Arkane’s Blade Game to Run in Deathloop’s and Dishonored 2’s Void Engine, Senior Lighting Artist Says

Lesquin, 5 January 2024 – With the forthcoming release of their new management game War Hospital, where players run a WW1 field hospital, the developers at Brave Lamb studio have shared their explanations of some of the game’s different aspects and particularities. Check out the three videos made by the studio, for fans of management games. Currently available to preorder, War Hospital will be released on 11 January 2024 for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|Sand PC.

Happy new year, Polygon readers! Each week, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home.

Asobo Studio’sA Plague Tale: Innocence is the latest free PC title on the Epic Games Store as part of its holiday promotion. It’s available to claim until January 4th, 8 AM PST, though you need an Epic Games Account and the launcher.

Wolverine and Colossus first performed their signature 'Fastball Special' move - in which Colossus hurls Wolverine at a target with his claws unsheathed - all the way back in 1976's Uncanny X-Men #100. Now, almost 50 years later in January 3's Fall of the House of X #1, they've innovated a brutal new twist on their classic combo maneuver. 

Gloriously grim stealth game A Plague Tale: Innocence - you know, that game with the rats - is currently free to keep over on the Epic Games Store. If you’ve somehow missed it before now, it’s well worth playing in my opinion - especially for the low price of nothing.

Wingspan publisher Stonemaier Games announced Wyrmspan, a Wingspan-like game that swaps birds for dragons, on Wednesday. Designed by Apiarycreator Connie Vogelmann, Wyrmspan is a one-to-five player game inspired by the hit bird board game. Elizabeth Hargrave, who created Wingspan, developed Wyrmspan, Stonemaier Games said in a news release. Wyrmspan is a lot like Wingspan, where you attract birds to habitats, but with a “step up in complexity” and several “key differences.”

The Epic Games Store's holiday celebrations have extended into the New Year, with 2024's third free game being . It's available to download for free starting January 3, 2024, at 11 AM ET, and will be redeemable for 24 hours, at which point it will be replaced by the next day's offering. follows EGS's free game for January 2, .

India is increasingly and rapidly stepping up its game in space missions and discoveries. With a number of new upcoming missions planned by the space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India has also laid out its investment plans for a monetary contribution to the international astronomical collaboration project, which includes over 16 nations. The collaboration between the nations will be developing the world's largest radio telescope called the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be responsible for studying galaxies present in the universe. Additionally, it aims to make available the data as to evolution of our galaxy. Know what the project is about and how and when it will be ready to conduct research.

Blade is back! And this time, the Marvel vampire killer won't be reduced to a lacklustre tie-in game with a movie release or simply used as a supporting character.

With AAA titles becoming safer and safer, it is indie games that bring the innovation the video game industry as a whole needs. Much like the past few years, 2023 has seen the release of some excellent titles that twist defined genres into something unique, blending their excellent mechanics with visuals that may not be cutting-edge but are still pleasant enough to the eye.

Video games run the gamut from silly toys for babies to life-altering works of art, all of which make up an industry that rakes in billions of dollars a year. Of course, the endlessly consumptive nature of the business can’t help but produce controversy, and 2023 had its share of milestones.

From a Joker movie sequel to a new Batman animated series, a number of DC movies, TV shows, games, and comic books are coming out in 2024. As the DC fandom has become accustomed to, there are often many different DC projects in various stages of development at any given time, so in order to give you the clearest look possible at what to expect from DC in 2024, we’re going to list off every confirmed project with a release date (or at least a verifiable source saying it will be coming out in 2024).