Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be "fully playable" on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th September. It won't, in other words, be a disc-in-a-box that still requires you to download the game in order to play. This may make it one of PlayStation's last fully disc-based games.
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"One thing we always think about a lot is how does our game open," says Mike Fitzgerald, Head of Technology at Insomniac Games. "When you start our first Spider-Man game... you jump out the window and you're swinging down the street. So what's the version of that for Wolverine?"
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Today, The Pokémon Company announced that it's shutting down Pokémon Bank, the Pokémon storage app was that was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The service goes offline on 26th February, 2027, so you've still got plenty of time to access your old pals and begin migrating them into your new games, if you've got the time and energy.
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is massive. If you're coming to Intelligent Systems' Switch 2 RPG after playing even Three Houses or Engage, you're going to be shocked by the scale of it. Within the first 10 hours of the game, you are given choices that show you just how broad the scope of the game is. As you play, more avenues open up before you in concertina, a bafflingly complex bloom of consequence, intrigue, and narrative that blossoms and blossoms.
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Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's recent redacted tease of a subtitle for the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, it's been discovered the game's full name might have been hiding in developer Bethesda's most recent release, Starfield, all along.
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Last week, the private acquisition of Electronic Arts finally happened. After months of governmental approval and debate, one of gaming's largest publishers has gone private, co-owned by a combination of private equity companies and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered arrived on Switch 2 earlier this week, immediately drawing praise for its well-optimised state. This is actually a bit of a problem - not because of how it runs on Switch 2, but rather because of how it continues to run on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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A public spat between Saber Interactive - creator of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the upcoming Suntman: Hollywood game and many others - and a former employee who claims she was "replaced" by ChatGPT has erupted over the past few days, and in the wake of new statements from either side has continued to intensify.
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It's been an interesting launch period for Halo: Campaign Evolved. Despite reviewing well, the game has failed to sell particularly well on PS5, where the low-effort Black Ops 1 and 2 ports seemingly outsold the Microsoft title 16-to-1. After the game shipped, multiple contract positions were terminated, and players have been taking umbrage with some of the mechanical and artistic changes to the game.
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Twitch - the popular gaming and IRL streaming platform - has announced it'll start training generative AI models on those livestreaming on the platform.
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Stop Killing Games, the grassroots initiative fighting to prevent game publishers from shutting down servers without offering an alternative, has joined a lawsuit filed in the Netherlands against Sony for its alleged monopoly of selling digital games on the PlayStation Store (via GamesRadar).
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The new game from Her Story and Immortality maker Sam Barlow - and his studio Half Mermaid - has a name: it's called Precognition. It's a sci-fi horror and it's releasing in spring 2028, as one of the debut games from Phasmophobia company Kinetic's new publishing label.
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Dawn of War 4 has been delayed to the tail-end of this year, so the developers at King Art games can "further refine the experience ahead of launch."
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The first ever English translation of Alain Damasio’s Horde of the Counterwind (or, to give the book its original name La Horde du Contrevent) is going on sale later this year. The novel, a cult classic that is cited as one of the driving inspirations behind the acclaimed and best-selling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, will be available in hardback on 13th October, 2026 via Abrams Books in the US. The UK date seems to be listed as 12th November on Amazon; we have contacted the publisher for clarification.
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Sony and PlayStation have just announced Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition, a new version of 2025's open world action game, launching with additional content that wasn't in the first release. It launches for PS5 on 1st October, 2026.
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Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss has confirmed a Switch 2 version of the game will be released, and given a rough timeframe for it, and said it sees "significant potential" for multiplayer in the single-player open-world fantasy game.
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The first thing I need to tell you about The King is Watching is that, due to an unusual font and my poor eyesight, I originally though the game was called The King is Hatching.
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Load your rifles and get ready to deliver some democracy to those heathen alien interlopers, because Helldivers 2 comes to PlayStation Plus today. Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that the game will be added to the roster of titles PS Plus Extra and Premium subscribers can access as part of its August 2026 update (sorry, Essential-tier subs). The game, developed by Arrowhead Studios, launched back in 2024 and has netted a decent 20 million sales since then.
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Meccha Chameleon, the indie hide-and-seek game that launched on Steam two months ago, has cemented itself as one of the year's biggest hits. The game's developer posted a sales milestone update today, announcing that sales have surpassed a staggering 20 million copies.
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Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark, from 2027 onwards.
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Xbox says it has fixed the issue at the heart of the major service outage suffered in July. Chief technical officer Scott Van Vliet, who initially offered an explanation as to why so many services were affected, promised to investigate further at the time, and he has now returned with an update.
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Aspyr has unexpectedly remastered and re-released an old Lord of the Rings action role-playing game, which was notable for having three-player co-op and parallel story about one of Sauron's powerful servants doing naughty things up north.
