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Amazon Prime Video's Reacher is back for season 2, and it has debuted to a 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes with 15 reviews. 

Today, EA has officially announced that its Season 2 Update for EA SPORTS WRC is available on December 14 with new content. This will include the inaugural Central European Rally. This is comprised of 32 kilometers of asphalt across 12 stages. Players can also expect new Rally Pass items and 60 new Moments to choose from, which allow players to replay pivotal racing moments in history. The Central European Rally takes place in the Czech Republic and will also be included in Career with various weather conditions and seasonal climates. The full route list can be found on the EA SPORTS WRC website.

While last night’s Game Awards show primarily focused on the biggest games of 2023 and the most anticipated titles for next year and beyond, one of 2022’s best games also got a fresh announcement that players will be able to check out very soon.

Although Remedy’s latest narrative-driven project didn’t end up bringing home the Game of the Year award at last night’s Game Awards, it did walk away with several other victories, including Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction and Best Narrative.

When Untitled Goose Game debuted back in 2019, its quirky charms quickly made it an internet sensation and put its developer, House House, on the map as an indie developer. Many were eagerly awaiting the studio’s next game at first, but that seemed to have more or less died down after a couple years of silence. However, the excitement is now back in full force thanks to the surprise announcement of Big Walk, House House’s next game!

During The Game Awards, Red Barrels showed off a new trailer and provided an official release date for the third release in the Outlast franchise, The Outlast Trials. The game will be available on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Two digital launch versions will be available that can be pre-ordered on both the Xbox and PlayStation digital stores now. This will include the Grizzly Hazmat Outfit with the pre-order. The Outlast Trials will release on March 5 for all platforms as the game launched in Early Access on PC during May 2023. This will be set in the same universe as the previous games but can be played with a friends in a team of up to four people.

Dinosaur enthusiasts got a very welcome surprise yesterday during The Game Awards 2023. Not only was there a trailer for a new Jurassic Park game, but it’s for one set shortly after the events of the movies. More than that, it’s not just another Jurassic Park theme park or nature preserve sim like Jurassic World Evolution 2. Rather, fans are getting Jurassic Park: Survival, and with it some horror action from at last from a series whose main draw has always been such. Well, better late than not at all, yeah?

The Game Awards played host to a lot of world premieres tonight, with one apparently being this sort of dark fantasy action-RPG game that, if nothing else, looked absolutely beautiful. Then halfway through, it was revealed that this was the latest game from Moon Studios, the folks behind Ori and the Blind Forest and its follow-up, and suddenly things made a ton of sense. Their new game with publishers Private Division is called No Rest For the Wicked, and it seems to showcase the team going even bigger than they have before.

The release date for VOID Interactive’s tactical first-person shooter, Ready or Not, has been revealed during The Game Awards, and fans don’t have long to wait. 

So after 2023, folks might be cautious about any new game that combines Arkane and vampires, and rightfully so. But at The Game Awards tonight, Arkane Lyon – AKA the ones behind the Dishonored games and Deathloop – came and debuted their latest game with Bethesda, which featured a cinematic with a barbershop in Paris that had a lot of crucifixes and a creepy atmosphere. At the end, though, the customer in this barbershop was revealed to be none other than one Eric Brooks, AKA Blade. Yep, Marvel’s favorite daywalker is officially getting a new game, as seen below.

The game that started it all and brought Daniel Mullins’ name to the forefront of wierd, wonderful and downright unusual meta-narrative games, Pony Island, is getting a sequel. Seven years on from when the brilliant 2016 game released, the teaser for what Mullins was concocting was, in typical fashion, a surreal one. A mixture of art-styles, from pixel art to polygonal early-3D graphics to FMV-styled cutscenes, ran amok amid a game that too looked to be hopping from one genre to the next.

Finji is a developer and publisher best known for being associated with the likes of Tunic, Night in the Woods, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, which tend to feature a lot of colorful critters in more retro gaming genres…which made it a bit of a shock when their latest game was revealed at The Game Awards, that being a third-person action-adventure hack-and-slash game done in collaboration with Sweet Baby, who have worked on the likes of Alan Wake II and God of War: Ragnarok when it comes to narrative. Said game is called Usual June, and you can catch the first glimpse of it below.