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MultiVersus has popped back up in the "Free Games" section of the Epic Games Store, which supports the rumours and fan theories that it could be re-revealed at some point this month.

On February 29, we held a Campfire Chat showcasing the Gauntlet: a fixed-layout endgame dungeon coming on March 5. Community director Adam Fletcher, associate game director Joe Piepiora, and lead live class designer Adam Jackson sat down to discuss our mid-season update for Season of the Construct.

Even with its continued push for Game Pass, Xbox has no intention of fully abandoning disc-based games, according to Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer.

The last few years have seen Microsoft Gaming shift focus from Xbox consoles to prioritize the subscription-based Game Pass service. However, CEO Phil Spencer recently confirmed that Xbox isn’t getting out of the console business.

While an enormous amount of attention has been placed on the games Microsoft is potentially bringing to PlayStation, reports also suggest the tech titan has been quietly stocking up on PS5 devkits to support its plans. Speculation comes courtesy of fan site Xbox Era, which broke the news Starfield may be coming to Sony’s system later this year. This article kickstarted a landslide of stories, which has also seen Indiana Jones and Gears of War conversions touted.

PlayStation fans have been frustrated by Sony’s seeming overemphasis on live service game development behind-the-scenes, but that makes Stellar Blade a real breath of fresh air. A staunchly single player PS5 character action title, it marks Korean developer Shift Up’s first foray into the world of consoles – and it’s generating an enormous amount of enthusiasm due to its dazzling visuals and throwback vibes. We caught up with Game Director Hyung-Tae Kim and Technical Director Dong-Gi Lee to learn a little more about the upcoming outing, due out on 26th April.

Lawrence Sullivan, the man behind viral internet personality 'Florida Joker', has once again released a statement directed toward GTA 6's alleged parody of his persona. This time, he's asking to work on the hugely-anticipated crime fest. 

Cliff Bleszinski (sometimes known as Cliffy B) has mentioned on multiple occasions that he was interested in returning to the Gears of War series, but after publically gunning for a consulting gig, he now says that "it's time to move on."

On January 18, we held a Developer Update Livestream that dug into the horrors waiting for you beneath the sands of Kehjistan in Season of the Construct, and the competitive leaderboard activity called The Gauntlet.

The number of potential player actions that Baldur's Gate 3 accounts for is one part of what makes it such a special RPG, but players have finally found something that it looks like Larian didn't expect them to do: use Gale's corpse as a remote explosive.

After being operational for about 18 months, GameStop's NFT marketplace is officially shutting down. This move marks the company's exit from the NFT business entirely, as previously GameStop has also ended support for its own cryptocurrency wallet.

2023 was a landmark year for horror (check out Wccftech's Best Of here), delivering the super-ambitious Alan Wake 2, a pair of rock-solid remakes in Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space, excellent indies like Amnesia: The Bunker, and more. 2024 may not be quite as strong, but it largely keeps the ball rolling down a similar horrifying path, with a couple of new remakes (The Last of Us Part II Remastered and Silent Hill 2), new entries in fan-favorite series (Alone in the Dark), and some promising indies (Still Wakes the Deep). Those dark days when it looked like survival horror might be finished are definitely behind us, so steel your nerves. Here are Wccftech's picks for the games that will be keeping you awake in 2024.

In the same week that the Mario Kart Moo Moo Meadow meme is doing the rounds, Twitter users are sharing what games raised them growing up. 

The upcoming year on television is full of exciting new shows to jump into, whether it’s The 3 Body Problem, Shōgun, The Veil, or Manhunt. But once you get into all the returning shows, the 2024 lineup gets daunting. Sure you can start House of the Dragon, Silo, or Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power with just one season of homework to catch up, and shows like True Detective: Night Countryand Orphan Black: Echoes you can jump into with no previous knowledge of the series — but what happens when a show’s going into its fourth or fifth season. How do you know if the commitment is worthwhile?

The ESRB has rated Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake.

Around a month and a half ago, former Age of Empires, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends designer Greg Street (also known as Ghostcrawler) announced he partnered with NetEase to make a new triple-A fantasy MMORPG codenamed Ghost.

2023 has turned out to be the year of Baldur's Gate 3, RPG-wise at least, and it's easy to forget that no-one expected it to be this way. Many including myself expected the biggest and best game of the year to be Bethesda's much-anticipated Starfield, the first new series from the studio in decades and its first singleplayer RPG since 2011's remarkable Skyrim, one of the most beloved games ever made—and one that has had a unique afterlife thanks to mods.

Activision’s Infinity Ward has confirmed plans to sunset DMZ.

Pacific Drive is set to rev up its engines and pull out of the driveway on 22nd February, across PlayStation 5 and PC (via Steam and Epic Game Store).

On November 30, we held a Campfire Chat that sliced into our first seasonal endgame event Abbatoir of Zir, and foreshadowed chills yet to come in Midwinter Blight.

Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition has appeared again, this time on Microsoft’s Xbox store.

It’s Cyber Monday, which means Amazon is offering a host of deals. One bargain in particular is perfect for anyone with even a passing interest in the Black Library, the collection of fiction set in the worlds of Warhammer. This includes the classic Warhammer fantasy setting, tales in the new Age of Sigmar, and a whole smorgasbord of books set in the sci-fi future of Warhammer 40K.

Since World of Warcraft's release, «twinks» have been a problem. For those familiar enough with gay culture to be scandalised, I promise that's the actual MMORPG lingo. A twink in an MMO is a low-level character you pour a bunch of effort (and typically money) into, giving them absurdly powerful gear—proportionately, at least. Etymology lessons will come later.

Two as yet unannounced Borderlands games have appeared on the LinkedIn profile of a former Gearbox employee.

A Felix the Cat collection has popped up on the ESRB website.

2023 has made it easier than ever to amass a huge backlog of video games to get through, but it doesn't look like 2024 is likely to provide any critical relief. Games likeand represent an aggressive start to the year, and diving a little deeper reveals that they're only the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of genre or style preference, the wide-ranging nature of games slated to carry the industry torch into next year offers something for every taste, and that's discounting the inevitability of surprise hits thrown into the mix.

The new, slimmer models of the PS5 are here, almost three years to the day that the original console first started to arrive on people's doorsteps. Providing someone didn't replace your order with a bag of cat food, of course. The two new models weren't the only PlayStation launches today, though. The long-rumored detachable disc drive appears to be available now too, its Best Buy listing popping up alongside the one for the slimmer PS5s/

LEGO 2K Drive, which launched earlier this year, was the first release in what’s been reported as a multi-year partnership between 2K and LEGO, and the next game from that partnership might be right around the corner. Previous reports have claimed that a LEGO football game is also in the works, which has been prematurely revealed as LEGO 2K Goooal! in multiple age ratings in recent months, and now it seems an announcement for the title might be right around the corner.

Unannounced football game Lego 2K Goooal! has leaked yet again, this time with official artwork via a listing on the PlayStation Store.

The next installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost here, and that means it’s time to catch back up on everything you may have forgotten. In the case of The Marvels, that means refreshing yourself on the exploits and adventures of Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan — and maybe Nick Fury, just a little bit.

The Switch might be getting a successor in 2024, but that doesn't mean the 125 million of us who own one have been left to tread water until Nintendo decides to officially confirm what's next. There's plenty still to come for the Switch, and I'm not just talking about games. The console's run of amiibos isn't over yet either, and just last week we got two brand new ones via the long-awaited release of Zelda and Ganondorf's Tears of the Kingdom figures.

Ms. Marvel may not have captured the attention of a public starving for new TV, like WandaVision, or a public starving for more Tom Hiddleston, like Loki. But it’s still quietly one of the best Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows produced for Disney Plus.

On November 3, Diablo general manager Rod Ferguson and production directors Tiffany Wat and Chris Wilson took the stage at BlizzCon’s opening ceremony to recap the plethora of quality-of-life updates released for Diablo IV since Season of Blood began on October 17, and to provide a glimpse at the fiendish adventures coming to Diablo IV.

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Considering how we are in the last quarter of 2023, we will see new flagships coming out. And the OnePlus 12 is one of them, as the phone has now made its way to Geekbench. This means that most of the key specifications of the device are now here, and we know what the phone is going to pack.

On October 28, 2023, the Call of Duty series will be 20 years old. While it's now one of the most impressive and well-resourced development projects on the planet, with three core studios (as well as support studios) dedicated to keeping its annual release cycle spinning, the foundations for its success were laid by Infinity Ward which, after developing the first two games in the franchise, was given the time to make something really special, and produced what is still the series' defining entry with 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Alan Wake 2 is almost here, and if you'd like a quick catch-up on what happened in the first game to ensure you're up to speed, Epic Games has you covered. Alan Wake: Flashback is a «reimagining» of the events of Alan Wake—a sort of playable crash course recap created using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite.

October's wave of new releases has begun in earnest now, with Assassin's Creed Mirage launching at the end of last week. It climbed near the top of the UK's boxed games chart, making a number two debut behind the predictably popular EA Sports FC 24.

There are a lot of expectations from the upcoming Galaxy S24 series, especially the ones that are sporting the Exynos 2400. Samsung has not been able to deliver a solid Exynos chipset for some time now, but the new chipset does look promising, and we have just received the Geekbench scores showing the single-core and multi-core performance of the chipset on the Plus variant.

Studio Wildcard, known to gamers for the hit survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, was a key component of the surprising resolution of the Myth of Empires legal dispute. The sandbox multiplayer game was removed from Steam following a copyright infringement claim.

