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Alan Wake 2 is here, and as you would expect from a survival horror game, particularly one developed by the twisted minds at Remedy Entertainment, the game is packed with secrets to uncover for those willing to stray a bit off the beaten path.

BGMI's exciting new addition, the Santorini TDM map, transports players to the enchanting Greek island of Santorini. This breathtaking battleground marks the fourth Arena mode map in BGMI, following the footsteps of Warehouse, Ruins, and Domination. What sets Santorini apart is its unique 8v8 setup, demanding players to elevate their shooting skills in a fiercely competitive environment. To excel on this remarkable map, choosing the right Assault Rifles is crucial. In our BGMI tips, we've compiled a list of the top 5 ARs that will help players secure more kills and victories in the Santorini TDM map.

Ahead of next year's 10th anniversary for Hearthstone, senior game designer Cora Georgiou took to the stage at BlizzCon today to reveal what's coming next for both the standard game mode and its (arguably more popular) Battlegrounds spin-off.

Lords of the Fallen has received a new patch that features over 100 enhancements, fixes, and tweaks.

Vampire Survivors has always brought the lore but lacked a real narrative, but that ends with Patch 1.8. As part of the update, “Adventures” mode is coming, giving some story to chew on.

Atari is continuing its lineup of newly produced Atari 2600 cartridges with a more obscure title: Dark Chambers.

An interesting new Red Dead Redemption 2 mod for those playing the game on PC has been released - a mod that adds ambient random world events.

As the new video game RoboCop: Rogue City arrives in stores both digital and physical, you might be wondering how it pays tribute to cop-turned-robot Alex Murphy's finest moments on screen.

The new RoboCop video game RoboCop: Rogue City has a deep reverence for Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 gory action satire movie, from the game’s cast of characters to its authentic re-creation of a dystopian, derelict Detroit. RoboCop: Rogue City also takes RoboCop’s penchant for shooting bad guys in the nuts to heart: Groin attacks are an important part of gameplay.

If you’re like us, you’ve been living your best '80s action movie life, making your way through the RoboCop: Rogue City missions.

I've Bear Grylls’d through countless open-worlds and know my way around a trigger, but Pandora still makes me jumpy. Just weirdly, uncharacteristically, on guard. Clutching a beefy rifle like a security blanket, I feel swallowed by this wind-lashed neon jungle looming around and above me (because creepy floating islands). In short, my interest is piqued. I’m in.

Activision has announced plans to bring back a selection of multiplayer maps from last year’s Modern Warfare 2 for the upcoming sequel.

Developer Teyon has carved out a niche for itself creating video games based on ’80s action classics like Rambo: The Video Game and Terminator: Resistance. Its latest, RoboCop: Rogue City, continues the story of the beloved cyborg of Paul Verhoeven’s ultra-violent satire in a game that’s rife with reverence, but short on refinement.

Dave the Diver offers plenty of unique creatures to catch and serve at Bancho Sushi. The Cookiecutter Shark is one of the more elusive creatures you’ll need to catch to progress the story.

Rollerdrome, the acclaimed (and ridiculously stylish) skater shooter from OlliOlli developer Roll7, is launching for Xbox Series X/S and Game Pass on 28th November.

Rollerdrome is coming to Xbox in November, and will be available on Xbox Game Pass.

Blizzard have revealed the November 2023 trading post rewards which includes the Swift Zhevra, the Spectral Wind Rider, Spectral Gryphon and much more!

Rollerdrome launches on Xbox Series X and S and Windows PC on November 28, publisher Private Division has announced. It also hits Xbox Game Pass the same date.

Fans of the pre-Age of Sigmar Warhammer setting will be excited to know that Games Workshop has started to show off the rules for the upcoming Warhammer: The Old World.

A few months ago, Samsung announced its Android 14-Based One UI 6 Update, and now it has finally started rolling it out for Samsung Galaxy S23 users. Until now, these updates were available in the Beta version. Some users in Europe have reported that they can see this rollout on their Samsung Galaxy S23 phones. Know all about this latest update :

Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop was the film in my school that everyone under the age of eighteen wanted to watch but wasn’t allowed to. Fortunately for my friend and I, we managed to sneakily watch his Dad copy on VHS. As a naïve tweenager I was blown away by what I saw. The hyper-violence, the dark satire, and the coolest hero I’d ever laid eyes on; Robocop proved an explosive experience that only led to a handful of sleepless nights due to nightmares about melting faces. Since his iconic debut though, times have been hard for the cyborg cop. A series of lacklustre film sequels and an awful modern remake have all helped dull Robocop’s once-shiny armour. Step in RoboCop: Rogue City, the first video game starring the titular hero in years. Has developer Teyon’s latest FPS got what it takes to restore the RoboCop legacy? Well, unfortunately, no.

