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Fortnite's partnership with Lego continues today with the launch of two family-friendly mini-games: Lego Raft Survival and Lego Obby Fun.

A Palworld player has recently built a huge base that looks like a pirate ship. Base-building allows Palworld players to express their creativity, and this gamer showcased their talent and imagination by crafting an impressive base inspired by One Piece’s ship Going Merry.

After a long voyage filled with delays, Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones is finally out. The multiplayer pirate game sailed through troubling waters in order to get to where it is today, but its launch hasn’t been smooth sailing. It’s earned a mixed reaction so far, despite its combat and visuals impressing. Those highlights couldn’t turn the tides of criticism against it, as some reviewers aren’t as impressed with its narrative and repetitive missions.

Ubisoft's highly anticipated pirate-themed video game, "Skull and Bones," has finally made its debut after years of production challenges and delays. Launched on February 16, the game has gained significant attention, considering the unconventional choice of pirates as its central theme in the gaming world.

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The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend releases March 7, Singer Studios has announced. The virtual reality adventure game starring Lucy Liu will launch simultaneously on Steam and Meta Quest Store.

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So, there's pretty much a new Sea Dogs game, but first I have a lot of context to share. If you'd rather not indulge in the long and confusing history of a cult classic pirate series, just scroll down until just after the picture of some pirates in front of a ship and that'll take you straight to the point.

I haven’t followed the development of Skull and Bones too closely over the years; I’d see the pirate game emerge at a show with a new trailer or demo, and then sink back beneath the waves with delay after delay. So when Ubisoft opened the game to the public with an open beta recently, I was intrigued to see how the close-to-final product looked. I’ve been known to enjoy a spot of piracy, and Ubisoft has the incredible Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag in its back catalogue, after all.

Somehow, this one Palworld player figured out how to build an incredibly realistic pirate ship on the actual water. The details on this base are wild!

While Ubisoft Singapore’sSkull and Bones will launch with an end-game, it will also receive new free content with post-launch seasons. Each season introduces legendary Pirate Lords for players to battle, new World Events, and more.

Ubisoft is gearing up for its first AAA release of 2024 with Skull and Bones. The pirate-themed co-op open-world action RPG is coming to consoles and PC over a decade after it was originally conceived as an expansion for Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

When you think of pirates, history mainstays like Blackbeard might come to mind alongside the fictional Jack Sparrow. An important but often forgotten name, however, is Cheng Shih. Not only is Cheng Shih one of history's most successful pirates, but she's also the woman who took over her late husband Cheng Yat's pirate armada after his death, putting her in indirect control of 40,000-plus pirates for a nearly decade-long stint in Chinese waters in the early 19th Century. While Cheng Shih's story can be found on pages of books and elsewhere, Singer Studios aims to bring her story to life in VR. 

Another has been unveiled, showing off three characters from One Piece Film: Red. The new fighters, all part of DLC Character Pass 5, are now available to purchase.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force have released trailers for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 downloadable content characters Shanks and Coby, who will launch alongside Uta as part of the game’s “One Piece Film: Red Pack” on January 11, 2024.

Slay the Princess is one of our favourite unexpected hits from this year. It's a choose-your-own adventure style narrative game about a dutiful mission to (you guessed it) slay a princess.

Iron Lung developer David Szymanski has told players to pirate his game in response to negative backlash after it received a price spike.

Submarine adventure Iron Lung was one of the scariest games of 2022, and an absolute steal at $6 on PC or Switch. As of this November, it now costs $8 on Steam (still $6 on Switch at the time of writing), which remains an absolute steal. The new price is the result of the simple fact that – and you might want to sit down for this one – creator David Szymanski wants to make more money. 

The developer of hit indie horror Iron Lung, which mega YouTuber Markiplier is turning into a film, has told those who don’t agree with the game’s recent $2 price rise to “go pirate it or something”.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force have announced One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 downloadable content characters Shanks and Coby, who will launch alongside Uta as part of the game’s “One Piece Film: Red Pack” on January 11, 2024.