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An early internal preview of The Elder Scrolls 6 by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was met by a giant inflatable rat, looming over the Bethesda offices in Rockville, Maryland.
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Halo: Campaign Evolved - the remake of the original Halo 1 campaign and the first Halo game released on PlayStation - has struggled to sell in meaningful quantities, and the probable reason for it? A lack of multiplayer.
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Wardogs, the ambitious shooter from Battalion 1944 and The Turing Test developer Bulkhead, will soon arrive on Steam early access. The studio announced today, after months of invite-only tests, Wardogs will finally be released on 10th September.
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Canadian developer Panache Digital, co-founded by Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets, has said it is still using AI tools to help develop its witchy action game 1666: Amsterdam, albeit "less and less".
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There's a funny thing with video game genres in particular: a lot of them are based on just closely tracing the lines of preexisting games, only with a few small mechanical tweaks and a different-enough setting over the top. And few genres are quite as obvious in that regard as the XCOM-alike: a turn-based tactics game based on managing a small squad of permanently-killable allies through a series of close-quarters, grid-based combat encounters, before ducking out to do a bit of RPG-lite housework in some kind of base or mothership metagame. This is Star Wars: Zero Company, a game where you do all of that, but it's Star Wars. And obviously it's completely brilliant.
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Supermassive - the UK studio best known for its cinematic horror games including Until Dawn, The Quarry, and the Dark Pictures Anthology series - has announced more layoffs, this time affecting as many as 75 employees.
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The first stage of Gears of War E-Day's beta may have concluded, but that hasn't stopped discussion around the game from continuing to rage online. This time, it's an old favourite: is movement in Gears of War: E-Day good? Does leaping between cover with a shotgun in-hand scare off the normals? Is it… "sweaty"?
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Though many may baulk at the idea of paying $100 (£90) for a game, a lot of the people who pre-ordered Grand Theft Auto 6 bought the more expensive Ultimate edition rather than the $80 (£70) Standard edition. That's according to Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two.
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Developer House House's collaborative puzzle-solving and hangout game par excellence, Big Walk, has found encouraging commercial success. Publisher Panic announced on Bluesky that it's already passed 1m sales.
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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has struggled with some serious technical problems on PC ever since its release last week, resulting in a disparity between console owners and desktop diehards. Thankfully, a new patch seems to have swooped in to the rescue.
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In yet another example of a successful film or TV show raising the profile of a related game, Hollywood blockbuster Spider-Man: Brand New Day has brought new players to the years-old Marvel's Spider-Man 2 game.
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1666: Amsterdam returned to the public eye this year after a protracted 15 year conception that involved legal battles, rewritten concepts, secret publishers, and finally: an actual game. Suffice to say, this is the game Patrice Désilets has wanted to make for a very long time - Désilets being the original creator of Assassin's Creed and more recently the mind behind primate evolution game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
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1666: Amsterdam, a game that's survived years of legal battles between Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets and Ubisoft, has an early access release date. It'll be released 25th August for PC, on Steam and the Epic Games Store.
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A lead developer at id Software has spoken out about Microsoft's decision to make major cuts at the developer, and has said it's "impossible" to make triple-A games like 2016's Doom with half the staff.
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When Hello Games ended its trailer for No Man's Sky's first major update with the words "This is the foundation of things to come", it's doubtful anyone, studio included, could have predicted the game would still be going strong some 10 years later. But as the exploratory space sim celebrates a decade since its original release this week, it's now stronger than ever. It's been an eventful 10 years, seeing the release of over 45 major updates, and so to mark No Man's Sky's huge milestone I chatted with studio boss Sean Murray about that 10-year (and counting) journey, the past, the future, and even the origin of those emojis.
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Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has been out for a few days now, and the PC version appears a little busted. Wide-ranging reports, including stuttering, online matchmaking issues, and CPU strain, are plaguing Windows warriors who have joined during the game's opening week.
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It's a big moment for No Man's Sky. This week sees developer Hello Games' exploratory space sim celebrating its tenth anniversary, and to mark the occasion, I recently spoke with studio boss Sean Murray.
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Valve has notified Steam Machine and Steam Controller customers in Europe about a data breach. The company's servers are safe, but those of one of its hardware partners are sadly not.
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The Division Resurgence is a name you may have forgotten. In the sea of announced-then-cancelled off-shoots based on Ubisoft's biggest franchises, Resurgence was one of the few to actually make it to release.
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One of the most surprising things about Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer tease last week was word that it will premiere on subscription-based service Netflix - a move I can't ever remember another game company doing.
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The Duskbloods, the next game from Elden Ring, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne creator FromSoftware, is hosting its first-ever public test later this month. The network test, as the developer calls it, was always intended to be limited, meaning not everyone who signed up will get to play.
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While the Xbox division reels as a result of wide-ranging restructuring, that will leave thousands of people without a job, and some studios drastically reduced in size - one Xbox studio appears to be doing exceptionally well. That studio is Blizzard Entertainment.
