Evil Empire is seeking alpha testers for The Rogue Prince of Persia

Evil Empire has put out a call for alpha testers for its upcoming Prince of Persia roguelite. Announced on Wednesday, The Rogue Prince of Persia is a 2D action-platforming game coming to Steam Early Access on May 14. Players who want to get a taste of the action before then can now register to participate in an alpha test. Evil Empire, a French indie studio that worked on post-launch ...read more

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Crash Bandicoot 4 Has Reportedly Sold Over 5 Million Units

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is one of the best 3D platformers in recent memory, but there’s been strangely little information out there on how the game has performed from a commercial perspective. Activision hasn’t ever provided any sales figures for the title- though one developer’s LinkedIn profile may have revealed new details on that front. As spotted by Twitter user ...read more

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Custom GBA Cartridge Turns Handheld Into Controller for Switch

A hardware modder has created a custom Game Boy Advance cartridge that turns the handheld system into a controller for the Nintendo Switch console. Gamers have created a variety of unique and interesting hardware modifications for the Nintendo Switch, including custom Switch docks and controllers based on other properties to modify completely different electronics to make it function with the ...read more

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Helldivers 2 Players Are Running Into a Frustrating Damage Bug

Helldivers 2 players have begun expressing their frustration over bugs affecting their game experience, with one particular damage issue taking center stage. Their discontent is growing more vocal as the persistent issue is undermining the effectiveness of new Helldivers 2 weapons and content added by updates. With hundreds of thousands of players prosecuting the Helldivers 2 Galactic War on a ...read more

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EA Has Reportedly Cut The Entire Apex Legends QA Team In The UK

According to a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends quality assurance (QA) UK team is being entirely shutdown, with 40 contract developers impacted. EA has previously made cuts to specifically the QA team around Apex Legends, a choice that continues to confuse players, especially after Respawn is currently recovering from a massive issue that saw players lose all of their purchased and ...read more

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Minecraft Wraps Filming With Jason Momoa and Jack Black

Minecraft: The Movie has concluded filming and Jason Momoa is celebrating on social media. The DCEU star has been working hard on Minecraft and closing up the set is a big step toward people finally getting to see this movie. In the image he posted on Instagram, Jack Black is absolutely stoked to be a part of this project. There are some other behind-the-scenes moments of fun for fans waiting on ...read more

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Creators Share Updates on Part 3

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launched to rave reviews from both critics and fans. In our review, we gave it a 5 out of 5 and called it "a perfect sequel." However, it's not the end of the FF7 story, as the team is scheduled to make at least one more game to finish the story. While we haven't gotten a release date for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3, we know it's coming. Recently, a new Final Fantasy 7 ...read more

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Stellar Blade Reveals PS5 File Size

Since releasing a recent demo, the Stellar Blade developers at Shift Up have been giving fans all kinds of information to whet their appetite ahead of the game's release date. Last week, we learned that Stellar Blade will get a post-launch New Game+ Mode alongside new costumes for the game's protagonist. Today, we learned even more important information for players working with limited hard drive ...read more

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Crash Bandicoot 4 Has Reportedly Sold Over 5 Million Units

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is one of the best 3D platformers in recent memory, but there’s been strangely little information out there on how the game has performed from a commercial perspective. Activision hasn’t ever provided any sales figures for the title- though one developer’s LinkedIn profile may have revealed new details on that front. As spotted by Twitter user ...read more

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EA Has Reportedly Cut The Entire Apex Legends QA Team In The UK

According to a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends quality assurance (QA) UK team is being entirely shutdown, with 40 contract developers impacted. EA has previously made cuts to specifically the QA team around Apex Legends, a choice that continues to confuse players, especially after Respawn is currently recovering from a massive issue that saw players lose all of their purchased and ...read more

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Minecraft Wraps Filming With Jason Momoa and Jack Black

Minecraft: The Movie has concluded filming and Jason Momoa is celebrating on social media. The DCEU star has been working hard on Minecraft and closing up the set is a big step toward people finally getting to see this movie. In the image he posted on Instagram, Jack Black is absolutely stoked to be a part of this project. There are some other behind-the-scenes moments of fun for fans waiting on ...read more

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Maneater Has Sold Over 14 Million Units

