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There’s little doubt that Microsoft has been trying to “figure itself out” among gamers to try and woo them over to their side. After all, even with their “big purchases,” they still don’t have the “established names” that can carry them from year to year. In fact, that’s why they made purchases like Activision Blizzard, so they could expand their roster immensely. However, one way that they’ve tried to “fight back” is through the Xbox Game Pass. They’ve used its low price to bring in developers and gamers alike. With Lies of P, the team behind it believed that it was a huge part of their success.

The fate of The Last of Us Online hung in the balance for a long while, with mixed signals being sent from Sony and Naughty Dog. It all started before the launch of The Last of Us Part II when it was announced that there would be no Factions multiplayer mode like in the original game.

Following The Last Of Us Online’s cancellation earlier this week, current and former developers from Naughty Dog have emerged to celebrate the mysterious multiplayer project.

While last night’s Game Awards show primarily focused on the biggest games of 2023 and the most anticipated titles for next year and beyond, one of 2022’s best games also got a fresh announcement that players will be able to check out very soon.

Although Remedy’s latest narrative-driven project didn’t end up bringing home the Game of the Year award at last night’s Game Awards, it did walk away with several other victories, including Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction and Best Narrative.

When Untitled Goose Game debuted back in 2019, its quirky charms quickly made it an internet sensation and put its developer, House House, on the map as an indie developer. Many were eagerly awaiting the studio’s next game at first, but that seemed to have more or less died down after a couple years of silence. However, the excitement is now back in full force thanks to the surprise announcement of Big Walk, House House’s next game!

During The Game Awards, Red Barrels showed off a new trailer and provided an official release date for the third release in the Outlast franchise, The Outlast Trials. The game will be available on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Two digital launch versions will be available that can be pre-ordered on both the Xbox and PlayStation digital stores now. This will include the Grizzly Hazmat Outfit with the pre-order. The Outlast Trials will release on March 5 for all platforms as the game launched in Early Access on PC during May 2023. This will be set in the same universe as the previous games but can be played with a friends in a team of up to four people.

Dinosaur enthusiasts got a very welcome surprise yesterday during The Game Awards 2023. Not only was there a trailer for a new Jurassic Park game, but it’s for one set shortly after the events of the movies. More than that, it’s not just another Jurassic Park theme park or nature preserve sim like Jurassic World Evolution 2. Rather, fans are getting Jurassic Park: Survival, and with it some horror action from at last from a series whose main draw has always been such. Well, better late than not at all, yeah?

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The studio behind Dead Cells announced its next project on Thursday, a new 3D isometric action game named Windblown. Developer Motion Twin describes it as “a lightning-fast combat roguelite” that players can take on solo or in teams of up to three in online cooperative multiplayer.

The game that started it all and brought Daniel Mullins’ name to the forefront of wierd, wonderful and downright unusual meta-narrative games, Pony Island, is getting a sequel. Seven years on from when the brilliant 2016 game released, the teaser for what Mullins was concocting was, in typical fashion, a surreal one. A mixture of art-styles, from pixel art to polygonal early-3D graphics to FMV-styled cutscenes, ran amok amid a game that too looked to be hopping from one genre to the next.

Dead Cells developer Motion Twin revealed its new game during a surprise announcement at The Game Awards tonight, a high-speed roguelike battler called Windblown that sets players off on a quest to protect their home of floating islands from the invading forces of the Vortex.