Author: Rick Lane
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The next Doom game will be titled Doom: The Dark Ages and revealed at Xbox Games Showcase, report claims
The next Doom game will be titled Doom: The Dark Ages and revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, according to a new report. The report, which is from Insider Gaming and is unconfirmed, claims this new Doom game has been in development for four years, and will be set in a “medieval-inspired doom…
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Larian CEO reveals the studio ‘had to do a bit on crunch’ on Baldur’s Gate 3, but it was ‘certainly less’ than previous projects it has worked on
Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke has revealed the developer had to do “a bit of crunch” to finish its beloved RPG Baldur’s Gate 3, but the amount was “certainly less” than the studio has done on previous projects. As reported by GamesRadar, Vincke was queried about crunch during a Q&A session following a talk he…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is leaking like a freshly-stabbed Samurai, as main character art sneaks online ahead of imminent reveal
Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ formal reveal is just a few hours away, but information about the feudal Japan-set sequel is still leaking through the gaps in its Yoroi armour. Two days ago, the game’s official YouTube channel accidentally leaked a release date – November 15 this year, while yesterday saw prices for the game and DLC…
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Square Enix to ‘aggressively pursue’ a new multiplatform business strategy ‘designed to win over PC users’
Final Fantasy developer Square Enix has announced a new business plan in which it states its intent to “aggressively pursue a multiplatform strategy that includes Nintendo platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, and PCs”, possibly heralding an end to the publisher’s historic prioritization of Sony platforms. Titled “Square Enix Reboots and Awakens”, the plan opens with a frank…
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It sure looks like The Talos Principle 2 is about to get an expansion
Events are growing mysterious around The Talos Principle 2. More mysterious than usual, anyway, as it is a game with enigmas at its heart. A flurry of cryptic activity on various social media channels related to the game suggests some sort of major announcement, possibly for an expansion, is in the works. Earlier today, the…
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Dota 2’s Pudge becomes the MOBA’s first character to be played in over a billion matches
Dota 2’s Pudge has become the first character in the MOBA’s history to be played in more than a billion matches, making the portly butcher the game’s most popular character by about 300 million matches. As tracked by the website Dotabuff, Pudge had been played in 1,000,059,649 Dota 2 matches at the time of writing,…
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As Helldivers 2’s Steam reviews begin to recover, Arrowhead’s CEO shares an ‘accidental’ cape design based upon its Overwhelmingly Negative rating, and of course the community wants it added to the game
It’s been a rough few days for Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead. Seemingly blindsided by Sony’s attempt to restore the requirement for Steam players to link their game to a PlayStation Network account (which was suspended at launch due to the game’s extensive technical issues), the studio has seen its game subject to a ferocious review…
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NetherRealm gives us a proper look at Homelander in Mortal Kombat 1’s latest DLC trailer, and somehow the fatalities aren’t the grossest thing in it
I’ve long since become inured to Mortal Kombat’s grossout action. There are only so many ways to slice up a virtual human before it becomes passé, after all. But NetherRealm’s latest DLC trailer for Mortal Kombat 1, which gives us our first look at The Boys’ deeply disturbed superhero Homelander fighting in the game, has…
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Team Fortress 2 joins us in the modern age as Valve updates the 17 year old shooter to 64-bit
While Team Fortress 2 has received less attention from Valve than its other team-based shooter Counter-Strike 2, it hasn’t been abandoned as some corners of the Internet claim. The game has been consistently receiving small updates every few months, tweaking maps and characters as Valve sees fit. The latest update is more substantial than usual,…
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Prison Architect 2’s release delayed due to ‘new technical challenges’, has its sentence extended until September
Prison Architect 2, sequel to Introversion’s beloved incarceration simulation developed by Double Eleven, has been remanded in custody until September 3rd. The delay was announced on Paradox’s website, with the Prison Architect 2 team citing the emergence of ‘new technical challenges’ as the cause for the launch’s postponement. “While we currently have builds certified on…