get their hands on Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Chivalry 2 and Rise of the Tomb Raider at no additional cost.Those interested will be able to claim these three games from 16th July, starting at 12am PST. That's 8am here in... Read more ›
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Royal Mail has revealed a set of stamps featuring familiar faces from the Dungeons & Dragons universe, including Baldur's Gate 3 favourites such as the Mindflayer and Owlbear, which have apparently been personally approved by the King. Other designs include the Gelatinous Cube, Mimic, Displacer Beast and Vecna, alongside a party of player characters including a tiefling rogue, human bard, halfling cleric, elf fighter, dwarf paladin and dragonborn wizard. A... Read more ›
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Nintendo fans keen to find out more details on yesterday's unexplained horror game teaser Emio believe The Medium and Layers of Fear developer Bloober is behind the project. There are clues that Bloober is involved in a recently-published interview with company boss Piotr Babieno, fans say. In it, Babieno discusses a mysterious title "for Nintendo platforms" codenamed "Project M". "Project M, although its budget is significantly smaller than the games... Read more ›
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Basketball's just arrived on Nintendo Switch Sports. A new sport means a new arena, so the most important question is: what's the new restaurant like? Reader, it seems lovely. Behind the court there's an elegant arc of a building, a kind of restrained Zaha Hadid number. Trailing plants hang down from above and at one end there's a glass-fronted cafe lit by glowing amber overheads. At the other there's a... Read more ›
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By now, you've probably heard of massive Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London, given the struggles it's faced in the run-up to release. There's one last hurdle for players to overcome, however, with developer Team Folon having now confirmed it'll be necessary to downgrade Fallout 4's next-gen version to play it - a process thankfully being handled by its accompanying installer. Fallout 4's long-promised next-gen update finally launched in April, but... Read more ›
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Riot Games was reportedly developing a Smash Bros. style fighter set in the League of Legends universe, but pulled the plug on the project earlier this year after perceiving Warner Bros' Smash-inspired MultiVersus to have been a commercial failure. That's according to former Washington Post video games and esports editor Mikhail Klimentov, who - writing in his ReaderGrev newsletter - claims 70-80 Riot employees were working on the Smash-style platform... Read more ›
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Classic side-scrolling beat-'em-up Double Dragon is being reimagined in 3D by Arc System Works, the fighter-focused studio behind the likes of Dragon Ball FighterZ and Guilty Gear. Double Dragon (for those needing a quick history refresher) first made a splash in arcades back in 1987, and has seen numerous sequels, spin-offs, and crossover releases - for both arcade and home systems - in the years since. Arc acquired the rights... Read more ›
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Apple has been feeding iPhone and iPad owners a steady diet of big-budget console ports, from Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 4 and Death Stranding to this month's tentpole release of Assassin's Creed Mirage. Mirage is the last of Apple's game announcements from the iPhone 15 event last September, and promises a fully-fledged version of what is a good-looking and technically accomplished AC title. That said, it comes with somewhat... Read more ›
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A new VR multiplayer game has been announced by nDreams, the developer of Synapse, coming to PSVR 2 and Meta Quest. Frenzies is an arena multiplayer shooter with gameplay similar to Synapse, split into unpredictable five-round matches with names like Red Light, Green Light and Glitter Pig - it's unclear exactly what that one's about. Round types are both solo and team-based for an unpredictable experience (as the name suggests),... Read more ›
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Nintendo has posted an unusual and unexplained teaser video on its YouTube and social channels, for what appears to be a new horror project. The teaser features grainy footage of a figure in a trenchcoat wearing a paper bag on their head, with a smiling face drawn on it. Japanese text at the end of the video translates to "Smiling Man", while text accompanying the video simply states "#WhoIsEmio" -... Read more ›
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The maker of Pokémon-like monster fighter Palworld has founded a new company, Palworld Entertainment, designed to "accelerate the multifaceted global development" of the game and the brand's further expansion. Palworld Entertainment is a joint venture with investment from the game's developer Pocketpair and Sony, through its Sony Music Entertainment and Aniplex brands. The latter will stock new Palworld merchandise via Aniplex Online - which should be good news for anyone... Read more ›
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Rocksteady has delayed the release of Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League's second season.The second season was set to kick off tomorrow, 11th July. It will now start on 25th July."Thank you for your patience," the developer wrote in a short post on social media platform X last night. It did not give a reason for this delay Read more Read more ›
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Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka would love to make a Sonic RPG before he retires from Sega, though that's just a dream. Iizuka was interviewed by YouTube channel Good Vibes Gaming for a preview of the forthcoming Sonic x Shadow Generations and discussed whether he'd ever work on a Sonic RPG in future. "Personally, I really like role-playing games," he said. "The RPG game format is a lot of fun... Read more ›
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Microsoft has confirmed sweeping changes - including price increases - to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service in the run-up to October's release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which will include the removal of day one releases for its basic tier. As reported by Windows Central, which says Microsoft has now confirmed the details, the first big Game Pass change comes with the imminent closure of the $10.99/month... Read more ›
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As is now pretty much tradition, Sony's latest batch of PlayStation Plus catalogue additions for Extra and Premium subscribers have been leaked ahead of an official reveal, with Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, Remnant 2, and more all reportedly on the way. That's according to ever-reliable leaker billbil-kun who, writing for Dealabs, says Sony will refresh its PlayStation Plus Extra catalogue on 17th July, adding the following titles: Billbil-kun... Read more ›
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Vampire Survivors, the minimalist survival RPG from developer Poncle, is joining Apple Arcade in August, along with Temple: Run Legends and Vision Pro update for Castle Crumble. Vampire Survivors has, of course, been available on iOS as a free-to-play release for some time, but its Apple Arcade version (Apple Arcade being Apple's £6.99/month game subscription service for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV) will be ad-free and include some paid... Read more ›
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If the absence of any positive Dead Space 2 remake news has been getting you down, there's at least one new way to get a bit of Necromorph in your life right now, even if it's probably not quite what fans were hoping for. EA's sci-fi horror series is the focus of a new Battlefield 2024 limited-time PvE mode, Outbreak, which is available to play now. Outbreak, described as a... Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows developer Ubisoft has owned up to including a historical re-enactment group's logo in artwork for its upcoming feudal Japan stabathon, and apologised for its use without permission. Fans spotted the flag of the Sekigahara Teppo-tai infantryman reenactment group in concept art on Ubisoft's website, and flagged (sorry) the matter to the group itself (thanks, Siliconera). Writing on social media, the re-enactment group's cannon chief said they contacted... Read more ›
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