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Sector 1: Dreadshore, Meet Your Maker’s first major content update, is arriving tomorrow giving players all-new tools to put their brutal creativity to the test.  If you’re new to the wasteland, Meet Your Maker is a first-person building game where players can create deadly fortresses using traps, guards, and more, or raid those built by

Xbox executive Matt Booty did indeed discuss Microsoft pushing PlayStation out of the gaming business, according to an internal email shared as part of the ongoing legal proceedings between Microsoft/Activision and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The allegation was first made by a group of gamers who sued Microsoft to prevent the Activision merger. Despite

The world of Meet Your Maker is expanding with the arrival of Sector 1: Dreadshore. We’re packing a lot into this release, and since Dreadshore marks our first major content update, we’re celebrating by letting you claim the Sector 1 Arsenal Pack for free beginning tomorrow until July 10. With Meet Your Maker launched and

It used to be that getting 32GB of fast DDR4 RAM cost triple figures – but nowadays, thanks to the prevalance of DDR5 kits, getting even this amount of RAM in a competitive spec is quite affordable. This 32GB kit of Corsair Vengeance RS RGB RAM, for example, offers 3600MT/s speeds, decent CL18 timings and

Publisher Humble Games and developer Crema have revealed Temtem Showdown, a new standalone battle-focused game, and it’s out right now.  This surprise reveal comes less than a year after the full 1.0 release of Temtem, the game that Showdown is based on. Similar to Pokemon Showdown, Temtem Showdown is all about battling. It’s also free

It turns out that that Stephen King quote in the first Alan Wake was a gift from the author himself, and it only cost Remedy $1. You don’t need to be a detective to see the Stephen King influences on the original Alan Wake, even ignoring the fact that the titular Alan quotes him right

Image: WB Games Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, basic Batfan Gavin considers if Switch can handle this much Arkham… Fair warning, DC fans. I’m the quintessential ’80s kid for whom Keaton, the Burton Batmobile, and Elfman represent

There were a number of highly-anticipated games revealed during this month’s Nintendo Direct presentation including the magical Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a remake of the beloved Super Nintendo game, Super Mario RPG, revealed amongst others. The majority of the games are now available to pre-order on the Nintendo eShop and subsequently their file-sizes have

We were anything but brave in Brave Soldier – Invasion of Cyborgs. That’s not because its difficulty kicked our asses; if anything, it’s on the easy side. It’s because the ‘best’ way to play it also seemed to be the slowest. The enemies couldn’t shoot as far as we could, so we spent the majority

Alan Wake kicks off with a memorable quote from noted horror author Stephen King. In a game with Energizer batteries and Verizon ads (which were stripped from the 2021 remaster), this real-world crossover made more sense, given its subject matter. And it turns out that quote license only cost Remedy a single dollar. Sam Lake

Since the end of The Callisto Protocol’s main game, things have gone from bad to worse inside the penitentiary. The virus that’s been wreaking havoc inside is threatening to escape the prison and it’s up to you to retrieve Mahler’s data and transmit it off-world. It’s not going to be a walk in the park.

Best Way have announced the release date for their WW2 RTS Men Of War 2, and it’s coming in one of the busiest months of the year so far for big PC releases. Arriving on September 20th on Steam and the Epic Games Store, Men Of War 2 joins the likes of Lies Of P,

Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond has claimed that Activision Blizzard demanded Microsoft provide a larger revenue share to put new Call of Duty games on the platform, according to a new report from IGN.  This news comes from yesterday’s court trial between Xbox (and Activision Blizzard) and the Federal Trade Commission over Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of

A huge amount of new industry info has been revealed overnight, as the FTC has taken Microsoft to court for the company’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard King. Emails, prior mergers, and more were dredged up as the July deadline for the deal draws near. Numerous people were brought up to the stand, including Bethesda’s

Image: Nintendo Man, we really miss the days when print magazines were all the rage. Yes, call us old, we don’t care! There was something special about picking up the latest issue of Nintendo Official Magazine (later succeeded by Official Nintendo Magazine, or ONM) and NGamer, especially when they included bonus goodies that you couldn’t