On October 10, we held our Campfire Chat centered on updates coming with Patches 1.2.0 and 1.2.1. Associate game designer Charles Dunn, lead balance designer Adam Jackson, and associate director of community Adam Fletcher introduced the design philosophy behind Class and damage balance changes, resistance and item updates, new Unique items, and more. The team also answered questions live from the community. If you’d like to join us by the campfire to experience the chat firsthand, see the video below.

Fallout and Fallout 2, although stone-cold classics of the isometric RPG genre, are, nowadays, a slightly dubious prospect. Before Obsidian and New Vegas, Bethesda and Fallout 4, Black Isle created one of the richest and most vivid PC games in history. By modern standards, however, those original Fallouts are a little obstructive and fussy. You want to experience their humor, their style, their wonderful mix of role playing and choice, but they can be difficult to grasp. On a related note, if you’ve just finished Starfield and you’re eager for a new space-faring RPG game, or if you just miss the isometric classics like Planescape Torment, Baldur’s Gate, and Diablo, there’s good news. Available to try thanks to a free demo, a new Fallout-style RPG is out of Steam Early Access, and it’s already picked up rave reviews and industry awards.

Despite a rough release and not many people remaining to play it on Steam, Redfall is not yet Deadfall. On Friday, Arkane put out a large update to the game that addresses performance and stability concerns, bugs, accessibility and QoL shortfalls, and even adds new combat encounters and player actions.

Sony and developer Arrowhead have given us a fresh look at gameplay for the upcoming co-op shooter, Helldivers 2. More than that, the video provides us with a release date — it's heading to PS5 and PC on 8th February, 2024.

Sometimes, My Nintendo rewards can drop without warning. Although Super Mario Wonder is tenuously linked to this new “Mario shopping bag” reward, it doesn’t really have anything to do with Wonder specifically and could have arrived at any point in time. Still, it exists, and you can snag it!

«There will be people ten years from now who are going to join Game Pass, and Redfall will be there.»

In a series of TikToks to promote her new single “Used To Be Young,” Miley Cyrus shared stories from her childhood as a kid actor on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana. Her intense work schedule echoes much of what we now know about the grueling working conditions that child actors dealt with, as they shot up to stardom.

Laying out Destiny 2's long-smoldering Crucible woes, game director Joe Blackburn says the studio was at one point unsure of the viability of PvP altogether because it hadn't "seen it move the needle."

Doom Eternal is like the fastest, most blood-soaked puzzle game ever made, as you dash through the environment, hot-swap weapons to take out different demons, and juggle between your chainsaw and your super shotty. Cyberpunk 2077 is a lot more thoughtful, but its sharp-color, neon-drenched aesthetic lends itself perfectly to all kinds of wild action. So let’s say we smash these both together, then chuck in some other boomer shooter classics like Quake and Half-Life. And let’s say we call it this new FPS game Turbo Overkill, and launch it on Steam where it’s already picked up the coveted ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews.

Get Dishonored, two Metro games, and more for your Steam Deck.

U.S. space venture company Voyager Space and Airbus said on Wednesday they will co-operate more closely in the race to build a private version of the International Space Station.

Cyberpunk 2077’s sleek, neon-drenched style and music, mixed with Doom Eternal’s fluid movement, wild kill combos, and fast-paced style. To me, that sounds like the perfect FPS game, like someone peered into my imagination and built their shooter around all of my favorite things. And now it’s real. Deadlink is a new roguelike that’s just hit Steam, and after just four days of release, it’s already gathered ‘very positive’ user reviews. Quick, violent, and visually stunning, Deadlink is also available at 25% off. This could be 2023’s biggest sleeper hit.

Helldivers 2 has been rated.

Our Patch 1.1.1. Campfire Chat went live on July 25. See the Patch Notes shared during the stream by our developers, which goes live on August 8.

Amazon is giving you a chance to snag a handful of Pokemon manga box sets for some of the lowest prices of the year.

On July 18, we released Patch 1.1.0 for Diablo IV. Since then, we’ve received valuable feedback from the community regarding the changes it implemented. We took the opportunity to address that feedback directly during our Season of the Malignant Campfire Chat on July 21.

After today's Patch 1.1.0 Campfire Chat, Blizzard has released the following blog post, going over the main topics of the Developer Livestream. Patch 1.1.0 Campfire Chat Summary Diablo 4 Patch 1.1.0 Campfire Chat

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

Highly anticipated PSVR2 tactical shooter sequel Firewall Ultra will Oscar Mike its way onto Sony’s new-gen system from 24th August, with pre-orders now live on the PS Store. The standard edition of the game will retail for $39.99, while its Digital Deluxe Edition will cost $59.99. The latter includes early access to four additional in-game Contractors with outfits for all of them, as well as four weapon camos and one Operation Pass. All pre-orders will also come with a Legendary weapon: the Reaper X75.