Dune: Awakening Won’t Have You Play as a Messiah

Dragon's Dogma 2's pawns have received some changes, making them more useful than ever. But one of these changes doesn't really seem to have any practical use outside of messing around as, for some reason, the devs taught them how to play catch.

According to Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile's in-game loading screen, the game's graphics will improve the longer one plays. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile has been a highly anticipated release in the franchise, and the quality of the game's graphics seem to be reliant on how much time fans spend with the mobile title.

Brighter Shores, the upcoming MMO from original RuneScape creator and Jagex founder Andrew Gower, loosely channels RuneScape in its focus on relaxing grinds, a mix of idle gameplay, and branching professions. In an interview with GamesRadar+, Gower touched on another similarity with Old School RuneScape especially: "It is more about the journey than it is about the endgame."

Dune: Awakening won't let players ride sandworms from launch. Like other parts of Fremen culture, it will be relegated to a post-launch update, as the devs say they were told to leave certain aspects of the Dune universe out of the game at launch.

I've written a bit about playing Helldivers 2 as a solo diver, noting that Arrowhead's frenetic shooter holds up surprisingly well when you rudely insist on treating it like an open world stealth sim, a la Metal Gear Solid V. The developers have weighed in on this front, commenting that strictly speaking, Helldivers 2 doesn't support stealth at all. It's just designed in an "agnostic", systems-first way and this in itself makes stealth a possibility. It's also a quiet attempt to capture something of the intricacy of a full-blown military simulator, while still being a very "arcadey" game at heart, which owes a little to Arrowhead's own collective time in the military.

Amazon Prime's Fallout show is clearly trying to pull in fans of the series, as the recent trailer was full of references to all of the games - even the classics. However, game director Todd Howard says that you won't need to have played the games to get into the show, so it will still work as a jumping-on point if you're completely out of the loop.

Unicorn Overlord, the new strategy RPG from Dragon's Crown and 13 Sentinels developer Vanillaware, is out now on PS5 and PS4. While it certainly isn't the highest profile release of 2024 so far, there's simply no doubting the talents of the Japanese studio behind it.

With Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth already out, the busy release season is pausing for just a short period before Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade launch later in the month. Here's what we're playing in the meantime.

The PS5 and PC release ofhad DLC content that can't be played on PS4, but it's actually a surprisingly necessary add-on, as it includes important story information that's relevant to . The DLC stars the impetuous ninja Yuffie Kisaragi, following her on a covert mission to infiltrate Midgar during the events of. Yuffie is the only playable character in her DLC, though there is a guest party member called Sonon, who fights alongside her throughout her story.

New IP fans, rejoice! Unknown 9: Awakening, the debut project from developer Reflector, is coming this year. You might remember the teaser trailer from Gamescom a few years ago that turned some heads, and after taking a first look at an hour of gameplay, I left eager to get some hands-on time with it and dive deeper. Any day we get to take a break from playing sequels and explore uncharted territory is a good day, and with some serious thought put into an all-new universe and a psychically souped-up protagonist with some interesting combat abilities, this third-person action-adventure definitely has potential.

Reflector Entertainment debuted a new trailer for Unknown 9: Awakening, its mysterious action-adventure announced in 2020. Not only is it coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, but it’s launching this Summer. Check out the first gameplay below.

If you're a fan who's desperately looking for a new adventure, then this new RPG might be exactly what you're looking for. Following the release of, a soft reboot of the sci-fi franchise, Bioware's sci-fi games have been dormant as the studio quietly continues development on the fifth mainline entry in the saga. While players look forward to that, it might be time to turn to the tabletop to satisfy that craving to send all those pesky Reaper packing back into deep space.