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Ubisoft's recently announced Assassin's Creed Shadows will reportedly have "mini battle passes" called Projects, though they are primarily used to unlock cosmetics.

It's been explained by Sony general manager Sadahiko Hayakawa that PlayStation has become much more concerned about "platform playtime" over the past couple of console generations, rather than software sales.

The CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, Johan Pilestedt, has said that he wants the game to go on "forever", even when the team eventually stops working on new updates.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is already being labeled as "woke" and "disrespectful" following its announcement trailer, primarily due to main characters Naoe and Yasuke, the latter of whom is historically considered Japan's first black samurai.

A new update on the Toys For Bob website has Crash Bandicoot fans in a frenzy, as the site has shed its former appearance and is now displaying a purple tiki mask on a black background.

Marvel has spent the last 16 years bringing some of its most iconic comic book characters to life, introducing them to millions more people than ever knew of them in the comics through the MCU's movies and TV shows. Odds are you'd not heard much, if anything, about characters like Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, and Drax before the MCU. Particularly Drax and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy who shot to stardom thanks to their first movie. Fast forward a decade and Groot is now well-loved enough to have an entire range of his own Funko Pops drop all at the same time.

Just like Star Wars: Outlaws, physical copies of Assassin's Creed Shadows will require an internet connection for installation, a move that seems to be becoming the norm for Ubisoft titles.

Ubisoft just announced that it has cancelled the upcoming free-to-play shooter The Division Heartland three years after having been announced.

HBO has revealed the first official images from the second season of The Last of Us, which shows Ellie and Joel looking a lot older. Well, Joel certainly looks older, at least.

Last month, a Helldivers 2 update made it so that the fewer players you had in your party, the more enemy patrols would spawn. Playing the game solo became significantly harder, but thankfully, developer Arrowhead is rolling it back.

The second Mortal Kombat movie has reportedly been given a release date of October 24, 2025, meaning that we'll be waiting more than a year to see Karl Urban as Johnny Cage.

After what has probably felt like the longest week ever for Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, we saw the release of the Polar Patriots Warbond. Unfortunately for Arrowhead, that's brought forth a wave of entirely different problems, as satisfaction with this month's Warbond is at an all-time low.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has been officially rated in Singapore, with a potential release window of 2024 attached alongside it.

Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC isn't too far away right now, releasing in just over a month's time on June 21. There's still quite a lot of time to get theorizing about the game's big bad guy, story, characters and everything else inbetween, but one of the more interesting fan theories that has surfaced recently is all about the game's setting.

Fallout 4 fans have started desperately hoping that Bethesda doesn't release any more updates for the title, following the release of the new graphics update that appears to have broken mods yet again and left previously reported unfixed.

PlayStation overhauled PS Plus in 2022, splitting the service into three tiers. If you're subscribed to the highest tier, PS Plus Premium, then you currently have access to a library of trials. Tasters of mostly new games that you can play for a few hours before deciding whether to buy the full versions. Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 are among them, and now The Last Of Us 2 Remastered has joined them.

Dead by Daylight's 8th Anniversary stream has revealed a truck load of exciting content coming to the title over the next year, including crossovers with Dungeons & Dragons and Castlevania.

Valheim's latest patch is here, adding the all-new Ashlands biome. Ashlands comes with a whole lot of new content, ranging from new weapons, creatures, buildable items, locations, and events.

Two former Firaxis developers have founded a new studio, Midsummer. The former director of the XCOM series, Jake Soloman, is CEO of the new studio, having left Firaxis last year.

Helldivers 2's latest update adds PSN support to PC, letting players on Steam link their accounts. However, unlike the initial proposition, the update makes this optional, so you can keep playing on PC without PSN if you don't want to make an account.

Fallout 4 launched its long-awaited next-gen update last month, but it went down about as well as a nuke in Boston. Not only did it break most mods, players immediately ran into a slew of old bugs.

When Helldivers 2 introduces sweeping balancing changes or new stratagems, it does so on the live build. So, if nerfs are too harsh or buffs too strong, the community has to wait for the next patch to address concerns.

Pokemon sidestepped its regularly scheduled slate of Funko Pops to release a Cresselia figure at C2E2 this year. It now looks set to do something similar during this year's San Diego Comic-Con, taking place at the end of July, as another rare Pokemon will seemingly be getting the Funko Pop treatment at the event. Cresselia and the many other Pokemon to have already been turned into Pops will be joined by Arceus, and a first look at the figure has already been shared online.