Mimimi's swan song was supposed to be the two DLCs it released earlier this month for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew—Yuki's Wish and Zagan's Ritual. But the studio dedicated to stealth tactics games has one last parting gift before closing its doors altogether.

is an upcoming VR adventure game inspired by the world's most successful pirate, a 19th century Chinese woman named Cheng Shih. The title comes from woman-led developer Singer Studios, which was founded by award-winning filmmaker Eloise Singer. Protagonist Shih is voiced by actress Lucy Liu, who also serves as a producer on the project.

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Establishing your own Tortuga for an army of pirates sounds like a recipe for a municipal planning nightmare, but Republic of Pirates makes the job look like a sea-breeze. Republic of Pirates was revealed during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted today with a trailer showcasing seafaring city-building, management, and ship combat. While there’s a long pedigree of pirates in the history of PC gaming, this reveal is more like Anno 1800 than contemporary swashbuckling like Sea of Thieves or classics like Sid Meier’s Pirates. 

Who doesn’t love pirate games? Oh, you do? Then you’ll want to check out these games that may be coming in 2024!

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force have announced One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 downloadable content character Uta, who will launch alongside two other characters as part of the game’s fifth character pack.

EVE Online's second expansion of the year, Havoc, has launched this morning, bringing new ways to engage with factional warfare, new ships and more to the New Eden star cluster.

EVE Online's latest in-universe news report, The Scope, sets the stage for some of the pirate chaos that is poised to descend upon New Eden as the latest expansion, Havoc, inches closer to release.

Lies of P’s director has confirmed a sequel is in development and revealed new concept art from the upcoming DLC. 

As part of its latest earnings report — for the first half of its fiscal year 2023-24 — Ubisoft has announced yet another delay for Skull and Bones, with the beleaguered pirate adventure now expected to arrive sometime in the first few months of 2024.

One incredibly lucky Starfield player has stumbled onto a space pirate that was three times their level and, somehow, walked away with both their life and a sweet legendary rifle. 

EVE Online's next expansion, Havoc, launches next month, and the team at CCP Games is pulling the veil back on one of its major features, explaining how working with New Eden's pirate factions will work.

Bethesda has long insisted that war never changes, but they’re barking up the wrong tree. The one immovable constant in every Bethesda RPG is that players will hoard miscellaneous junk in every universe - from the cutlery in Skyrim, rusted metal in Fallout, and now, the toilet paper in Starfield, aka Toiletfield.

When Polygon most recently spoke toshowrunner David Jenkins about his big gay pirate show Our Flag Means Death, it was in part to talk about where season 2 of the series seems to be headed. While season 1 was about the hapless crew of the pirate ship Revenge finding their feet as pirates and finding unexpected emotional connections they often don’t know how to navigate, season 2 brings in a new sense of outside pressure against the central characters in the form of a military assault on piracy.

As someone who fancies themselves a pirate in EVE Online, I was pretty stoked when I first heard about the changes and gameplay features coming to Havoc, the next expansion for the space-faring MMO. Pirate factions such as the Angel Cartel and Guristas are prominent NPC groups in New Eden, with ships from Angel Cartel making up some of my favorites in the MMO — the Machariel especially.

Announced at EVE Fanfest, the next expansion for the 20-year-old space sandbox MMO is called Havoc, and it's focused on new factional gameplay for players who align with the chaotic and criminal element of New Eden.

is the latest tabletop RPG from Free League Publishing, incorporating the ruleset to great effect. As its title implies, this book is all about grog-loving buccaneers and the high seas, and it has all the dark humor and brutality associated with a offering. With nautical lore, naval combat, and Lovecraftian horror, is everything anyone could want in a sea-faring TTRPG.

Why do all spaceships have to be horizontal? Nevermind the practicality or anything like that, I want to explore space in something a little more vertical. A silo, a tower, perhaps. Or maybe even a ship that is just one very, very long ladder a la Snake.

Earlier this year, developer Webbysoft and publisher Armor Games Studios revealed that its pirate adventure game, Bilkins' Folly, would be releasing on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch alongside the already-announced PC version. However, the teams stopped short of revealing when we can expect the game to hit those platforms. Now we know; Bilkins' Folly will be released next month on October 2. 

