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Melee weapons are still on the table for co-op shooter Helldivers 2, and now I'm imagining futures spent slicing space crabs and parrying chainsaw-armed robots. 

As if you needed more proof that Baldur's Gate 3 is, in fact, a pretty damn fine video game, Larian’s D&D RPG swept through the video game BAFTA awards yesterday, picking up five of the British entertainment org’s top trophies. Even more impressively - after all, Baldur’s Gate 3 winning a shedload of awards is old hat by now - its latest Best Game triumph means that the sprawling RPG-slash-fanfic machine is now the first video game to win all five of the industry’s major Game of the Year awards.

It continues to be a difficult time at Ascendant Studios, the developers behind last year’s magical shooter flop Immortals of Aveum, as it’s claimed that the studio have now furloughed most of their staff - only a matter of months after almost half of their employees were laid off.

Blaze through the sky with Dragon Pow, a new shooter RPG on Android. Following a successful open beta, Boltray Games just dropped this game that’s full of colours and chaos. A while ago, they opened up pre-registration with rewards as good as $400 Amazon gift cards. Were you one of the lucky winners?  

Following the recent price hike for EA Play, as well as price bumps for other video game subscription services over the last year, Rockstar's GTA+ is getting more expensive too.

Steam’s next week-long celebration will pay tribute to that most treasured of genres, the first-person shooter. The PC marketplace’s FPS Fest kicks off next Monday, letting loose a hail of discounts and playable demos for shooters that prefer things from the first-person perspective.

's worst primary weapon could get a buff if developers Arrowhead Studios listen to a recent poll. For months, fans have almost unanimously agreed that Marksman Rifles are notoriously weak in comparison to other weapons in the game, and are in desperate need of a buff of some sort.

Friends, there is trouble a-brewing down the radioactive watering hole. While Amazon's Fallout TV adaptation has launched to pretty positive verdicts, a contingent of Fallout players are up in arms over its portrayal of the Fallout timeline. In particular, it's being claimed that the show has written the events of Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas out of the canon, despite reassurances from Bethesda Game Studios design director Emil Pagliarulo. Dare you read on? Let me just load up my Junk Jet with piping, hot Fallout Season 1 spoilers...

There's a little game coming out next year you may have heard of. It's called GTA 6, and it's the next entry in Rockstar's prolific, rather chaotic and often debauched Grand Theft Auto series.

Fallout fans are scratching their heads over a plot point mentioned in the new hit TV show's sixth episode — which some say contradicts the game series' established lore.

Likely to capitalise on the hype generated by BezosTech’s (by many accounts, pretty entertaining) Fallout TV show, Bethesda are spiffing up Fallout 4 with a new update, including widescreen and ultra-widescreen support, fixes to Creation Kit, and a “variety of quest updates.”

I like co-op shooter Remnant 2, because it doesn't pretend to be much more than what it is: a dodgerollathon where, in between dodge rolls, you fill demons with bullets. I've been meaning to go back to it, so it's convenient that there's more DLC arriving soon. Dubbed The Forgotten Kingdom, it adds a new Invoker archetype, fleshes out an existing jungle biome, and introduces more gear, more monsters, and the like. Yes, count me in.

Wanted: Dead is a terrible game that I sort of adore. Created by some of the people behind the Ninja Gaiden series, it's the kind of rough diamond or perhaps, chunk of lacerating windscreen glass you find at the bottom of a mouldy box at a service station car boot sale along a particularly depressed stretch of the UK's M1.

Blizzard is giving the heroes and villains of Overwatch new allegiances in season 10 of Overwatch 2, thanks to a new Mirrorwatch mode coming to the competitive hero shooter. That means heroic versions of baddies like Widowmaker, Doomfist, and Sombra, and villainous versions of good guys Reinhardt, Tracer, and Brigitte.

From Castlevania to Arcane, Halo to The Last of Us, we've been treated to plenty of video game TV adaptations over the past few years — and it's always interesting to see how their worlds translate into another medium.

Yes, it is happening. Fallout 4 is finally getting that promised next-gen update, bringing the wasteland experience up to a silky smooth 60fps with increased resolutions on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Publisher Arc Games and developer Gunfire Games have announced Remnant II downloadable content “The Forgotten Kingdom.” It will launch on April 23 for $9.99, and is also available as part of the $24.99 downloadable content bundle.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has stealth dropped new ship upgrades alongside the new Premium Warbond, Democratic Detonation.

