Xbox 360 Rolls Out Last Chance Sale Before Marketplace Closes

Last year, Microsoft announced that it would shut down the Xbox 360 Marketplace after 18 years. The service is scheduled to head into the sunset on July 29th, but Microsoft isn't letting the service go out quietly. Recently, the team has announced that it's holding one last major sale on the Xbox 360 Marketplace, giving players steep discounts on a swath of games from publishers big and small. ...read more

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V Rising Launches for PS5 on June 11

V Rising has been on the receiving end of widespread acclaim ever since its early access a couple of years ago, and this year proved to be another important milestone for the game, courtesy of its full PC release earlier this month. To add to that, V Rising will soon also be making its way over to PlayStation. Earlier this year, developer Stunlock Games announced that V Rising would be ...read more

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Stellar Blade Sequel and PC Port Are Being Considered, Shift Up Says

Shift Up’s first AAA console outing proved to be a successful one when Stellar Blade finally launched last month, and though action title hasn’t been out for too long itself, it seems the Korean studio is already thinking of other steps it can take to maximize not only Stellar Blade’s potential sales, but also the potential of the IP as a whole. As caught by Gematsu, in a public offering ...read more

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Life by You Early Access Launch Delayed Indefinitely

Paradox Interactive’s The Sims competitor life sim Life by You was set to enter early access in a couple weeks’ time, though right ahead of the looming milestone, the company has announced that the game’s early access release has been delayed. In a message published on the official Paradox Interactive forums, deputy CEO Mattias Lilja announced that Life by You’s early access release ...read more

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Ghost of Tsushima is Sony’s Biggest Ever Single-Player Launch on Steam

The PC audience had been loudly demanding a port of Ghost of Tsushima for some time now, and upon its recent launch, Sucker Punch and Sony’s open world samurai epic has unsurprisingly found a sizeable audience. On the day of its release, the game had hit a peak of over 57,000 concurrent players on Steam, and since then, those numbers have only continued to climb. As per SteamDB, in fact, ...read more

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Take-Two boss ‘highly confident’ in Grand Theft Auto 6 release timing

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said he’s “highly confident” of hitting Grand Theft Auto 6’s recently announced launch window. Updating its financial guidance last week, the company narrowed the game’s release window from calendar 2025 to the fall/autumn of next year. During a subsequent interview with CNBC, Zelnick discussed the process of deciding product release dates, and how ...read more

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Friday the 13th villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games

Iconic slasher movie villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games in the future. A new enterprise called Jason Universe has been set up in an attempt to bring the Friday the 13th villain to the modern era through a variety of new projects and appearances, IGN reports. Jason Universe will be run in collaboration with Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller (who owns the domestic ...read more

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Ubisoft Says XDefiant Will Not Include ‘Pay-to-Win Mechanics’

Ubisoft has made an official statement revealing how microtransactions will work in XDefiant. With the launch of XDefiant coming soon, Ubisoft is eager to quell any concerns fans may have about the upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter. XDefiant is a class-based shooter representing Ubisoft's attempts to enter the free-to-play live-service genre. The game, originally titled Tom Clancy's ...read more

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Xbox 360 Rolls Out Last Chance Sale Before Marketplace Closes

Last year, Microsoft announced that it would shut down the Xbox 360 Marketplace after 18 years. The service is scheduled to head into the sunset on July 29th, but Microsoft isn't letting the service go out quietly. Recently, the team has announced that it's holding one last major sale on the Xbox 360 Marketplace, giving players steep discounts on a swath of games from publishers big and small. ...read more

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Take-Two boss ‘highly confident’ in Grand Theft Auto 6 release timing

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said he’s “highly confident” of hitting Grand Theft Auto 6’s recently announced launch window. Updating its financial guidance last week, the company narrowed the game’s release window from calendar 2025 to the fall/autumn of next year. During a subsequent interview with CNBC, Zelnick discussed the process of deciding product release dates, and how ...read more

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Friday the 13th villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games

Iconic slasher movie villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games in the future. A new enterprise called Jason Universe has been set up in an attempt to bring the Friday the 13th villain to the modern era through a variety of new projects and appearances, IGN reports. Jason Universe will be run in collaboration with Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller (who owns the domestic ...read more

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MultiVersus Players Aren't Happy With One Change From The Beta