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 downloadable content characters Onigashima Battle Luffy, Kaido, and Yamato will launch as part of “The Battle of Onigashima Pack” on September 14, publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force announced.

No, your eyes don’t deceive you, and no your device isn’t bugging out. Pirate Boom Boom is the all-new game that dared to be different with its black-and-white gameplay. 

Wizard 101 is now celebrating its 15th anniversary. Throughout the last 15 years, I’m almost ashamed to say that I had never had an inkling of desire to boot up either Wizard or Pirate101, as both of these games always seemed to skew in the direction of younger gamers. During PAX West, KingsIsle Entertainment had both titles on display, and I was intrigued by what I experienced. According to the team at KingsIsle, they are just getting started.

Mortal Kombat fans are happy to see Nitara finally return after 17 years, but they're a little more mixed on her new design and want the "pirate" look from the 3D era to make a comeback.

Downloadable content characters Kaido and Yamato will launch alongside Onigashima Battle Luffy as part of “The Battle of Onigashima Pack” for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 in September, publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force have announced.

Starfield players have started pirating a popular upscaler mod for the game after its creator put it behind a paywall.

There's been whispers on the high seas about where World of Warcraft's going after Dragonflight—with some theorists already loading up their cannons with hopes for a seafaring-themed expansion.

Blizzard Entertainment President Mike Ybarra has responded to a tweet about the next WoW expansion with «No Pirates». With the recent announcement of the Seafarer's Pack, many players speculated that the next expansion will be Pirate themed.

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The collaboration between The Legend of Monkey Island and Sea of Thieves continues with the second Tall Tale of the collaboration, “The Quest for Guybrush”. The new update arrives today, continuing the story of a distorted Mêlée Island and the delusion affecting one Guybrush Threepwood.

Blizzard has announced the September Trading Post stock, which includes class sets for Paladin, Priest, and Rogue, Pirate hats, a brewfest back attachment, and the return of the Trusty Treasure Trove!

The No Man’s Sky Echoes update added a host of new content to the game, including the robotic Autophage race and a new type of colossal ship, the Pirate Frigate. However, these ships can be hard to come by for players who don’t know what they’re doing.

Is the relentless predictabilty of freighter life getting you down in No Man's Sky? Well gloom no more because things are about to get a whole lot rowdier thanks to the exploratory space sim's latest free update, Echoes, which introduces epic freighter-to-freighter battles and Star Wars-style trench runs, alongside a new robot race and more today, 24th August.

Acclaimed actress Lucy Liu has shared information about her new video game project, The Pirate Queen: A Forgotten Legend, in an interview during the Future Games Show at Gamescom.

The creator of the satirical Postal series Running With Scissors has permitted its fans to pirate its FPS games and even the remake of the isometric twin-stick shooter original until they have enough money to support them. This news comes during a sale of the entire Postal series on Steam during the weekend.

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As teased earlier in the week, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 is getting an unexpected second Character Pass – despite the game originally releasing over three years ago! The DLC drop will consist of three packs in total, adding an impressive nine new characters to the game.

Bandai Namco released a for the game’s second Character Pass, revealing some of the characters that will be available.

Unless you count most of the movies in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, every pirate-themed movie made after the 1960s has brought nothing but financial ruin to Hollywood. Cutthroat Island? It sunk an entire studio.  Disney’s Treasure Planet and Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas? Many credit them for having killed traditional 2D animation altogether. Hardly the crime any movie pirate would like to be remembered for.

Despite having launched three years ago now, Bandai Namco has announced a new wave of DLC for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 that introduces Luffy's most powerful form - Gear 5.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force have announced the One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Character Pass 2, which will consist of three new downloadable content packs that add a total of nine playable characters. The first pack, “The Battle of Onigashima Pack,” is due out in September.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Omega Force will release new downloadable content characters for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 more than three years after its initial release, the companies announced.

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 launched over three years ago on the PS4, back in 2020 – but publisher Bandai Namco, alongside developer Omega Force, has teased that new DLC is on the way. This is obviously unusual because typically a game’s post-release support has concluded by now, unless it’s a live service like Fortnite or Genshin Impact.