The $70 release day price for standard AAA titles is both unsustainable and on the way out, claims Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch, via an interview with IGN reporter Rebekah Valentine.

Ascendant Studios, the developer behind last year's EA-published magic shooter Immortals of Aveum, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff.

The new Helldivers 2 Democratic Detonation Warbond is now live, but developer Arrowhead has quietly added brand new ship modules to the shooter.

The past year was the Legend of Zelda series’ moment to shine thanks to the excellent Tears of the Kingdom. Unfortunately, there’s something bittersweet about that: It means we’re likely not getting another Zelda game for a long time. While Switch ports of some classic 3D games have been long-rumored for Switch and we could always get a surprise remake à laLink’s Awakening, Link isn’t currently scheduled to set off on his next journey anytime soon.

Last night, a report claimed a Dead Space 2 remake had been in the works at EA. However, a subsequent report — which itself follows on from EA denying any such remake was in the pipeline — has poured more cold water on these initial claims. In fact, the whole series is reportedly «on ice».

MOUSE has got a new gameplay trailer from developer Fumi Games and publisher PlaySide Publishing. The game has been inspired by the animation of 1930’s cartoons, and the main character is a mouse. It’s a gritty, noir. first person shooter, and you can see lots of cartoon mice (not Mickey Mouse) getting their heads shot off.

PlaySide Publishing and developer Fumi Games have released a new trailer and screenshots for 1930s noir cartoon-inspired first-person shooter MOUSE.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand developer PlaySide Studios has announced arcade-inspired isometric action shooter KILL KNIGHT for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC (Steam).

Update: EA have now denied Grubb's claims that the Dead Space 2 remake was in development before being effectively cancelled, telling IGN: "We don't normally comment on rumors but there is no validity to this story." That report adds that the sequel wasn't considered for development to begin with, despite the first remake having performed well in EA's eyes, according to a source.

Publisher PlaySide and developer Fumi Games have unveiled a Spike-D gameplay trailer for their Steamboat Willie-like first-person shooter, Mouse, revealing some of the mechanics players can use to give their enemies the old one-two.

Revealed at the Triple-I Initiative just now, Vampire Survivors is getting another cool DLC, this one a crossover with classic Konami run 'n' gun Contra. It's called Operation Guns. Get on board. Trailed with, as is now traditional, a cool animated trailer that suggests the game is a Saturday morning cartoon and not a top down pixelated nightmare that will flush out any latent photosensitivity lurking in your skull (complimentary), Operation Guns is arriving on May 9th, so about a month away.

If you needed one more Pokémon comparison for Pokémon-with-guns survival game Palworld, you’re in luck! The viral monster-battling and -labouring game has teased a multiplayer arena mode arriving later this year, with more than a hint of Pokémon Stadium to it.

Despite the original Dead Space getting the remake treatment, the same isn't happening for its sequel, at least not now.

After accidentally tweeting out a message in binary code asking about some "Karl," Helldivers 2's developer has denied that the message was an "illegal Automaton broadcast."

Star Wars Outlaws is bringing back the fan-favorite Qi'ra for another bout, but she won't be portrayed by the same actor as in Han Solo's prequel movie.

Wii U fans have brought the console's online multiplayer functionality back online, after Nintendo officially ended its own server support.

The Call of Duty team has released a new, King Kong-themed glove into the game, and it hasn't exactly gone down well with players.

A new $80 Call of Duty item has been blasted by fans of the shooter franchise.

The latest major order issued to players could suggest a scary future for Super Earth. A new Automaton fleet is already en route and poses a greater threat than ever before.

Folks, we thought this day may never come, but it's here. The official Helldivers 2 freestyle rap, which was tragically cut from the full version of the game, has surfaced online thanks to a behind-the-scenes video from Goodbye Kansas Studios – the team behind the shooter's iconic opening cinematic.

Helldivers 2's Major Orders reward system is getting a full overhaul, following player complaints about their hard-earned medals being slow to arrive and as such, damaging their faith in managed democracy, with potentially dire consequences for their ability to massacre spiky robots and large insects.

The Battlefield series increasingly seems like a square peg held by a publisher that only owns round holes. Created by EA Dice, overseen now by Respawn CEO Vince Zampella, recently worked on by EA's founded-and-shuttered Ridgeline Studios, and now EA Motive are the latest to be stuck with the beleaguered milsim.

