Casey Bell

2016’s SteamWorld Heist, a turn-based strategy set in the SteamWorld game universe, is getting a sequel and Thunderful Publishing have released a new trailer offering players a deep dive into its gameplay.

Darkest Dungeon II developer Red Hook Studios published an update on the game’s mod support earlier this week.

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II’s release is just weeks away and Ninja Theory has provided system requirements for the PC version of the game so players can ensure their systems can run the title adequately when it releases later this month.

The long awaited Ghost of Tsushima PC port arrives later this month on May 16 and following the recent kerfuffle over Helldivers 2 and its PSN account link requirement on PC, players have been wondering if Ghost of Tsushima will require the same. Well, there’s good news and bad news.

The Diablo 4 team held a campfire chat on the forthcoming Season 4: Loot Reborn update earlier this week and today we’ll be breaking down some of the highlights.

Bethesda’s Todd Howard described some of the features coming in Starfield’s May update while discussing the game on the Kinda Funny podcast and now shortly after that, the update has rolled out on PC in Steam Beta, with a full release planned for May 15.

Arrowhead Games appears to be settling into a roughly monthly cadence when it comes to Helldivers 2’s Warbonds, its version of no FOMO battle passes.

Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room are back with a new Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Clan Highlight, this time focused on the Banu Haqim.

Amazon Prime’s Fallout TV show has supercharged excitement in the Fallout IP, leading to a significant surge in player counts across a variety of Fallout titles on Steam, but also for Fallout London, a fan-created mod for Fallout 4 that may as well be an entirely new entry in the series due to the breadth and scope of the project.

Neverwinter’s 28th module, Adventures in Wildspace, is out now. The module concludes the game’s Spelljammer story arc, expands the Wildspace adventure zone, a new dungeon, some quality-of-life improvements, and more.

Billie Eilish is the latest music artist to join Fortnite as part of Season 3 of its Fortnite Festival, a Rock Band style music game mode. Previous Fortnite Festival artists include,  Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, and Ariana Grande.

Bungie’s ramping things up for Destiny 2: The Final Shape ahead of its June 4 release date with a new trailer that shows off more of the upcoming expansion.

It’s been over a decade since 7 Days to Die entered Steam Early Access, but the game’s developer, The Fun Pimps, finally feels its ready for its official 1.0 release.

 Sega’s latest NGS Headline for Phantasy Star Online New Genesis revealed plans to celebrate the game’s 3rd anniversary with an event titled Halpha’s Super Origin Festival.

Grounded, Obsidian’s Honey, I Shrunk The Kids-esque survival game, received its final content update this week with ‘Fully Yoked’ update 1.4.

11 bit studios kicked off its beta for its post-apocalyptic city-builder, Frostpunk 2, this week for those who have pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition of the game. The beta runs through April 22.

Players will soon be able to master the Satsui no Hado in Street Fighter 6 as the iconic Akuma is set to join the roster on May 22. Akuma is the final character included in SF6’s Year 1 Character Pass.

Between Palworld, Helldivers 2, and now Manor Lords, it’s been a year of games coming out of left field and achieving runaway success.

Standing Stone Gamesreleased a new update for The Lord of the Rings Online’s earlier this week and unlocked tier 4 of The Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo raid.

Gearbox Publishing and Blackbird Interactive released a new cinematic for Homeworld 3 earlier this week, hoping to catch players up on the series’ story ahead of its release in May.

Fatshark is dropping a free new update for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 today. Titled ‘A Parting of the Waves,’ the update will set players off on an adventure that concludes the game’s Karak Azgraz storyline.

The nostalgia hits keep on coming with World of Warcraft as Blizzard is not only adding Cataclysm to World of Warcraft: Classic, but also kicking off a new time-limited event that will feature arguably one of the game’s most well-received expansions: 2012’s Mists of Pandaria.

Riot Games is adding its first non-binary agent to VALORANT with the introduction of the Controller, Clove.

A new Marvel Snap season is upon us! The April 2024 season will focus on Marvel’s antihero team the Thunderbolts with Baron Zemo featured as the season pass card.

Titan Forge has revealed Hecate, Smite 2’s first new god, in a new deep dive video released by the developer. The video gives us a look into Hecate’s backstory, abilities, and how the use of Unreal Engine 5 was instrumental in realizing the character’s potential in Smite 2.

Stunlock Studios have announced a collaboration with Konami to feature Castlevania content in its vampire survival ARPG, V Rising.

The demo for Korean developer Shift Up’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade is out now – for real this time. The demo was accidentallypushed out early to the PlayStation Store a couple of weeks ago and quickly taken down, but players eager to give the game a spin can now do so without worry.

Helldivers’ democracy spreading arsenal is set to expand even further with the release of the new Democratic Detonation Warbond on April 11.