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Xbox is now asking users in Australia to verify their age before they're able to purchase games rated at 18+ on the Xbox Store on Xbox consoles, as well as the Microsoft Store on PC.
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A new cloud-streaming app that lets players stream PlayStation games to their Steam Deck and Steam Machine without a PS5 has just opened a playtest.
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A Battlefield 6 player "upset" at the removal of the popular Rush mode claims to have secured a full refund from Steam despite having clocked up 470 hours.
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One of the teams behind Neowiz's Souls-like Lies of P has released a short documentary detailing how they kept "testing and refining" the game before its release, as well as offering a little insight into its hardcore "games by gamers" culture.
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"Commencing Atlus suit initialisation system", crackles a synthesised female voice from out of my TV screen. "Life support systems activated", she continues. And eventually, "User initialisation sequence complete". It's a start-up sequence I've heard countless times over the last decade, but today things are a little bit different. As No Man's Sky celebrates its 10th anniversary, I've slung myself back through a wormhole of sorts - one powered by a dusty PS4 wrenched from a box in the attic and an original disc copy of the game procured for £8.
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Konami has confirmed it's investigating new Performance Mode problems on PS5 and PS5 Pro after last week's Patch 1.07 for the Silent Hill 2 remake introduced a host of new issues.
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Sokoban games are those puzzlers that are all about pushing blocks around. They're spatial challenges at their most fiendish. I gather that the original Sokoban took place in a warehouse, and you were shifting crates back and forth. The latest iteration I've played is set in a nightclub, and that turns out to be a truly inspired choice of location.
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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, Connor decides on Star Lord; Bertie goes to demon school, and Kelsey goes for a big walk.
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Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick, who heads the company Rockstar belongs to, has said he's "not in the least" concerned that bad press over alleged union-busting will affect the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6.
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There's been a flurry of news related to castings in the upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda film, including the name of the actor who's landed the antagonist's role of Ganondorf - but also that recently departed actor Sam Neill will apparently star in the film.
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In Take-Two's latest financial report, CEO Strauss Zelnick makes some bold statements about the future of the games industry. As the industry reels from Sony's controversial decision to stop manufacturing physical disc-based games,and to pivot to an 'all-digital future', Zelnick reckons we won't only embrace digital games in the future but stream our games, too.
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Take-Two's latest financials are in, and they come with a few surprises. First off, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has confirmed that the publisher's sales are mostly digital, in response to Sony's controversial decision to stop manufacturing physical disc-based games. "Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed," he said during the call (thanks, Jason Schreier). "It's already a digital business."
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In case it was ever in doubt, it seems Sony is not backing down from its controversial decision to stop manufacturing physical disc-based games. It appears a notice is being shipped with new PS5 consoles that have disc drives to warn users that, as announced, PlayStation will cease to support physical media at the beginning of 2028.
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John Romero, the legendarily long-haired co-founder of id Software and father of game series Quake and Doom, has recounted a tale about when id Software worked with Taiwanese pirates to spread Doom.
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Marvel Tokonn: Fighting Souls finally released, and while console players appear to be having a decent time with the 4v4 tag fighting game, PC players are reporting significant technical issues ranging from stuttering to netcode issues.
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QuakeCon's opening ceremony came with a delightful surprise yesterday: the announcement and release of a brand new, free expansion for the original Quake game. This is for all platforms (barring Epic Games Store and Gog) that Quake has been released on - PC, Xbox, PlayStation and Switch. The screams of jubilation in the audience watching the event were loud.
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Earlier this month EA CEO Andrew Wilson's 2026 fiscal year pay package drew a lot of attention, due to how large it was, frankly. Well, it turns out he may have actually taken home more money than previously thought.
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Wander the winding track to London's Kingston University over the next week and you'll find a little pocket of gaming history awaiting there. The Archive of Retro Computing (ARC) is free to explore and features over 65 retro personal computers and gaming consoles, some familiar and others considerably less so. It's an exhibit stretching from the mid-70s and the advent of video game cartridges to significantly more modern gaming consoles, charting the history of personal computing across an incredibly rich three decades.
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Marvel Tokon is out at last, and players are diving in and messing around with the full cast of playable characters. However, one of these fighters is truly - and perhaps fittingly - unique among the cast.
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A new blog post by ArenaNet has kicked up the conversation around playable races in Guild Wars 3. It features some interesting insight into the four available at launch - and hints that additional species could be added later down the line.
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It's been three years since Baldur's Gate 3 was released, so developer Larian has data-dived to recover some illuminating statistics. Such as: non-Dark Urge players being surprisingly murderous.
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A new PlayStation 5 firmware beta has arrived for anyone who's part of Sony's beta programme. The platform holder emailed those who signed up to notify them that a new update is available for testing.
