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Quake 2 was supposed to be a surprise announcement at today’s QuakeCon but, along with being prematurely leaked and rated, the game appeared on the PlayStation Store for PS5 and PS4 a bit too early. One thing Bethesda Softworks did keep quiet, though, is that there will also be a physical edition of Quake 2

Overwatch 2: Invasion has arrived. Experience all-new OW2 Invasion story missions, a new support hero, new skins and cosmetic rewards, and all-new ways to play. Read on for an exclusive look at the new map, Suravasa, a beautiful garden sanctuary in the heart of India, and everything it has to offer. Discover the exotic gardens

Turbo Overkill reviewNow it’s left early access, Turbo Overkill is a retro-styled FPS where copious mutants make excellent grind rails for your chainsaw leg, but its momentum gets bruised by its longer run-time. Developer: Trigger Happy Interactive Publisher: Apogee Entertainment Release: August 11th 2023 On: Windows From: Steam, GOG Price: £20/€25/$25 Reviewed on: Intel Core

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III was recently announced to launch in November, and a new trailer teases its antagonist: Makarov. The final big bad from the original Modern Warfare trilogy is back in full force, which means bad news for Task Force 141.  Older fans know him as Vladimir Makarov, the side antagonist in

Sony has announced the batch of games PlayStation Plus users with an Extra or Premium subscription can download and play in August. This month’s lineup includes two indies available with Game Catalog on their respective launch days: Sea of Stars and Moving Out 2. Sea of Stars, a turn-based RPG, tells the story of two

Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life In a recent discussion with GamesIndustry.biz, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick voiced his opinions on whether a feature like backward compatibility has the potential to harm software sales on future systems, stating that if the feature is possible, then it should be implemented. This follows a recent report from VGC

Samba de Amigo: Party Central is almost here. In just a few weeks, the game will be officially launching on the Nintendo Switch. With the game’s launch so close, SEGA has decided to announce the first details on the post-launch content that the game will be receiving in the future. According to SEGA, 8 packs

Games can be stressful. Anyone who has ever tackled a Souls boss would have found themselves dying a thousand times. Or what about trying to perfect that split-second jump in Super Meat Boy or any of its hellish platform clones? It’s then when the anxiety level highs hit.  In fact, I much prefer a game

The former USSR was presented to us in the West as a place of misery, poverty and, at times, evil. During the cold war, the USSR was the bastion of the villain in movies and books. Look at Rocky IV to get an idea of what I’m talking about. But we never really knew about

I may well have said it before, but one of the joys about writing for an outlet such as TheXboxHub is that we cover pretty much any game going. No matter how many “A”s are slapped on the end of it, we will usually get a review out there at some point. This can often

Wild Card Football is the latest entry in Saber’s Playground Sports franchise. The game is set to launch on October 10 on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and today we’re excited to tell you more about the game and kick off our pre-orders by debuting four legacy players taking the field! Jerry Rice, Dan

Mortal Kombat 1 already has a ton of the iconic ninja fighters, but there’s been one big absence so far. That has now been addressed with the Mortal Kombat 1 Reptile trailer that officially announces the return of the reptilian green ninja. He was also joined by three other new characters: Havik, Ashrah, and Sareena.

Greetings, Travelers. This is the Genshin Impact dev team, and we’re proud to announce that Genshin Impact Version 4.0, As Light Rain Falls Without Reason, will arrive on Aug 16. In today’s blog, we’d like to take you to Fontaine, the upcoming fifth nation of Teyvat, where culture, art, and technology flourish under an intricate

Reality Bytes is a monthly feature all about virtual reality. This time Rick takes another look at the puzzles of The Room VR: A Dark Matter as it makes its way to PSVR2. Look, I could justify this month’s Reality Bytes in any number of ways. I could say the VR launch cupboard is a

