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Each Thursday, the Epic Games Store releases a new free game or two to help round out your collection. Currently, the adorable Metroidvania Islets is available to download until April 4, and two hit games have been confirmed to be hitting the storefront from April 4 until April 11. These are The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition and Thief.

Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors has suggested he must shoulder much of the blame for a “long list” of mistakes that led to a “painful” restructuring of the company.

Swedish game and media holding company Embracer Group has announced its plans to split into three separate entities.

New details about Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game have been revealed.

A stunning Deus Ex RTX Remix mod is now available for download, introducing path tracing in the classic first-person game.

Next week’s free Epic Games Store titles have been confirmed.

Smilegate Barcelona, the studio established in 2020 to develop an open-world AAA console title, has reportedly been closed.

The latest free PC games are now available to redeem on the Epic Games Store, and at least one is an underrated classic. It’s Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, available until March 21st. You’ll need an Epic Games account to claim it and the Epic Games Launcher to play it, though.

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake developer Saber Interactive has reportedly left embattled parent company Embracer in a $500 million deal to become a privately owned company.

The voice actor behind Adam Jensen in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided claims Eidos asked him to stop talking about the character publicly several years ago.

Black Forest Games, a German video game developer subsidiary of THQ Nordic, which Embracer Group owns, is reportedly planning to lay off around 50% of its employees. Last December, two Danish developers owned by Embracer Group, 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks, announced that over half of their staff would have their roles eliminated. With that announcement, around 1000 people were laid off by Embracer in the second half of 2023. Now, Black Forest Games is seemingly the latest developer to be affected.

As revealed by last week's leak, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is the final free game on the Epic Games Store holiday list. Unlike previous freebies, though, users have a full week to redeem the game and permanently add it to their libraries.

Wrapping up its holiday promotion, Epic Games is giving away Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy for free on PC. It’s available to claim on the Epic Games Store until January 10th, 8 AM PST, so there’s plenty of time.

Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy was one of 2021's biggest surprises, succeeding where Square Enix's Avengers game failed by finding an identity beyond its movie counterpart thanks to strong writing. Alas, it didn't meet Square Enix's sales expectations.

Deus Ex voice actor Elias Toufexis was initially cast to voice the male protagonist in Bethesda's latest sci-fi RPG Starfield, before the developer decided to follow in the footsteps of previous title like The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim to go with a silent protagonist.