Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Officially Announced

After plenty of leaks, reports, and a teaser or two, Activision finally confirmed on Thursday that this year's Call of Duty game will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The logo for the game as well as a not-so-redacted title were both revealed via social media after a teaser website that went up this week gave us our first look at the logo, but not the name. Ads out in the real world have already ...read more

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Redfall will receive a final update adding offline play

Arkane Austin will release one final update for Redfall which will add offline play. The official Redfall X account posted that the game’s final patch, Game Update 4, will include a “revamped Neighborhood and Nest systems, Single Player Pausing, Offline Mode, and more.” There had been suggestions that the update wouldn’t be released after Microsoft recently announced plans to close ...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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Ghost of Tsushima is PlayStation’s fourth biggest Steam launch

Ghost of Tsushima is publisher PlayStation’s fourth biggest Steam launch in terms of concurrent players. According to figures from SteamDB, the game has attracted a peak of 59,244 concurrent players since its release on Thursday. That total has only been bettered by three Sony published games, two of which were developed by its internal studios. Helldivers 2, which is developed by ...read more

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Microsoft ‘plans to put this year’s Call of Duty onto Game Pass’

Microsoft will add this year’s Call of Duty game to Game Pass at release, it’s claimed. According to the Wall Street Journal, sources with knowledge of the situation claim that this year’s entry, which has yet to be officially announced, will be included in the subscription service. This would mark the first time a Call of Duty game has been included in such a service at launch, and ...read more

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New Official PS2 Emulator Seemingly Outed by PlayStation Store

Rumors of Sony working on a PS2 emulator to bring classic games to PS Plus might have had some truth to them, if a PlayStation Store listing is anything to go by. The listing, which was found on the back end, is for 2002’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars. An official description specifically mentions that the game has been “converted” for the PS5 and PS4 consoles, with additional ...read more

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PSP Emulator PPSSPP Now Available On iOS App Store

PlayStation Portable emulator PPSSPP is now live on the iOS App Store. It's free to download, but a $4.99 version exists for those who'd like to support the development of the project, which has been ongoing for many years now. Creator Henrik Rydgård notes that this version differs slightly from the one which was previously available on iPhone and iPad via jailbreaking. Apple doesn’t allow ...read more

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Half of PlayStation Users Are Playing on Older Consoles, Not PS5

Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed in its recent earnings call that half of PlayStation’s monthly active players are playing on older consoles. The company has sold 59.2 million PS5s as of March 31, 2024, and said that the 118 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network are split between the PS5 and older consoles — mainly the PS4. PlayStation players are still active on the ...read more

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Officially Announced

After plenty of leaks, reports, and a teaser or two, Activision finally confirmed on Thursday that this year's Call of Duty game will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The logo for the game as well as a not-so-redacted title were both revealed via social media after a teaser website that went up this week gave us our first look at the logo, but not the name. Ads out in the real world have already ...read more

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Redfall will receive a final update adding offline play

Arkane Austin will release one final update for Redfall which will add offline play. The official Redfall X account posted that the game’s final patch, Game Update 4, will include a “revamped Neighborhood and Nest systems, Single Player Pausing, Offline Mode, and more.” There had been suggestions that the update wouldn’t be released after Microsoft recently announced plans to close ...read more

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Microsoft ‘plans to put this year’s Call of Duty onto Game Pass’

Microsoft will add this year’s Call of Duty game to Game Pass at release, it’s claimed. According to the Wall Street Journal, sources with knowledge of the situation claim that this year’s entry, which has yet to be officially announced, will be included in the subscription service. This would mark the first time a Call of Duty game has been included in such a service at launch, and ...read more

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Star Wars Total War Game Rumored to Be in Development

There's supposedly another new Star Wars game in development, though it's a Star Wars game that's probably far from what anyone would've ever expected. The latest Star Wars rumor suggests that Sega's Creative Assembly developer is working on a Star Wars-themed Total War game which would be a big departure for the series which usually roots itself in historical military forces and cultures. ...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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GTA 5 has surpassed 200 million copies sold, according to Take Two

