Pearl Abyss has rolled out another patch for Crimson Desert, adding in the Headgear Visibility option to give you a better look at Kliff, private storage capacity expansion of up to 1000 slots (depending on the Greymane camp's expansion level), and numerous other "fixes and improvements".
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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Victoria strongarms her children into playing Super Mario Galaxy before they watch the rather ropy-sounding film; Bertie discovers a game as strange as he is; Marie reveals a wonderful Easter tradition that she's created for herself; and Connor's still absolutely hooked on Old School Runescape.
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I worried about Slay the Spire 2 before its early access release because everything I saw reminded me of the original. I understood there were differences, but they didn't seem big enough or pronounced enough to warrant a new game. In the back of my head a sly voice wondered: had Mega Crit, creator of the game, run out of ideas? No; I was wrong, and I've never been more pleased to admit it.
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Former director of The Last of Us multiplayer game has claimed the cancelled online project was roughly "80 percent" finished when it was cancelled.
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You could lock me into a chest packed with pieces of eight then toss me into a churning sea of pirate games and I'd still tell you there aren't enough of them as I slowly sink toward Davy Jones' Locker. Whether it's Sea of Thieves, Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, Monkey Island, or Sid Meier's Pirates, if there's a swash to be buckled or a parrot to be shouldered, I'm there. So when other nautically minded sorts started seafoaming at the mouth over piratical PvE survival game Windrose's Steam demo a little while back, my metaphorical pegleg was pricked. And now, some time later, I've finally managed to set sail for Windrose's treacherous waters - and I can see why this slick seafaring adventure is already one of Steam's most wishlisted games.
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For readers of Eurogamer, it may have been a while since you last read much in depth about PUBG - or indeed PUBG Battlegrounds (redundant subtitle duly acknowledged by publisher Krafton) as it's now known in its post-Brendan Greene form. PUBG is now the brand, Battlegrounds the game, and specifically it's the battle royale one we all played, often obsessively, in its early years.
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Arc Raiders developer Embark might have retreated slightly on the use of AI-generated voices in its game, but company owner Nexon has big plans for the use of AI, and it's using the success of Arc Raiders as proof of concept for it.
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Grand Theft Auto 5 is leaving Xbox Game Pass this month, across not only the Xbox Series X/S, but also PC Game Pass. Best to grab it while you can!
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After plenty of teases, hype, and dedicated Nintendo Directs, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie finally made its debut yesterday. And so far, reactions have been… mixed.
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Marathon's next few balance updates look to be massive overhauls for the extraction shooter's combat experience. These include some "secret" changes which will aid solos and bring a more merciful option for those with some lingering Arc Raiders kindness in their heart.
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Resident Evil has been reaching new heights in popularity thanks to Resident Evil Requiem's massive success just in time for its 30th anniversary, but it all could end badly (again) if the next live-action movie effort is a disappointment.
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Embracer-owned studios can't catch a break, and Eidos-Montréal has been hit over and over again by layoffs and project cancellations for several years now. This week, roughly 124 employees were let go, with studio head David Anfossi also leaving. It's now unclear how the developer's future looks like, but we might have learned what happened behind the scenes.
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It's April Fools day, which means the long-lasting tradition of fake game news flooding social media is back yet again. This year, alongside the fake reveals and joke announcement, a chocolatey selection of public service announcements have been made - inspired by a real world robbery of 12 tonnes of KitKat goods.
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Balatro's shadow is long, and a few indie studios have tried to crack the code since it released with varying degrees of success. Now, the developers at Doraccoon have tried to bridge the gap between the gambling-but-not-really mechanics and ancient arcade experiences.
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The latest major update to Arc Raiders has addressed a major player complaint, one impacting the experience of those joining games in-progress looking for lucrative looting opportunities.
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is launching into Early Access on the 30th April, opening the door for turn-based strategy players to hop back into the legendary gaming series one more time.
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Mark Gerhard, CEO and CTO of developer Build A Rocket Boy, has addressed its controversial shooter MindsEye's rough start last year, calling it "without doubt, the worst launch in history". That's as he says the studio plans to share "evidence" of the "sabotage" Build A Rocket Boy bosses have repeatedly blamed for the game's woes in a future multiplayer update.
