Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game Announced, Coming to PC and Consoles in 2024

The future of E3 is continuing to look bleak, but the games industry has seen the emergence of another major summer event in the form of Summer Game Fest. The event has been running for four years at this point and seen quite a bit of success, and unsurprisingly, it will be returning for its fifth year in 2025.

NetEase Games will announce a new title for console and PC on the first day of Tokyo Game Show 2023, which will run from September 21 to 24 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, the company said.

As you carefully trundle over a particularly difficult outcropping of rocks and find yourself staring at a horrifically steep drop in the middle of the video game wilderness, there are three possible solutions. The MudRunner way would have you turn around and try to find a different, more sensible way around, or you could embrace the Forza Horizon way and launch yourself off it, resulting in the doom and destruction of your vehicle. Finally, and quite unexpectedly, you attach your jeep to a nearby rock and abseil down the rock face. Yes. Abseil. A jeep. This would be the Expeditions way.

Publisher Kemco and developer SleepingMuseum will release a console version of horror adventure game Death Palette, the companies announced. It will launch digitally for unspecified platforms this winter. A demo will be playable at Tokyo Game Show 2023, which will run from September 21 to 24 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.

Good news, vampire fans – we finally have (another) release window for Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 and a new development studio has taken the helm: indie darling The Chinese Room.

SAG-AFTRA, the union for US actors, is moving towards a potential strike against video game publishers, it’s announced.

Blizzard has deployed Diablo 4 patch 1.1.3 across PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One.

If you fancy a bit moustache twirling then set an alarm for 19th October 2023 as that is when Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express lands on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

The concept of “wilderness” is an odd one in the days of Google Maps and satellite imagery for just about every square inch of the planet, but looking down from a great height will never be the same as being there.  The map is not the terrain, and while there’s no place on Earth people haven’t been, there’s plenty we only passed through on the way to somewhere else, big and wide and empty.  The roads and freeways that connect people to where they want to be are countless miles away, and the only remaining evidence of a human touch may be a ruin here or an overgrown path there.  It’s not that the land is hostile to human effort, but rather completely indifferent, worn down by weather leaving behind jumbles of rocks, hills, rivers and other inconvenient features.  Traveling in the wilderness isn’t for standard cars, but rather big metal beasts designed for power rather than speed, and while it was fun to explore in Snowrunner, it’s about time to take a new approach to offroad exploration.

Expeditions: A MudRunner Game has been announced as the next installment in the series of off-road adventure games and is expected to launch next year.

Since its humble beginnings in arcades nearly 30 years ago, Namco’s Tekken series has done things a bit differently from the norm while maintaining a sky-high level of quality for mainline games. Today, Bandai Namco announced that the upcoming eighth mainline entry will feature an all-new mode for the franchise – which is saying something given the many modes this series has pioneered over the years. The new arcade quest will allow players to create a new avatar and customize it as much as they want to participate in new challenges to improve their skills. The new trailer didn’t show off a lot of what the flow of the mode will be, but it does seem like it will enable skills to be learned and then tested out in tournaments.

Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive announced Expeditions: A MudRunner Game for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (Steam) as part of Gamescom 2023: Opening Night Live. It will launch in 2024.