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With the acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, Microsoft can now be a “good publisher” across all platforms, including rival consoles, the boss of the company has said.

Here is a bit of information from the games publisher, Asmodee:

TheSupergirl DCU movie is reportedly testing House of the Dragon star Milly Alcock for the role of Kara Zor-El. Now, DCU fan art shows what Alcock and two other reported contenders for the role would look like as Superman's cousin in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

One of the characters introduced in ’s DLC could be an actual criminal going by what is seen of their actions. Despite the range of criminal organizations seen throughout the franchise, more recent titles have moved away from having evil Teams and more towards featuring misunderstood rebels and outcasts (although primary antagonists can still have more threatening intentions). However, it is worth keeping in mind that not every crime gets noticed, as the recent DLC shows.

Fans have been wanting a new Spyro the Dragon game for a long time now, probably since even before the fantastic Spyro Reignited Trilogy launched back in 2018. Recently, however, there have been a handful of Spyro 4 rumours. Let’s explain what that’s all about.

Created by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Mort, is a comedy-drama series. It revolves around the eponymous character, Sam Loudermilk, a music critic turned alcohol support group leader. Loudermilk uses his past as an alcoholic as well as his ability to critique brutally to help his clients. The first two seasons of the show aired on Audience Network before it went defunct in May 2020. After Amazon acquired the streaming rights to the show, the third season was released on December 31, 2020. If you are wondering whether there will be a fourth season of Loudermilk, this is what we have discovered.

One talented Starfield player has mocked up what the RPG's local planet maps might look like when they eventually arrive.

A Realm Reborn was quite a while ago now, but the majority of Final Fantasy 14 players will know that it came as a sort of "hard reset" for the title. After being panned by both critics and players, Naoki Yoshida and his team were brought in to wipe the slate clean and start anew, doing so by having a very angry Bahamut descend from the skies to wipe out Eorzea.

Way before I sunk hundreds of hours into Final Fantasy 14, I watched it die and eventually return with A Realm Reborn in 2013. The major rework of FF14's entire world was a critical moment for the MMO that shaped the next 11 years of the game. The most recent expansion, Endwalker, was still tying up loose ends that originated in that rebuilt foundation.

Created by Carl Weber, (alternatively known as Carl Weber’s The Family Business) is a crime-drama show based on Weber’s namesake book series. The plot revolves around the Duncans, a Jamaican-Queens-based affluent family that runs a successful exotic car dealership. However, not many people know that they are also prominent figures in the criminal underbelly of New York.

Breaking news here, as a trusted industry insider claims there will be a major Xbox announcement today.

Created by Marion Dayre, is a superhero crime series slated to stream on Disney Plus and Hulu. It’s part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and serves as a spin-off to the 2021 miniseries Hawkeye. The plot revolves around Maya Lopez / Echo, a deaf Choctaw woman who used to lead the Tracksuit Mafia. With her former ally, Wilson Fisk, hot on her trail, Maya returns home to Oklahoma and comes face to face with her past and aspects of the life she left behind. Season 1 premieres on January 9, 2024. If you are wondering whether there will be a second season of Echo, this is what we have discovered.

The latest rumors about the Nintendo Switch successor have managed some expectations for what the console might be, but the picture that they paint of Nintendo's next venture isn't necessarily a bad thing. As the follow-up to a hit console, a potential Switch 2 has a lot to live up to, and avoiding a market disappointment like the Wii U is crucial. Nintendo hasn't generally been expected to reinvent the wheel with the successor, but that hasn't stopped discussion of ways that the company could leap into the future with its next system.

There are quite a few iconic game developers that have gained a massive following worldwide. One of those iconic developers is Hideo Kojima, who has had his hand in several titles and franchises. Since their departure from Konami, it seems Kojima can really flex his creative muscles. What came to fruition after his leave from Konami was Death Stranding, which had its own unique gameplay experience. But expect things to be even more out there when Hideo Kojima releases his next new IP, OD, into the marketplace. 

