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There’s a fresh trailer for Zombie Army VR, teasing the game’s undead sniping antics ahead of a launch for PSVR 2, Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro, and PC VR via Steam later this year.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for April 18: Battle Royale games such as Free Fire, BGMI, and others have been the most popular in the country. These games offer a unique gaming experience with a thrilling concept. Players have the chance to improve their gaming skills and with time and practice, they can show off their skills in every match. However, there are a few tricks which a pro player should follow in every match to earn victory in the early stages of the game. Know more about how you can win every battle with ease.

Square Enix has deployed Final Fantasy XVI update 1.31 for PlayStation 5, packing various improvements alongside changes and bug fixes.

iPhone 16 launch in 2024: After months of anticipating the iPhone 16 model's design, a new leak showcases the dummies of the upcoming devices. It was also revealed that the upcoming iPhone 16 variants are in the final stage of development, therefore, the launch is not so far. This year, Apple is expected to include a new capture button in the iPhone 16 Pro models and an action button in the iPhone 16 standard models. But, there are more 2024 iPhone models. Know what's coming.

New twinstick-shooter action-roguelite forges ahead in its Early Access lifespan with the recent update «Claws & Paws,» but it’s still a hard game to parse at the best of times. From its grating title to its ungainly gameplay, it never situates successfully within the sizable genre it shares. At this stage of ' development, Boston-based Daylight Basement Studio’s debut is left grasping at straws.

If you've been playing through Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, or have even finished it, you'll know that things can get pretty wild when it comes to alternate timelines, universes, and all sorts of strange, meta mumbo jumbo. It can be difficult to keep track of everything that's happening and being said, especially when Cloud himself is immensely unreliable as a main character and his headaches are a primary source of confusion.

By completing Aphrodite’s Snapshot Quests in, players can earn a significant amount of XP for levelling up and purchasing Battle Pass Rewards. Players can take on a lengthy mission to prove themselves worthy, recruiting allies for the battle against Zeus. However, even if you aren’t interested in ongoing story, the rewards for completing Aphrodite’s Snapshot quests are well worth your time.

A lot of games can lean heavily on having either great style or substance, with a rare few having both qualities together. Even rarer are the are the games that boast style and abundance – a sensory overload of bright visuals, bopping music, and a million different on-screen stimuli all going off at once. When I think of games like that, my mind goes toward the wacky eccentricity of a game like Katamari Damacy. In many ways, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom takes that same abundance of wacky style and non-stop jams and applies it to a throwback collectathon platformer that I can’t get enough of.

Arknights is expanding its universe with the release of Episode 13, ‘The Whirlpool That is Passion’. From new operators to new outfits, Arknights Episode 13 has it all. It’s set to drop tomorrow, April 16th, 2024. We have a sneak peek at what’s coming and it looks pretty packed!

Promotional footage used for the MultiVersus NHL Face-Off match has confirmed that Finn is getting a new skin with his robot arm and Night Sword.

Evil Empire, the developers behind The Rogue Prince of Persia, compared notes with Ubisoft Montpellier, the team behind The Lost Crown, since the two were being made around the same time.

Few weeks of any year are bigger or more important for the business of movies than CinemaCon. The annual gathering gives studios, theater owners, and exhibition-minded tech companies a chance to show off the most exciting developments in the movie business. But while the innovations that debut at CinemaCon may have important implications for the theaters where viewers get their film fix, the biggest news out of the convention almost always comes from the stage presentations, where studios show off their biggest gambles.

One of the biggest annual trade shows for the movie industry, CinemaCon is an event that has become more and more of a mainstay in the annual pop culture sphere. Specifically dedicated to both movies as well as the craft of physical movie theaters, there was no better stage for Crunchyroll to announce a large slate of theatrical film releases for the North American market and beyond.

is the next game coming in the classic platform game franchise, and it's likely to deliver the reliable fun that the series is known for. The fast-paced, frantic gameplay oforiginally debuted in arcades before coming to home consoles with arguably one of the best GameCube games, and it's enjoyed over two decades of popularity since. Although the series had a comparative dry spell for some time in the 2010s, it's made a major comeback on the Nintendo Switch and other contemporary platforms.