Grand Theft Auto 5 has now sold approximately 200 million copies. That’s according to publisher Take-Two, revealing the figure ahead of the company’s earnings call on Thursday. The game, which was originally released in 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, was later rereleased on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and then later on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X. According to ...read more

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Lies of P DLC Release Window Revealed

Last year, Lies of P publisher Neowiz announced that the team is working on both DLC for the game and a full sequel. That latter reveal isn't too surprising for anyone who has finished the main game, but it's good to hear for fans of the puppet-filled Soulslike. However, the last we heard about either project was in October 2023. After several months of waiting, Neowiz has finally given fans a ...read more

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Take-Two says cancelled games weren’t ‘core franchise’ titles

Take-Two‘s updated release slate of upcoming games, published on Thursday, includes 12 fewer games than the last time it was shown. As part of its earnings report for its fiscal year 2024, the publisher showed a slide stating that it has a total of 40 titles planned by the end of fiscal year 2027, not including the pending acquisition of Gearbox. The last time Take-Two showed its release ...read more

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Officially Announced

After plenty of leaks, reports, and a teaser or two, Activision finally confirmed on Thursday that this year's Call of Duty game will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The logo for the game as well as a not-so-redacted title were both revealed via social media after a teaser website that went up this week gave us our first look at the logo, but not the name. Ads out in the real world have already ...read more

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Ghost of Tsushima is PlayStation’s fourth biggest Steam launch

Ghost of Tsushima is publisher PlayStation’s fourth biggest Steam launch in terms of concurrent players. According to figures from SteamDB, the game has attracted a peak of 59,244 concurrent players since its release on Thursday. That total has only been bettered by three Sony published games, two of which were developed by its internal studios. Helldivers 2, which is developed by ...read more

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New Official PS2 Emulator Seemingly Outed by PlayStation Store

Rumors of Sony working on a PS2 emulator to bring classic games to PS Plus might have had some truth to them, if a PlayStation Store listing is anything to go by. The listing, which was found on the back end, is for 2002’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars. An official description specifically mentions that the game has been “converted” for the PS5 and PS4 consoles, with additional ...read more

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PSP Emulator PPSSPP Now Available On iOS App Store

PlayStation Portable emulator PPSSPP is now live on the iOS App Store. It's free to download, but a $4.99 version exists for those who'd like to support the development of the project, which has been ongoing for many years now. Creator Henrik Rydgård notes that this version differs slightly from the one which was previously available on iPhone and iPad via jailbreaking. Apple doesn’t allow ...read more

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Half of PlayStation Users Are Playing on Older Consoles, Not PS5

Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed in its recent earnings call that half of PlayStation’s monthly active players are playing on older consoles. The company has sold 59.2 million PS5s as of March 31, 2024, and said that the 118 million monthly active users on PlayStation Network are split between the PS5 and older consoles — mainly the PS4. PlayStation players are still active on the ...read more

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PS6 Might Have ARM CPU, Sony Job Ad Suggests

A new Sony Interactive Entertainment job advertisement has some fans convinced that PS6 CPU will likely be ARM-based. The job is for system software development, and will task the incumbent with ensuring that games and programs are compatible across different architectures. Is Sony considering switching CPU architecture for the PS6? ARM processors have seen rapid advancement, with major ...read more

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New PlayStation Handheld Reported Again, Supposedly Runs PS4 Games

Another leaker has claimed that a PSP/PS Vita style PlayStation handheld is in the works, and it’ll supposedly support PS4 games at launch. The handheld was first rumored back in February. The following month, reports surfaced that Microsoft is working on a gaming handheld. Could both companies be preparing portable systems? Prior rumors suggest upcoming PlayStation handheld will be a ...read more

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Star Wars Total War Game Rumored to Be in Development

