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This weekend, Nintendo decided to have yet another Splatfest take place in Splatoon 3. This time, it was a Splatfest between Team Friends, Team Family and Team Solo. That said, it is Sunday night now, so the Splatfest has concluded. All that is left is for a winner to be officially declared once again. Well,

The action fantasy/sword and sorcery genre on the Xbox is not noticeably underpopulated, which speaks to the enduring popularity of stepping into a character’s shoes and swinging a sword about, or firing off spells.  Well, strap yourselves in as Rebel Act Studios, Fire Falcom and SNEG have delivered another of these games, just this time

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes

Titan Forge Games has announced a sequel to its popular MOBA SMITE, promising changes like more godlike impact, strategy, and player creativity. SMITE 2 will be released on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and players can register for alpha testing right now. SMITE 2 will evolve in several ways [embedded content] The new game

Announced today, Beelzebub and company are rolling out onto PlayStation 5 & PlayStation 4 on April 26! In this action-RPG players will be able to explore a vast map with a wide array of vehicles in a world developed by the creator of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama. Become the main character, Beelzebub, and lead your

11-year-old game Resident Evil Revelations recently released an update that apparently introduced DRM, only to swiftly roll back the patch after complaints from players that it reportedly caused performance issues. Capcom aren’t giving up that easily on their vow to crack down on mods, though.

Developer Titan Forge Games and publisher Hi-Rez Studios have announced Smite 2, a sequel to Smite that is rebuilding the third-person action MOBA from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5. There’s no release date for the sequel, but Titan Forge Games says it’s coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam

Maxis has announced what The Sims 4 players can expect between now and April. According to the developer, Sims players can expect two “highly anticipated” Kits, one beautiful SDX Drop, one Sparkling Stuff Pack, one Celebratory Kit, and one co-created Style Kit during the period. [embedded content] To see this content please enable targeting cookies.

Shinorubi feels like a game that came about by providing prompts to an AI specialising in video game building (coming soon, no doubt), feeding it information on various historical works of a particular nature, and then publishing whatever it spat out. That might sound mean to the humans that created it, but it’s an apt

You may recall that, earlier today, leaker Pyoro teased on Twitter that there would be news of a game that would be added to Nintendo‘s Game Boy Advance Switch Online + Expansion Pack game library. It wasn’t known what, exactly, the game would be. It was also unknown when the game would be added. Well,

New ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 4 DLC? Still playing ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 4? You may like to know that 3 new Film: Red DLC packs have sailed into the game.  Adding in a plethora of new content are a number of new DLC packs for Bandai Namco’s ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS 4. Having first

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Alpha ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes

Mojang Studios has announced that Minecraft Legends content updates have come to an end. The last free content addition will be the final Lost Legend: Snow vs Snouts. The good news is that there’s one last freebie skin to claim from the Minecraft Legends Marketplace, which is a thank-you from the development team. Minecraft Legends

Sins of the Flesh is the next update for our darkly cute cult sim Cult of the Lamb, and it’s the biggest yet. As well as a shrine-load of killer new content and a congregation of quality of life improvements, a deliciously evil new resource has been thrown into the macabre mix: Sin. But how

Cult Of The Lamb‘s Sins Of The Flesh update promised to allow your followers to breed, in a way, by finding an egg that would hatch and produce new potential cult members. Players of the action-RPG/management hybrid on social media quickly did what people on social media do: demanded that they add sex. Its developers

Kaitlyn Dever has been officially announced as The Last of Us TV adaptation’s Abby. Kaitlyn Dever is perhaps best known for her role in 2019’s Booksmart, but video game fans may know her best as the voice of Cassie Drake, seen at the end of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Dever was also an early

Netflix is truly going all in on One Piece, as the show’s upcoming season Egghead Arc is set to air on the streaming service next week. Over the weekend, the official Netflix Anime account announced that the next season of the long-running anime would be streaming starting January 13, just a few days away. Don’t

Image: Unity Last year, the video game software provider Unity copped a lot of backlash when it announced plans to impose a “runtime fee” pricing policy. Now, following the departure of the CEO and president, the latest update reveals Unity will cut “25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs”. This information was revealed in a

Prominent gaming journalist and streamer Jeff Grubb has stated in the Game Mess Mornings show that he has heard that Microsoft is considering bringing Rare’s Sea of Thieves to both the Nintendo Switch family of systems and PlayStation 5. The news comes as Hi-Fi Rush is also rumoured to be releasing on a platform other

Call of Duty: Ghosts is one of the most maligned entries in the first-person shooter series, and for some, the first time when cracks started to appear after a string of rock solid entries that preceded it. The first Call of Duty to be released on Xbox One and with Infinity Ward spearheading the game

Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows, and Game Pass! Get more details on these upcoming games below and click their profiles for further info (release dates subject to change). Let’s jump in! Cynthia: Hidden in the Moonshadow

Naughty Dog is set to Release The Last of Us Part II Remastered on January 19. Players who own the PS4 version will be able to upgrade for a small fee, as Dog detailed in a recent tweet by the developer. The Last of Us 2 PS5 upgrade costs $10 According to Naughty Dog, PlayStation

It’s a new year, but we’re still thinking about the amazing games we played last year. This week, we’re highlighting some of your favorite captures from 2023 in Share of the Year:  __Auron__ shares Clive unleashing his power in Final Fantasy XVI DCTLOUVP shares Abby grimacing while fighting near fire in The Last of Us

Arthur ‘Mr. Podunkian’ Lee, one-time contributor to the megalithic Stardew Valley, is now working on a life sim of his own. It’s currently unnamed, but it’s set in a city, it’s got bikes, and it’s got a tentative intention to release in 2024.

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for season 2 of its hit animated series, Arcane. The next chapter of the League of Legends adaptation is scheduled to premiere this November.  Since it’s a teaser, the trailer doesn’t reveal much about what’s in store other than an ominous look at a sinister laboratory cooking up

NCSoft, the original publisher of the MMO City of Heroes, has officially granted a license to the fan-run project Homecoming, allowing the team to host and further develop the game legally. This marks a triumphant return for Paragon City, a once vibrant metropolis teeming with players that was shut down in 2012. Homecoming, known for

Image: The Pokémon Company Update #3 [Sat 6th Jan, 2024 05:30 GMT]: The fifth wave of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Switch Online icons is now available: Image: via Nintendo Everything / Nintendo Update #2 [Fri 29th Dec, 2023 03:00 GMT]: The fourth wave of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: The

Terraria is over a decade old now, but the game is still receiving content updates from Re-Logic every now and then. In fact, the game is supposed to get a new update, version 1.4.5., sometime later this year. Now that 2024 has arrived, Terraria fans are heavily interested in what the update will bring. However,

Should you like some quirk in your life, but still want your purchases to be of a decent quality, the team at GravaStar have your back.  In recent times they’ve been the creators of some cracking, but seriously weird, pieces of kit, excelling in our opinion with the GravaStar Mars Pro Speaker; a portable Bluetooth

Happy 2024! We hope your new year’s celebration was full of fun and games and that you have even more in store in the days to come. To help with that, let’s add some more games to your “to be played” list! Available Today Close to the Sun (Cloud, Console, and PC)Deep in international waters,