The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models will launch with a handful of improvements in terms of design, and as per the latest leak, Apple is tweaking the internal design as well to fit a bigger battery. While all iPhone 16 models are expected to house bigger batteries, the iPhone 16 Plus battery capacity will be slightly smaller than the current iPhone 15 Plus model.

2024 is becoming more and more a year to remember for fans of the Prince of Persia series. After a long hiatus, the series made its comeback with The Lost Crown, a very good Metroidvania that brought the franchise back to its roots. The game developed by the Rayman team, however, won't be the only new entry in the series to see the light this year, as a roguelite take on the series' classic formula called The Rogue Prince of Persia will make its Early Access debut next month.

With Remix: Mists of Pandaria, players will be able to relive the whole Pandaria expansion, including the iconic Mists of Pandaria raids, including Heroic mode raids. Players will only need a WoW subscription to fully participate in this event, similar to Plunderstorm.

The latest Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble trailer is all about the single player adventure mode and shows off the game’s 4-player co-op. The NintendoSwitch exclusive game is coming out on 25th June 2024.

Nearly five years after the release of Joker, the Oscar-winning DC comics-inspired drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, its sequel is finally ready for a spotlight. The first trailer for Joker 2 debuted on Tuesday at CinemaCon, the trade show for all things theatrical release, and shows off Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, and some of the new music that has been rumored for the film.

A second season of the Fallout show already appears to be in the works. This is before the first season has even premiered, with the first eight episodes set to hit Amazon Prime Video this Thursday.

 The first trailer of GTA 6 has stirred excitement among fans as it unveils glimpses of the game's characters. Among the notable figures are Lucia, the confirmed female protagonist, and Jason, the alleged male lead. Both have been teased in leaked footage from 2022, setting the stage for a thrilling sequel.

Super Mario Maker players have finally beaten the fan-made level that was previously thought to have been impossible for mere humans to complete, just two days before Nintendo kills the servers.

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Former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were previously reported to have partnered up to develop a device that was dubbed the ‘iPhone of AI.’ While the exact nature of the product is unknown at this stage, the latest information states that the hardware being worked on is not a smartphone, but for the two individuals to complete their goal, they will require funding, which is what their aim is at this time.

Dragon's Dogma 2 modders are taking one of the best parts of the game out of the RPG, with a mod that directly displays what stage of Dragonsplague any Pawns are infected with.

Sonic's influence on the gaming world has been well documented over the years, resulting in many attempts to recreate the 1991 classic's momentum-focused gameplay. In 2014, developer GalaxyTrail released Freedom Planet, an excellent 2D platformer that managed to invoke a similar exhilarating feeling with its emphasis on speedy platforming challenges. With its sequel, Freedom Planet 2, the team has pulled it off yet again, this time with additional gameplay tweaks.

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With about a month and a half left before the game's launch, Ninja Theory has finally shown Senua's Saga: Hellblade II to a few outlets. The sequel to 2017's 'triple-I' masterpiece is scheduled to launch on May 21 for PC and Xbox Series S|X and will benefit from the increased production values that the studio based in Cambridge, UK, can access following the acquisition by Microsoft in 2018.

The Galaxy Z Fold 6 is going to go official in a couple of months, and based on all the information that we have so far, Samsung is looking to make some changes to its foldable phone, which is always a good thing. I believe that the past iterations have been held back in terms of design, and this is a great opportunity for Samsung to deliver something nicer. Now, a tip has surfaced showing a prototype of the device, which shows how the phone will have a slightly taller and wider display than last year, and it honestly looks good.

For over a decade, Apple had the ambition to outdo Tesla and other manufacturers in the automotive industry with its vehicle, ubiquitously known as the Apple Car'. It aimed to provide a completely autonomous experience by taking the user to its destination without requiring any human intervention, something which Tesla does not offer with its Full Self Driving (FSD) yet. However, a few weeks ago, the iPhone maker shocked everyone by completely scrapping the project. This left many wondering about the next big source of revenue for the company which finished 2023 as the top smartphone maker in the world.