MultiVersus fans are expressing their discontent over a change to character portraits from the beta version of the game. With the full launch of Warner Brothers' platform fighter fast approaching, anticipation for MultiVersus is steadily rising, though that isn't stopping players from calling out certain changes in the game they aren't fond of. Unlike other free-to-play fighting games, the ...read more

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has a Fully Dynamic Lighting System

While Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an open-world action RPG like Odyssey and Valhalla, it’s also leaning heavier into stealth and parkour with new protagonist Naoe. Speaking to IGN, game director Charles Benoit says the team wanted to keep the “core” of Assassin’s Creed, specifically “the hidden blade, the assassination, being able to stay hidden.” “The thing that shines the ...read more

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders Are Off to a Strong Start

Pre-orders for the upcoming open-world samurai game, Assassin's Creed Shadows, are allegedly very strong so far, according to some recent claims made by a reputable insider. Despite being months away from release, the reports that Assassin's Creed Shadows is already selling so well goes to show the enduring popularity of the AC franchise, and why Ubisoft continues to invest heavily in the ...read more

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Grand Theft Auto 5, GTA Online Player Engagement is Up

Grand Theft Auto 5 is proving just how much staying power it still has after over a decade, as player engagement numbers are up significantly from just last year. As publisher Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games prepares for the launch of its highly-anticipated sequel, Grand Theft Auto 5 is reporting a double-digits increase in player engagement. Despite its age, Rockstar's flagship ...read more

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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Release Date May Have Leaked

Dragon Ball fans have been expecting Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero to release at some point this year despite neither Bandai Namco nor Spike Chunsoft giving it so much as a release year, but if a new leak proves itself to be accurate, we may finally know when the new Dragon Ball game will release. According to some datamining efforts focused on Bandai Namco's site, it's been stated that Dragon ...read more

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V Rising Launches for PS5 on June 11

V Rising has been on the receiving end of widespread acclaim ever since its early access a couple of years ago, and this year proved to be another important milestone for the game, courtesy of its full PC release earlier this month. To add to that, V Rising will soon also be making its way over to PlayStation. Earlier this year, developer Stunlock Games announced that V Rising would be ...read more

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Take-Two boss ‘highly confident’ in Grand Theft Auto 6 release timing

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said he’s “highly confident” of hitting Grand Theft Auto 6’s recently announced launch window. Updating its financial guidance last week, the company narrowed the game’s release window from calendar 2025 to the fall/autumn of next year. During a subsequent interview with CNBC, Zelnick discussed the process of deciding product release dates, and how ...read more

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Friday the 13th villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games

Iconic slasher movie villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games in the future. A new enterprise called Jason Universe has been set up in an attempt to bring the Friday the 13th villain to the modern era through a variety of new projects and appearances, IGN reports. Jason Universe will be run in collaboration with Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller (who owns the domestic ...read more

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MultiVersus Players Aren't Happy With One Change From The Beta

MultiVersus fans are expressing their discontent over a change to character portraits from the beta version of the game. With the full launch of Warner Brothers' platform fighter fast approaching, anticipation for MultiVersus is steadily rising, though that isn't stopping players from calling out certain changes in the game they aren't fond of. Unlike other free-to-play fighting games, the ...read more

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has a Fully Dynamic Lighting System

While Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an open-world action RPG like Odyssey and Valhalla, it’s also leaning heavier into stealth and parkour with new protagonist Naoe. Speaking to IGN, game director Charles Benoit says the team wanted to keep the “core” of Assassin’s Creed, specifically “the hidden blade, the assassination, being able to stay hidden.” “The thing that shines the ...read more

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Leak Shows More PS2 Games Finally Coming to PS4 and PS5

Several PlayStation 2 games are already playable on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles via an active PlayStation Plus Premium subscription, but as any PlayStation Plus subscriber will tell you, the classic games that the subscription service has gotten ever since the new tiers were announced have left something to be desired. The PS2 library of games in particular has been sparce when ...read more

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Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders Are Off to a Strong Start

Pre-orders for the upcoming open-world samurai game, Assassin's Creed Shadows, are allegedly very strong so far, according to some recent claims made by a reputable insider. Despite being months away from release, the reports that Assassin's Creed Shadows is already selling so well goes to show the enduring popularity of the AC franchise, and why Ubisoft continues to invest heavily in the ...read more

