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Here are this week’s games and add-on deals available from the Microsoft Games Store. Discounts are valid now through July 24, 2023 (actual end date varies by sale). The Ultimate Game Sale runs until 31 July. Read more about it over at Xbox Wire. Starting September 14, Xbox Live Gold members will automatically become Game

The Last of Us Part II writer Neil Druckmann is already heavily involved with the Emmy-nominated HBO series. And now its other writer, Halley Gross, is joining the show, too, meaning she will be part of the team responsible for adapting the game she helped write. The Last of Us Season 2 might still hit

This is your early heads-up to set an alert for July 19. Because in just under a week, the Summer Sale lights up PlayStation Store, bringing with it blazingly hot discounts on thousands of games across PS5 and PS4.   Game discounts will be offered for a limited time, and some titles will leave the sale

Dominions 6 is in development and is expected to release “at the end of the year.” The low-key announcement was made on Steam’s Dominions 5 discussion forum, with designer Kristoffer Osterman saying that the next iteration of the fantasy 4X would have “more changes than any previous version, both mechanics-wise and UI/QoL-wise.”

Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical has been delayed by one week.  Initially due out on August 3, the musical RPG will now hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on August 10. As for why, publisher Humble Games and developer Summerfall Studios says it is taking the extra week

Anna Megill, the narrative lead on the upcoming Fable game, has announced that she’ll be stepping down from her role in August. The developer shared the news on her personal Twitter account, where she spoke about the pleasure of working on the project. “Friends, I have news,” reads Megill’s tweet. “In August, I’m stepping away

Neon White might not necessarily be widely known, but the first-person action platform card shooter where you must exterminate demons from Heaven is well worth your time. If you have been holding out for a physical release, since it arrived on the Switch eShop in June last year, we’ve got some good news. Physical distributor

The individual who leaked that Atlus was working on a Persona 3 remake has stated on Twitter that the company is not working on any other reworks of their classic games series. The leaker claims that the majority of staff are working on the upcoming Persona 6. The individual went on to say that there

Games are leaving the Game Pass service Any and all Game Pass subscribers will know all about the frequency of games that drop in – and out – of the service. With the likes of Exoprimal, Common’Hood and more having joined the subscription fun in recent days, it’s only right then that we find a

The Last of Us got a big upgrade for the PlayStation 5, and it seems like its sequel might be getting a similar treatment. Series composer Gustavo Santaolalla appeared to have implied that a Last of Us Part II PS5 upgrade is in the works. Santaolalla claimed there is an “improved version” of The Last

Last week, we asked you to share your favorite gaming heroes using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s heroic highlights:  wingsforsmiles shares Cal from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor sorathluna shares Rivet from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart cold_desktop_4k shares Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West ScudmanVP shares Sam from Death Stranding Comput_ART shares Selene from Returnal

Dragon Age writer David Gaider’s next game Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical has been delayed a week to August 10th. Developers Summerfall Studios say the move gives them breathing room away from the “hotly anticipated” Baldur’s Gate 3, which is launching on Stray God’s old release date – August 3rd.

During today’s official reveal livestream, EA Sports revealed EA Sports FC 24, the replacement for its overwhelmingly popular FIFA franchise. The move away from the FIFA license was announced last year, and today, we got our first look at this year’s EA Sports soccer title. The big pitch this year from EA Sports is around

Roblox, one of the largest 3D immersive platforms, will soon be available on Meta Quest for any user 13 and older. This opens up another opportunity for you to create and share your experiences with millions in VR, and you can even bring your existing experiences to the headset. Meta Quest Pro To create a

[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube It’s sometimes easy to forget just how far The Legend of Zelda franchise has come over the years and how much we’ve all collectively experienced as fans. From the humble 3D beginnings of Ocarina of Time to the bonafide masterpiece that is Tears of the Kingdom, the franchise