A PlayStation Showcase could be happening before the end of the month. At least, that's what it sounds like based on a letter from Hiroki Totoki, who took over as Chairman of PlayStation after Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino were named CEOs.

Magic: The Gathering's scheduled ban announcement took place earlier today, and while no one really expected Wizards of the Coast to make any big changes, it did just that by declaring that both Stickers and Attractions are now banned in Legacy and Vintage formats.

Before the Fallout 3 as we know it was released, original developer Black Isle Studios was working on its own sequel, codenamed Van Buren. Like the first two games, it was an isometric RPG, but it was cancelled after Interplay sold the IP to Bethesda.

The Witcher star Freya Allen, who plays Geralt's adopted daughter Ciri, has explained in a recent interview that she was relieved to find out that the show would finally be ending after Season 5, saying that she was "kind of finished with it mentally."

Ron Gilbert is developing another game, and its premise is extremely exciting. Gilbert, who most famously created Monkey Island, is working on a retro RPG that he describes as "Classic Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park."

It looks like Red Dead Redemption is finally headed to the PC, as a new update for Rockstar's launcher has included a file with a description of the title, as well as its zombie DLC, Undead Nightmare.

Two and a half years on from its exclusive release on Nintendo Switch, your chance to buy Shin Megami Tensei 5 through the eShop is about to come to an end. Atlus has confirmed that the base game and all of its DLC will be removed from the eShop at 11:59 pm on June 13, 2024. After that point, you will no longer be able to buy the game directly through Nintendo, but if you own Shin Megami Tensei 5 and its DLC, you will still be able to play it, and presumably re-download it if you've bought it in the past.

Longtime Resident Evil protagonist Leon Kennedy will reportedly return for the ninth instalment in the series. Multiple leakers claim that Leon will once again be a main character, and at this point in the story, will be 48 years old.

Assassin's Creed Codename Red finally has a proper name. As just revealed on the Assassin's Creed Twitter page, this upcoming instalment is officially called Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and we're about to see a whole lot more of it very soon.

Capcom is reportedly working on a remake of the first Resident Evil game, just in time for the series' 30th anniversary. If it launches in time for the big day, that would make it a 2026 release, meaning we might have a bit of a wait in between remake projects this time around.

The Mysterious Artefact is pivotal in helping stave off the tentacle cravings in Baldur's Gate 3, but what if was also an Xbox controller?

Disney Villainous is a wildly popular board game that has expanded into the worlds of Marvel and Star Wars in recent years. As the name of the game suggests, the traditional Disney way of always rooting for the heroes is turned on its head as players are given the chance to assume the roles of some of their favorite villains instead. In an attempt to get even more people playing Villainous, Ravensburger announced plans to start releasing something it has dubbed expandalones, and the first of those on the Disney side of things, Sugar and Spite, is now available to pre-order.

MutliVersus just dropped a gameplay trailer for the Joker, showing off how he'll fight when the game relaunches later this month. However, the clown prince of crime has been upstaged in his own reveal, as the trailer also seems to confirm that another new fighter is joining the roster soon.

It's been a minute since we've heard anything about Sony and Haven Studios' live-service PvPvE heist shooter Fairgame$. However, a new survey being sent out to PlayStation players might mean we're due for some updated news soon.

The Marvel Rivals team has issued a statement on the recent controversy surrounding its content creator program. This comes after the contract that creators were asked to sign to access the game leaked, revealing that it prevented them from providing "subjective negative reviews", and even from comparing Marvel Rivals to its competitors.

Last week, I sat down with Fallout 2 designer John Deiley to discuss all things talking deathclaws, and he revealed a terrifying idea that never came to fruition.

Lego returned to Middle-earth for the first time in a decade last year when it debuted its Rivendell set. A part of Lego's Icons range, the toy brick recreation of the iconic Lord of the Rings location is made up of more than 6,000 pieces and costs $500. It makes sense that there'd be a wait for anything more following the release of a set that size, but it seems the wait is almost over. Lego has teased a new Lord of the Rings set is coming, and the Eye of Sauron will be at its center.

When it comes to games like Minecraft, pretty much anything is on the table when it comes to making whatever pops into your mind. Whether that be a ridiculously large maze built solely to torture other players, or a working version of the first Legend of Zelda game, you constantly see impressive creations coming out of the game's community. Terraria is a little less concerned with limitless creativity, but that doesn't stop some people from building some truly ridiculous stuff.