Allowing you to play as a shark and wreak all sorts of havoc in an open world setting, Maneater has praised for being big, dumb, gleeful fun by most who played it, and that reception has translated to impressive sales for the action RPG. Developer Tripwire Interactive recently put out a press release announcing the appointment of Matthew LoPilato as its new CEO, with former CEO Alan Wilson ...read more

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Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is Coming to Consoles on April 25

Developer KillPixel Games and publishers 3D Realms and Fulqrum Publishing have announced that old-school shooter Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox series X/S, and Nintendo Switch on April 25. The console release of the game follows the PC version having left Early Access back in February. For context, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin originally hit PC as an Early Access title all ...read more

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Rumor Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Is Warhorse Studios’ New Game

Warhorse Studios has confirmed it is announcing its new project next week, but stopped short of confirming exactly what the title is. However, leaker Tom Henderson claims that it’s none other than Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Kingdom Come Deliverance was released in February 2018 for PS4, PC, and Xbox One, and sold over six million copies worldwide as of February 2024. So, the game was ...read more

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MultiVersus Update Promises Smoother Netcode, Online Play at Launch

Last year, publisher Warner Bros. Games shut down its platform fighter MultiVersus after its open beta period ended. While development was relatively quiet for several months after that, it was eventually announced last month that MultiVersus will finally have its full launch in May. The developers at Player First Games then started to announce new features and content, including the new NHL ...read more

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Xbox Makes Major Cloud Gaming Improvements

Microsoft has unveiled a range of new social-centric features for Xbox Cloud Gaming, including the ability to discover and manage friends, initiate parties outside of gaming sessions, maintain party chats between game sessions, and more. These significant enhancements, along with fixes, are now available for Xbox Insiders enrolled in the Alpha Skip-Ahead program. Xbox Cloud Gaming is a service ...read more

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Crash Bandicoot 4 Has Reportedly Sold Over 5 Million Units

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is one of the best 3D platformers in recent memory, but there’s been strangely little information out there on how the game has performed from a commercial perspective. Activision hasn’t ever provided any sales figures for the title- though one developer’s LinkedIn profile may have revealed new details on that front. As spotted by Twitter user ...read more

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Helldivers 2 Players Are Running Into a Frustrating Damage Bug

Helldivers 2 players have begun expressing their frustration over bugs affecting their game experience, with one particular damage issue taking center stage. Their discontent is growing more vocal as the persistent issue is undermining the effectiveness of new Helldivers 2 weapons and content added by updates. With hundreds of thousands of players prosecuting the Helldivers 2 Galactic War on a ...read more

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EA Has Reportedly Cut The Entire Apex Legends QA Team In The UK

According to a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends quality assurance (QA) UK team is being entirely shutdown, with 40 contract developers impacted. EA has previously made cuts to specifically the QA team around Apex Legends, a choice that continues to confuse players, especially after Respawn is currently recovering from a massive issue that saw players lose all of their purchased and ...read more

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Minecraft Wraps Filming With Jason Momoa and Jack Black

Minecraft: The Movie has concluded filming and Jason Momoa is celebrating on social media. The DCEU star has been working hard on Minecraft and closing up the set is a big step toward people finally getting to see this movie. In the image he posted on Instagram, Jack Black is absolutely stoked to be a part of this project. There are some other behind-the-scenes moments of fun for fans waiting on ...read more

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Creators Share Updates on Part 3

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth launched to rave reviews from both critics and fans. In our review, we gave it a 5 out of 5 and called it "a perfect sequel." However, it's not the end of the FF7 story, as the team is scheduled to make at least one more game to finish the story. While we haven't gotten a release date for Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3, we know it's coming. Recently, a new Final Fantasy 7 ...read more

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Stellar Blade Reveals PS5 File Size

Since releasing a recent demo, the Stellar Blade developers at Shift Up have been giving fans all kinds of information to whet their appetite ahead of the game's release date. Last week, we learned that Stellar Blade will get a post-launch New Game+ Mode alongside new costumes for the game's protagonist. Today, we learned even more important information for players working with limited hard drive ...read more

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Maneater Has Sold Over 14 Million Units

Allowing you to play as a shark and wreak all sorts of havoc in an open world setting, Maneater has praised for being big, dumb, gleeful fun by most who played it, and that reception has translated to impressive sales for the action RPG. Developer Tripwire Interactive recently put out a press release announcing the appointment of Matthew LoPilato as its new CEO, with former CEO Alan Wilson ...read more