Somerville is bringing its mysterious alien invasion to PlayStation consoles on August 31. The game comes from Jumpship, a studio formed by former Playdead (Limbo, Inside) CEO Dino Patti. It centers on a small family rocked by a sudden alien invasion of Earth, who must now survive by running and hiding. The game’s eerie atmosphere and lack

Fatal FUry: City of the Wolves has just been announced in an all-to-brief trailer at Evo 2023. A sequel to the 2D fighting game classic Garou: Mark of the Wolves 2, the game is apparently “in-development”, but with no release date given. You can watch it below: In the trailer, we get a brief look

It’s now a decade since Pikmin 3 first sprouted on Wii U in its non-Deluxe form, and with the release of Pikmin 4 and the previous mainline entries in Shigeru Miyamoto’s garden-inspired real-time strategy series on Switch, it seems like the perfect time to look back at all the variants of Pikmin that have bloomed

Arc System Works is best known for being the publishers of games from Guilty Gear and BlazBlue. However, their work isn’t limited to just those 2 franchises. In fact, they’re also the publishers for the UNI games. That said, UNI fans received a special treat from Arc System Works today. You see, Arc System Works

Ultimate General: Gettysburg on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch It was labelled one of the best strategy games of the 2010s. Yet it’s taken nigh-on a decade for Ultimate General: Gettysburg to come over to Xbox and the land of consoles. With a number of awards under its belt, and thousands of Very Positive reviews on

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! Broforce Forever (Cloud, Console, and

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was a big hit in 2022, and it seems like TT Games is trying to emulate that formula with Harry Potter. A Lego Harry Potter collection spanning the whole saga was reportedly leaked again before being quickly pulled down. This Lego Harry Potter game is allegedly going to be

With our latest Mm Original, Tren, out today in Dreams, we decided to catch up with Media Molecule creative director (and BeechCorp CEO) John Beech. Here, he talks to us about bringing his personal project in-house to Mm, how his childhood experiences of play inspired the toy train game, and how his relationship with toys

Portal 2 is obviously brilliant, in part because each of its chapters possesses a distinct charm. GLaDOS’ return, for instance, is a stretch of pure puzzling with just a dash of dread, while your first steps into the abandoned 1960s Aperture facility interrupt a fairly hopeless tone with an upbeat sense of discovery. For me,

The Lords of the Rings: Gollum launched in May with myriad issues, making it tough to play through at various points throughout the action-adventure game. Head here to read Game Informer’s Gollum review. However, developer Daedalic Entertainment is targeting many of those problems in the game’s PC version with a new patch that’s now live. 

Xbox is bringing 30 titles games to gamescom 2023 this month, and if you are heading to the show, be sure to stop by the Xbox booth to give some a try. Games on hand will include Towerborne, the newest adventure from the developers at Stoic, along with the latest content update to The Elder

Image: Square Enix Square Enix revealed the first of two unannounced DLC song packs coming to Theatrhythm Final Bar Line today via the official Final Fantasy series Twitter. The Bravely Default Series Pack launches on 11th October and will include six songs from Bravely Default and Bravely Default II. The DLC will be available to

By now, you have probably heard the news that Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is officially coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam this fall. Unfortunately, the game has been plagued with leaks for a good while now. It isn’t surprising, but it seems that another

There’s no doubt that the visually impaired have had the opportunity to become stars in film and games most recently. Daredevil has been the poster boy for the blind superhero, patrolling the streets of Hell’s Kitchen armed with super senses and an ultra-supersonic skill, picking out sounds to map out his route. In games, there

Helldivers 2 seems to be a shooter filled with all sorts of silly over-the-top violence much like Starship Troopers, which it was clearly inspired by. This has all been detailed a little more in the Helldivers 2 ESRB listing that goes through some of the violent actions players can partake in. Helldivers 2 is rated

Can you believe half of 2023 is over already? Time flies when you’re having this much fun gaming. While 2023 has already been one wild year for PlayStation gamers, the killer lineup for the rest of 2023 is every bit as exciting. In the words of the wise Samuel Drake: “I always felt that we