Evercore Heroes, a game developed by Riot, EA, and Rare veterans at Vela Games, has undergone a transformation. The title which was originally a mix of MOBA and MMO PvE elements is now a three-player team action roguelite, according to a new announcement released by its developer.

No Man’s Sky’s latest update ‘Orbital’ is available today and adds ship customization, a new guild system, an overhaul to space stations, and more.

Square Enix recently published a 42 minute Final Fantasy VII Rebirth “Special Talk Session” on its Square Enix Music YouTube channel. The video features series composer Nobuo Uematsu, writer Kazushige Nojima, and creative director Tetsuya Nomura.

Update 2.7 has gone live for Aion Classic Europe, adding the new Revenant class, which is only available onAion Classic servers.

Capcom has released a new ‘Welcome to Dragon’s Dogma 2’ trailer narrated by award-winning actor Ian McShane.

Spring is in the air and The Lord of the Rings Online is celebrating with the arrival of the Spring Festival event.

Conan Exiles’ Age of War is set to conclude with the launch of its 4th and final chapter on April 2.

Star Vault has released patch 2.0.2 for Mortal Online 2 adding a number of features the developer had promised as part of ‘Sprint 1’ on the game’s roadmap.

Palworld’s endgame options are set to expand with the introduction of the game’s first raid. Following the game’s meteoric rise earlier this year, the team published a roadmap laying out its plans for the game. The main takeaway was that while new content was coming, Pocketpair was prioritizing fixing the game’s major pain points before pivoting to adding new things to the game.

Helldivers 2 is getting its first post-launch premium battle pass (also known as a ‘Warbond’) on March 14 and its bringing some electrifying new hardware for players to use in their valiant effort to spread Managed Democracy across the galaxy.

Sabotage Studio announced a milestone of five million players for Sea of Stars this week and released a teaser showing off an upcoming three player couch co-op mode for the game.

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Team Ninja have released a new episode in Rise of the Ronin’s behind-the-scenes video series. Titled “The Cause” this latest entry puts the game’s dynamic story in focus.

City of Heroes was recently updated with its first official update since the game shut down in 2012 with Homecoming’s Issue 27, Page 7 patch. While Homecoming, as well as other servers, have been operating and publishing updates for many years now, NCsoft gave the Homecoming team the official license to operate City of Heroes back in January.

The Sims 4 is referencing Final Fantasy XIV yet again with a nod to the Crystal Exarch a beloved character from FFXIV’s Shadowbringers expansion.

We reported on rumors of an imminent Ghost of Tsushima PC port announcement earlier this week and today those rumors were confirmed. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut arrives on PC on May 16.

Marvel Snap’s latest season is now live and it features one of Marvel Comics’ most iconic story arcs: Avengers vs. X-Men. Comic book fans always love a good superhero vs. superhero fight and what could be a more high profile conflict than pitting the Avengers and X-Men against each other?

Capcom continues its spotlights of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s playable vocations with two videos focused on a pair of the game’s hybrid vocations: the Magick Archer and Mystic Spearhand.

Reported by Insider Gaming (via XboxEra’s Shapeshal_Nick) there appears to be a suggestion that the long rumored PC port of Ghost of Tsushima may finally be announced sometime this week.

The Pokemon-like MMO-lite, Temtem, will be getting its final updates and the removal of all monetization according to an announcement made by its developer Crema in a new community update.

A new trailer for Greedfall 2: The Dying World premiered at this year’s Nacon Connect livestream. The trailer gives us our first look at the game’s story, where we see the player character fight to free herself from enslavement.

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown publisher Nacon and developer KT Racing have been releasing a number of videos over the past couple of months highlighting the various playstyles in the game, such as The Cruiser and The Racer, and now we’ve got a look another playstyle in The Explorer.

Moon Studios, the folks behind the Ori platformer games, are working on a new project titled No Rest For The Wicked. The game is a Soulslike ARPG that was announced at The Game Awards late last year. The studio’s “Wicked Inside” livestream gave fans their first extended look at the game and we’ve got the details.

Just days after the conclusion of Capcom Cup X, Capcom has dropped a new update for Street Fighter 6, adding Street Fighter 5 alum Ed as the game’s latest DLC character. The update also includes a number of balance changes, though they’re a bit narrower in scope than we expect to see later on.

Players got their first look at Age of Mythology: Retold, Microsoft and World’s Edge’s upcoming remaster of beloved real-time strategy game, Age of Mythology.

Honkai Impact 3rd, HoYoverse’s ARPG, will see the release of its Part 2 update later this week on February 29. The update will send players on an adventure to Mars with a host of new characters, maps, combat, and monsters.