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Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is Coming to Consoles on April 25

Developer KillPixel Games and publishers 3D Realms and Fulqrum Publishing have announced that old-school shooter Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox series X/S, and Nintendo Switch on April 25. The console release of the game follows the PC version having left Early Access back in February. For context, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin originally hit PC as an Early Access title all ...read more

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Custom GBA Cartridge Turns Handheld Into Controller for Switch

A hardware modder has created a custom Game Boy Advance cartridge that turns the handheld system into a controller for the Nintendo Switch console. Gamers have created a variety of unique and interesting hardware modifications for the Nintendo Switch, including custom Switch docks and controllers based on other properties to modify completely different electronics to make it function with the ...read more

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EA Has Reportedly Cut The Entire Apex Legends QA Team In The UK

According to a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends quality assurance (QA) UK team is being entirely shutdown, with 40 contract developers impacted. EA has previously made cuts to specifically the QA team around Apex Legends, a choice that continues to confuse players, especially after Respawn is currently recovering from a massive issue that saw players lose all of their purchased and ...read more

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Minecraft Wraps Filming With Jason Momoa and Jack Black

Minecraft: The Movie has concluded filming and Jason Momoa is celebrating on social media. The DCEU star has been working hard on Minecraft and closing up the set is a big step toward people finally getting to see this movie. In the image he posted on Instagram, Jack Black is absolutely stoked to be a part of this project. There are some other behind-the-scenes moments of fun for fans waiting on ...read more

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Minecraft Adds New Painting With Neat Reference in Latest Preview

Minecraft Bedrock Edition has added five new paintings as part of preview 1.21.0.21, and one of them has a clever reference to a famous real-life painting. Minecraft often releases snapshots for Java players to test upcoming features. But Bedrock players aren't left behind, and Mojang's sandbox rolls out the same features via previews. Minecraft players tested features such as the new Ominous ...read more

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Prototype Builds Of The Cancelled N64 Game 'Riqa' Published Online

One of the developers of the unreleased N64 game Riqa has recently published a bunch of prototype builds online in the closed Facebook group N64 Supergroup (as spotted by the preservationist LuigiBlood). Riqa, in case you've never heard of it before, was a third-person action shooter that was in development at the UK company Bits Studios (who were also behind the cancelled Die Hard 64), with ...read more

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Nintendo 3DS And Wii U Online Servers Are Taken Down For Good

Online multiplayer on all Wii U and 3DS games has come to an end, as Nintendo shuts down the servers for good. This makes it impossible to use online functionality in games such as Pokemon X & Y, Splatoon, Mario Kart 8, and Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS - at least while using conventional means. From now on, the only way to access the online features in these games will be to rely on ...read more

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Unopened NES Games Sell for Ridiculous Prices Online

Retro video game collecting continues to rise in popularity and price, with a recent collection of original unopened NES games selling for upwards of $90,000 on eBay. Beloved classic Nintendo titles can frequently be found in online auctions, with bids rising into the tens of thousands of dollars, and this latest sale once again showcases the growing value of retro games among ...read more

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Apex Legends Is Replacing The Dropship With A Draft Mode

Just months after Legend abilities were shaken up by the addition of Apex Legends’ skill trees, pro players are facing another huge shift in how they play the game. The Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) is replacing the dropship that we know and love with instant-spawns across the map, and introducing a draft system so that teams can pick the POIs they spawn at more fairly. This is a huge ...read more

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Evil Empire is seeking alpha testers for The Rogue Prince of Persia

Evil Empire has put out a call for alpha testers for its upcoming Prince of Persia roguelite. Announced on Wednesday, The Rogue Prince of Persia is a 2D action-platforming game coming to Steam Early Access on May 14. Players who want to get a taste of the action before then can now register to participate in an alpha test. Evil Empire, a French indie studio that worked on post-launch ...read more

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Crash Bandicoot 4 Has Reportedly Sold Over 5 Million Units

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is one of the best 3D platformers in recent memory, but there’s been strangely little information out there on how the game has performed from a commercial perspective. Activision hasn’t ever provided any sales figures for the title- though one developer’s LinkedIn profile may have revealed new details on that front. As spotted by Twitter user ...read more

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Helldivers 2 Players Are Running Into a Frustrating Damage Bug