Who would've thought that in a galaxy far, far away that there would also be a war for democracy? Not us, that's for sure. But if a recent mod for Helldivers 2 is any indication, then it turns out the Clone Wars are being fought right inside one of this year's most popular games.

Hades 2 features a range of incantations and recipes for Melinoe to use, including an extremely helpful one that lets you craft your own Nectar to gift to characters.

A reliable gaming leaker has suggested that PlayStation's Horizon series might soon be collaborating with Lego again, although it's not clear if it's going to be a new set or a video game.

A reliable horror leaker has shared details about Silent Hill: The Short Message's development, confirming that it was once called Project Sakura and went through some big changes.

Kai Cenat is currently trying to beat Elden Ring in one long Twitch stream, but it's not exactly going smoothly as he's already been driven to tears due to the game's infamous difficulty.

Helldivers 2 lead Johan Pilestedt has given us our first look at an upcoming cape - one which references the most controversial moment in the game's short history. As we can see in the screenshot, the red lines on the cape mirror the review bombing Helldivers 2 received on Steam last week, as thousands of players hit the game with negative ratings.

In Fallout 2, we meet a cabal of intelligent deathclaws hiding inside Vault 13, a result of the Enclave experimenting with the FEV virus in an attempt to create subservient supersoldiers. But they escaped, deciding that they wanted to live peaceful lives and coexist with humanity.

Marvel Rivals dataminers have managed to find evidence within the closed beta test's files that suggest it'll be released on PS5 and Xbox Series in the future.

Industry insider Jeff Grubb once again reaffirms his claim that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is launching this year. This is despite recent information from EA indicating that it could be with us as late as March 2025, sparking fears that we're still almost a year away from the long-awaited sequel.

Content creators who were offered access to Marvel Rivals were reportedly made to sign a contract forbidding them from making "subjective negative reviews of the game". The contract also says that the creator cannot "engage in discussions that are detrimental to the reputation of the game", or compare it to its competitors.

It can be difficult for developers to maintain live service titles these days, with fans expecting more and more content each month to avoid the risk of being labeled a "dead game." Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has been treading that particular tightrope rather well since launch, delivering new armor, weapons, and emotes via the Premium Warbonds system that has been serving them well up until now.

From the very start of Fallout: New Vegas, the titular city is dangled in front of you. However, while you look close enough to Vegas on the world map, heading there right away will only result in your death. Instead, you're expected to take the long way around - and one fan has worked out exactly how long that road is.

In the Fallout TV series, it's revealed that Vault-Tec nuked the iconic Shady Sands. It's been incredibly controversial with fans, but they're not alone. Designer John Deiley, who took it from a small innocuous settlement in the first game to the thriving NCR capital of Fallout 2, also isn't happy with the decision.

The Fallout TV series introduces a trio of new, interconnected vaults - 31, 32, and 33. We find out by the end of the show that 31 holds a bunch of pre-war Vault-Tec employees in cryostasis and that the other two shelters are breeding pools for when they awaken.

Helldivers 2 being delisted was ordered by Sony, according to a leaked message from Steam Support. This comes after Helldivers 2 was delisted in more than 150 countries over its proposed PSN requirements, and is still restricted in several regions after the decision was reversed.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson has revealed in a recent earnings call that the company is working on putting in-game advertisements into its releases, viewing them as a "meaningful driver of growth".

A reliable Resident Evil leaker has reported that Resident Evil 9 will take place within a fictional rural town on an island, a setting that would be pretty unique for the series.

Multiple Steam users who pre-ordered Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut say that they're receiving automatic refunds. Those affected live in areas that can't access PSN, and would therefore be locked out of Ghost of Tsushima's online multiplayer mode.

The official Dragon Ball website has suggested that a new trailer or information drop for Sparking Zero will be released every month, confirming the pattern that's been going on since the start of the year.

Demon Slayer: Sweep the Board, a Mario Party clone that just released on Nintendo Switch last month, isn't an exclusive after all as it's coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on July 17.

WWE 2K24 has revealed the first look at CM Punk, who is finally returning to the series through a new DLC pack this month after more than a decade away from the series.

Mini consoles have been in vogue since Nintendo kicked off the trend in 2016 by releasing the NES mini. A scale replica of the original console loaded with classic games. Nintendo has followed up with a mini SNES since then, and other developers, including Sega, have followed in Nintendo's footsteps. While there are still a lot of consoles yet to be shrunk down to size, what you likely didn't expect is for a Dance Dance Revolution arcade machine to get a mini version you can play at home, but here we are.

