Spelunky studio's long-awaited 8-bit game anthology UFO 50 due "second half" of 2024

League of Legends’ champion roster has grown so big and varied over the last fifteen years that occasionally, a concept just doesn’t land, or a character ages poorly. Skarner is one of these champions. A crystal scorpion from the desert region of Shurima, Skarner was the last of his kind and the source of the magical technology known as hextech. Riot Games has bestowed the sad purple scorpion with his own VGU, or visual and gameplay update. Now, Skarner emerges with three tails, for thrice the stinging, a sleek new look, new powerful abilites, and some intriguing lore.

While may sell itself on its vast catalog, not every title is there to stay. Three games, including MLB the Show 23, will leave Microsoft’s subscription service at the end of March.

The first stage of Cities: Skylines 2‘s long-awaited in-game modding support launches on March 25 alongside its first post-launch asset pack, called Beach Properties.

WitchSpring R will launch for PlayStation 5 and Switch in the second half of 2024, developer KIWI WALKS announced. In Japan, a physical edition will also be available for both platforms. It will support English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese language options.

As the Xbox Game Pass program has grown, so has our list of the best games on Xbox Game Pass. After the launch of the Xbox Series X, Microsoft has doubled down on Game Pass, now offering well over 350 games on the console alone. To help you through option paralysis, we rounded up the top games on Microsoft’s subscription platform.

Nine Dots Publishing and developer Nine Dots Studio have announced grid-based roguelike game Lost in Prayer for PC (Steam). A release date was not announced.

There's no denying that Baldur's Gate 3 was and continues to be massively successful, and with that in mind, it's not surprising that Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro has expressed that it wants to "continue to work" with developer Larian Studios going forward. 

The long-awaited sequel to Frostpunk, the popular strategy game that combines elements of survival, city-building, and the 4X genre, is almost here. Today's Xbox Partner Preview event revealed that Frostpunk 2's release date is set for July 25, 2024. and that it will also be available on day one on PC Games Pass

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A new Genshin Impact leak has revealed which characters might receive a re-run in the upcoming Version r.5. The game's Limited Character Banner, a common gacha mechanic, lets players acquire specific five-star and four-star characters for approximately 3-4 weeks.

Bethesda has opened up pre-orders for an anthology of Fallout games, appropriately bundled into a decorative mini nuke you might fire off at a Deathclaw. The Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology, a $60 collector’s edition, will launch just before the April 12 premiere of the Fallout TV show on Prime Video. The set includes the Steam codes for every Fallout title launched on PC since 1997, plus a comprehensive set of DLC for many of the games included.

It's been a hot minute since we last wrote about UFO 50, the 50-games-in-1 8-bit retro collection from the makers of Spelunky, Downwell and friends. It's been MIA for several years now (and no wonder, given these are 50 full-sized games being made by several different, and likely very busy, developers), but at long last, Spelunky creator Derek Yu has posted an update on Steam saying the project is finally nearing completion. "We should have a complete game in a few months but are planning for a release in the second half of the year to give us time to do more testing and then marketing," he said.