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Summary We go hands-on with the thrilling co-op first-person shooter from the creators of the acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. The Back 4 Blood open beta starts today for those who have pre-ordered the game. Back 4 Blood launches October 12 for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S and will be available day one with

Remember a time before Apex Legends and Warzone, where multiplayer shooters were less focused on faux-military realism and more on arcadey swashbuckling? Splitgate remembers, taking a page from the deathmatch book Halo and Unreal wrote and adding its own chapter with portals. There are moments of brilliance thanks to being able to pop out of

Mass Effect Legendary Edition has surpassed publisher Electronic Arts’ initial sales forecasts. In a recent earnings call, CEO Andrew Wilson states that the remaster droves sales performance “well above expectations” as well as “reigniting” fan’s passion for the series. Additionally, he noted that Respawn Entertainment’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order releasing on Xbox Series X and PlayStation

Last October, we launched Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, our very first online multiplayer project as a studio, which expanded the gameplay of Ghost of Tsushima into a supernatural world inspired by Japanese mythology. And to say that your support and enthusiasm blew our wildest expectations out of the water is an understatement. We have loved

The full sentiment, which you’ve perhaps seen floating about social media, is “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding”. That’s exactly what the games in this particular Itch bundle of 28 indie games are. A good number of people were not

With only a few weeks until launch, Amazon has decided to take another month to polish New World before release. Announced today on Twitter, the upcoming MMO will now be launching on September 28 instead of its previously planned date of August 31. New World’s Twitter account provided a statement alongside the announcement of the

By Sherif Saed4 August 2021 12:24 GMT Sony has revealed one way it’s hoping to meet the immense demand for PS5. As part of a post-earnings call with investors, discussing Sony‘s financial results for the first quarter of FY2021, the company shared an interesting detail about its PS5 manufacturing process. Watch on YouTube CFO, Hiroki

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you haven’t had enough of fighting interdimensional aliens to save science and the world, never fear: Half-Life fans are at it again with another remake, this time titled Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection. Valve reporter Tyler McVicker confirmed the legitimacy

The portability of Nintendo Switch makes it a great system to play a wide variety of genres, and while visual novels can be enjoyed perfectly well on your TV, there’s something about playing them on a handheld which just feels ‘right’. Since launch, the console has accrued some great examples of the genre, and the

Ever since the game launched a couple of years ago, Tetris 99 has been doing Maximus Cup events every now and then. These usually happen to celebrate some first-party content that recently launched on the Nintendo Switch, usually a game, and the theme you can unlock during the event is usually based on what the

For many, Orcs Must Die! 3 will be thought of as just another modern day action-tower defense throwaway. It’s a game that attempted to reignite the genre on Google Stadia before moving over to mainstream consoles, once the initial appeal of Google’s game streaming failed to properly take off.  But dismissing what Robot Entertainment have

What are the most important moments in your life? Lost At Sea is a game about life and death, about coming to terms with your past and about family. Set on a beautiful island, this game will force you to look past your fears and take stock of your life through imaginative puzzles and a

Perhaps no modern game is more blunt about its influences than Eldest Souls. Despite having a name that would make a copyright lawyer sweat, this overtly FromSoftware-inspired action game manages to establish its own blend of addictive, brutal combat and gorgeous art direction that rivals its 2D and 3D peers. It doesn’t mirror their same

Blazing Griffin and Microids have announced that their detective adventure, Murder Mystery Machine, will release on the PlayStation 4 among other platforms on August 25th. Players will be tasked with examining crime scenes and helping District Crime Agency officials with investigating the murder of a politician named Frank Daniels, who was found dead following an apparent burglary.