Gearbox Publishing announced it is rebranding to Arc Games in the wake of its separation from parent company Gearbox Entertainment. Following Take-Two Interactive's purchase of the publisher's parent company and associated IPs, fans wondered how Gearbox Publishing might continue after it was left out of the sale by Embracer Group.

Palworld developer Pocketpair has warned players on Xbox not to load up their multiplayer saves following reports that doing so will result in all current progress being lost.

Did you really think Helldivers 2 players had wiped out the Automatons for good? Nope.

A new team at EA's Motive Studio will work alongside the Battlefield studios to create the next phase of the shooter franchise.

The Astronauts have released the “Ghost Galleon” update for the Early Access version of dark fantasy first-person shooter Witchfire, which features a calamity redesign, and new classes, enemies, events, weapons, spells, and more.

EA and DICE have confirmed that Season 7 of Battlefield 2042 will be its last, with the companies looking forward to “what comes next” for the Battlefield franchise. That will no doubt be another big blockbusting online shooter, but Motive Studio will be creating a new team for Battlefield at their studio.

Over 27,000 Call of Duty accounts were banned over the weekend for cheating across Warzone and Modern Warfare 3, according to Activision.

Physics-based roguelite Noita has received a second Epilogue update that adds a whole host of new features, tweaks, and modding capabilities.

A brand-new Helldivers 2 patch has been rolled out to improve stability and add a new UI feature. 

Noita! A wizardly 2D dungeon crawler without compare, in both good and deranging ways. Man, it feels like only yesterday I equipped something without looking and suddenly everything that damaged me caused me to teleport at random. I flew through entire levels this way like a Tardis set to shuffle, bumbling into one enemy posse after another, granted a few seconds at a time to assess my surroundings before the sorcery swept me deeper.

Amazon's upcoming Fallout TV adaptation has had a surprise release date change.

Ubisoft might be taking this whole stealth thing a bit far when it comes to their remake of the original Splinter Cell. News of Sam Fisher’s return first snuck out at the end of 2021, with little more spotlight than a brief blog post to confirm that, yep, it’s a thing. After over two years of near-silence, it now looks like it might finally be time for Sam to emerge out of the shadows.

Deep Rock Galactic's Season 5 update - which launches in June 2024 - will allow you to reactivate and replay old seasons of Ghost Ship's celebrated dwarven asteroid mining sim. Here's how that works, direct from the bellowing bearded faces of the developers themselves. By which I mean, a new Steam blog. I'm not sure it's possible to get a good dwarven bellow going when you're talking about cosmetic unlock progression, but by all means reorganise this article into some kind of drinking song. Keep it clean, though - there may be elves reading.

Before its first season has aired, Amazon's Fallout series has been set up for a second run.

Over the weekend, intrepid Helldivers accomplished what perhaps once seemed unimaginable: eradicating all bots in Helldivers 2. Combined with the news that all those Terminind bugs are now «contained», to use developer Arrowhead's words, the feeling among players is one of celebration. Right? We beat Helldivers 2?

Exciting news for the future of everyone's favourite co-op shooter that isn't legally an adaptation of Starship Troopers. A few days ago, Helldivers 2 issued a new major order to annihilate the Automatons, who had been pushed back like never before. And annihilate you all did, with players' combined efforts being officially recgonised yesterday on the Helldivers 2 Xitter: Mission Accomplished! The bots have been eradicated!

A couple of months ago, we learned that Raven Software lead designer Michael Gummelt had worked on a live service Call Of Duty zombies game before it got cancelled. Details were practically non-existent at the time, but YouTuber Glitching Queen recently interviewed Gummelt about what the game could've become. Fun surprises: It would've been a free-to-play live service game featuring coliseum battles. Unsurprises: microtransactions, seasons, general background shenanigans between Treyarch and Raven.

Let's cut past the intro and into the prices. Today, I'm all about a sub-five-follar Broforce, and that stupidly reduced Starfield Constellation Edition. Last but not least, with that Fallout TV series being days away, I can see more than a few of you wanting to replay some / all of the series (because that's the urge I got after watching some of Netfilx's The Witcher show). Should that occur, the savings in the below bundle ought to set your world on fire.

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Studios has recommended players experiencing continual crashes should «let the game rest for a while» whilst the team looks for a fix.

