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is the highly anticipated sequel to the Indian Telugu-language film Salaar: Part 1 – Ceasefire. Directed by Prashanth Neel, it features Prabhas and Prithviraj Sukumaran in lead roles and follows the journey of two friends who become bitter rivals. The sequel promises to continue the gripping narrative of this action-packed saga.

While reports of Call of Duty 2024 being a new title in the Call of Duty: Black Ops series did the rounds last month, it’s perhaps surprising to hear that Call of Duty 2025 is another Black Ops title. According to Insider-Gaming’s Tom Henderson, who spoke to several sources, it’s codenamed Saturn and serves as a direct sequel to Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Zack Snyder is no stranger to remixing past pop history. From rewiring zombie tropes to dimensionalizing comic book drawings to bringing DC’s Justice League to the screen for the first time, the man loves playing in other people’s sandboxes. So what was the draw of carving out his own bespoke universe with Rebel Moon, his new Netflix franchise-starter?

Last month Path of Exile 2 was selected as the #9 Most Wanted game in PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. The sequel to the long-running ARPG Path of Exile is coming soon, and with work on Path of Exile 2 now well underway, we flew to New Zealand to talk to developers at Grinding Gear Games about how they're approaching a game that needs to be firmly rooted in the original while offering both new players and veterans something fresh and different.

Another Orphan sequel is officially in development, director William Brent Bell has revealed.

The sequel to Xbox Series X/S launch title The Falconeer is coming to consoles.

505 Games have released a chunky overview trailer for the heavily Suikoden-inspired RPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes – which means it’s time once again for me to share that one Suikoden story I have about how I bought Suikoden 2 for PS1 but got bored and traded it in, and now PS1 copies of Suikoden 2 regularly sell for hundreds of pounds, and why, why, didn’t you keep that in your sock drawer, Edwin, instead of your prized vintage copy of V-Rally, current average eBay price £3.99???

It might not be entirely sensible to refer to Kind Words—full name Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)— as a «game,» but we argued about that distinction enough in the 2010s that I think we can sideline it for the remainder of this decade. I only mention it as context for what Kind Words is: a cozy bedroom environment equipped with the chill beats promised by the title, and an indiscriminate virtual post office that delivers anonymous notes and letters to random strangers, message-in-a-bottle style.

Smile 2 has found its lead – Naomi Scott is set to star in the highly anticipated horror sequel.

One former Dragon Age writer would love for Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian to pick up the torch of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series.

Rebel Moon isn't the only universe Zack Snyder has brewing on Netflix. 

It’s not very often that a new mainline Zelda title is a direct follow-up to a previous instalment, with Majora’s Mask having been the last one (not counting the handheld titles) to do so until Tears of the Kingdom launched earlier this year. And whenever the next Zelda title arrives, it is going to be an entirely new thing once again, as per series producer Eiji Aonuma.

When Tears of the Kingdom launched in May 2023, its huge map and well-rounded story helped it rapidly become one of the best Zelda games. It felt as if the game shipped as a complete package from the get-go rather than there being any further content, and it was quickly confirmed that Tears of the Kingdom would not receive any DLC in the future, unlike its predecessorBreath of the Wild. However, the possibility of building upon the world Tears of the Kingdom lays out in a future game is always in the back of players' minds — until now. 

TEVI is the recently released spiritual successor to 2016’s Rabi-Ribi, a bullet heaven action game in a Metroidvania wrapper, and the seven-year wait seems to have been well worth it based on fan reception. 

The first paid DLC for Final Fantasy 16, Echoes of the Fallen, shadow-dropped during The Game Awards for PS5. The Rising Tide is next and launches in Spring 2024, but after that, what’s next for the team? Will there be a follow-up or spin-off to the action RPG?

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom might be the perfect sequel in every definition of the word, but even Nintendo seems to agree that it has exhausted all possibilities for this particular iteration of Link’s journey.

In honor of Doom's 30th birthday, a team of Doom modders led by Joshua «Dragonfly» O'Sullivan just released a sequel to six-episode Doom megawad Eviternity. Eviternity two likewise has six chapters, each made up of five maps with one secret map per chapter. That's a grand total of 36 maps you can download right now.

Final Fantasy 16’s core development crew have moved on from the project and aren’t expecting to work on a direct follow-up, according to the game’s producer.

2K Games, best known for games like BioShock and NBA 2K, just threw us a curveball. They dropped a new Civilization title. Nope, it’s not Civilization 7. It’s Civilization: Eras & Allies! So, did a title just pop out of nowhere?

The Legend Of Zelda’s next outing probably won’t be a direct follow-up to Tears of the Kingdom, according to Nintendo.