A fresh set of rumors about the Horizon MMO are making the rounds, and the implication that this could be a mobile and PC-only MMO that skips PS5 has some fans in disbelief.

A former PlayStation figurehead thinks we're about to hear a lot more about game development budgets going forward in 2024.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has yet to be officially revealed, but it seems like its 2024 release is locked, judging from a recent comment from CAPCOM's Masao Kawada.

Hideo Kojima has said it's going to be a "tough year" for him amid simultaneous production of Death Stranding 2 and OD, as well as other projects.

An upcoming city builder asks the hard, important questions we all like to ask sometimes: What if penguins built a city? Wouldn't that be cool? United Penguin Kingdom says that yes, in fact, that would be pretty cool. You can try it for free, today, via a demo version on Steam called United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle Up, which includes about an hour and a half of gameplay covering the first year of a penguin settlement.

No, this is not another woke idea. It’s not clickbait. And no, it’s not meant to be controversial. Stay with me, and I’ll convince you why having a woman as the protagonist of a God of War game (after Ragnarok) would be a great idea.

An insider has claimed that Arkane Lyon's Blade game is currently aiming to release at some point in 2027, while also suggesting that it could be a cross-gen title.

Directed by Louis Leterrier, is a superhero film revolving around the namesake Marvel Comics character and serves as the second entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starring Edward Norton as Bruce Banner, The Incredible Hulk premiered on June 8, 2008. It earned a 67% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and $264.8 million at the global box office against a $137.5–150 million budget. If you are wondering when The Incredible Hulk 2 is coming out, this is what we have discovered.

I’m sure you are all well-informed about the recent ransomware breach for Insomniac Games. Earlier this month, a group managed to hack in and steal data from the studio. This information compromised the future video games planned for the studio and some rather personal data for employees. Sony apparently didn’t pay up, and the ransomware group leaked the content online. Future games are spoiled, and employees are likely going through plenty of headaches during the holiday season. 

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is resurrecting the series' staple world map for the first time since Final Fantasy 9, over 23 years ago.

The rumours of Nvidia's refresh of its RTX 40-series of GPUs have been steadily building for months and although the final specifications have yet to be set in stone, the dates when you can buy them all have been leaked. The RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4080 Super will reportedly be announced 8 January 2024 and will reach retailers' shelves by 17, 24, and 31 January respectively. Oh, and the wholly unnecessary RTX 3050 6GB will be available in February, too.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Embark Studios' The Finals is one of the most interesting multiplayers to come along for a while. It's also a brand new game from a new studio, and it unsurprisingly has some issues at launch. Alongside its underwhelming AI-assisted voiceovers, weird bugs, and questionable balance at the start of Season 1, as Morgan has pointed out, it's a sweaty beast, placing major emphasis on multi-way competitive shooting that can overly rely on being the twitchiest trigger finger, and neglecting the tactical potential of its fantastic destruction tech.

When I played Baldur's Gate 3 back in the autumn, I decided to roll with a Dark Urge Paladin, and it was such a fascinating experience that I wrote a whole article about it. But to give you the notes, combining a class that's sworn to abide by justice with a character who just flippin' loves murder creates an incredible internal conflict, leading to a character arc which, for me, felt like the closest you could come to a canonical playthrough of BG3.

Developer Free Radical Design has been shut down by Embracer Group, and the TimeSplitters reboot the studio had been working on has been presumably cancelled. In the wake of the studio’s shutter, several former employees have shared concept art for the shooter, showcasing weapons, environments, characters, and more.

Gale Dekarios is 's resident wizard, available as a playable Origin character as well as romance option, who will happily talk anybody's ear off about all things magic. However, there may be more to this loquacious spellcaster than first meets the eye. Because for all his talk about Mystra and his beloved cat, Gale's tales of his magical abilities don't quite add up.