After I played the demo of RoboCop: Rogue City earlier this month, I mentioned I had never watched the RoboCop sequels. Because of recommendations from the comments on that article, I finally watched RoboCop 2, and I’m glad I did.

Endless Dungeon’s weary space western theme feels perfectly in tune with the pioneer spirit that runs throughout the game. This ragtag bunch of space miscreants – led by an actual cleaner wielding his mop – need to get off this drifting leviathan, but the only way to get iyt is by going through, delving ever deeper into the bones of the station in the hope that they’ll find something other than alien hordes lurking in the dark. To be fair, it’s mostly alien hordes.

October 28 marked 20 years of the Call of Duty series, as part of which some of the key designers  have been talking about the greatest moments. The foundation for its overwhelming success, however, will always be original developer Infinity Ward, in particular the leap forward the studio made with the Modern Warfare series. It delivered an unforgettable and oft-controversial singleplayer campaign reflecting one view of contemporary geopolitics, alongside a best-in-class multiplayer experience that the wider series has followed ever since.

New technologies and innovations have helped scientists to take the space missions to the next level. We have received various mesmerizing images of space till now with amazing high-definition cameras. Now, the NASA astronauts are prepping up to take the next generation camera to the Moon to capture the detailed images of the Lunar surface. European astronauts and scientists have come together with NASA's Artemis imagery team to complete this crucial task.

Doctor Web's latest monthly mobile threat report has identified several Android apps with more than 2 million installs that masquerade as gaming or productivity apps but are actually adware.

Most people probably know Matthew Perry as the ever-popular Chandler Bing in the more ever-popular Friends. And yet gamers know him as a fan of Fallout and as the voice of Benny in New Vegas.

Instead of finding Manuscript Fragments for upgrades, the eponymous character will need to find Words of Power in Alan Wake 2. These Words of Power locations allow Alan to upgrade himself in multiple different special character trees. Each upgrade increases his strength in a different way — you can deal more damage, enhance your health, or make your weapons more powerful. It all depends on those Words of Power.

Dungeons of Hinterberg popped up during Xbox’s not-E3 showcase over the summer, revealing a beautifully cel-shaded blend of dungeon-crawling, puzzle-solving and relationship-building. Having had a bit more of a look at the game’s social sim aspects via this week’s Xbox Partner Preview - yep, it still looks gorgeous and sounds fantastic.

A new Zonai Device build in can easily match the function of Skyview Towers. Although some Zonai Devices can seem worthless in , others can be combined to great effect. The technology of the Zonai is crucial to Link’s quest in the game, but the simple application of experimentation and creativity can lead to ever-more impressive creations being produced and shared.

There are almost no excuses left to skip Signalis, our favorite horror game of 2022. It's 20% off for the Steam horror sale and it just received a patch that lets you bypass our biggest problem with it.

ARK: Survival Ascended has many big dinos, but in The Island, the biggest one has to be the Brontosaurus. It’s a massive creature, but it has a couple of tricks that make it worth taming.

A new gameplay video for Little Nightmares III offers a lengthy look at its two-player cooperative gameplay. Like the previous games, this third outing looks every bit as moody and unsettling. 

Corey Bowman remembers when the zombies first went after him.

With the exception of golf, sports generally encourage you to score as many points as possible—which is why you’re free to call out anybody who refers to something substandard as “below par”. 

There are three types of crab in Dave the Diver, and two of them are special finds. All three require different strategies, as one is random and the third is a boss.

Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis has received an ESRB Rating, indicating that it is coming to PC.

Destructible money-grabbing multiplayer shooter The Finals is now available to play in open beta. The beta runs until November 5th and includes three maps, a new mode, and sixteen unlockable rewards that will carry over to the full launch.

Apex Legends: Ignite, the 19th season of the ever-popular battle royale, will explode onto our screens with the brand new Legend Conduit next Tuesday, 31st October. The massive in-game storm at Storm Point has now cleared the map and things look a little different to how we remember it, meaning there's plenty of new areas to explore as you fight to survive.

Triceratops is an excellent choice for an early game tame in ARK: Survival Ascended. It’s the same ol’ Trike from Evolved, but it now looks much nicer.

Scram, Skedaddlers is the third level in Super Mario Wonder, and as you will quickly discover, it adds yet more mechanical flair to interact with. More importantly, it also adds more collectables. You are going to have to be fast if you want to grab them all, however. 

It's hard to imagine blockblustery first-person shooting today without Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's online progression systems, which - inasmuch as you can assign this much clout to a single game or developer - transformed the genre back in 2007 by reinventing multiplayer as a kind of RPG. Shooters without COD-style gear levelling ladders do exist, not least Counter-Strike 2, but most of the juggernauts depend on such fixtures, especially now that free-to-play service models have become the norm. So it's jarring to hear from Mackey McCandlish, one of Modern Warfare's original developers, that the old Infinity Ward team were split over the act of using XP to unlock guns, with some worrying it would be "unfair".

