Author: Matt Wales
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Here’s a look at the Dead Cells animated TV series’ first proper trailer
Last June, Dead Cells developers Motion Twin revealed its acclaimed rogue-like action-platformer was being turned into a 10-episode animated series, and a first proper trailer has now been shared ahead of its arrival this June. Dead Cells’ TV series is the work of Paris-based animation studio Bobbypills – the team behind Dead Cells’…
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Hellblade 2 developer Ninja Theory’s next game reportedly already greenlit by Xbox
Microsoft has reportedly already greenlit Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 developer Ninja Theory’s next project and has “no plans whatsoever” to close the studio – news that comes amid fan concerns for its future following the closure of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. The relative lack of promotion for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 in…
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Norco studio announces android investigation adventure Silenus with “experimental” demo
Geography of Robots – the developer behind 2022’s acclaimed narrative adventure Norco – has revealed its new project, Silenus, and there’s an “experimental” Steam demo to try right now. Silenus is described as a “micro-adventure” – lasting 2-2.5 hours – set on a Gulf Flow oil refinery recently acquired by Rubens Link, an…
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Paradox delays Sims-like Life By You again, but won’t commit to a new release date
Paradox Interactive has indefinitely delayed Life By You – the new Sims-like from its Paradox Tectonic studio – saying “additional development time is needed” and that it doesn’t want to commit to a new release date it “cannot be certain to meet”. This marks the third delay for Life By You, which was…
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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s second free update is out today with new modes, a classic outfit, and more
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, the excellent side-scrolling revival of Ubisoft’s beloved platform series, has just received the second of three previously announced free post-launch content updates, this one adding a new Boss Rush mode and more. Once today’s update is installed, two new boss-based challenges can be access via Artaban in…
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Acclaimed fantasy 4X Endless Legend is currently free to download and keep
Endless Legend, the superb fantasy 4X game from developer Amplitude Studios, is currently free to download and keep on Steam – and there’s still almost a week to claim it. Amplitude – which has also developed the likes of Endless Space, Dungeons of the Endless, and Humankind – released Endless Legend back in…
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Dread Delusion is more than the retro Skyrim comparisons, it’s a deep, dark, and nauseatingly good RPG
The first thing you’ll likely notice about Dread Delusion is that it’s hideous, albeit artfully so; a queasy nightmare of blocky textures and shimmering, lurching geometry that builds its world around the low-poly constraints of 90s and early 2000s gaming – Bethesda’s Morrowind being an obvious touchstone – to woozily disorientating effect. Its oppressive sky…
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Darksiders developer’s Wayfinder ditches free-to-play and online following split from Warframe studio
Wayfinder, the free-to-play online action-RPG from Darksiders developer Airship Syndicate, has been reworked and reannounced as a single-player paid title following Warframe developer Digital Extremes’ decision to hand back publishing rights late last year. Wayfinder released into early access last August as an online fantasy action-RPG with a free-to-play monetisation model similar to…
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Take-Two boss claims publisher hasn’t shut down OlliOlli and Kerbal Space Program 2 studios
Take-Two Interactive chief exexutive officer Strauss Zelnick has claimed the publisher has not shut down OlliOlli developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 studio Intercept Games, despite reports and evidence to the contrary earlier this month. Word of Intercept Games’ demise – and the loss 70 jobs at the studio – came via…
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2K to reveal new game in one of its “biggest and most beloved” franchises next month
2K Games is poised to reveal the next game in one of its “biggest and most beloved” franchises, with the grand unveiling set to happen in June. More specifically, the big reveal is scheduled for Friday, 7th June, and will take place during Geoff Keighley’s big Summer Game Fest live event. News…