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Grand Theft Auto 5, GTA Online Player Engagement is Up

Grand Theft Auto 5 is proving just how much staying power it still has after over a decade, as player engagement numbers are up significantly from just last year. As publisher Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games prepares for the launch of its highly-anticipated sequel, Grand Theft Auto 5 is reporting a double-digits increase in player engagement. Despite its age, Rockstar's flagship ...read more

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Summer Game Fest 2024 Confirms Over 55 Partners

Summer Game Fest 2024 is just around the corner, which means we now have confirmation of which video game companies are partnering with the Geoff Keighley-fronted event. Pleasingly there seems to be no shortage of big names this year, with more than 55 companies confirmed to appear including the likes of Capcom, Electronic Arts, Epic Games and Xbox. Nintendo in typical fashion isn’t anywhere ...read more

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Core Keeper To Leave Early Access On August 27

Developer Pugstorm’s mining adventure Core Keeper has been going strong in Early Access, and it is en route to releasing in full on August 27, 2024. The news comes from a recent blog post by the developers, and you can check it out in its entirety through here and check out the release date trailer down below. The version 1.0 update will be a major one that will include new content, ...read more

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Pokemon Leaker Claims Generation 10 Won't Release Until 2026

Over the years, the Pokemon franchise has established a release schedule where each generation is released about three years after one another. In 2022, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet marked the ninth generation, while 2019 saw the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield. Many fans have assumed that the 10th Pokemon generation will be released in the fall of 2025, but it seems that might not be the case. ...read more

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Two Joy-Con drift lawsuits have been dismissed after five years

Two significant lawsuits over Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift have been dismissed in the US courts. According to Game File, Diaz vs Nintendo and Carbajal vs Nintendo, which were filed in 2019 and 2020, have both been dismissed. The suits alleged that Nintendo knowingly sold defective controllers. Game File reports that both Nintendo and the parents who brought the suits on behalf of their ...read more

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Monster Hunter Franchise Reaches Huge Sales Milestone

Capcom announced that its Monster Hunter franchise has sold more than 100 million copies. The gaming company also commented on sales for some individual titles in the Monster Hunter series. These sales figures have been bolstered by recent entries like Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise, and sure to keep going strong with the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds. Released in 2004 for the ...read more

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Nintendo Plans to Continue Supporting Physical Media

A new Nintendo console is currently in the works, and while there's very little we actually know about it so far, Nintendo has started to offer a handful of details. One thing that we know for sure is that Nintendo will continue to release physical copies of its games, making them available both in stores as well as digitally through its own eShop. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed ...read more

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Persona Franchise Sold Over 5 Million Copies Last Year

In its latest earnings report, Sega parent company Sega Sammy has revealed that the Persona franchise has sold 5.06 million copies throughout the last financial year. The sales figure, which accounts for FY 2023 (April 2023 to March 2024), includes both digital as well as physical copies of Persona titles. The earnings report offers up details on the performance of other Sega franchises as ...read more

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Breath of the Wild Remaster Seemingly Leaked for Nintendo Switch 2

Last year, select members of the gaming media were apparently given a look at the successor to Nintendo Switch at a closed door event during Gamescom 2023. During that event, journalists were reportedly shown an enhanced version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild running on the system with a higher framerate and resolution compared to the version that launched alongside Switch back in ...read more

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Stellar Blade Sequel and PC Port Are Being Considered, Shift Up Says

Shift Up’s first AAA console outing proved to be a successful one when Stellar Blade finally launched last month, and though action title hasn’t been out for too long itself, it seems the Korean studio is already thinking of other steps it can take to maximize not only Stellar Blade’s potential sales, but also the potential of the IP as a whole. As caught by Gematsu, in a public offering ...read more

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Life by You Early Access Launch Delayed Indefinitely

Paradox Interactive’s The Sims competitor life sim Life by You was set to enter early access in a couple weeks’ time, though right ahead of the looming milestone, the company has announced that the game’s early access release has been delayed. In a message published on the official Paradox Interactive forums, deputy CEO Mattias Lilja announced that Life by You’s early access release ...read more

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Ghost of Tsushima is Sony’s Biggest Ever Single-Player Launch on Steam