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Last year's Monster Hunter Wilds still represents a major focus for Capcom, its latest financial report has revealed. The game, which had a slower launch than the publisher would have liked due to on-going performance issues and a delayed endgame, has not been a massive success for Capcom - even 2021's Monster Hunter Rise outsold it at the end of last year.
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Pokémon Pokopia's 2.0 major update is here, allowing players to venture deep below the waves to meet new Poké-pals and mess around with a variety of new features.
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According to new estimates, Call of Duty's recent Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation ports have sold incredibly well in such a short while. According to estimates from Alinea Analytics, the two games combined sold 11.2 million units across PS4 and PS5 since their release in mid-July.
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Rockstar Games and Take Two have announced that an "extended look" trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 will premiere first on Netflix on Thursday, the 27th August, at 3pm ET (8pm BST).
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Capcom has revealed that "approximately 90 percent of [its] unit sales are digital," in its latest quarterly earnings report, noting the Japanese publisher "does not anticipate a significant impact" on its operations as PlayStation gets ready to kill off physical media by 2028.
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Roblox has published earnings for its second financial quarter, revealing a significant decline almost across the board. The company's disappointing quarter caused its stock price to drop by more than a quarter - nearly 27 percent - since the announcement on 31st July.
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Ill's been an attention-hogger ever since its Summer Game Fest 2025 reveal. It is, quite possibly, the grossest game in development. Startlingly lifelike trailers have given us a queasy glimpse at a fleshy world of bloated humanoid monsters we can shoot great, ragged chunks out of. Gore splatters, wounds geyser with blood, and skin hangs limply where it used to have something to attach to. Ill's is a world of grimacing nightmares, and there's a level of detail here we usually only see in the most expensive video game productions, or in something dedicated to disgust - like Scorn.
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Minecraft on Switch 2 is a port that just makes sense. Everyone, including developer Mojang, agrees. On Wednesday, the developer officially confirmed a 27th October release date for the Switch 2 version.
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We have yet another sign that Diablo 4 is on its way to Nintendo Switch 2. A new report from Dealabs' billbil-kun, a leaker with a solid history of industry leaks, has indicated that we're closer than ever to the game's release on the hybrid console.
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The Gears of War E-Day open beta is kicking off soon, and just as players were ready to hop into a good few days of Horde, The Coalition has announced that PvP versus will also be present in the test, albeit for a limited time.
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Beast of Reincarnation is out but hasn't quite made the splash you might expect from Game Freak's first original project in years. The long-time Pokémon developer isn't moving on, however, and is promising to deliver a series of updates to improve the game.
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The director of Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Black Flag, and Origins has returned to Ubisoft to lead development on future Assassin's Creed games.
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Blizzard is introducing a long asked-for feature in Diablo 4 in the game's next update, which is already on the Public Test Realm for testing. The feature is called Rebirth and it finally allows you to use characters from the Eternal realm for Seasonal content.
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In a world afflicted with ever-increasing storage and RAM costs, it's nice to see a game make a serious effort to reduce its footprint on your SSD. Cue Marvel Rivals. On PS5 and Xbox, you will see an install-size reduction of roughly 15GB - down from 73GB - whilst the PC version reduces by a whopping 40GB. This means we're getting a reduction of roughly 20 percent on consoles, whereas on PC the file size will shrink by over 57 percent.
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Arctic, a well-known manufacturer of PC air and water coolers, has made a commitment to use the tariff refunds it received from the US government to lower the price of its products. This is notable because it's in stark contrast to the approach Nintendo has opted for, believing it has no obligation to pass these refunds onto consumers.
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A beleaguered Xbox has revealed the next batch of games coming to the Game Pass subscription during the first few weeks of August, and there are a few eye-catching additions among them.
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Capcom announced that Resident Evil Veronica - a remake of Code: Veronica - has achieved an impressive milestone well before it's even out. The game has topped 2 million wishlists across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox and Switch 2.
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It's no secret that rage quitting is one of the most frustrating aspects of online gaming. Thankfully, one indie game developer is currently hard at work on a fun idea that could soften the blow of sudden disconnects.
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Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? Well, today the oft-memed Final Fantasy online title has arrived on Switch 2, marking a very quick turnaround between the announcement of the port at the end of June and its actual release date.
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A vast number of developers at Refractor Games, the development team responsible for Fifa World Cup: Launch Edition, have been laid off. In total, roughly 85 percent of developers at the studio have lost their jobs.
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is getting a new patch with a sizeable list of changes. Update 1.0.6 arrives later today across PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Download sizes vary widely; as small as 1.8GB on Steam or as large as a chonky 15.2GB on Xbox.
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Rumours of an unannounced Elder Scrolls game being in development at Bethesda have been debunked, after a LinkedIn page was misinterpreted by enthusiasts.
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