Counter-Strike 2 players are being banned for moving their mouse too quickly.

The newly-released Starfield helped Microsoft's games revenue rise by nine per cent year-on-year.

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, the next big overhaul from Nightdive Studios, is set to arrive on Steam and consoles on February 28, 2024.

Nightdive Studios have made a name for themselves by remastering numerous '90s classics, mostly first-person shooters. Next in line is their Star Wars: Dark Forces remaster, which was announced in August. Now it has a release date: February 28th, 2024.

Just days after Valve started reversing bans for those who used AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature in Counter-Strike 2, players have discovered a reproducible method for triggering a VAC ban on your account: moving your mouse very, very fast.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Call of Duty. As part of a week of Call of Duty coverage, this feature takes an in-depth look at 'No Russian', the controversial mission from Modern Warfare 2. It contains discussion of content some readers may find disturbing.

When Fractal Space launched in 2019 it joined Portal, the Talos Principle, The Room, and a select few others in an elite circle of universally acclaimed first-person puzzlers. 

Toyota shared its latest EV prototypes ahead of this week's 2023 Japan Mobility Show, and it's quite the spread.

Today, October 23, is Fallout Day, also known as Bombs Drop Day. For those not hip to the lingo, October 23, 2077, is the day of the world-ending Great War in the Fallout mythos: A full-scale thermonuclear war between the US and China that annihilated nations, killed billions, and threw the global climate into a state of complete catastrophe. Hooray!

If you've somehow missed out on developer Dennaton Games' classic Hotline Miami series — or are just looking for another excuse to revisit its woozily eccentric mayhem — you might like to know both games are now natively available for Xbox Series X/S and PS5.

After the credits rolled and I was back to swinging through New York City in Spider-Man 2, I noticed something... bizarre. Miles Morales was a cube. The default Blender cube. I thought maybe this was some quirky skin for beating the game, like how Resident Evil 2 lets you play as tofu blocks, but after looking at my costumes, it became clear. The cube isn't intentional at all, it's a bug.

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) players know that Erangel, the iconic map, promises a dynamic and immersive gaming adventure. With diverse terrains and strategic locales, where you land can dictate the outcome of your battle royale journey. We have narrowed it down to five popular drop spots in Erangel to give you an edge in your pursuit of that coveted chicken dinner.

The Apple Silicon transition is not yet completed, as the iMac Pro featuring the company’s M-series SoCs is yet to launch. Whenever it arrives, new information states that it was always slated to be unveiled shortly, but Apple’s cost concerns pushed its launch into limbo.

BGMI is a super popular online shooting game. It's got tons of exciting stuff in it. One important thing in the game is UC, or Unknown Cash. You need UC to get cool stuff in the game. You can buy UC with real money. But don't waste it! Here are 5 tips to help you spend your UC wisely in BGMI.

Battlefield 2042 had some problems when it launched a couple years ago, but I said then that it was a fun game, and I say it again now: It's fun! I feel a little less alone in thinking so lately, because it's presently sitting at the respectable position of #13 on Steam's list of top games by daily players, which of course doesn't include players who own it on console or other PC stores. 

Valorant, a competitive FPS that I've often criticized for being too conservative with character abilities, is cooking up something weird for its next agent. Iso, Valorant's eleventh post-launch agent, is a Chinese mercenary who «reconfigures ambient energy into bulletproof protection.» Pretty useful skills for the aggressive pointman of the team, but pedestrian compared to his ultimate ability that is so strange it's unlike anything I've seen in an FPS before.

The Problem with Jon Stewarthas been canceled by Apple after just two seasons, reportedly after Apple execs balked at the idea of the show tackling topics like China and artificial intelligence, The New York Times reports.

The publisher of the promising RoboCop: Rogue City has quietly cancelled the Nintendo Switch version of the game.

One fun side effect of every live-service FPS updating on similar seasonal schedules is that a few times a year they all decide to go big at the same time. The last big convergence of shooters happened in March, but October is poised to make March look like hot garbage.

The Prowler makes his return from Spider-Man: Miles Morales. In Spider-Man 2, the reformed criminal and Miles’s uncle, asks for Spider-Man’s help collecting old technology stashes found all over New York. Each stash requires solving a small puzzle, so we’ll explain where to find them and how to complete each one.