If you’re after one of the most powerful items in the game, which can bring a bunch of NPCs back to life at once, you’ll want to know how to get the Eternal Wakestone in Dragon’s Dogma 2, for sure.

Blizzard has released new Class Armor Packs for each class in Diablo 4, containing heavily discounted armor sets previously released in Tejal's Shop. Each of these sets, previously released and costing at minimum 1,000 Platinum each, is now available in the bundle with one other set per class for a total amount of 1,000 Platinum — bringing down the overall cost of these sets substantially! Take a look at some of the models below — note that these sets were primarily released in the pre-season launch stage of Diablo 4, so they are some of the oldest released shop sets in the game.

Turkey has gained a well-earned reputation as a veritable cauldron of mobile games startups, leading to the rise of VCs dedicated to the sector. The latest to join this coterie is Laton Ventures, a new gaming-focused VC that has raised a $35 million fund. Founding Partner — and Solo GP — Görkem Türk says he’s aiming to build a bridge between the Turkish gaming ecosystem and the rest of the world, investing in the pre-seed and seed stages. The fund is legally domiciled in the Netherlands.

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BioWare might have more than Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and the next Mass Effect game in the works, as a job listing refers to "2-3 project teams". Right now, the studio only has two ongoing projects that we know about, with the third perhaps being another unannounced game.

Following CD Projekt RED's recent quarterly report, where we learned that The Witcher 4 (Polaris) is still in pre-production, a couple of executives were invited by the Polish financial site StockWatch to answer a few questions.

In response to a wave of fans lobbying for a Waffle House-themed stage in Tekken 8, the game's director Katsuhiro Harada finally broke the silence and addressed the high demand for this unique stage.

Apple failed to announce any iPad upgrade last year, and the company appears to be taking its time again this year. The OLED iPad Pro has seen various delays in the past, and we experienced another one last week. Originally, the OLED iPad Pro was reported to launch in the last quarter of 2023 alongside the M3 MacBook Pro models. However, the company saw fit to announce the new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max MacBook Pro models. With so many delays in the past, could Apple launch the OLED iPad Pro models at its WWDC 2024 event?

Waffle House is one of those uniquely American institutions-turned-meme. The 24/7 chain is not only a place where you can order a breakfast combo at 3AM, but where unruly customers have been known to show up ready to throw hands (and sometimes chairs). Given its notoriety for late-night brawls, it’s exactly the type of setting that would make for a perfect backdrop in a fighting game like Tekken 8 — and apparently, fans have been inquiring. Longtime Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada posted on X this weekend asking what the deal is with all the Waffle House requests.

Alongside Peach's new ensembles in there are also several cosmetic dresses for Peach to unlock and wear throughout the game. To unlock every single dress, players will need to, not only fully complete the game, but also complete some lengthy post-game tasks.

SpaceX is gearing up for another exciting launch as it prepares to send 22 more Starlink satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 30. Originally slated for March 28, the launch was rescheduled, with liftoff now targeted for Saturday night.

Apple has rolled out a new initiative just in time for WWDC 2024, aimed at nurturing the next generation of app developers. The tech giant unveiled its "Develop in Swift Tutorials" webpage, designed to guide aspiring developers through the initial stages of app development using Xcode, Swift, and SwiftUI.

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Koji Kondo joined Nintendo in 1984 and ended up composing basically every memorable theme from the Mario or Zelda series. The legendary composer had a particularly wild idea for a stage effect in last year's Super Mario Bros Wonder, and while that idea was rejected, it did end up giving Kondo the opportunity to bring his voice to the game.

Now that Cyberpunk 2077 is in the best place it can be, and Phantom Liberty has been pushed out into the wild, questions are being asked about what CD Projekt Red's next big release is going to be. It's been incredibly transparent with its development process, as a result of trying to make up for Cyberpunk 2077's launch shenanigans, and now the studio has shared its development pipeline on social media for us to see exactly what it's working on.

To describe a game as being a non-stop grind from start to finish would be considered a negative in almost any other context, but not in the case of Pepper Grinder. This energetic platforming adventure straps a high-powered drill to your hand and throttles you forward through a series of terrain-churning 2D paths littered with enemies to pummel and challenging platform sections to navigate at speed. It’s lively, fluid, and frequently frantic, and folds in some fun diversions that help each stage stand out, even though a surprisingly short list of levels means that Pepper Grinder is here for a good time rather than a long time.

Streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins has revealed he has been diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer.

Blizzard have buffed the right side of the map in Plunderstorm!

Taking its first foray into PvP, Keystone Masters presents the Battle of the Bans, a pick-and-choose arena map ban series in which NA and EU arena teams will compete for $6,000 in prizes! The unique format of this best of five double elimination tournament promises a new layer of competitive decision making, as each team alternates in picking and banning to decide which maps will be played.

Final Fantasy 16's producer Naoki Yoshida has offered some insight into the game's PC performance benchmark.

Each stage in will contain several Sparkle Gems, key collectibles that are required to challenge the game's many bosses. These Gems are often hidden in sneaky ways, which is especially true for the Ninja Peach levels. Collecting every Ninja Sparkle Gem will require sneak-attacking guards, prowling over rooftops, and collecting Gem Fragments during high-speed wall-running sequences.

Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will begin on June 10 this year. WWDC24 will run from June 10 to June 14, with Apple kicking off the week-long conference with a keynote presentation.

If you missed out on last week's pre-order deal for Princess Peach Showtime! from QVC, you’re in luck. For a limited time, you can save $10 on the new Nintendo Switch platformer at Woot, discounting its usual $60 price to $49.99.

The next version of Android is closer than we think. Android 14 was just released late last year, but Google is already working on what's next, with Android 15 now being in an early stage of testing. If you don't mind very broken software, you can install the next OS on your Android phone and see how it fares. Now, Google has just released the second developer preview of Android 15, and it'll be a bigger release than we initially thought.

Skullgirls Mobile throws another punch with its latest update! The Skullgirls Mobile 6.2 Update brings a fresh wave of content, including a new stage, guest stars, and more. From a balance patch to free stuff, there’s plenty to explore!

Princess Peach: Showtime! is here, giving the Mushroom Kingdom monarch a chance to break out of the damsel role and do a little world-saving of her own. While the game is largely pitched to younger audiences, there are still a few things about the game that might inspire questions, and we’re here to help!

Earlier this year, a slick, visually arresting turn-based strategy game called Howl arrived on PC and consoles to general critical acclaim. 

Stellar Blade's demo is returning to PS5 after it was added and then quickly removed from the PS store earlier this month. It seems that the initial release of the demo was accidental. This time, it's been officially announced by Sony, rather than shadowdropped without any fanfare.

MOONTON’s Watcher of Realms is gearing up for an Easter 2024 celebration you won’t want to miss. If you’re hunting for thrills instead of eggs this Easter, Watcher of Realms is what you should play. They have a lineup that includes the mighty Captain Reve, a new skin for him, a batch of summoning events, a new game mode and stages packed with loot.

Greetings. This is Hyung Tae Kim, director of Stellar Blade. We are pleased to officially announce the upcoming free playable demo for Stellar Blade, coming March 29 to PlayStation 5.

The previously leaked Stellar Blade demo for PlayStation 5 will be made available later this week on Match 29.

Madame Grape is the last boss of , the final obstacle preventing the theater's restoration. Unlocking her fight will require completing multiple floors of levels, as well as accumulating a few dozen Sparkle Gems. As a reward for this effort, Peach gets one more transformation exclusive to the ultimate boss fight.

About a month ago, the Game Developers Conference 2024 schedule unveiled a new technology called Microsoft DirectSR. As one could easily guess from its name (Direct SuperResolution), it's an attempt to make the implementation of upscalers easier, and it was built in collaboration with all of the main CPU and GPU vendors (NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel).

About a month ago, the Game Developers Conference 2024 schedule unveiled a new technology called Microsoft DirectSR. As one could easily guess from its name (Direct SuperResolution), it's an attempt to make the implementation of upscalers easier, and it was built in collaboration with all of the main CPU and GPU vendors (NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel).

Larian confirmed earlier this week that it won't be working on Baldur's Gate 4, or any expansions for Baldur's Gate 3. Now, fans are wondering if its next game will be another entry in the Divinity series, perhaps even the long-awaited Divinity: Original Sin 3.