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Weird as this sounds, I think The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has the same basic problems as Love Story, Hulu's glancing exploration of the doomed romance between Carolyn Bessett and JFK Jr. Both film and TV show have a handful of decent performances and a thrillingly bright eye for visual detailing. But both suffer from the fact that, for most of the running time, there's actually very little at stake. Sure, one is more likely to have a clever joke about sadistic Mario Maker levels, but the other is more likely to drop in Roads by Portishead at just the right second. Swings, as they say, and roundabouts.
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Aspyr has released a patch for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered that takes aim at the game's new outfit textures, which were widely criticised on their debut.
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It's been two years since The Crew was shut down, which prompted a fast and negative response from the majority of players and people concerned about the games industry's poor game preservation efforts, especially when it comes to always-online games. While some fans moved on, others worked to revive it through modding and some people even filed lawsuits against publisher Ubisoft. Now, more legal battles are set to happen in France.
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Stellar Blade developer Shift Up has acquired Unbound, the studio set up by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami following his departure from Tango Gameworks in 2023.
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Shortly after the news took off about a new Lord of the Rings game being in the works at Kingdom Come developer Warhorse Studios, Insider Gaming - who exclusively reported on such a project being in development at Embracer back in October 2025 - added it had learned new details from "those close to the game's development." On 31st March, the site revealed the main developer on at least one Lord of the Rings project could be Crystal Dynamics, the studio known for its work on the Tomb Raider series.
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Less than two weeks since Crimson Desert made its slightly rocky debut, developer Pearl Abyss has celebrated another impressive sales milestone.
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Marathon has seen significant changes as part of its latest balance patch, including the outright removal of its most busted movement technique, the re-opening of a controversial shortcut in The Outpost map, and made the loot (and challenge) of The Outpost's central region harder.
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The Fallout TV show remains one of the biggest video game adaptations so far, and at this point we could argue it's the most critically successful one too. Prime Video's global audiences seem to agree, as we've just learned over 83 million people have (at least) watched parts of Season 2.
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Despite crossover characters such as Fox McCloud appearing in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, that doesn't mean we should expect something akin to a Super Smash Bros. film any time soon.
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Zero Parades: For Dead Spies - the much-anticipated espionage RPG from some of the developers behind Disco Elysuim - finally has a release date. It launches for PC on 21st May.
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Evercade, purveyor of all things retro gaming, has unveiled the Evercade Nexus - its next-generation gaming handheld, which launches this October.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was one of the biggest games of 2025, so the logical next step for developer Warhorse Studios would be to begin work on a follow-up sooner rather than later. Well, that could still happen, but word has spread that its next blockbuster may take players to Middle-earth.
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Pocketpair has finally done it. After revealing it as an April Fools joke a few years ago, the company has officially announced that the Palworld Dating Sim - called Palworld: More Than Just Pals - is real and in active development. It even threw in a nice nod to Slay the Spire 2 in there for good measure.
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On 24th March, Fortnite developer Epic Games announced mass layoffs that affected over 1,000 workers, including key veterans behind the hit online game.
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If Arc Raiders showed the world what an extraction shooter is, Marathon demonstrates, in unambiguous fashion, what extractions shooters are about. Whatever anomalous conditions coalesced to make Embark's game so oddly affable (at least in solos), they are entirely absent among the abandoned megastructures of Tau Ceti IV. The phrase "Don't shoot!" would have any seasoned Shell runner cackling in your face, were it not for the fact that those precious seconds could be spent killing you.
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Fortnite maker Epic Games has had a rough start to the year, with Fortnite's players dropping noticeably, and now over 1,000 jobs being cut as a result. Now, there's talk of entertainment giant Disney looking to buy the company.
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There may be a glimmer of hope for the ongoing video game industry payment processor crisis, which has thrown the livelihoods of creatives worldwide into question. This potential rescue is coming from an interesting place too. Not untraceable crypto currency, nor EU legislation, but a strong warning by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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I don't know about you, dear reader, but much like Eurogamer's Matt Wales, I can't stop playing Pokémon Pokopia. It's my favourite Nintendo first-party release in a bit, and its breadth and depth is simply astounding. Now, following its financial success, post-launch plans are beginning to ramp up, and the first big collaboration is with... IKEA.