The PC audience had been loudly demanding a port of Ghost of Tsushima for some time now, and upon its recent launch, Sucker Punch and Sony’s open world samurai epic has unsurprisingly found a sizeable audience. On the day of its release, the game had hit a peak of over 57,000 concurrent players on Steam, and since then, those numbers have only continued to climb. As per SteamDB, in fact, ...read more

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Friday the 13th villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games

Iconic slasher movie villain Jason Voorhees is set to appear in more games in the future. A new enterprise called Jason Universe has been set up in an attempt to bring the Friday the 13th villain to the modern era through a variety of new projects and appearances, IGN reports. Jason Universe will be run in collaboration with Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller (who owns the domestic ...read more

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Ubisoft Says XDefiant Will Not Include ‘Pay-to-Win Mechanics’

Ubisoft has made an official statement revealing how microtransactions will work in XDefiant. With the launch of XDefiant coming soon, Ubisoft is eager to quell any concerns fans may have about the upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter. XDefiant is a class-based shooter representing Ubisoft's attempts to enter the free-to-play live-service genre. The game, originally titled Tom Clancy's ...read more

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Tesla is dropping Steam support inside its new cars

Tesla is dropping support for Steam in its cars. According to Electrek, new Model S and Model X buyers are being informed that the support, which would allow owners to play Steam games on the car’s display, will soon be dropped. “Tesla is updating the gaming computer in your Model X and your vehicle is no longer capable of playing Steam games. All other entertainment and app ...read more

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MultiVersus Players Aren't Happy With One Change From The Beta

MultiVersus fans are expressing their discontent over a change to character portraits from the beta version of the game. With the full launch of Warner Brothers' platform fighter fast approaching, anticipation for MultiVersus is steadily rising, though that isn't stopping players from calling out certain changes in the game they aren't fond of. Unlike other free-to-play fighting games, the ...read more

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Has a Fully Dynamic Lighting System

While Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an open-world action RPG like Odyssey and Valhalla, it’s also leaning heavier into stealth and parkour with new protagonist Naoe. Speaking to IGN, game director Charles Benoit says the team wanted to keep the “core” of Assassin’s Creed, specifically “the hidden blade, the assassination, being able to stay hidden.” “The thing that shines the ...read more

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Twitter Officially Rebrands as X.com, Drops Twitter URL

One of the last holdouts of the old Twitter has now been removed with Twitter.com officially rebranded as X.com overnight. This marks the latest -- and presumably one of the last -- efforts to fully move the social media platform over to Elon Musk's preferred "X" branding following the erasure of other remnants of Twitter such as tweets themselves. Musk confirmed the change himself this week ...read more

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PS1 Emulation Comes To iPhone Via Gamma

It's now possible to play PS1 games on your iPhone thanks to a new app called Gamma. Developed by ZodTTD (AKA Benjamin Stark) – an individual who has a long history in the world of emulation – Gamma is pretty feature-rich. It supports Bluetooth controllers, runs on both the iPhone and iPad, supports cloud saves for your game files and save states and automatically finds cover artwork for ...read more

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Apple Reveals New iPad Models

At its Let Loose event on May 7, Apple revealed the upcoming M4 iPad Pro and iPad Air Gen 6 models, each launching on Wednesday, May 15. Apple also showed off some features of the new Apple Pencil Pro, including haptic feedback and improved response, and a new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, which will come in different sizes and colors. In the weeks leading up to the May 7 Let Loose Event, ...read more

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Multi-Console Emulator Provenance Coming The iPhone App Store

The multi-console emulator Provenance is still coming to the iOS App Store, despite a DMCA takedown request from Nintendo. Developer Joseph Mattiello had been contacted by Nintendo following the announcement that Provenance would include Yuzu, the Switch emulator that was recently shut down by the Japanese giant. However, according to iMore, it would seem that this issue has been resolved, ...read more

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iOS 18 leaks suggest huge AI-powered changes coming

There is a lot of buzz surrounding the AI features that are rumored to be incoming with iOS 18. Previously, it was reported that the first set of AI features, or core features, developed by Apple rather than a third party in iOS 18 will run locally on an iPhone. Now a fresh leak reveals how Apple's AI efforts will transform most of its core or first-party applications with iOS 18. In a ...read more

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Assassin’s Creed Mirage is Coming to iOS on June 6