E3, or the Electronic Entertainment Expo for short, was cancelled this year. This, unsurprisingly, has raised the question of whether E3 will return next year, if at all. Unfortunately, if you’re wanting E3 to return, this latest development about the matter may not be what you’re wanting to hear. You see, a meeting packet from

Ah, Super Meat Boy. The mascot of XBLA nostalgia. The epitome of speedrunning. The reason for many a smashed controller. Welcome back to this meaty world, but in a way you’ve never seen before with Dr Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC. A Fiendish Puzzle Adventure! Dr Fetus’ Mean Meat Machine

Summary Embark on a heartwarming journey of self-discovery through music. A new arcade spin on a Guitar Hero formula, accessible to everyone. 100% Original music produced by Hyperstrange. Stepping into the World of Arcade Rhythm Games Rhythm games, those captivating, engaging experiences that combine our love for music with the thrill of gameplay, have absorbed players

Square Enix said that Final Fantasy 16 was going to have a Performance Mode, but that doesn’t automatically guarantee it’ll perform well. Certain outlets have now released technical breakdowns of the game and demonstrated how the RPG runs in practice. Final Fantasy 16’s two modes are quite different According to Digital Foundry, both the Quality

Hello everyone, I’m Yasuyoshi Yamamura, Art Director at Q-Games. Today I have some development insights to share with you to celebrate the upcoming release of our frantic party-brawler, PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe. Yasuyoshi Yamamura, Art Director at Q-Games Since the launch of the very first PixelJunk game on PS3 in 2007, PlayStation has been the spiritual

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the RTX 4060 Ti just came out but you should probably buy the RTX 3060 Ti instead. It’s around 85 to 90 percent of the performance at less than 70 percent of the cost – although you do give up better power efficiency and DLSS 3 on

If you subscribe to the digital edition of Game Informer, you can now learn all about Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. Following the cover reveal, our digital issue is now live to subscribers on web browsers, iPad/iPhone, and Android devices. Individual issues are also now available for purchase. You can download the apps to

It’s always, always a good sign when a game feels so good that you want to spend as much time playing it as you can. But an even bigger sign that you’re hooked is when you feel compelled to try things you wouldn’t do in a similar game; play classes you tend to skip, or

Image: Nintendo Life / Nintendo Update [Tue 20th Jun, 2023 06:18 BST]: We’ve got some good news and some bad news – Legend of Zelda amiibo are back in stock in North America. They seem to be getting restocked in waves on websites like Best Buy and Amazon, so you might be in luck depending

Remember Chocobo GP? The game released on the Nintendo Switch last year. Unfortunately, the game became rather infamous for its micro-transactions and a few characters that couldn’t be unlocked in-game and for free. Earlier this month, the game had been removed from the Nintendo Switch eShop, and now we know why. A few days ago,

If you’re going to pick a movie to steal from, you could do a lot worse than Innerspace. Yep, this isn’t your traditional shoot ’em up foray into space: this is a run through the human body. You’re Dennis Quaid, flying through the body of Martin Short, clearing out toxins with a machine gun.  Well,

Pixel Ripped 1978 just came out and Pixel Ripped 1995 just got its first trailer for PSVR2, so that just leaves Pixel Ripped 1989, the first game in the series. Developer Arvore has talked vaguely about a Pixel Ripped 1989 PSVR2 port in the past, and now the team has given another update on it

Before Escape Academy, Coin Crew Games produced location-based entertainment (LBE) experiences such as escape rooms and arcade cabinets. Producing an escape room called Space Squad in Space is how Wyatt Bushnell and Mike Salyh met, placing them on the path to founding Coin Crew Games.  The original goal for the studio was to design casual

On June 27th, Riot’s hero shooter Valorant will get a team deathmatch mode. Teams of five will be able to do battle without the need to buy weapons at the start of each round, Counter-Strike-style, as they do in the main game. There will also be three new maps to play on.

Curious players can get their hands on Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders for the first time via a closed alpha later this month.  On June 29, the PvPvE extraction shooter will get its first test out in the wild, so to speak. You’ll have to sign up on Steam to participate in the alpha, and a new