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Nintendo has released a new update for Mario Kart World, which along with a number of fixes and improvements, also adds Bob-omb Blast as a Battle mode.
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Famous leaker Nate the Hate (who has a pretty solid track record) has been making waves for the past few days after supposedly revealing much of Nintendo's big plans for 2026 and early 2027, but his latest podcast episode had one more interesting update worth examining - and it's about the current status of the long-awaited Final Fantasy 9 remake.
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The Long Dark developer Hinterland has said the conclusion of the multi-year Wintermute storyline won't mark the end of "meaningful development" of the first-person Arctic survival game.
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Head of Naughty Dog Neil Druckmann has shared two early sketches of what would eventually become Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us, teasing a "few stops" still left on the series' "road ahead".
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie finally arrives tomorrow, 1st April, and box office tracking is already looking out of this world. With a five-day weekend ahead of it across the US, Canada, and other international territories enjoying Easter holidays this week, it was easy to see it as the go-to family movie of the early spring season - and fresh data suggests it could be bigger than many expected.
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I currently spend more of my time playing games on my PlayStation Portal than I do on my actual PlayStation 5. I'm sure that wasn't Sony's end goal with the mighty little peripheral, but either way, the powers that be are keeping me nestled nicely inside their little ecosystem. I've taken the Portal to other partners' houses, I've played it on the bus, I often kick back and play some Ball X Pit on the little screen whilst I've got Great British Menu or some other cooking show on the big TV. After my initial skepticism about the device formally known as Project Q, I must say, I am a complete convert. And I think you should be, too.
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Eidos Montréal - the developer behind the modern Deus Ex games and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - has announced another round of layoffs affecting 124 employees, alongside the departure of studio head, David Anfossi.
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It's safe to say Crimson Desert is a success with 3 million copies sold (so far) and substantial patches coming in hot. But it's hard to fix a narrative and quest structure that was described as "fatally undercooked" by Lewis Gordon in Eurogamer's own review. Now, we've learned the voice behind "stoic" protagonist Kliff, Alec Newman (Cyberpunk 2077), was as confused by its nature as many players.
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Following last week's leak pointing to Souls-like action-RPG Lords of the Fallen as April's PlayStation Plus Essential headliner, word of a second game in the line-up has emerged.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opens this week, so that means most of its all-star cast is on the marketing trail and talking to the press. One would expect chatter to be limited to the next big Nintendo adaptation, but things tend to go off the rails, especially if Jack Black is involved...
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It's not an exaggeration to say Undertale is one of the most influential indie games ever made, and last year's Deltarune quickly became a huge success for developer Toby Fox, too. There's one small problem that's slowly become bigger than anyone anticipated, though: to this date, both RPGs are still missing localization beyond Japanese.
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After a frustrating drought of native Nintendo Switch 2 ports (with some special exceptions) during the console's first six months, reportedly due to the lack of development kits going out to developers, more studios have begun to release their darlings on the hybrid console recently. It came as no surprise, then, to hear the charming and well-crafted Kena: Bridge of Spirits was making the jump to Switch 2 on 26th March.
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A player has achieved what many had thought impossible, earning one of the most legendary, most elusive Platinum trophies in the history of PlayStation consoles: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2's Platinum trophy Master of the Secret Arts on the PlayStation Vita.
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The time and date for the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 has been set. This year, it'll take place on Sunday, 7th June, at the respectable hour of 6pm UK time.
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Weeks after keen-eyed internet observers began noticing Microsoft's controversial This is an Xbox ad campaign had seemingly been yanked, the company has confirmed its demise, attributing the decision to new gaming boss Asha Sharma and a "reset" of the Xbox brand.
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Actor Sophie Turner has apparently suffered an injury during the filming of Amazon's Tomb Raider TV series and production has been halted while she recovers.
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A new illustration published to celebrate the 24th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts has some fans' hopes reignited for a Kingdom Hearts 4 update.