Bungie is ready to give us another glimpse at Destiny 2's next expansion, The Final Shape.

Helldivers 2 players have seemingly been wasting their Stratagems in an attempt to destroy the new Gunship factories since, as it turns out, their only weakness is Hellbombs.

All of us have gaming opinions that go against the grain or zeitgeist around certain titles. Oftentimes, it’s because your personal opinion on a title is negative — I was like that with Sonic Frontiers — but it can go in a more positive direction. For me, a game I’m a very positive outlier on is Back 4 Blood, a Left 4 Dead successor developed by Turtle Rock Studios and published by WB Games.

Gears 6 will be announced on June 9th, according to a report by The Verge.

Gears 6 will reportedly be announced on 9th June 2024.

Call of Duty: Vanguard sold over 30m copies.

Helldivers 2's friendly fire "will never change," meaning that blasts from fellow grunts and enemy bots will kill you just the same for as long as the galaxy is undemocratized, but an upcoming armor set should make accidental deaths much less common with a whopping 90% explosive damage resistance perk.

Helldivers 2 is getting a new premium warbond next week, offering some explosive new options to take into battle, aim at an enemy bug or robot, and then accidentally kill your entire squad by mistake. Or maybe that’ll just be me.

What is Call of Duty these days? I'm not sure. But I do know you can currently buy the weed-loving Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong from Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone's in-game shop.

A big 'ol patch is coming to the System Shock remake next Thursday, headlined by "[reworking] the entire final fight with new mechanics and a unique flow" and adding a female character option for our hacker. Update 1.2 will also tweak and fix and fiddle with heaps of other things. Our System Shock review called it "a breathtakingly beautiful and astonishingly faithful remake that proves the enduring power of Looking Glass design" when it launched last year, though I would say System Shock's final battle is one of the most dated parts, so I'm curious to see the new form.

Helldivers 2's next Premium Warbond is set to launch next week, on 11th April.

Outspoken Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada has made a bold claim that is unlikely to ruffle any feathers in the broader audience: younger gamers prefer team-based games because they can blame, at least partially, any losses on their teammates rather than having to take sole responsibility for losing on themselves.

Cambridge-based developer PlayFusion (previously known for the Trading Card Game Lightseekers) is launching the PC beta for Ascendant, a squad-based tactical first-person shooter game, and we've got 2K keys to give away thanks to a special URL provided by the developer.

With the Epic Games Store's latest weekly freebie offers now live, Epic has turned its gaze to the far-flung future of seven days time, confirming acclaimed cyberpunk action-parkour adventure Ghostrunner will be its next free title from Thursday, 11th April.

Xbox Game Pass grants access to a wide variety of titles, including a selection of excellent multiplayer games. When it comes to multiplayer gaming, tastes vary: some prefer to team up with friends and work together to take down enemies, while others prefer a more cutthroat, competitive scene. Whatever the case, Game Pass has got players covered. From player-versus-enemy RPGs to player-versus-player shooters to survival games that seamlessly blend the two,

One Red Dead Redemption 2 player has been rootling around in the game's audio files, and uncovered some behind the scenes bloopers as a result.

Marvel Rivals is putting the hero in hero shooter with literal superheroes. Unlike traditional hero shooters like Overwatch, this time, you will be playing from a third-person perspective to get a better look at your hero in battle. Any new multiplayer game will come with a ton of questions, especially if superheroes are involved. There is a small plot, but the main focus will no doubt be on pure PvP action. If you’re in the market for a new team-based hero shooter, let’s unmask as many details as we can on Marvel Rivals to figure out if it could be your next obsession.

Kill It With Fire 2, the science-fiction-inspired sequel to the first-person spider-hunter game, will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam on April 16, followed by a full release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC at a later date, publisher tinyBuild and developer Casey Donnellan Games announced.

Game Rant is giving away 500 closed beta keys for Ascendant, a new squad-based tactical FPS that describes itself as the world's first «adaption» shooter. Ascendant has turned heads since its initial reveal, and developer PlayFusion is going all-out to deliver an over-the-top experience that should provide something genuinely unique in the crowded FPS landscape.

Publisher Devolver Digital and developer Nerial have announced “reality TV thirst-person shooter” The Crush House for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2024.

Immortals of Aveum deserved better. And now that it’s among April 2024’s PlayStation Plus offerings, there’s little excuse for — hey, put those tomatoes down! — one of last year’s best games not to get its fair due.