Spider-Man 2 throws Peter Parker into a new story with high-school buddy Harry Osborn. Early in the game, Harry returns and forms the Emily-May Foundation — a high-tech non-profit organization. The massive building is also where you’ll be introduced to EMF Experiments, a type of side-quest where Spider-Man will be testing different inventions and discoveries for the betterment of the world. There are 9 EMF Experiments to find and some of them involve tricky puzzles. Here’s a full rundown of all the EMF Experiment locations and how to complete each one.

Here's everything you need to know about Iso.

We now have a nice little update on the long reported Bioshock movie.

No, Marvel's Spider-Man 2's fast-travel hold-to-confirm prompt is not hiding a load point. It could have been even faster, but developer Insomniac made the decision to value player usability over speed and scoring points on the internet.

Today, 2K has announced the release date for Season 2 of NBA 2K24. Victor Wembanyama will be the face of Season 2 which will include a Level 39 Cyborg suit as a reward. Wembanyama is the international prospect that has drawn comparisons to Lebron James. For MyTEAM, players will start the season with a Level 1 Free Agent Victor Wembanyama card and can pay off with unlocking a Level 40 Diamond Wilt Chamberlain card. Two new premium collections will allow players to pick up a Diamond Tim Duncan and Diamond Carmelo Anthony as Collection Rewards of Special Inserts in the Pack Market. A Diamond Michael Jordan is also available as a Special Insert in the Pack Market and directly in the Player Market.

The blue blur and his multi-coloured friends are back thanks to the release of the rather excellent, Sonic Superstars. A throwback to classic Sonic whilst also including new mechanics, characters, and themes to keep the formula feeling fresh, it’s one of Sonic’s best outings in a long time. 

US publishing giant Activision reportedly made a deal to feature a gun made by Remington in 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Back in the glorious Xbox One years, when every Microsoft executive was engaged in the act of putting one foot in their mouth while shooting it simultaneously, there was a giddy period of marketing conducted by means of Phil Spencer's T-shirts. He'd rock up on E3 stages like a cabaret dancer, touting tees with various new or elderly videogame licenses on them, and whipping older fans into a frenzy of speculation as to possible remakes or sequels. I myself had to go lie down after seeing Phil in a Phantom Dust shirt. Teaser-shirts, we should have called them. Look at him in the picture up there, showing off a chestful of Hexen. Shameless!

With a ridiculous on-the-nose title like Wizard with a Gun, you know exactly what you’re getting into. You’re a wizard, and you have a gun. But the gun is also your wand, so even though you’re shooting all manner of creatures, it’s magical shooting. This silly premise has a lot going for it, opening the door for plenty of unique combat scenarios in its sandbox world. But despite a great opening, Wizard with a Gun starts losing momentum once it becomes clear that it just doesn’t feel finished. Pulling off spell combos and crafting new bullets can be a lot of fun with a friend in co-op, and there is a good amount to explore for fans of survival sandboxes, but balance issues and the lack of a proper ending leave it feeling like it’s missing an Early Access label. As my friends and I kept saying, “it’s got good bones,” but the robes on top of them don’t take long to wear thin.

Half-Life and Doom. I struggle to think of two games that have influenced me more. Between the iconic, flickering corridors of Valve’s Black Mesa and the run-and-gun fury of id Software’s defining FPS, my own taste in videogames is irredeemably shaped by these giants of PC history. Without Half-Life, there would be no Counter-Strike 2, no Portal, no Left 4 Dead – maybe even no Steam. Take Doom out of the equation, and the shooter as we know it might never have existed. Now, Gordon Freeman and Doomguy are finally united, thanks to an imaginative new Doom mod that incorporates the instantly recognizable sounds and effects from Valve’s 1998 classic. It’s not exactly Half-Life 3, but it’s a heck of a substitute.

Igor Aleksandrowicz has fully released their retro-inspired FPS, Calcium Contract, on Steam. It will run you $15.99.

RoboCop has been badly mistreated by the video game medium. Outside of Data East’s very good 1988 arcade game, studios have condemned RoboCop to appear in mostly lousy licensed video game schlock over the past 35 years.

As part of Minecraft Live 2023, Mojang went over everything they’ve been working on to bring to Minecraft over the next year or so. Among the teased features is Trial Chambers, new areas that pit players against devious puzzles and enemies.

Getting smacked by a giant with a forceful club and launching into the stratosphere is easily one of Skyrim’s best moments. The meme is as immortal as the game at this point. So, it’s only natural that Starfield spacefarers would want to recreate the special moment in a game that’s all about launching in and out of planets. 

Content warning: This article discusses violence towards children.

It is common knowledge that arms manufacturers and the videogames industry have partnerships and sponsorship deals, with series like Call of Duty sometimes even including gunmakers like Colt in their credits. But we almost never get a glimpse at what these deals involve, both in terms of the finances and the thinking behind marketing real weapons in virtual worlds.