You may recall that, earlier today, WayForward and Limited Run Games had officially announced that Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution, the lost sequel to the original Shantae game, was resuming development and would be getting a physical release on the Game Boy Advance. Following the announcement, there was some curiosity from fans on whether the game

Can you survive in Dead Man’s Diary on Xbox? If you are prepared to jump back into the first-person survival genre – following encounters with the extra-terrestrial in Greyhill Incident, and countless scares in Resident Evil’s world – then do we have the game for you! Dead Man’s Diary on Xbox puts a post-apocalyptic twist

The first-ever IGN x [email protected] Digital Showcase just wrapped up, and we had a lot of news about our upcoming indie games to share with you. With games coming to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PC, and Cloud Gaming – not to mention classic RPGs, Silent Hill-inspired horror, party games, and even groundbreaking interactive

There are winners and losers in every case, and the recent trial between Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission is no different. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley’s ruling in favor of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard states that, while Microsoft’s future plans for the Call of Duty franchise may be bad for Sony, they’re good for

“You’re not the only one who wants payback.” – Billy Butcher, The Boys (Ep. 306) The members of Task Force 141 remain in captivity, Vondel is under constant attack, and the appearance Supes from of The Boys adds a new superpowered element to the fight. It’s about to get wild in Season 04 Reloaded for

Sega Of America employees have successfully voted to unionise under the banner Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega (AEGIS). The new multi-department union represents over 200 employees at the company’s Irvine and Burbank offices, working across divisions including QA, marketing, localisation, product development, live service, and more. Yesterday’s vote had 91 workers voting “yes” and 26

Update, 7/10/23: AEGIS-CWA (Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega in partnership with the Communication Workers of America), the Sega of America union filed back in April, has won its union election, with 91 votes in favor of the union and 26 votes against it. With this election won, AEGIS-CWA is now the largest multi-department union of organized workers in

There’s no way The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom could have been inspired by Elden Ring, because everyone making it was just too busy doing just that. It’s not exactly a secret that Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki has taken a lot of inspiration from the Zelda series over the years. Elden Ring

Image: Bandai Namco With the Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster launching this September, we’re getting more and more details about these niche card-based RPGs from back in the GameCube days. And series director Yasuyuki Honne recently revealed that Baten Kaitos almost wasn’t called Baten Kaitos (thanks to our sister site, Time Extension!). Sharing

2023 has been a very bad year for Niantic. The company has been under fire for their changes to remote raids in Pokemon GO, they recently laid off 230 employees, and the mobile game has been dealing with all sorts of bugs and issues. That said, their woes are far from over, because there’s now

A confession – never have I ever played any of the games in the FLASHOUT series. So obviously it makes sense to start with the third game in the franchise, right? Of course it does.  Developed and published by Jujubee, FLASHOUT 3 wears its inspirations on its sleeve – If somebody crossed out the word

When we think about horror games there are common titles that come to our minds: Silent Hill, Resident Evil, or the most recent Amnesia or Layers of Fear, but where are the horror games that are suitable for a younger audiences? While on other media, like movies or books, the horror genre is not uncommon

In a new interview with Bloomberg, Sega’s co-Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi says the company is abandoning plans to develop blockchain games for the time being. According to a GDC survey from earlier this year only 23% of game developers are interested in using cryptocurrency or blockchain technology in their games. Sega won’t make blockchain

Hey everyone, Dylan Cuthbert here from Q-Games and I’m excited to reveal that PixelJunk Eden 2 is coming to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4! This year marked the 15th anniversary of the PixelJunk series, which started way back in 2007 with our first release on PlayStation 3. We’re going all out for the anniversary celebrations,

Gaze ye upon the latest edition of our best Anti-Prime Day deals guide: RPS’ annual attempt to make Amazon Prime Day a little less, uhhh, Amazony, while keeping to the theme of highlighting choice savings on PC gaming hardware. Fancy a bargain SSD, gaming monitor or graphics card, but are steadfast in your refusal to