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Kojima Productions is, of course, busy with Death Stranding 2’s development in collaboration with Sony, but it has other irons in the fire as well. Last year it was announced that the studio was collaborating with Microsoft on an Xbox-exclusive game, and at The Game Awards, that game was formally unveiled.

Wondering what Hideo Kojima's been brewing between Strandings? Well, we finally have an answer — albeit an extremely enigmatic one — courtesy of a teaser for new Xbox horror game OD.

Hideo Kojima isn't only working on Death Stranding 2. It's long been rumoured - and leaked - that Kojima Productions are also developing a horror game, thought to be called Overdose. It was finally officially revealed at The Game Awards this evening. It's actually called OD, and it's being developed in partnership with Jordan Peele.

Hideo Kojima turned up at The Game Awards 2023 to reveal OD, the Xbox-exclusive project that he has been working on. It is, shall we say, quite… odd.

Hideo Kojima made an appearance at The Game Awards 2023 to show off a trailer for OD, his next project. Maybe? I’m really not sure what to make of this trailer.

Who's in the Black Noir suit? Well, Eric Kripke already told us.

Ubisoft’s launches tomorrow, December 7, on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Amazon Luna. The first-person action game puts players in the role of a Na’vi orphan who must help the tribes of the Western Frontier resist the Resources Development Administration. However, some reviewers came away with a more positive perception than others.

On the latest episode of the Game Developer podcast, we had a far-ranging chat with Strange Scaffold creative director Xalavier Nelson Jr. Nelson's outfit just put out its largest game, El Paso, Elsewhere, earlier in the fall, to significant critical acclaim. We talked a great deal about the game and its many inspirations.

Influential British developer Jeff Minter, whose four-decade career spans the likes of Tempest 2000, Polybius, Space Giraffe and Revenge of the Mutant Camels, will be the focus of the next interactive documentary from the folks behind the roundly excellent Making of Karateka and Atari 50.

It can be tough to think of clever gifts to buy for someone who really loves video games. Gamers are already among the toughest to shop for, and it ramps up in difficulty if you’re getting a gift for someone who tends to buy the newest accessories and games for themselves.

The second game in Digital Eclipse’s critically acclaimed Gold Master Series is based on one of the most influential British game designers, Jeff Minter.

Yes, there are countless Far Cry comparisons.

The Force is strong with this holiday deal.

Disney Dreamlight Valley has officially launched into 1.0, but the full release has hit a few bumps in the road that are impacting players. Nostalgia has been challenged by more than Night Thorns as issues arise with both iOS and Microsoft versions of the game.

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, the acclaimed interactive history of Atari from developer Digital Eclipse, has just added 12 more retro games as part of a free Holiday Content Update.

World of Warcraft once again greets players with an error code when trying to play the game. Thankfully, code BLZ51934200 is not a user error, but a Blizzard one.

Tied up with four points a piece, the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens headed into overtime on Saturday night for five minutes of three-on-three hockey. But in just under a minute of overtime, the Detroit Red Wings’ Jake Walman ended the game with a slapshot and the griddy to celebrate.

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You could call it the summer that Saudi Arabia swallowed sports. On June 6th, news broke that Saudi-backed LIV Golf was merging with the Professional Golfers’ Association, funded to the tune of over a billion dollars by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF). In soccer, the world’s most popular and lucrative sport, the kingdom has brought global superstars such as Karim Benzema, Neymar, and Jordan Henderson to the desert to play their trade, laboring not only under the region’s sweltering heat but virulent criticisms of sportswashing. For established institutions, it was a summer of humbling disruption in which they had perhaps quietly sensed, for they would never admit it, the dawning of a new world order. 

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The current event in Genshin Impact, Thelxie’s Adventure, has multiple puzzles and challenges that the player must complete to reap the rewards. The first puzzle introduced is helping Freminet debug the adorable Thelxie’s motherboard.

The Thelxie’s Adventures Event in Genshin Impact has a special puzzle for players to solve. Thelxie talks but in different beeps and no one seems to know what he is saying — until now.

Get your festive fangs out, Robert Eggers' Nosferatu has staked its claim in 2024's movie slate. The vampire flick, which stars the likes of Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp, is set to release on December 25, 2024, adding a touch of gothic horror to the holiday season.

It’s crazy to think that Everwild, Rare’s next game, was announced in 2019, especially since development has been ongoing since 2014. While there haven’t been any new announcements or details, the company is still hiring for the project.

