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Heavy gaming news this July so far, starting with the once-former first party game company Xbox. The Big Picture “I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people." - Satoru Iwata, former Nintendo president. This is true in any industry. Motivation an...
So much for the return of Joanna Dark. Amidst the recent Microsoft Games mass layoff comes this big casualty: The Initiative. The Santa Monica-based studio is shut down and cancels its upcoming first-person shooter Perfect Dark reboot. This is according to a Windows Central report. The Perfect Dark reboot has been floating around for 7 years ...
Sad news for those waiting for UK-based game company Rare's comeback: its big game isn't going to happen. Rare's long-in-development title Everwild is cancelled, as the company is affected by Xbox and Microsoft Gaming's mass layoffs. The layoffs are due to the parent company's broader restructuring overall. It remains to be seen if this will aff...
Boomer shooters aren't going out of style, and the new reboot of 2004's Painkiller is cementing that with its plethora of crazy guns in tow. Publisher 3D Realms (back in business making boomer shooters like last time) and developer Anshar Studios have announced the release date of Painkiller: 9th October for PC, Xbox Series, and PlayStation 5. T...
If you ever want to see what a bunch of ex-Witcher 3 developers can do on their own, look no further than this gameplay clip from The Blood of Dawnwalker. Published by Bandai Namco and developed by Rebel Wolves (the ex-CD Projekt Red devs), the duo showed off 21 minutes of third-person action RPGing where you play as the titular half-man half ha...
Good news, somewhat, for looter shooter fans. The upcoming Gearbox game Borderlands 4 will not be US$80, a debate that has been raging on for triple-A games as of late. According to 2K Games, the standard version costs US$69.99. The Deluxe Edition will cost US$99.99. It will feature a variety of bonus items and will be available for US$99.99 ...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series, PS5 Genre: Action, Roguelite, Isometric, Gothic, Dice-Rolling To quote a previous report we did, the Lost In Random games are what happens if you had Tim Burton and Henry Selick team up to make an action-adventure title, but with dices, cards, and ye ol' traditional gaming of yor...
Xbox's recent Game Pass and multiplatform plans, essentially turning the company into a third-part game maker that happens to be selling an Xbox console, means that its previously-exclusive brands will end up on the PlayStation 5. Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon 5, Gears of War; everything is open season. So when is Halo, the Xbox first-person sho...
With the Steam Deck still being the hot new portable gaming PC device right now, companies like ASUS Republic of Gamers' division are competing via its Asus ROG Ally series: powerful handheld gaming devices that can play the best PC games. With rumours of Xbox going into this market, we figured this morning's Xbox Gaming Showcase would be where thi...
It’s that time of the year again—when Xbox wheels out its line-up in what’s either a glorious flex of exclusives or an overlong montage of CGI trailers that won’t see daylight until your current console is obsolete. The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 is Microsoft’s annual attempt to convince the world that Game Pass is still the best deal in...
The biggest Zenless Zone Zero update has arrived, and it takes place in a setting familiar to its creators, albeit in bright-lit cyberpunk futuristic form. It also features a good number of updates and quality of life changes, not to mention brand-new characters with a new damage type called Rupture that's sure to go well with your damage builds. ...
HoYoverse's action RPG title Zenless Zone Zero is going places, literally. After a huge plot revelation in the game's previous few story bits (pre-2.0), the siblings Wise and Belle have to travel to Waifei Peninsula to find out more about their lost teacher, as well as learn their recently-unlocked powers from a mysterious shifu named Yixuan. I ...
The folks behind the Hitman series are going to host a livestream about their new projects later this weekend. On 7 June 9am GMT+8, IO Interactive will be hosting its first-ever IO Interactive Showcase on YouTube. Here is what you're getting from the upcoming show, games-wise: HITMAN World of Assassination: With the HITMAN franchise set to ...
Just when you thought Tamriel’s worst necromantic fan club had finally packed it in and gone home, The Elder Scrolls Online (ESO) drags them out of their sarcophagus and drops them centre stage—again. That’s right, the Worm Cult, the original bad guys from ESO’s main quest, are back with a vengeance in 2025’s latest year-long epic: Season...
Sega will be releasing the next Shinobi entry after so many years: it's called Shinobi - Art of Vengeance and it's developed by Lizard Cube Games who are known for the Wonder Boy remake and Streets of Rage 4. To say this game looks great is underselling it: the new Shinobi game revels in its 2D roots and made it better with its new art style and...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PlayStation 5 Genre: Action, RPG, Soulslike, Smithing These days, you really need a standout feature to elevate your future action game with double-A production values. Developer MercurySteam, after their major success with Metroid Dread a few years back, are returning to the days when they made ...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG, 2D, Pixel Art, Retro 2023's Sea of Stars wowed many, many Japanese role-playing game fans with its art style and gameplay. While its story starts off simplistic and its leads two-dimensional at times, it gets better and more epic as more layers unfold, ...
For the first time in a while, an offline single-player Japanese role-playing game is getting a hotfix and nerfing an ability. Unsurprisingly, it's a skill that belongs to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's most powerful 16-year-old. In Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, your party member Maelle has an ability called Stendhal that deals a lot of Void damag...
In a plot twist that feels like watching Pokémon and ARK: Survival Evolved fight in a courtroom instead of an arena, Palworld’s developers have officially confirmed what many players already suspected—yes, Nintendo is behind some of the game’s recent, frankly deflating, feature cuts. After weeks of player theories and patch note eyebrow-r...
Here's a good gauge at how the latest SNK fighter's tier list will pan out. SNK has released an updated version of the Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Matchup Matrix, which determines the win/lose ratio of the cast against each other via SNK's official data in-game. Basically, a high percentage means a high win rate against the opposing character...
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