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At The Game Awards 2023, The First Descendant revealed a Summer 2024 launch through a new cinematic trailer with the appearance of a new character. The First Descendant’s recent Crossplay Open Beta started on September 19 and lasted a week. The test supported cross-platform play, including the Xbox Series, and was available to players from

Activision announced on Thursday that Crash Team Rumble Season 3 will feature Spyro the Dragon and Elora and is now available for players to check out. The third season of content for the online multiplayer game will feature both Spyro and Elora (a character who appears in Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage!) as new playable characters.

Last month some of the biggest series received new entries in their libraries, along with some new franchises making their debut. Who takes top honors according to PlayStation players? How does it work? At the end of every month, PlayStation.Blog will open a poll where you can vote for the best new game released that

Influential British developer Jeff Minter, whose four-decade career spans the likes of Tempest 2000, Polybius, Space Giraffe and Revenge of the Mutant Camels, will be the focus of the next interactive documentary from the folks behind the roundly excellent Making of Karateka and Atari 50.

Mortal Kombat 1 launched back in September and became one of our favorite games of the year – read why in Game Informer’s Mortal Kombat 1 review here. Since its release, developer NetherRealm Studios has released additional characters, like Invincible’s Omni-Man, while teasing other new fighters like Quan Chi and DC’s Peacemaker. Now, Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon has

Alongside the launch of Fortnite Chapter 5: Season 1, Epic Games revealed Lego Fortnite, a new experience that takes the familiarity of Fortnite and mashes it together with Lego for a new survival adventure experience. Today, Epic Games and Lego released a cinematic trailer for Lego Fortnite that reveals crafting, combat, multiplayer team-ups, a massive

Bethesda has dropped an update for Skyrim Special Edition which adds a new paid mods page called Creations, among other things. With the update, Bethesda has done away with Creation Club, as Creations combines Skyrim’s existing mods, Creation Club items, and new creations under a single menu available. Skyrim Special Ediion This is an evolution

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube After a Direct announcement earlier this year, Batman: Arkham Trilogy is finally available on Switch. We are still hard at work on our review of the collection (keep your eyes peeled for that one), but in the meantime, the experts over at Digital Foundry have shared their technical

Nintendo has announced that the long-awaited Donkey Kong Country attraction will be up and running at Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in Spring 2024. The attraction has been in the works for a while, so it is good to have a release window for when park attendees will be able to sample it.

HOONIGAN drifts into The Crew Motorfest Is The Crew Motorfest the best racer of 2023? We think it’s right up there with the likes of Forza Motorsport. Whatever your whip though, we know that with Season 2 of The Crew Motorfest things are ramping up once more as the HOONIGAN team comes in, mostly sideways… 

Hi, Xbox Wire readers! Whitethorn Games has some fantastic news to share with you about Balloon Studios’ upcoming plant-puzzle adventure game, Botany Manor. Today, we’re extremely excited to announce that the game is set to release in Spring 2024 on Xbox Series X|S and will be available on day one with Xbox Game Pass! Botany

In just a few days, Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.1 will introduce a fully functioning NCART metro system for players to use. Today’s REDstreams show from developer CD Projekt Red also delved into several other new features that are coming soon, including radioport, replayable car races, boss fight improvements, and accessibility features, The Cyberpunk 2077 metro

Procedurally generated dungeon crawler Ancient Dungeon VR has a release date and is coming to PSVR2 next week. Ancient Dungeon VR Release Date Ancient Dungeon VR comes to PlayStation VR2 on December 8th as the PlayStation headset ends the year with a flurry of new titles, including Five Nights at Freddy’s Help Wanted 2 and

Ahead of today’s Fortnite Chapter 4 Big Bang Season finale event, Epic Games has released the trailer for Fortnite Chapter 5, Season 1. The trailer confirms the previously leaked image was accurate as Family Guy’s Peter Griffin, and Metal Gear Solid’s Solid are involved. Interestingly there’s a train running through the new map, and vehicles