Last week, we asked you to keep out of the shadows in the dangerous world of A Plague Tale: Innocence. While avoiding plague-infesting supernatural rats, you shared Amicia and Hugo’s best moments using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights:  RyoppyGamePhoto shares Amicia carrying Hugo as he grows weak. DKANG0316 shares Hugo’s connection to the

Median XL is one of the oldest and most popular mods for Diablo 2 – and it’s still being updated. A trailer was released last night for Sigma 2.0, the mod’s “largest engine and content patch.” It’ll bring new skills, progression changes, endgame content, and quality-of-life features including a revamped UI, colour blind mode, and

One of the best moments of Pokémon Red and Blue is finally obtaining the bicycle. Quickly speeding across the world you spent hours trudging across on foot feels liberating and you appreciate it as much as any of your pocket monsters. Well, what if I told you that The Pokémon Company is giving away a real-life version of

Dean Hall’s Icarus will not be released in August as originally planned. The space survival game Icarus, from the fella that brought you DayZ, will now be released in November. Watch on YouTube According to Hall, the game needs a “little bit more time to bake to be the most awesome.” An official statement from

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Hopefully, you haven’t needed a GPU in the last year because prices have been out of control. The combination of semiconductor shortages and pandemic-boosted gaming pushed prices up, but it was cryptocurrency that made graphics cards worth their weight in

We still can’t quite believe that the Life is Strange games are coming to Switch, but it’s just over a month until we get True Colors on the Switch, and a couple of weeks longer than that until we can play the Life is Strange Remastered Collection, too. What a year! Ahead of the imminent

Nintendo, Suda51, and Grasshopper Manufacture, have unleashed a fresh new trailer for No More Heroes 3 on the Nintendo Switch system ahead of the game’s release next month. The latest No More Heroes trailer introduces you to the various Alien bosses which make up the Galactic Superhero Rankings which Travis will have to face on

You belong to The Ascent Group, but do you think you can survive without it? A solo and co-op action-shooter RPG set in a sci-fi cyberpunk world, The Ascent is the first title from Swedish indie studio Neon Giant. Players can now explore the brave new world of Veles in this dystopian RPG shooter, which

I’m always up for a good old-fashioned Diablo-style action-RPG. But The Ascent spices things up by setting its horde-hunting, XP-grinding gameplay in a beautifully realized cyberpunk world, then adds another unique layer on top of that by virtue of the fact that combat is more twin-stick shooter than melee clickfest. The result is a game

The new Seagate FireCuda 530 internal SSD expansion will be fully compatible with the PS5 internal SSD slot and will come in 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB storage sizes. Seagate revealed that the M.2 SSD has met “all of the PS5 requirements” after testing with Sony, making the internal SSD storage expansion the first to be

In Life is Strange: True Colors, Alex’s psychic power of Empathy is brought to life through unique gameplay and cinematic experiences. Emotions are expressed by auras around other characters, which can explode into novas of light and color when the emotion becomes overwhelming. Each of these experiences transforms Alex’s world, offering her valuable insights into

Hear that? It’s the approaching release date for audio-only action adventure The Vale. The accessible adventure about a blind princess challenges you to combat driven by audio cues and haptic feedback. Developers Falling Squirrel have announced that you’ll be able to tackle the adventure yourself next month, although you can also take it for a

Microsoft just revealed its Xbox Games With Gold lineup for August, and now it’s time for PlayStation to show off its lineup. Where Xbox is leaning into that Lost Planet love, PlayStation is going in a different direction with Hunter’s Arena: Legends and some Tennis-inspired adventures.  Just like every month, the new lineup is yours to keep

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has issued a public statement in response to the sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit that’s been filed against the company. Kotick addressed a message to all employees concerning the lawsuit brought by the state of California over allegations of harassment and bullying last week, and notes that the company’s response could have

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. New regulations have gone into effect in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington that prevent Alienware from continuing to ship high-end desktops to customers that live in these locations, the company said. While Alienware is the only manufacturer we’ve

If you’ve been getting stuck into Pokémon Unite, the free-to-play Pokémon MOBA now available on Switch, you’ll be pleased to know that the game’s roster is getting a boost tomorrow. That’s right, from 28th July, the Psychic and Fairy-type Gardevoir will be gliding into battle. As you can see from the clip below, Gardevoir is