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Even if The Elder Scrolls 6 is still (potentially) years away, Bethesda has kept fans busy with countless Skyrim remasters/ports and TESO's yearly Chapters and many seasonal updates. In the background, mobile-oriented spinoff The Elder Scrolls: Blades was also trucking along with a small community. But, alas, that little journey is now coming to an end.
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Surprise! Team Cherry has just rolled out a patch not for Hollow Knight: Silksong, but its nine-year-old predecessor, Hollow Knight, and it addresses a "slightly longer than intended" mechanic in the very final boss fight.
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Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has deployed a new patch over the weekend across all platforms, adding five summonable mounts, decreasing loading times for fast travel and revival, and "more changes to controls="controls" as part of [the] ongoing efforts to improve the game's controls".
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Prolific former Valve writer, Chet Faliszek, has hit out at Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney, asking why anyone at Epic "should work hard" when staff have no agency and "the recent 1,000 job cuts didn't come because of shareholder pressure".
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Slay the Spire 2 has pushed out another beta patch, reverting a number of changes the prior patch introduced, including changes made to the Prepared (Silent), Borrowed Time, and Capture Spirit (Necrobinder) cards.
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Have you ever wondered what game writers think about games, or about how game writers think about games? When a story doesn't click for you or when the writing jars, do you take a moment to wonder why? What is the thought behind this? What are the steps, the processes, the logic? Why are some things good and some things great? Is there a science behind it, and if there is, what is it? A new book published by Inkle - the celebrated British studio responsible for TR-49, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, A Highland Song, Expelled!, and plenty more - hopes to show us.
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Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, everyone's playing the same games again. Bertie's probing Slay the Spire 2; Connor's getting frustrated with people in Marathon but not in Old School RuneScape; Kelsey's playing Pokémon Pokopia while also trying to 'ship Leon Kennedy and Lara Croft; and Dom's playing with their balls again.
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John and Brenda Romero - award winning game developers and founders of Romero games - have spoken about the state of the games industry following the radical downsizing of their Galway-based studio.
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During last night's Xbox Partner Preview showcase, AdHoc announced that its brilliant superhero workplace comedy Dispatch would be heading over to Microsoft's Series X/S consoles, as well as Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud.
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If you've whizzed your way through Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections already and you're wishing its beasties had a little more bite, Capcom's got you covered. It's just announced some "extremely powerful" variants are on the way in a free future update, along with the news its first paid bit of story DLC might arrive soon than expected.
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Earlier today, Sony announced a shock price rise for its PlayStation 5 family of consoles. When these changes come into effect on 2nd April, those of us in the UK will see the base PS5's retail price increase by roughly £90. The company cited "continued pressures in the global economic landscape" as the reason for the pricing changes.
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Sony has announced significant price increases for its PlayStation range, starting 2nd April, which will see the cost of a base PS5 climb by around £90 in the UK. The company is blaming the price bump - which it says it's making "after careful evaluation" - on what it calls "continued pressures in the global economic landscape".
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Actors Chris Pratt and Charlie Day appear to have confirmed an earlier Super Mario Galaxy Movie leak, while also sharing how to actually pronounce Mario (it's Maaa-rio, apparently, not Ma-rio).
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Neil Newbon, the award-winning actor known for portraying the vampire Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, has said he's avoided roles recently because they wanted a repeat performance - or thereabouts - of the same thing.
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I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but the fact Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream's free Switch demo arrived on the 3DS' 15th anniversary earlier this week feels - to me at least - entirely fitting. Tomodachi Life is probably the 3DS game I think about most; not so much in the fond memory sense, but more like a particularly vivid cheese dream. On paper, Tomodachi Life is something like Animal Crossing mixed with The Sims, perhaps with a bit of Tamagotchi thrown in. But that doesn't really convey just how wonderfully oddball the series is. And after blasting through Living the Dream's demo last night, I'm ready for more of its weird.
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Housemarque's upcoming sci-fi roguelike shooter Saros has seemingly been made substantially easier than the developer's previous release Returnal, thanks to the inclusion of auto saves from the jump as well as multiple save slots. This, it seems, was included due to player feedback to Returnal.