Helldivers 2 players have begun expressing their frustration over bugs affecting their game experience, with one particular damage issue taking center stage. Their discontent is growing more vocal as the persistent issue is undermining the effectiveness of new Helldivers 2 weapons and content added by updates. With hundreds of thousands of players prosecuting the Helldivers 2 Galactic War on a ...read more

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EA Has Reportedly Cut The Entire Apex Legends QA Team In The UK

According to a report from Insider Gaming, the Apex Legends quality assurance (QA) UK team is being entirely shutdown, with 40 contract developers impacted. EA has previously made cuts to specifically the QA team around Apex Legends, a choice that continues to confuse players, especially after Respawn is currently recovering from a massive issue that saw players lose all of their purchased and ...read more

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Minecraft Wraps Filming With Jason Momoa and Jack Black

Minecraft: The Movie has concluded filming and Jason Momoa is celebrating on social media. The DCEU star has been working hard on Minecraft and closing up the set is a big step toward people finally getting to see this movie. In the image he posted on Instagram, Jack Black is absolutely stoked to be a part of this project. There are some other behind-the-scenes moments of fun for fans waiting on ...read more

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Maneater Has Sold Over 14 Million Units

Allowing you to play as a shark and wreak all sorts of havoc in an open world setting, Maneater has praised for being big, dumb, gleeful fun by most who played it, and that reception has translated to impressive sales for the action RPG. Developer Tripwire Interactive recently put out a press release announcing the appointment of Matthew LoPilato as its new CEO, with former CEO Alan Wilson ...read more

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Slay the Spire 2 is Developed on Godot Engine

Mega Crit surprised many fans when it announced Slay the Spire 2, a sequel to its popular rogue-like deck-builder. Launching next year for PC via Steam Early Access, it features new and returning classes, enemies, bosses and more. However, it’s also developed on a new engine, with the developer confirming to IGN that it ditched Unity in favor of the open-source Godot engine. While it allows ...read more

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Rumor Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Is Warhorse Studios’ New Game

Warhorse Studios has confirmed it is announcing its new project next week, but stopped short of confirming exactly what the title is. However, leaker Tom Henderson claims that it’s none other than Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Kingdom Come Deliverance was released in February 2018 for PS4, PC, and Xbox One, and sold over six million copies worldwide as of February 2024. So, the game was ...read more

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Twitch CEO Addresses Demand for Rewind Feature

The CEO of Twitch has responded to viewers' demands for a rewind function on streams. The feature would put streaming on Twitch more in line with services like YouTube, which let viewers go back and see what they missed before they tuned in. While Twitch was once the undisputed leader of live video streaming on the internet, YouTube, Kick, and even Meta have all tried to draw users towards ...read more

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PPSSPP emulator eyeing App Store launch this year

Recently, Apple updated its guidelines and opened the doors of its App Store for emulators, marking a significant shift in policies. Now that one barrier is gone, the popular Android emulator PPSSPP's creator, Henrik Rydgård, has said that the PPSSPP emulator may debut on the App Store later this year, but only if Apple eases out an important restriction. Notably, according to the updated App ...read more

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Apple lifts App Store ban on game emulators

Apple has lifted its restriction on retro game emulators on the iOS App Store. In an update published on Friday, the company announced that game emulators – previously banned from the iPhone store – will now be allowed globally, as well as downloadable games. The company noted that developers are responsible for all software offered, “including ensuring that such software complies ...read more

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Discord Reportedly Rolling Out Ads Soon

Advertisements will reportedly be hitting the popular communications service Discord within the week. Discord is available on a wide range of devices, from Xbox to the Steam Deck, but it will soon change with the arrival of advertisements. Discord is the go-to online messaging system for many, featuring a wide range of robust chat and video conferencing features, as well as community-focused ...read more

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The Sonic 3 movie has wrapped filming

Sonic 3 director Jeff Fowler has announced that the movie has concluded filming. Posting to X, the director, wearing a shirt reading, “Keep Calm and Jim Carrey On,” showed off a film slate depicting Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 will be released in cinemas on December 20, 2024.

