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The Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Deluxe Set is now available to pre-order in the UK.

The initial partner line-up for Summer Game Fest 2024 has been announced.

Activision has established a new internal development studio called Elsewhere Entertainment.

Undisputed, a boxing game which claims to be “the first major boxing game in over a decade”, will be released later this year.

Fallout games took three of the top 10 places on the European sales chart last month.

The Xbox May update, which adds mouse and keyboard support to some Xbox Cloud titles, is rolling out now.

PS2 game Star Wars: The Clone Wars looks set to be released for PS5 and PS4 via the PlayStation Plus Classics Catalogue next month.

More first-party Xbox games are reportedly in development for PlayStation 5.

Microsoft has announced the Xbox Proteus Controller, a new customisable controller aimed at gamers with accessibility issues.

The Epic Games Store is reportedly set to offer users 16 free AAA games over the next month.

Ubisoft has cancelled The Division Heartland.

Digital Xbox 360 games are being discounted ahead of the closure of the console’s online marketplace this summer.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed May 2024’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue and Classics titles.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the latest high profile single-player game that requires an online connection to install.

Alongside the Assassin’s Creed Shadows cinematic reveal trailer, Ubisoft has released a second video offering a deep dive on the game’s two playable characters, which is viewable above.

HBO has released the first official images from the second season of The Last of Us.

Ubisoft plans to unveil Assassin’s Creed Shadows today via a cinematic trailer.

Absurd Ventures, the new transmedia company from Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, is planning to make an open world action-adventure game.

Soon to be closed Xbox studio Tango Gameworks has confirmed that a physical edition of Hi-Fi Rush is still being worked on.

The UK government has said that games companies have “no legal requirement in UK law compelling [them] to support older products.”

The 2022 Saints Row reboot is likely the lowest selling entry in franchise history.

Warner Bros has announced the release date for its upcoming movie Mortal Kombat 2.

Three Game Boy games have been added to Nintendo Switch Online.

WWE 2K24‘s ECW pack is out now, adding new wrestlers such as CM Punk, as well as new hidden weapons.

Nier series producer Yosuke Saito has teased fans about his upcoming game with Nier director Yoko Taro and Nier composer Keiichi Okabe.

Sony shipped almost five times as many PS5 consoles as Microsoft did Xbox Series X/S consoles during the first calendar quarter of 2024.

Supergiant Games has shared details about Hades 2’s first patch following its Early Access release last week.

Behaviour Interactive has surprise released a Dead by Daylight roguelite spin-off.

The first Madden NFL 25 details have seemingly leaked ahead of an official reveal this week.

Blizzard has launched Diablo 4 Season 4.

Amazon’s Prime Video has placed a series order for a Tomb Raider adaptation from Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

When I first played Paper Trail at the BitSummit indie festival in Kyoto last July, I came away impressed but concerned.

Firaxis veterans Jake Solomon and Will Miller have formed Midsummer Studios.

Two significant lawsuits over Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift have been dismissed in the US courts.

A Lego set based on The Great Deku Tree from The Legend of Zelda will be released in September and contain four figures, it’s claimed.

Microsoft has confirmed the next wave of titles heading to Xbox Game Pass for console, PC and Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Sony says its live service game hit Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation’s fastest-selling game launch ever, with sales “far exceeding expectations” at 12 million copies sold across PC and PS5 in its first 12 weeks.

Three of Square Enix‘s most high profile recent releases sold worse than expected, the company’s president has reportedly said.

Xbox consoles will soon be getting the ability to pre-download game updates.

Square Enix‘s share price has dropped by nearly 16% following its FY2024 financial results on Monday.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has named Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as the new joint CEOs of the PlayStation business, succeeding Jim Ryan from June 1, 2024.

The team behind Marvel Rivals has apologised for seeking to restrict negative coverage of the game from content creators.

The Assassin’s Creed Shadows release date and other details about the game, including DLC plans, have seemingly leaked.

Bethesda has released a new Fallout 4 update for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Square Enix is set to make an unconfirmed number of layoffs as part of ongoing company restructuring, it told staff in an internal meeting on Monday, VGC understands.

Rockstar could be preparing to announce Red Dead Redemption for PC.

Ubisoft has announced the official title of the next Assassin’s Creed game.

Warner Bros has U-turned on a decision to delist indie games previously published by Adult Swim.

Evil Empire has announced a new release date for The Rogue Prince of Persia.

A new Doom game could in line to be announced at June’s Xbox Games Showcase.

A new trailer for MultiVersus shows The Joker in action, and also seemingly confirms The Powerpuff Girls as playable characters.

Shin Megami Tensei 5 is set to be removed from the Nintendo Switch eShop, Atlus has confirmed.

Square Enix has confirmed that it has cancelled a number of unannounced game projects because they don’t fit with its new strategy.

A developer has created a tool that could make it much easier to create PC ports of Nintendo 64 games.

Square Enix has published a new medium-term business plan, which includes making its AAA games multiplatform going forward.

Sony has reportedly founded a new studio within PlayStation, made up of former Deviation Games employees.

EA FC fans are in revolt following an error that saw players receive some of the best players in the game, shortly before it was patched.

Fallout 4 will receive another patch on all consoles, this time focussing on graphical options.

WWE Games has released the first footage of CM Punk in WWE 2K24, marking his return to WWE video games after a decade.

Bungie’s original Marathon series is coming to Steam, and the first game in the trilogy is available for free now.

Nintendo has announced new The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom merchandise to coincide with the game’s first anniversary this week.

Fallout games took three of the top 10 places on the UK sales chart in April.

God of War Ragnarök will reportedly be announced for PC soon.

The next free Epic Games Store title hasn’t been revealed as usual, with Epic instead announcing plans to offer a “mystery game.”

Evil Empire has delayed The Rogue Prince of Persia’s release date from May 14 to later this month because of last week’s surprise Hades 2 Early Access release.

Microsoft will launch a web-based mobile game store in July, seeking to compete with Apple‘s App Store and the Google Play store.

A global release for Persona 5: The Phantom X is being considered, according to IP owner Sega.

Information on the RAM and storage specs of the Nintendo Switch‘s successor may have been found by internet sleuths.

Xbox president Sarah Bond has spoken more about the company’s decision to close four Bethesda studios earlier this week.

Sega has officially announced Sonic Rumble, a mobile game previously leaked as Sonic Toys Party.

A new update for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night adds two free game modes and a free cosmetic pack.

Frontier Developments has announced that it will make a third Jurassic World game.

The CEO and president of Warner Bros Discovery has singled out Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as the reason for underwhelming Q1 results for its entire Studios division.

Xbox Game Studios’ pirate-themed co-op multiplayer game Sea of Thieves was the best-selling game on the digital PlayStation Store in Europe last month.

Netflix has launched Nextworld, a Roblox experience it describes as a “digital theme park”.

Nvidia has acknowledged that PC users may be experiencing crashes on Tekken 8 on some of its GeForce graphics cards.

Crow Country, a survival horror game inspired by PS1 titles, is available now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Steam.

Nintendo is ending support for X, formerly Twitter, on Nintendo Switch.

One day after closing Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, Xbox studios boss Matt Booty reportedly told staff the company needs “smaller games that give us prestige and awards”.

Capcom has recorded a seventh consecutive year of record-high profits, fueled by sales of the Resident Evil, Street Fighter and Dragon’s Dogma franchises.