Despite not winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards last night, which may or may not be controversial depending on which side you were on, The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom remains one of the best games of 2023 by a country mile. The game expanded everything in the previous title and added new gameplay elements that redefined what it meant to be Link. Some people spent hundreds of hours in the games simply wandering around, building things with the Ultrahand, doing side quests, and more. But there’s a little sour note that the game’s producer wishes to note.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was in the running for a plethora of awards at The Game Awards 2023 but left the event empty-handed.

Critically acclaimed detective puzzle game The Case of the Golden Idol is getting a sequel.

Following the genre-mashing success of Inscryption, indie developer Daniel Mullins is going back to the game that put him on the map. 

Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi seems ready to move on to a new storyline with the next Zelda title.

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.

Last year's The Case of the Golden Idol was a murder-mystery treat, and developer Color Gray Games has now revealed there's more deductive adventure on the way in follow-up The Rise of the Golden Idol, launching for PC and consoles next year.

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In a thoroughly surprising announcement, World of Goo 2 is coming sometime next year, it was announced during Thursday's The Game Awards.

Well, hello there, sequel to excellent detective game, The Case Of The Golden Idol, didn't expect to see you here. Announced during the pre-show of tonight's Game Awards, The Rise Of The Golden Idol exists as little more than a brief teaser trailer right now, but to be honest, I'm sold already. Sign me up, please.

As part of the Day of the Devs Digital Showcase, SFB Games, the developers behind Snipperclips and the upcoming Crow Country, has revealed that their 2019 detective hit Tangle Tower is getting a sequel called The Mermaid’s Tongue. It’s set to release on PC in 2024, but has a demo available today.

Publisher FEllow Traveller and developer Feral Cat Den have announced Nirvana Noir, a noir adventure game beyond time and space, and sequel to Genesis Noir. It will be available for Xbox Series and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and other stores. A release date was not announced.

Outcast: A New Beginning is gearing up to drop its long-awaited sequel to the nineties sci-fi adventure game, with its newly-announced release date landing almost a quarter of a century after its predecessor. If you’re new, or have just forgotten what happened in the first Outcast - of which there’s a good chance given that time gap - you should apparently still be able to jump in here.

Outcast — A New Beginning now has a release date, according to publisher THQ Nordic.

is a sprawling adventure game with high-flying mobility, customizable combat, and a fascinating alien world to explore. The original was a highly influential PC release in 1999 as one of the first 3D open-world adventure games. Now, 25 years later, is ready to introduce new audiences to its well-constructed alien world of Adelpha.

Whether 2023 is one of the best years for video games is up for debate. But it is certainly one of the best years for Christmas video games, thanks to a surprising number of festive, holiday-themed releases. That includes a video game sequel to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, starring Ebenezer Scrooge and made in the Metroidvania style.

Baldur's Gate 3's new epilogue just dropped in the latest patch, finally giving the characters some much-needed closure. We'll go light on spoilers for individual character interactions since these will be largely personalised to how your playthrough went down. But regardless of your actions, almost every epilogue has one thing in common - a lot of teasing for a sequel.

Homeworld 3 will launch on March 8th 2024, completing a development journey that began with crowdfunding back in 2019. To give some insight into that journey, developers Blackbird are going to release a documentary this December, a clip from which you'll find below.

In a move that seems to codify a sort of «Bastards» franchise, Blue Manchu is following up its 2019 roguelike FPS Void Bastards with Wild Bastards, a more open-ended, space western take on the concept. First announced at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Showcase, Wild Bastards is set to release some time next year. «Roguelike FPS» gets part of the story with Void Bastards, but it's really got a lot of that System/BioShock immersive sim DNA⁠—it has that same sort of hall-crawling light stealth, with RPG character progression closely tied to the limited resources you have at your disposal, encouraging you to tear through every cabinet in a room looking for sandwiches. You get a lot of those 'shock series' accidental eureka moments of leading enemies into traps or just barely scooting past them to make a daring escape. Wild Bastards looks to double down on that player freedom angle, trading the first game's System Shock-y labyrinths for open-air maps on planetary surfaces. «There's a lot more variety to Wild Bastards' levels compared to Void Bastards,» explains Blue Manchu designer John Chey. «We have six completely different environments, ranging from snow covered mountains to airless, low gravity hostile worlds. »Within each environment, there are small settlements, rail stations, roadblocks, and wilderness areas. Each of these levels plays very differently with different sight lines, amounts of cover, environmental hazards and so on." Blue Manchu is pursuing something similar with playable characters as well: in contrast with Void Bastards' anonymous, fairly interchangeable «Clients,» Wild Bastards has a cast of distinct, Wild West outcasts with special abilities and mechanics a la Overwatch or Borderlands.

Since the release of the Five Nights at Freddy's movie, we have all been wondering when Blumhouse will announce a sequel. But now that rumors of a possible second installment are making the rounds online, fans have one thing on their minds – the plot. 