In case you've been living under a rock, a movie based on the The Legend of Zelda franchise is coming to theatres. Details are sparse at the moment, so we have no clue what game, if any, it'll cover.

Did you just get your modded Fallout 4 save up and running again? Well, enjoy it while it lasts - another update is coming on May 13, this Monday. The update is coming to all platforms and will make various "fixes and improvements", specifically to the game's graphics and performance.

One Piece has been a big deal for a long time, its manga now more than 1,000 chapters long. However, in 2023 Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates welcomed more fans than ever on their quest to find the One Piece thanks to Netflix's live-action adaptation of their story. That has prompted more One Piece merch from Funko over the past six months than ever before, and the latest additions to its range are brand new backpacks, one of which has a wallet to match.

Baldur's Gate 3 Deluxe Edition console orders are finally getting into the hands of players in some countries, following a delay. However, those in North America may have to wait even longer, as Larian reveals that there's a hold-up in getting Deluxe Editions shipped to the region.

Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut appears to have been delisted in countries that can't access the PlayStation Network. This comes after Helldivers 2 was controversially set to force PC players to link with a PSN account to continue playing, a move that Sony eventually reversed after it was met with intense backlash and review bombing.

If you've frequented YouTube, TikTok, Twitch or any other platform where a game has the capability to go viral, chances are you'll have seen Amanda the Adventurer. It was a smash hit on social media for a time, played by every YouTuber or Twitch streamer out there, with theories spreading about the game's lore and events like wildfire. It's pretty much another Five Night at Freddy's, but with less terrifyingly massive teddy bears.

Pokemon has revealed a Strange Paradox merch line coming to the Pokemon Center later this month, and the first Paradox Pokemon to get their own plushes will be a part of the new collection. Paradox Pokemon were introduced to the series in Scarlet & Violet, and three of them have been selected to get the plush treatment, all going on sale with the rest of the Strange Paradox range from May 18. The only caveat for now, and it's a common one when it comes to new Pokemon merch, is they will be Pokemon Center Japan exclusives.

Sega has revealed in its latest fiscal report that it's considering releasing Persona 5: The Phantom X in regions outside of China, Taiwan, and Korea.

Supergiant Games' studio director, Amir Rao, has confirmed that the team haven't made a true ending for Hades 2 yet, and doesn't know how many runs it's going to take to reach it.

Hi-Fi Rush has become the highest-rated Xbox game of all time on Steam thanks to fans positively review-bombing the game in response to Xbox controversially closing down Tango Gameworks.

Tears of the Kingdom celebrates its first anniversary this weekend. A game so many of us spent such a massive amount of time with, it's hard to believe it has only been in our lives for a year. Its creators have already confirmed that it won't be getting any expansions, so don't go expecting a bombshell u-turn this weekend. There has been a Tears of the Kingdom birthday announcement, though. Nintendo has revealed it will be releasing a physical version of the sequel's soundtrack, a 464-page Master Works, and best of all, a replica of its Master Sword.

A reliable insider has claimed that Sega wants to make Persona, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Like a Dragon (which it currently views as its three main pillars) yearly releases through mainline entries, spin-offs, and side games.

If you've been finding Stalkers as pesky as other players in Arrowhead Studios' smash-hit cooperative live service shooter Helldivers 2, then you're in luck. A new SMG has seemingly solved the problem by forcing the creatures into a stunlock.

The Witcher fans have been a hard bunch to please ever since it was confirmed that Geralt actor Henry Cavill would be replaced by Liam Hemsworth. Whether it be a story decision, outfit choices, or any dismissal of the books' established lore, fans have found something to be upset over.

2024 continues to make its case as being the year of the anime and anime-adjacent video game, this time with a release date announcement for the upcoming Gundam Breaker 4. The newest entry in the Gunpla building series will hit shelves on August 29, 2024, on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5 as well as PC.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just about recovered from a disastrous weekend of controversy, following Sony's decision to make linking a PSN account to Steam to play the game mandatory. Among all the negative reviews, backlash, and apologies, Sony made the strange decision to delist Helldivers 2 from over 150 different countries in which the PlayStation Network isn't supported, though we're still not quite sure for what reason.

Xbox is currently the villain of the week, having shut down game studios Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. While it's a shame to see any studio close its doors, most people found Tango's closure particularly baffling, having recently released the critically acclaimed and beloved Hi-Fi Rush. It came as a surprise to Tango, who had multiple projects in development, including a potential sequel and a physical version in partnership with Limited Run.