Final Fantasy 16’s PC port has been in the works for a while, with producer Naoki Yoshida confirming earlier this month that it was in the final stages of optimization. And though a specific release date for the port has yet to be unveiled, in a recent interview with Famitsu, Yoshida provided further details on what to expect.

In a setback for the highly anticipated NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission, the joint endeavour between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has hit a snag, pushing back its launch schedule with the target now shifted to late April.

Irdeto, the firm that owns the Denuvo DRM, has launched a new solution called TraceMark to crack down against high-profile game leaks. The announcement came at GDC 2024, where Irdeto revealed that they are coming up with a new platform to combat leakers in the industry, showing the "TraceMark For Games" watermark technology that allows developers to ensure their game's privacy.

Final Fantasy 14 is getting a Final Fantasy 16 questline, but more importantly, why is Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida referring to himself as a different person?

Super Mario Maker players have finally done it - they've beaten every single legitimate level uploaded to the original game before the servers shut down. The catch is that they already achieved victory last week, and they're only now able to celebrate the accomplishment after the creator of the last level standing came forward to reveal that it was a fake.

Scientists have recently uncovered two ancient streams of stars within the Milky Way Galaxy, dubbed Shakti and Shiva, shedding light on the galaxy's earliest formation stages. These star structures, identified using data from the Gaia space telescope, are believed to have merged with the Milky Way around 12 billion years ago, providing vital clues about its early evolution.

Princess Peach: Showtime! is here, giving the Mushroom Kingdom monarch a chance to break out of the damsel role and do a little world-saving of her own. While the game is largely pitched to younger audiences, there are still a few things about the game that might inspire questions, and we’re here to help!

If you can't get enough games inspired by FromSoftware's influential Souls series, you're in luck, as another one is heading our way later this year. Enotria: The Last Song was initially planned to release this spring, but has now been pushed back to 21st August. It looks fairly promising in this new gameplay trailer.

Final Fantasy 16 players better hold onto their seats as we are getting a second DLC expansion for the game, called The Rising Tide. Square Enix announced this DLC saying it will be launching for the PS5 on April 18.

Final Fantasy 16's final DLC, The Rising Tide, will launch on PS5 April 18.

We’ve known Final Fantasy XVI would be getting a pair of story expansions for some time now, with the first one, Echoes of the Fallen being more of a bite-sized experience. Thankfully, the second, The Rising Tide, will be much meatier, and today at a panel at PAX West, Square Enix pulled the curtain back on what to expect. The DLC will introduce a new area, the coastal land of Mysidia, an additional ally for your team named Shula, and the powerful water Eikon, Leviathan. You can check out a trailer for Final Fantasy XVI - The Rising Tide, below.

Rise of the Ronin is structurally a very different game from Team Ninja's previous series, Nioh. This new game not only features a new story, but a full open world as opposed to smaller stages to navigate. The games do share two main components: challenging combat and tons and tons of loot. Between all the materials you can snag while roaming the countryside and drops from fallen enemies, you will be collecting hundreds of items every hour. While mission rewards are automatically added to your inventory by default, normal items are not and require a button press to collect. Luckily, you can enable an auto-pickup option despite the game never telling you about it.

Virtual reality gaming has grown more popular and affordable in recent years, with a whole range of cutting-edge commercial headsets like the Valve Index and the PlayStation VR 2 enabling players to experience an ever-growing library of exciting games. That doesn’t even begin to include all the impressive third-party VR headsets out there, like this shiny experimental “Three-Body” headset that was gifted to me by the fine folks at… well, they didn’t actually tell me who they are. It just showed up on my doorstep in a box with my name on it! Netflix, maybe?

You’d be mistaken if you thought that Princess Peach: Showtime! was the iconic regal character’s first ever title role.

Princess Peach might be the one who takes center stage in her action-adventure game but it is really her variety of costumes that deserves the spotlight. Each costume that Peach changes into transforms her into an entirely different character. Whether becoming a swordfighter, ninja, or even a mermaid, Peach loses her normal skills in favor of more thematically appropriate abilities and skills with each outfit.