Rock on! This is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner has confirmed a sequel is on the way – and it's set to start filming in early 2024.

We could still be a ways off from playing Kingdom Hearts 4, but fans are already concerned about where its story will end up following the release of Disney's latest animated film.

is set to release next month, and according to early box office projections, it won’t be making a huge splash in theaters.

The original Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars was released back in 1996 and remains one of the most important video games on the SNES and in the history of Mario. It was the first game to put Mario in an RPG setting, have Peach and Bowser be playable characters, was a unique collaboration between Nintendo and Square, and more! Fast forward to a little while back, and the remake dropped on Nintendo Switch, and gamers have been enjoying the title ever since. However, one of the original team members for the SNES title has said that he wants to dive back into that world and do something more with it.

Nier series producer Yosuke Saito has confirmed that while "[director] Yoko Taro is alive", new Nier games will be released.

has set up a lot of villains for its sequel. While it may be exciting to see what Insomniac Games has in store for some of Marvel's most iconic villains, there is some concern that the studio may not be able to do justice to each character's arc, especially as it has spoken out about not wanting to do overly long games when discussing 's length. This seems to be a common complaint surrounding some of Sony's movies, with both 2007's and 2014's criticized for juggling multiple villains without giving a satisfactory amount of screen time to each villain's arc.

Super Mario RPG is more popular than ever, thanks to the fantastic and faithful remake recently released by Nintendo. It's a much different Mario experience than what younger fans of the plumber are used to, but it's gone down a treat, and they're already itching for more from Mario, Geno, Mallow and friends. They've already started putting their wishlists together of features they want to see if Nintendo decides to capitalize on the game's newfound popularity and greenlight a sequel.

GTA 6 preorder date: For nearly a decade, die-hard Grand Theft Auto fans have been awaiting any news about GTA 6, the highly-anticipated GTA 5 sequel. They've been left disappointed, with Rockstar Games placing a complete information blackout. However, that all changed last year when 90 early development videos of GTA 6 surfaced online, showcasing the various gameplay features and mechanics. Since then, a flurry of leaks has surfaced, giving us a glimpse into GTA 6's rumoured Vice City. Just a few weeks ago, Rockstar Games revealed that the GTA 6 trailer will arrive in December, generating a lot of hype among gamers. Now, the alleged GTA 6 preorder date has been leaked online. So, if you've been waiting for the game for over a decade, know when you could preorder it online.

Petroglyph Games have announced the sequel to its 2016 real-time strategy game 8-Bit Armies, 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. In the sequel, players command military forces across diverse battlefields, waging strategic warfare across land, sea, and air. The game offers a new sort of pixelated pyromania, allowing players to deploy airborne units, demolish bridges, and unleash powerful superweapons.

As we already know, the Call of Duty train does not stop even with the current release. As players are spending time with Modern Warfare 3, we’re getting some whispers on the next release of Call of Duty.

The creator of Left 4 Dead says the reason its sequel came around so quickly is that the original game was so broken nobody at Valve wanted to work on it any longer.

Beloved fantasy anime The Seven Deadly Sins is getting a sequel series – and it’s coming to Netflix in just a few months.

I don't know about you, but my favorite way to see new games announced is in PowerPoint documents with titles like «3Q 2023 Earnings Results — Investor Relations.» It's just so magical. I get little tingles all over.

Nintendo has certain got plenty of mileage of Mario Kart 8. The gravity-defying racer was originally released back in 2014 on the humble Wii U, then got a “Deluxe” Switch re-release in 2017, ultimately selling a slightly ridiculous 65 million copies (and counting) in its near-decade on the market.

The Simpsons Hit & Run was "going to be a franchise," according to its developers, who are just as surprised as us that the game never got a sequel. 

Brace yourself for another terrifying deep sea survival adventure as the next Subnautica is launching in early 2025.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run has become a popular name when referencing early 00's gaming. But, since its release in 2003 and despite the game's success, no efforts have been made to recreate the experience and breathe a new life into a well-loved title. Or so we thought. 

An ambitious-sounding follow-up to The Simpsons: Hit & Run was set to include airships.

Rockstar Games, makers of the incredibly popular Grand Theft Auto series, finally announced earlier this month that they would officially reveal GTA 6 in December. In a series of posts from Rockstar's X account, studio co-founder Sam Houser confirmed that the much-awaited trailer for GTA 6 would arrive in December. A new leak, however, has unearthed evidence about scrapped story DLC for Grand Theft Auto 5. First released in 2013, GTA 5 still features on best-selling charts every month a decade into its run, thanks to GTA Online's thriving success and massive player base. Despite demand from fans, the main game never received a story expansion, with Rockstar instead opting to provide regular updates to the money-spinning online mode. The leak also reveals a canned sequel to 2006's Bully, a cult favourite title from Rockstar that never received a follow-up.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run is an odd title, as it's a game that seemingly everyone has fond memories of playing back in the day, but no developer or publisher that is willing to capitalize on that strong nostalgia. Every game is getting a remaster these days, even those that are only three years old, so it's strange that publishers are ignoring the goldmine that is The Simpsons: Hit & Run, which even had a sequel scrapped due to publisher Vivendi Games not being able to retain The Simpsons license.