There's supposedly another new Star Wars game in development, though it's a Star Wars game that's probably far from what anyone would've ever expected. The latest Star Wars rumor suggests that Sega's Creative Assembly developer is working on a Star Wars-themed Total War game which would be a big departure for the series which usually roots itself in historical military forces and cultures. ...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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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Officially Announced

After plenty of leaks, reports, and a teaser or two, Activision finally confirmed on Thursday that this year's Call of Duty game will be Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The logo for the game as well as a not-so-redacted title were both revealed via social media after a teaser website that went up this week gave us our first look at the logo, but not the name. Ads out in the real world have already ...read more

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Redfall will receive a final update adding offline play

Arkane Austin will release one final update for Redfall which will add offline play. The official Redfall X account posted that the game’s final patch, Game Update 4, will include a “revamped Neighborhood and Nest systems, Single Player Pausing, Offline Mode, and more.” There had been suggestions that the update wouldn’t be released after Microsoft recently announced plans to close ...read more

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Microsoft ‘plans to put this year’s Call of Duty onto Game Pass’

Microsoft will add this year’s Call of Duty game to Game Pass at release, it’s claimed. According to the Wall Street Journal, sources with knowledge of the situation claim that this year’s entry, which has yet to be officially announced, will be included in the subscription service. This would mark the first time a Call of Duty game has been included in such a service at launch, and ...read more

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Helldivers 2 Has Been Relisted On Steam In Some Countries

According to SteamDB, Helldivers 2 has been put back up for sale on Steam in certain countries, which hopefully means that those affected by its delisting can get back into the action. It's been an undeniably rough month for Helldivers 2 fans following the announcement that players on Steam would have to sign into a PSN account in order to play the game. This led to mass review-bombing ...read more

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Star Wars Total War Game Rumored to Be in Development

There's supposedly another new Star Wars game in development, though it's a Star Wars game that's probably far from what anyone would've ever expected. The latest Star Wars rumor suggests that Sega's Creative Assembly developer is working on a Star Wars-themed Total War game which would be a big departure for the series which usually roots itself in historical military forces and cultures. ...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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Lies of P DLC Release Window Revealed

Last year, Lies of P publisher Neowiz announced that the team is working on both DLC for the game and a full sequel. That latter reveal isn't too surprising for anyone who has finished the main game, but it's good to hear for fans of the puppet-filled Soulslike. However, the last we heard about either project was in October 2023. After several months of waiting, Neowiz has finally given fans a ...read more

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Take-Two says cancelled games weren’t ‘core franchise’ titles

Take-Two‘s updated release slate of upcoming games, published on Thursday, includes 12 fewer games than the last time it was shown. As part of its earnings report for its fiscal year 2024, the publisher showed a slide stating that it has a total of 40 titles planned by the end of fiscal year 2027, not including the pending acquisition of Gearbox. The last time Take-Two showed its release ...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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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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Hellblade 2 Feature Video Outlines Depiction of Psychosis

Ninja Theory’s long-awaited sequel to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, is out next week. It sees Senua venturing to Viking Iceland to mete out justice while still dealing with her psychosis, manifesting as “The Furies.” In a new video, the development team discusses psychosis alongside several experts and how it’s depicted in-game. Some of these experts ...read more

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Street Fighter 6 – Akuma’s Moves Showcased in New Character Guide

Capcom’s Street Fighter 6 will receive its fourth DLC character this month with the legendary Akuma. As part of the Year 1 Character Pass, the Satsui no Hado master is older and meaner, sporting new and familiar moves to devastate enemies. A new character guide is available to outline his moveset – check it out below. Many of Akuma’s moves from previous entries, including Gou Hadouken, ...read more

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Luigi's Mansion 2 HD Gets New Trailer Ahead of Release

Prior to its launch this coming month, Nintendo has revealed a new trailer for Luigi's Mansion 2 HD. Originally released on the Nintendo 3DS as Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, the forthcoming remaster for Nintendo Switch is set to be one of Nintendo's biggest exclusives in the first half of 2024. To further highlight the improvements that have been made with this version of the game, a new trailer ...read more

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