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The idea of porting Crimson Desert over to Switch 2 is currently being discussed by Pearl Abyss, which while I am no tech expert, sounds pretty ambitious to me.
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As promised, the powers that be at Capcom have released an update for Resident Evil Requiem, which along with other fixes and such also adds the much-requested photo mode, so you can really capture all those nasties in their bloody glory (or, you could just take pics of Leon and Grace, your call).
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Annapurna Interactive - the publisher behind the critically acclaimed likes of Stray, Outer Wilds, and Sayonara Wild Hearts - has unveiled the latest game on its roster: "heartfelt" road trip adventure Forever Ago, which is the debut title from narrative-focused German indie studio Third Shift.
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At this evening's Xbox Partner Preview, we got a fresh look at Ryu Ga Gotoku's Stranger Than Heaven, as well as news that a dedicated broadcast will air this May.
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The wait is over. The spectacular Hades 2 - five stars, if you ask Eurogamer, which you should - is coming to Xbox and PlayStation 5 on 14th April. It'll also be a Game Pass game and a Play Anywhere title.
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From Teyon, the same developers behind Robocop: Rogue City, this new action RPG is set within the same World of Darkness setting as Vampire the Masquerade, and according to a new Xbox Wire blog post, pulls from Baldur’s Gate 3 and the TV show ‘Supernatural.
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AdHoc Studio will bring its delightful superhero comedy Dispatch to Xbox this summer. It'll be available on Xbox Series S/X, Xbox on PC, and Xbox Cloud. And it will be an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
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GSC Game World has announced new DLC for Stalker 2 at today's Xbox Partner Showcase. Titled Cost of Hope, it's a full expansion to the first person shooter set to release Summer 2026.
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Ever since it was announced in April 2025, Star Wars Zero Company has quickly become one of those unexpected games to watch out for. XCOM, but Star Wars? Sure, sign us up. Now, after nearly one year in the shadows, Respawn Entertainment and Bit Reactor have shown a bit more of the game off.
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Serious Sam is back! Announced during today's Xbox Partner Showcase, Serious Sam: Shatterverse is a co-operative multiplayer Roguelite FPS from Devolver Digital and Behavior Interactive. It's set to release some time this year on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC.
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What better way to celebrate a Thursday than another Xbox Partner Preview showcase? Yes, it's that time again when Microsoft turns to its chums and offers them the spotlight; a chance to show the world what they've been working on. As usual, that means a mix of bigger third-party games and some smaller, but no less enticing indie treats - and an eclectic bunch it was too! We got an announcement for a juicy Stalker 2 expansion, a brand-new Serious Sam game, tantalising new Stranger Than Heaven details, a new one from Atomfall developer Rebellion, an Xbox release window for Hades 2 and Dispatch, and even some Bluey! There's plenty more besides, though, and you'll find everything announced below....
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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn developer Owlcat - known for making Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader - has confirmed it is using generative AI during the sci-fi game's development.
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Owlcat's promising Mass Effecty take on sci-fi fiction The Expanse - Expanse: Osiris Reborn - has been given a release window of next spring (2027), but there will be a closed beta demo released next month so people who've pre-purchased the more expensive editions of the game can try it.
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The £229/$229 WiiM Sound Lite isn't your conventional PC speaker, but one I think is a very clever addition to a desktop setup for use with movies, games and for general viewing. It might look like a conventional Wifi speaker, but underneath is one of the most feature-rich audio products I've tested at its modest price tag.
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Something's happening behind the PlayStation Store's front. Earlier this month, we learned that Sony appears to be testing "dynamic pricing" for users in some territories. This could affect both first-party and third-party games, offering players different prices depending on their habits, location, and more. Now, just weeks after Sony's tests were spotted, it appears the dynamic pricing system is in being rolled out to users around the world.
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Here's some nice news for once. A former Apex Legends developer has been rehired by Respawn following Highguard's shut down earlier this year.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie's marketing campaign has been aggressive to the point of spoiling several shocking cameos in recent weeks, even if its trailers aren't the most informative when it comes to plot. Maybe that's because there's a bigger emphasis on fan-favourite characters and references than having an actual story with a hook - but hey, fans seem to be loving this.
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