The developers of The Simpsons: Hit & Run finally sat down to discuss why the cult classic open-world game never got a sequel, and honestly, it sounds like they're just as confused as fans.

The developers behind the acclaimed indie fighting game Rivals of Aether have silently been working on a sequel for three years, and they're hoping it'll usher in a new generation of platform fighters.

Ridley Scott isn't one to mince his words, and he's certainly not holding back on the press tour for his upcoming period drama Napoleon. In a new interview with Deadline, the filmmaker was asked his thoughts on James Cameron's follow-up to his sci-fi hit Alien, to which he got, predictably, candid...

With blockbuster hit Nier: Automata approaching its seventh birthday, fans are wondering when they’ll get a sequel. It sounds like one is coming, but not any time soon.

is a phenomenal game, with a plethora of features that in any other game would be undeniable highlights — such as the buildable vehicles and other contraptions from Zonai Devices. While these devices are plentiful and varied in, there is still plenty of room for improvement, and a number of excellent additions could be made to maximize the efficiency of, and entertainment that can be experienced with Zonai Devices.

Thomas Waterzooi, developer of cosy painting-based puzzler Please, Touch the Artwork, has announced a sequel is in the works.

was at the helm of the last two Thor films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but judging by his recent comments, the director may be done with the God of Thunder.

With Cyberpunk 2077 receiving its last major update and the Phantom Liberty expansion, the development team at CD Projekt is focusing on its sequel, Project Orion. There is no release window, and it’s currently in the “conceptual design” stage on Unreal Engine 5.

Insomniac Games' is the latest in a series of video games that has done a phenomenal job of including a vast range of powerful adversaries for Peter Parker and Miles Morales to face — both universally known enemies and those that are little recognized outside the most dedicated Spider-Man fans. Despite this, there are a significant number of enemies that absolutely must feature in the inevitable sequel to the latest entry, — a few of whom have never made it into a game, but absolutely have the potential to be devastatingly powerful bosses that torment both Peter and Miles as well as New York.

Starz officially greenlit a sequel series, which will see reprising the villainous role of Ashur. The project, which was formally announced back in February, will be titled. It’ll be written and executive produced by franchise creator Steven S. DeKnight, who also serves as showrunner on the sequel show.

Take-Two Interactive revealed today that Grand Theft Auto V has now sold over 190 million units as of the end of September 2023. According to the company, that brings total lifetime sales of the franchise to 410 million units. It announced this number the same day as it officially confirmed the next game in the series, the trailer for which it plans to reveal next month.

October 2019 saw the launch of action-platformer Valfaris, and now the sequel has a date. Side-scrolling shoot ’em up Valfaris: Mecha Therion is coming to PC on November 21, 2023, with consoles to follow later. 

Sony Pictures has released the first for the next highly-anticipated movie in the iconic series.

Live service games are evolving. The major multiplayer shooters of the 2010s are starting to show their age in the 2020s, leaving their stewards to answer an interesting question: How do you move a service game into the future without disrupting its active player base, or starting completely fresh? In the cases of Overwatch 2 and Counter-Strike 2, Blizzard and Valve decided to make a spectacle of it, packaging revamped maps, reworked balance, and engine upgrades as official sequels that effectively overwrote the old games.

Sony Pictures has revealed the for the long-awaited first look at the upcoming movie.

Aardman sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget hasn't even been released yet, but it's already ruffled a few feathers when it comes to diehard fans of the 2000 animation. 

Lies of P, the Pinocchio-inspired soulslike title, is getting a DLC expansion and a separate sequel. Publisher Neowiz dropped a Director's Letter video, in which game director Ji Won Choi confirmed the plans and revealed two pieces of concept art from the in-development DLC. The first one appears to be a laboratory frozen all over, which could presumably be the location where the human citizens of Krat were experimented on and turned into puppets. There's no labelling on them, so for now, we can simply guess what these images could mean for future content. The second art sees our puppet protagonist strutting along an abandoned, almost ghostly ship, which could indicate some Peter Pan influence.

Lies of P may only have launched less than a couple of months ago, but developer and publisher Neowiz is already looking to the future and how it can continue expanding the IP after its successful debut. In a recently published video letter, game director Ji Won Choi announced that story DLC is in the works for Lies of P, while also confirming at the same time that a full-fledged sequel is also planned.