Thelxie’s Fantastic Adventures is the leading event for the 4.2 update in Genshin Impact. What starts as a fetch quest to find missing fish turns into an honorable quest to save a child from his loneliness.

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The Force is strong with this Black Friday deal.

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Like many video game hobbyists, I’ve had dreams of making a game of my own. Before I was even in high school, I had a binder full of designs for a game I had dreamt up, but I never really got the means to even attempt to make it. Programming has always bored me, and I tend to get frustrated with art. Even attempts at small projects to just motivate myself with some visible progress fizzled.

During a 1990 Senate race in his home state of North Carolina, Michael Jordan was asked why he didn't endorse the African-American Democratic candidate. He was still explaining his response — “Republicans buy sneakers too” — to reporters 30 years later, saying he wasn't an activist in the mold of Muhammad Ali: “I thought of myself as a basketball player.”

Naughty Dog officially announced The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered recently for PS5, with new content like lost levels and a roguelike mode. It’s launching early next year, but some question whether a remaster is necessary. Others, like on Twitter, feel the developer should work on new titles instead of remastering old ones.

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For better or worse, gamers can be a fickle bunch. That’s why, when it comes to shopping for any purveyor of fine video games and pop culture entertainment, it may be tempting to pull the cord and just go with a gift card. But alas, there are all kinds of unique gifts you can get for someone of the geekier persuasion.

Travel back in time to ancient Baghdad for only $40 in this new Assassin's Creed game.

Lyney is the lovable magician introduced with the release of the fifth area, Fontaine, in Genshin Impact. This Pyro user can be a great asset to the team if players know what equipment works best for him.

Though it took a few years (or 10), Director Eli Roth says he's been wanting to make a Thanksgiving-themed slasher film since he was a kid.

Jordan Weisman has a lengthy entrepreneurial history in both tabletop gaming and video games. In the physical realm, he started FASA Corporation (Shadowrun and BattleTech) as well as Wizkids (MageKnight, HeroClix).

Zagreus has found his new home: Netflix. Revealed during Netflix Geeked Week, Supergiant Games’ Hades is coming to Netflix’s gaming service in 2024.

First reported by Bloomberg (readers may encounter a paywall), the US unit of the Industrial and Commerce Bank of China⁠—the world's largest by total assets⁠—was struck by a cyberattack late Wednesday, forcing it to conduct business via messenger carrying a USB stick with transaction details.

This is one of the best PS5 Black Friday deals available now.

This is one of the best PS5 Black Friday deals available now.

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This is one of the best PS5 Black Friday deals available now.

This Black Friday deal gets you a standard PS5 console and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for just $500.

Director Nia DaCosta says she referenced Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children when pitching The Marvels.

Crafting a robust game economy is no small feat; it's a multifaceted challenge that demands careful consideration. The goal of game economy design is to maintain the vitality of your game in the long run. Economic problems can cause entire projects to collapse.

Minecraft Bedrock, unlike the Java version, does not have as many opportunities for customizations. However, where there is a will, there is a way, and getting a cape in the Bedrock edition is not impossible.

Genshin Impact has been notorious when it comes to its censorship. With the newest 2.5 update, players don’t know whether they should be angry or just laugh at the newest censorships in the game.

The VR boxing game based on the movie franchise, Creed: Rise to Glory, is set to receive new content and Quest 3 support. Survios, in collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios, releases “Sweet Science” update for the game that also includes new improvements and features to propel the boxing game with the latest hardware releases. This also includes experimental features with the Quest 3 as the game can be played with no controllers. This means throwing punches, blocking and navigating menus with natural hand movements and no need to “re-glove”. Players can expect performance boosts with the new hardware and also a boost for the Quest 2.

Staying connected is an important part of being a gamer in an era of livestreaming, multiplayer co-op, and active gaming-focused social media. Because of this, app support for consoles like PlayStation are critical for many players.

Players face terrifying trials when playing through LotR: Return to Moria. From crumbled shelters to a lack of food, peril is never far as you struggle to reclaim the mountain. However, these dangers increase as you descend into the mines – and one nasty ailment you’ll run into is Poison.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 delivers an incredible story about heroes and villains grappling with loneliness.