Created by Neeraj Pandey, is a Hindi-language action thriller television series streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar. The plot revolves around Avinash Damodharan Kamath, a former police officer turned mercenary known as the Freelancer, as he sets out to rescue Aliya, the daughter of a friend, from the clutches of ISIS. Season 1 was split into two parts, with the first part, comprising four episodes, premiering on September 1, 2023. Part 2, with three episodes, debuted on December 15, 2023. If you are wondering whether there will be a second season, this is what we have discovered.

It's ten days to Christmas, and you know what that means: It's time for the world's most famous jolly, bearded man to draw up naughty and nice lists, handing out rewards to the latter and pitiless justice to the former. That's right, Gabe Newell is sticking it to Dota 2 cheats once again.

Naughty Dog’s hyped The Last of Us online multiplayer game, once said to be the most ambitious thing they’ve ever worked on, has been canceled. We’d heard for a while that the project was “on ice” following an unfavorable internal assessment by Bungie. That said, the game was never officially canceled. That’s now changed, with Naughty Dog providing a very clear reason for the change – they realized fully supporting a live service game would essentially mean becoming a live service studio, and they don’t want to do that.

The PlayStation 5 Pro is looking to be an extremely developer-friendly system, as it would require developers little effort to offer better and more stable performance if the leaked specifications going around are real.

It’s not very often that a new mainline Zelda title is a direct follow-up to a previous instalment, with Majora’s Mask having been the last one (not counting the handheld titles) to do so until Tears of the Kingdom launched earlier this year. And whenever the next Zelda title arrives, it is going to be an entirely new thing once again, as per series producer Eiji Aonuma.

Naoki Yoshida has laid it all out for PC gamers anticipating the release of Final Fantasy XVI.

Based on the namesake Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by the South Korean artist Boichi, is a post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure anime TV show. The plot predominantly revolves around 16-year-old prodigy Senku Ishigami, who is petrified along with the rest of the world when a mysterious flash appears out of nowhere in 2019. Three thousand and seven hundred years later, Senku is revived and subsequently resolves to restart human civilization with his extensive knowledge of science.

The Legend Of Zelda’s next outing probably won’t be a direct follow-up to Tears of the Kingdom, according to Nintendo.

The Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma has said the next game in the series probably won't be a direct sequel to Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Grand Theft Auto 6's first trailer has resulted in an M-class star's worth of reaction videos from YouTubers across the globe, but one that stands out from the army of gurning thumbnails is the response of Mike York. York is a professional animator who worked at Rockstar for 6 years, designing animations for both Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2. Now he runs his own YouTube channel, York Reacts, and naturally he had some things to say about GTA6's trailer.

Windows 11's 23H2 update has been out for a little while now, but some users have reported a noticeable drop in gaming performance since installation, which seems somewhat fitting for an update released on Halloween. If you've yet to install it, the good news is that Microsoft has currently placed the update on compatibility hold for a different issue which hopefully means both problems might be fixed by the time it becomes available again. 

Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi seems ready to move on to a new storyline with the next Zelda title.

Next week’s free Epic Games Store title hasn’t been revealed as usual, with Epic instead saying it plans to offer a “mystery game.”

Ahead of The Sims 4: For Rent expansion launch tomorrow, Maxis has published a routine patch with small updates and fixes to the base game. But players have spotted at least one change that wasn't listed in the patch notes: We can finally edit the walls and windows on apartments from current game packs. It may even be an unintended bug, but we're all hoping that it's actually a feature.

The Game Awards is almost here, and with it comes the announcement of many future video games that gamers will be intrigued about. Or, we hope they’ll be good enough announcements to be intrigued about. With this show, it’s hard to tell what will happen. Anyway, there are already tons of rumors about what will be at the show, and several studios have been cited to be showing up for one reason or another, possibly. One such developer is Arkane Studios. They’re a team behind some of Bethesda’s best titles, and a rumor says that the Marvel hero Blade could be next on their list of titles!

Diablo 4's brand-new endgame content, billed as a challenge that almost no-one would be able to complete, is living up to the hype - but not in a way that players actually appear to be enjoying.

Red Dead Redemption 3 is an inevitability, says one of the game’s major voice actors, but don’t expect Arthur to be returning for it.