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Apple sues a former employee for allegedly leaking info

Leaks about upcoming and unconfirmed software and hardware products from Apple are to be expected these days. However, the company is taking a very public action against a former employee who Apple said leaked confidential info about a number of its products. MacRumors reports that earlier in March, Apple filed a lawsuit in California state court against a former employee, Andrew Aude. The ...read more

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Embracer CEO says it’s ‘too early’ to start buying studios again

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has told investors he believes it’s “too early” for the group to start considering studio acquisitions again, following the completion of its costly restructuring. On Friday, the company confirmed the sale of Borderlands developer Gearbox to Take-Two in a deal worth $460 million. The deal marked the end of a 9-month money-saving operation, which saw the sale ...read more

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Take-Two Interactive Acquires Gearbox Software from Embracer

After months of rumors, the Embracer Group has confirmed an agreement to sell parts of Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive for $460 million. The divested assets include Gearbox Software, Gearbox Montreal, Gearbox Studio Quebec and franchises like Borderlands, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Homeworld, Risk of Rain, Duke Nukem and Brothers in Arms. Embracer CEO and co-founder Lars ...read more

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V Rising – Legacy of Castlevania DLC Gets its First Gameplay Trailer

Developer Stunlock Studios has released a new trailer for the upcoming Castlevania collaboration DLC for vampire-themed survival game V Rising. The trailer, which you can check out below, was unveiled during the Triple-i Initiative showcase. The new gameplay trailer for V Rising – Legacy of Castlevania shows off some of the new building options players will have available for their castles. ...read more

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Stellar Blade Trailer Highlights Naytiba Bosses

Shift Up has a new trailer available for its upcoming action-adventure Stellar Blade, but it doesn’t highlight other cast members. Instead, it’s focused on the Naytiba, more specifically on the bosses of the species. Check them out below in all their shadowed glory. If you’ve played the demo, then two of them will look familiar. The winged Naytiba appears in the beginning section and is ...read more

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33 Immortals Closed Beta Starts May 24th, New Gameplay Revealed

It wouldn’t be an indie showcase without Thunder Lotus, and sure enough, the studio showcased some new gameplay for its upcoming co-op rogue-like 33 Immortals. Check it out below and marvel at the game’s art style and frighteningly opposing bosses. Before its early access launch later this year, players can sign up for the closed beta, which starts on May 24th and ends on June 2nd. The ...read more

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Hyper Light Breaker Teaser Showcases the Flame Wizard Mini-Boss

Heart Machine’s Hyper Light Breaker, a follow-up to the acclaimed Hyper Light Drifter, enters early access in the coming months. While it’s looked good thus far, as players defeat bosses and activate beacons to reach the Abyss King, the biomes have their own threats to beware of. Enter the Flame Wizard, a mini-boss that seemingly assails you at any time. As the name denotes, the Flame ...read more

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Slay the Spire 2 Announced for PC, Launches in 2025 for Early Access

Mega Crit has announced during its first Triple-i Initiative showcase that Slay the Spire, its smash-hit deck-building rogue-like, is getting a sequel. Slay the Spire 2 is coming to PC and will launch into Steam Early Access in 2025. Check out the first trailer below. Its Steam listing reveals that civilization has awaited a millennium for the Spire to reopen. New slayers will be playable with ...read more

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Destiny 2: The Final Shape Trailer Showcases New Prismatic Subclasses

During a recent preview showcase, Bungie dropped several new details for Destiny 2: The Final Shape, including a new subclass called Prismatic. Instead of catering to a single element like the current batch, it allows for combining Light and Darkness subclasses into one. It allows mixing and matching abilities, like unleashing a Needlestorm and using Phoenix Dive to recover health. You can ...read more

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V Rising Reveals Castlevania Collaboration

Konami collaborations were all the rage during today's Triple-I Initiative digital event. Vampire Survivors announced content based on Contra, while V Rising is getting in on the action with content based on Castlevania. The latter collaboration will begin on May 8th, and will see the addition of Simon Belmont. The content will be free to all V Rising players, but there will also be a paid Legacy ...read more

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Mortal Kombat 1 – Ermac Joins Roster on April 23rd

NetherRealm Studios’ Mortal Kombat 1 will see the debut of its next DLC fighter, Ermac, on April 23rd. However, Kombat Pack owners gain early access starting on April 16th. Check out his moves in the first gameplay trailer below. Utilizing telekinesis and acting as a vessel for departed souls, Ermac deftly combines both in combat. He can use spirits to effectively snare opponents, leaving ...read more

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