Before Assassin’s Creed Mirage launched for PC and consoles last October, Ubisoft announced that the game would also be coming to certain iOS devices in early 2024. Given that we’re now in May and that has yet to often, plans obviously changed, but the company has now announced a specific release date for the open world action-adventure title’s iOS port. Assassin’s Ceed Mirage will ...read more

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Unity appoints former EA and Zynga executive as its new CEO

Unity has appointed former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO. Effective May 15, Bromberg will replace interim CEO Jim Whitehurst, the former IBM president who assumed the role when John Riccitiello stepped down last October, and who has now been appointed executive chair of Unity’s board. Bromberg previously served as group general manager of BioWare, ...read more

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YouTube experimenting with ads that play while your video is paused

First reported by Android Authority, a recent Google earnings call included praise for a pilot program to show users ads when they pause videos on YouTube's TV app. The company has so far only experimented with pause ads on the TV app, but its apparent success is a cause for concern with future inclusion on the mobile or desktop versions of YouTube. Google Chief business officer Philipp ...read more

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MultiVersus Details PvE Rifts in New Overview Trailer

Player First’s MultiVersus is launching on May 28th for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PS4, Xbox One and PC, bringing new fighters, mechanics and more over last year’s open beta. However, perhaps the most eagerly-awaited new content is PvE, and the developer has finally revealed it in a new trailer. Known as Rifts, PvE consists of multiple Nodes for solo and co-op players to fight through. They can ...read more

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EA Sports College Football 25 Trailer Reveals New Gameplay, Modes

On May 16th, developer Electronic Arts finally revealed the cover for the highly anticipated EA Sports College Football 25. Seeing some of the sport's best and brightest on an official cover is undoubtedly exciting, but the real meat is in the gameplay and mode details. Thankfully, fans didn't have to wait very long to see EA Sports College Football 25 in action. Today, Electronic Arts dropped a ...read more

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SteamWorld Heist 2 Deep Dive Trailer Details Story

Since its announcement last month, Thunderful has shared new details on SteamWorld Heist 2 at a pretty consistent clip, and more of those have now emerged courtesy of a new deep dive trailer. Following up on the previous deep dive trailer, which detailed the game’s combat, jobs system, and more, this new one sheds further light on the tactical RPG’s story, world, and more. SteamWorld Heist ...read more

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Undisputed Boxing Game Announces 1.0 Release Date

Developer Steel City Interactive launched its boxing game into early access on PC more than a year ago, allowing fans to hop in and try out various aspects of Undisputed during development. Today, the team finally announced the game's release date with a brand-new trailer featuring several big-name boxers. On top of the release date reveal, Steel City Interactive revealed two editions for players ...read more

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GreedFall 2: The Dying World Gameplay Revealed in New Trailer

A new trailer for Spiders Studio’s GreedFall 2: The Dying World is available, providing some details on the Doneigada of the Teer Fradee and offering a few first glimpses at gameplay. Check it out below. As a Teer Fradee native, the story sees the player on a mission to become a Doneigada (which translates to “Sage”). These figures protect Teer Fradee, though violence is considered a ...read more

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Breakdown Expands on Historical Setting

If the new cinematic trailer for Assassin’s Creed Shadows didn’t provide enough about the open-world action RPG, a new breakdown is available that goes into more detail. Creative director Jonathan Dumont and assistant director of cinematic design Akim Milne talk about the presentation, including the use of split screens in the trailer and the game’s setting. The split-screen is ...read more

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The Casting of Frank Stone Receives First Gameplay Trailer

Supermassive Games’ The Casting of Frank Stone, a narrative horror game based on the Dead by Daylight universe, has received its first gameplay trailer. It sees four friends in the 1980s traveling to Cedar Hills’ steel mill to shoot a horror film. Unfortunately, the scares turn out to be more than just fiction. Players delve into the mill (against the wishes of law enforcement, of course) ...read more

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MultiVersus Reveals First Joker Gameplay Trailer

Last week, Warner Bros. and Player First Games revealed the Joker as a new fighter headed to MultiVersus. The character made his debut in a cinematic trailer, which was released following a series of clues that the game's community had to decipher. Unfortunately, that trailer did not include any actual gameplay, but that has since been rectified! Today, a new trailer was released, this time ...read more

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