Back in August, Xbox head Phil Spencer claimed that there's no reason why Starfield can't become a game that fans play for the next decade, stating that he believes the spacefaring RPG will have a lifespan as long as Skyrim. Since then, we've seen the game launch, Bethesda itself argue that the game isn't boring, and Starfield become the lowest-rated Bethesda title on Steam in the studio's history. Despite all of that, Spencer's opinion hasn't changed.

Whether you've been playing it for 200 hours or decided it was boring after 200 minutes, Starfield is nonetheless one of the most important video game releases this year. Since it's Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda's first new IP in decades, the intergalactic role-playing game was born wearing giant shoes to fill and debuted to ecstatic, unquenchable fanfare. 

The camera on the iPhone has come a long way since its launch, and it continues to improve every year. Apple upgrades the hardware annually and appoints dedicated developers to enhance its computational efforts in the field. You might have recently encountered a photo on social media that aims to show three instances of a scene in a single image. It was reported that a 'glitch' in the iPhone's computational photography is why the camera failed to take a standard shot. As it turns out, Tessa Coates uploaded a failed panoramic shot that captured different frames in a single photo.

A new dicebuilding game is on the way, taking the roguelite framework and applying it in an interesting-looking way by having you place your dice in a grid for synergies and effects. Plus, you're a cute frog that's eating bugs. Big bonus in my opinion.

The Witcher 4 developer CD Projekt Red wants the next installment of the RPG series to be an entry point for newcomers, as well as please long-time fans. 

We’re nearing the end of the year folks: this is it!

CD Projekt Red is ramping up development on The Witcher 4 (AKA Polaris) now that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out. The hotly sought-after sequel is still a few years away from launching, but director Sebastian Kalemba has shed some light on what we can expect.

Cult of the Lamb devs Massive Monster seem to be staying true to their promise to bring a ‘sex update’ to the cutesy cultist roguelite next year, after their promise to satisfy thirsty fans ended up exploding more quickly than expected.

«I've never been more excited for a technology shift in the gaming landscape,» Tim Stuart says.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Taskmaster got its own VR game. The game show, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is about giving celebrities and comedians increasingly absurd tasks to fulfil—with very few clues on how to get those tasks done.

As confirmed just a few hours ago, with Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty now firmly in the rearview, the bulk of CD Projekt RED's staff has moved to work on The Witcher 4. You can see that clearly in the slide shared yesterday during the Q3 2023 earnings report.

When it comes to professional communications, Gmail is a go-to for many, including us. But it is not easy to master. However, if you want to turn into a Gmail ninja, then we have some tips just for you. Navigating from 'Compose email' to 'Forward email' daily is a tedious trackpad routine. Despite honing this skill, it's inefficient — especially with a flood of incoming emails. But this is where Gmail keyboard shortcuts emerge as a game-changer. These commands are straightforward and easy to use, significantly cutting down the time taken to get through the tasks. Let us take a look at the most quintessential Gmail shortcuts that you should be using.

One in five players who own the base game have Phantom Liberty.

This article is written in partnership with MicroProse.

Rockstar has done modern times, they’ve done the hardboiled 1940s, they’ve done the Old West, and now they might be about to go medieval on our asses. No, really. Eagle-eyed fans recently picked up on this rather interesting line in Rockstar India artist Pawas Saxena’s LinkedIn profile…

Many are curious about the following the first season’s success, but is it coming out? Strong Girl Nam-Soon is a South Korean drama series that tells the story of Gang Nam-soon, who disappeared in Mongolia when she was a child. Years later, she returns to South Korea to find her family and gets dragged into a drug case. Fortunately for Nam-soon, she is incredibly strong and decides to use her strength to resolve her problem. Season 1 premiered on JTBC on October 7, 2023, and it’s airing on Netflix internationally.

Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya has revealed in a recent video on his YouTube channel that a collaboration between him and other major Japanese game developers, such as Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima or Nier creator Yoko Taro would be a disaster.

doesn't make all available character options — including whether it's possible to become a vampire — clear from the very beginning. The degree of freedom provided when making a custom character is unprecedented in the video game space, only rivaled by a tabletop game with a very patient DM. However, the choices don't end with character creation. The character a player ends up with might turn out totally different from the one they started with, depending on the opportunities they take throughout the game.

Bayonetta series director Hideki Kamiya wanted to make nine entries in the franchise, and has suggested he probably shouldn't work with other famed Japanese game developers.

Ubisoft has shared a new gameplay trailer for South Park: Snow Day, demonstrating that it will be a considerably different game from the ones that just preceded it.

«Unemployed man» Hideki Kamiya continues to update his YouTube channel in the wake of his departure from Platinum, keeping the world at large updated on what he's been cooking, his opinions on onsen, and the last time he visited an aquarium.

Yeyian Yumi | Core i5 12400F | Nvidia RTX 4060 | 16GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB SSD | $1,199.99$829.99 at Newegg (save $370)This is a good deal for a mid-tier gaming PC, especially when many rigs around this price are delivering you an RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti. The Core i5 is still a solid CPU today, and RTX 4060 is probably the mainstream GPU of Nvidia's current generation of cards you'd expect in a budget build, comfortably beating both those RTX 30-series mainstays, and with the added panacea of DLSS 3.5 and Frame Generation. You also get a full 16GB RAM and a full 1TB NVMe SSD.

It feels like Steam has some sort of sales event almost on a weekly basis. Recently, we had the Scream Fest to celebrate Halloween, and now we’re getting another one as we head towards the tail end of November.

In June 2020, I found my life steadily unraveling. While quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt besieged by cages: my house, where my entire family lived in suffocatingly close proximity; my room, which, thanks to Zoom, had become an ad hoc auditorium for various professors; and my body, whose masculinity felt increasingly alien. I had successfully avoided interrogating my gender for months, but that changed when I watched Steven Universe.

Last week, a job listing for a lead software engineer on Monolith's Wonder Woman game popped up, with requirements like «Knowledge of 3D math commonly used in game development» and «Prior experience working in a 3D game engine (Unreal, Unity, etc.)» Among the non-essential «Nice to Haves» was «Experience helping maintain a live software product or game».

The Wonder Woman game won't be a live service, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. This comes after the Wonder Woman developer was spotted trying to hire a lead software engineer with experience "helping maintain a live software product or game", leading many to believe that Wonder Woman would have live service elements.

Tragic Clowns have been a part of The Sims franchise since the very first game, but now you can do more than just summon him: you can become him. Embrace the clown; become the clown.

At some point in early December 2023, the first trailer for the long-awaited will be released by developer Rockstar Games. While the announcement of a first official look at the game was met with online fanfare from the fanbase, it has not stopped the near-constant stream of leaks and rumors — and one rumor in particular is incredibly interesting for story-mode aficionados. A recent leak on the site GTAForums, alleges that Rockstar is planning to elongate the lifecycle of by releasing updates to keep players engrossed in a way that could change the franchise forever.

The moment I slipped my husband’s Xbox headphones over my ears to settle in for a game of Zombies in Modern Warfare 3, my mind slid back to the first (and last) time I used in-game chat.

The fate of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake continues to be shrouded in mystery, as the Embracer Group, the parent company of developer Aspyr Media, refuses once again to comment on the game.

The Tensor G3 found in the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro has so far disappointed when compared to its competition, making it imperative for Google to switch over to a fully custom solution to rival Apple’s A-series and the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. Unfortunately, it will take some time for the rumored Tensor G5 to arrive, but according to the latest update, it will be mass produced on TSMC’s N3E process, the same one used to fabricate next-generation SoCs for Qualcomm and MediaTek.

A recently sighted job listing for Warner Bros. and developer Monolith Productions' upcoming Wonder Woman game has hinted it'll be a live service title.

A new job listing for the upcoming Wonder Woman game suggests it may have a live service element.