Last week, we asked you to tap into the gaming moments that made you feel something powerful using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Simon0aVp shares Kratos growling and thrusting his body forward in God of War Ragnarök mr_normandie shares Jill weeping in Final Fantasy XVI jester1489246 shares a somber graveyard scene from Metal

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, the RPS Advent Calender 2023! Each day reveals a new favourite game from this year, leading up to our GOTY. Check the main calendar post to see the full list. Time to open the second door on our advent calendar. No doubt some of you will argue

Alongside a new trailer showing what Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will sound like in English, Sega also confirmed Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name’s English dub will release for free this month. The new trailer shows scenes that will be familiar to anyone who watched the Japanese trailer back in

Tom’s back by popular demand, but also to answer for his crimes against a previous guest: James Batchelor, author of The Best Non-Violent Video Games. For weeks following James’ deserved win, Tom and Conner said some Very Mean things about him and his book, and even implied that virtuous host Jim Trinca (who is fair

We’ve finally made it to the end of another year, and whilst December and January are always quieter than your average month for new releases, there are a fair few titles launching soon that are sure to pique your interest. We’ve been busy rounding up our usual selection of games headed to retail in the

The developers behind Sonic Mania, Evening Star, may not be working with SEGA on a new Sonic the Hedgehog game for the time being, but that doesn’t mean they’re not doing anything at all. Earlier this year, they announced a new game called Penny’s Big Breakaway. However, you may be curious to learn more about

Arcadian Atlas is now on console It’s pretty safe to say that the launch of Arcadian Atlas on Steam is one that is fairly ‘mixed’. Some love it, some hate it. We’re hoping that with the console launch we get to see it in a positive light.  Available right now on Xbox One, Xbox Series

Lead your team to victory in a tactical shooter, survive the night, experience the thrill of high-speed, or conquer the battlefield with Free Play Days! Rainbow Six Siege, Dead by Daylight, DriftCE and Hell Let Loose are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday November

Bokeh Game Studio, spearheaded by Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush creator Keiichiro Toyama has unveiled the latest in The Golden Hour video series. In this one, Toyama chats with horror Manga legend Junji Ito. Japanese horror legends unite It’s a dream meeting between two titans of Japanese horror, and the discussion itself sees Ito

On the surface, the adventures of a stoic monster-hunting hero exploring a grim fantasy world of dark magic and ancient lore might have little in common with a game like Destiny 2. But, when you look closer, it’s apparent that Destiny 2 and CD Projekt Red’s long-running The Witcher series have more in common than

With your help, I’m trying to answer the biggest question: what’s the best thing in video games? With a new wholly sensical face-off each week, we’ll surely soon discover the single absolute best thing. Last time, you decided that seeing your outfit in cutscenes is better than telefragging. I understand the yearning for fashion, absolutely

Capcom held a new showcase for Dragon’s Dogma 2, showing off more of the game’s fantastical action but giving fans the one thing they’ve wanted most: a release date. The hotly anticipated sequel is coming on March 22. If that date looks familiar, that’s because it was accidentally leaked not once but twice. The first

The “largest part” of the development team at CD Projekt Red is working on The Witcher 4, or whatever it will be titled. This was confirmed by the company’s CFO today in a financial results video. CD Projekt Red Q3 2023 financials video. “Regarding production tasks, the largest part of our dev team is working

Image: Konami Another week, another update for Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1. The latest patch bumps things up to ver. 1.3.1 which doesn’t seem to be all that big of an upgrade on Switch. The tweaks listed below cover those made on all consoles, and the eagle-eyed readers out there might just notice

It has been a little over a month since F-Zero 99 officially received its most recent major content update. Since then, Nintendo hasn’t really said much about their future plans for the game. However, it seems that that is now going to change. And the next content added might surprise you. You see, Nintendo has

When stepping into the world of UFC 5, it wasn’t just another gaming experience; it felt like a dive into the heart of mixed martial arts itself. As someone who was a huge UFC fan back in the day, getting to try out the latest cage fighting title from EA was something I approached as