With Dragon’s Dogma 2’s March release date fast approaching, Capcom has been releasing new trailers showcasing the game’s various vocations. This week, players got a look at two of the game’s advanced vocations: the Sorcerer and Warrior.

A new trailer released for Rise of the Ronin gives us a focused look at the game’s combat systems and features.

Team Ninja, the developers behind Nioh and Ninja Gaiden, have released the second episode in a behind-the-scenes video series focused on the game development of its forthcoming open-world action RPG, Rise of the Ronin.

A major title update for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is coming March 7 and will add the long awaited New Game+ mode to the game, new suits, photo mode updates, and more.

MOBA hero shooterGigantic received a new lease on life recently with the announcement of its revival as Gigantic: Rampage Edition, a buy-to-play re-release of by its new developer Abstraction Games.

Nintendo’s latest Direct gave us the official announcement of Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, the definitive edition of SMT V, which originally released exclusively on the Nintendo Switch back in 2021. With pre-orders now live, Atlus has dropped a new ‘extended cut’ of the announcement trailer as well as new information on pre-order bonus items.

The Pokémon Company today announced a new game in the Legends open-world ARPG series of Pokémon games. Titled Pokémon Legends: Z-A and releasing worldwide sometime in 2025, players will return to the Lumiose City in the Kalos region, which made its first appearance in Pokémon X and Y back in 2013.

Ever wanted to bring some guns to a swordfight? Well, Redemption Road Games and tinyBuild are allowing players to do just that withKingmakers.

Bandai Namco have published a new video for Sand Land, the upcoming action RPG set in the world of legendary Dragon Ball artist Akira Toriyama’s eponymous manga series. The video gives players an in-depth look at Sand Land’s key gameplay features.

In a surprising turn of events, Motiga’s short-lived MOBA hero shooter, Gigantic, is set to return this spring, five years after being shut down in 2018.

Crema, the studio behind Pokemon-like MMO Temtem, announced a new spinoff this week with Temtem: Swarm, a Vampire Survivors style “bullet heaven.”

Last Epoch, the upcoming action RPG developed by Eleventh Hour Games, has been in Early Access since 2019 and is set for its 1.0 launch today. The studio has published a new video giving players a breakdown of all the key additions in the 1.0 patch notes, including Item Factions, offline mode, controller support, visual upgrades, and new Rogue and Acolyte masteries.

PowerWash Simulator's latest collaboration is with Games Workshop’s iconic Warhammer 40K IP and the DLC is out next week on February 27.

The drumbeat towards launch continues with two new videos giving Dragon’s Dogma fans a look at how some of the game’s basic vocations will play in Dragon’s Dogma 2. This time, Capcom’s put a focus on the Archer and Mage vocations.

Eleventh Hour Games action-RPG Last Epoch is set to leave Early Access this week and the team has dropped a new ‘technical trailer’ showcasing the game’s various classes (and sub-classses), systems, and impressive visual improvements.

Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Apex Legends and the Star Wars Jedi series, are reportedly working on a Mandalorian project.

Team Ninja, the developers behind Nioh and Ninja Gaiden, have released the first episode in a behind-the-scenes video series focused on the game development of its forthcoming open-world action RPG, Rise of the Ronin.

EA is celebrating Apex Legends’ fifth anniversary with the launch of Season 20: Breakout, which went live earlier this week.

Capcom recently teased Ed, the penultimate character release of Street Fighter 6’s Year 1 Character Pass, with a trailer featuring cutscenes from Ed’s World Tour section. The trailer gave us hints at how Ed would translate over from Street Fighter 5 to 6, but this latest trailer released by Capcom gives players the full rundown.

Almost nine years since Arrowhead Game Studios released a new title, Helldivers 2 has become a resounding success for the studio just days after its release. With around a million copies sold and 360K concurrent users between PC and PlayStation platforms, gamers have been flocking to the sci-fi co-op shooter in droves, dethroning God of War as Sony’s biggest launch on Steam.

Capcom released a new trailer for Dragon’s Dogma 2 this week, giving players a closer look at one of the series staple vocations: the Fighter.

Blackbird Interactive has delayed the release of Homeworld 3 by about eight weeks from its March 8 release date.

The Black Order arrived in Marvel Snap earlier this week, but that’s not all Second Dinner has had in store for fans of the game. Second Dinner also kicked off a new ‘Galactic Carnival’ event this week and dropped a small, but impactful balance patch along with it.

Nine months after its first closed beta test, Kuro Game's Wuthering Waves is now gearing up for its second test, with registrations now live. The developer also revealed that the game will be coming to both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles.

Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room have released the long awaited extended gameplay reveal for Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.

Arrowhead Studios’ co-op sci-fi shooter, Helldivers 2, kicked off Sony’s first State of Play of 2024 with a brand new trailer and that trailer had one big surprise at the end of it: the return of pilotable mechs.