Gen V’s first six episodes are remarkably tight. The Boys’ spinoff series immediately establishes its place in the larger universe, and quickly introduces us to an entire cast of characters, a unique superhero university, and a secret conspiracy in just a few short hours. Despite its relatively large cast of characters, Gen V manages to give each one time to shine in their own storylines, letting them all have problems — both personal and superpowered — that just make for great television. All the while, all of the teen drama seamlessly filters back into the conspiracy thriller literally underneath the school, as the kids discover the mysteries of The Woods. But Gen V’s last two episodes run into a unique problem: They move too fast.

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Eli Roth wants Thanksgiving to have the same generational impact as Wes Craven's Scream.

Spider-patch, Spider-patch, does whatever a Spider-patch can.

Final Fantasy 14 vocalist Susan Calloway has seemingly deleted her Twitter account in what appears to be an attempt at damage control, as several fans have discovered the singer has been liking extremely racist and transphobic tweets for the past 6 months.

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With the official closure of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard finally in the rearview, it is time to look to Microsoft's next likely target in the industry. As it happens, a nice and tidy opportunity just opened up when, following the disappointing launch of the new IP The Lamplighters League, Harebrained Schemes announced that it would separate from Paradox Interactive to seek new investments and partnerships. There are several reasons why the studio, founded in 2011 by Jordan Weisman (who's now busy with Adventure Forge) and Mitch Gitelman, might be an ideal target for Microsoft's next acquisition.

Having finished Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Tamoor and Lucy sit down with the game's senior creative director to discuss how the story came together and dissect everything about the ending.

Warning: major spoilers for Gen V episode 7 ahead – proceed with caution if you're not up to date yet! 

Having finished Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Tamoor and Lucy sit down with the game's senior creative director to discuss how the story came together and dissect everything about the ending.

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A variety of items and materials can be found in LotR: Return to Moria, and each has an important purpose in making your way through the mountain. A key crafting item needed in the game for stronger armor and weapons is the Steel Ingot.

How do you make a movie about the opioid crisis fun? Can you? Should you? The answer to these questions — as proposed by director David Yates (emerging from Harry Potter jail, where he’s been since the mid-2000s), screenwriter Wells Tower, star Emily Blunt, and Netflix — is Pain Hustlers, a fast-moving pharma drama that attempts to blend an earnest, relatable issue movie with the seductive excess of a Scorsese-lite true-crime roller coaster. It works, up to a point. Carried by a typically strong Blunt performance, Pain Hustlers is both watchable and eye-opening, even though its dramatic impulses do kind of cancel each other out.

Having allies on your side while exploring the depths of Moria can be crucial in Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria. The best way to gain those allies is by collaborating with friends in a multiplayer game.

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Nothing moves until Jordan “Detune” DiSorbo enters the room. When he closes one door, another opens. It doesn’t fly open, like something out of a jump-scare horror flick. It opens slowly, with a creak, before DiSorbo notices. With one camera pointing straight at the door and another filming his face, viewers live on Twitch can see his stunned reaction when something even creepier happens: A music box starts to play.

«I think it would be pretty epic.»

It's almost time for everyone to leap into Spider-Man 2.

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NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 GPU has seen a huge price surge in China, pertaining to the recently imposed US restrictions, which have disrupted its supply.

Today, 2K has announced the release date for Season 2 of NBA 2K24. Victor Wembanyama will be the face of Season 2 which will include a Level 39 Cyborg suit as a reward. Wembanyama is the international prospect that has drawn comparisons to Lebron James. For MyTEAM, players will start the season with a Level 1 Free Agent Victor Wembanyama card and can pay off with unlocking a Level 40 Diamond Wilt Chamberlain card. Two new premium collections will allow players to pick up a Diamond Tim Duncan and Diamond Carmelo Anthony as Collection Rewards of Special Inserts in the Pack Market. A Diamond Michael Jordan is also available as a Special Insert in the Pack Market and directly in the Player Market.

Seattle-based developer Harebrained Schemes announced it is splitting with Paradox Interactive. The news comes as no surprise, given the unsuccessful release of The Lamplighters League, the studio's latest game that launched earlier this month.

Less than a week after saying that sales of turn-based tactics game The Lamplighters League were "a big disappointment" and confirming major layoffs at developer Harebrained Schemes, Paradox Interactive has announced that it has «decided to part ways» with the studio. Paradox said the split was a mutual decision, «stemming from each party’s strategic and creative priorities,» and that HBS will officially be independent again on January 1, 2024.