Ubisoft has decided to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows a further month, in order to incorporate more player feedback into the launch game, it’s announced. Shadows, which was previously delayed from last November to February 2025, will now release on Match 20. In a statement, Ubisoft said the additional development time would allow it to “better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to engage closely with the increasingly positive Assassin’s Creed community”. Read More... View the full article
The ongoing, awful situation in Los Angeles where wildfires have spread and destroyed tens of thousands of houses and forced over 100,000 people to evacuate has been a harrowing start to the year for countless people. Watching it from afar is terrible enough, but to those being displaced, and those who have died or lost their entire houses and livelihoods, it’s a life-changing and serious situation that cannot be understated. Unfortunately, the internet’s anonymity allows anyone to comment on situations such as these, and as you may expect, some from the gaming community have once again let us all down. View the full article
A Hogwarts Legacy player was recently visited by a large dragon while exploring the wilderness surrounding the famous Hogwarts castle. Approaching its second anniversary next month, Hogwarts Legacy became the best-selling new video game of 2023 and impressed fans of the Harry Potter franchise with its detailed depiction of Hogwarts and surrounding areas like the village of Hogsmeade and the Forbidden Forest. View the full article
Riot Games kicked off the 2025 League of Legends season with Bite Marks, a cinematic video created in partnership with Fortiche. Featuring vocals by TEYA, the cinematic masterfully blends storytelling, music, and animation, setting the stage for a first part of the year set in Noxus. While the cinematic is not as shrouded in mystery as last year’s, there are still a few details that needed clarification. In an interview with Dot Esports, Riot’s principal marketing creative director, Matt Costa, and head of League studio, Andrei “Meddler” van Roon, shed light on the cinematic’s deeper connections to League lore and what fans can expect in the months ahead. View the full article
How do you sign up for the Elden Ring Nightreign beta? The Lands Between beckons us once more for a standalone co-op adventure that introduces a roguelike loop into FromSoftware's formula. Playtests are the perfect opportunity to get early access and discover if a dedicated multiplayer version of this landmark RPG is for you. If you can't wait for the Nightreign release date, you're in luck - the first Elden Ring Nightreign closed beta is on its way. Given FromSoftware's track record with beta periods, this might be your only chance to play the soulslike game ahead of launch. Thankfully, the Nightreign network test sign-up process is straightforward, so let us help you secure your participation. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Elden Ring Nightreign release date estimate, gameplay, and news Elden Ring Nightreign won't have Dark Souls' best feature, but for good reason View the full article
Do you know what you want? In life? More importantly, in video games? It's a question Fallout co-creator, noe famous for his YouTube videos looking back at his career and opining on different topics related to game development has clearly been thinking about. His view? Basically, make sure you try and give developers feedback they can actually use. Read more View the full article
The beginning of the year usually marks the date of IEM Katowice in the Counter-Strike 2 calendar. In 2025, however, the tournament will feature a female team. That team is Imperial fe, a European female CS2 squad. They’re currently 23rd in Valve’s ranking, which ESL used to determine the 24 invites for the tournament. Their involvement in IEM Katowice 2025 will mark the first time in CS history that an all-female group will compete in the ESL Pro Tour’s Championship Event. But while they may be newcomers to the event, they’re all but new to the scene. View the full article
A known leaker has said that MSI is gearing up to launch an AMD variation of its Claw handhelds, breaking with its tradition up to this point of using Intel CPUs. The possible AMD MSI Claw news comes during CES 2025, where MSI is currently showing the latest updates to its handheld roster. While it didn't make our best handheld gaming PC list first time around, the MSI Claw has been an intriguing device to follow. It was one of the first out the gate using Intel's mobile chips, rather than the often-seen AMD Ryzen 7040 or Z1 chips. Now it seems that the muted to negative response to the Intel-powered versions has pushed MSI to look into adopting AMD's chips instead. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Nvidia RTX 5080 laptop GPU benchmark leak gives first glimpse idea of true power "We have plans" for Nvidia CPUs reveals CEO Jensen Huang AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT benchmark leaks show it beating the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super View the full article
Are you looking for some great games to shake off those January blues? Fanatical may have the solution. Right now, you can build your own bundle from a selection of top-notch titles from Fanatical's Platinum Games Collection for January, which includes brilliant survival and city-builder games such as prehistoric Valheim-like Polylithic, pixelated RPG Subterrain: Mines of Titan, and the underrated Urbek City Builder. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Urbek, the most overlooked strategy game on Steam, is now very cheap The most underrated city building game on Steam just got a big new DLC View the full article
Square Enix has shared the list of features available in the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, which includes up to 4K resolution and 120 frames per second alongside Nvidia DLSS support. A trailer for the PC version, below, arrived ahead of its January 23 release date and, while it stopped short of specifics, did confirm that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will feature improved lighting and enhanced visuals compared to the PlayStation 5 version. Not completely departing from its original platform, however, it does also include support for the DualSense wireless controller and all the additional features it brought. Mouse and keyboard support is available too. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will offer three graphics presets (low, medium, and high) though Square Enix said it has "numerous graphics options." This includes the ability to customize the number of background non-player characters appearing on screen. The role-playing game arrived in February 2024 as the second part of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy. It follows Cloud, Aerith, Tifa and the rest of the party as they leave Midgar and explore an open world and its vibrant towns and cities. The PC version therefore arrives almost a year later as part of Square Enix's push to go multiplatform, though director Naoki Hamaguchi has asked fans to please not make inappropriate mods upon its PC release. In our 9/10 review of the original PS5 version, IGN said: "Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth impressively builds off of what Remake set in motion, both as a best-in-class action-RPG full of exciting challenges and an awe-inspiring recreation of a world that has meant so much to so many for so long." Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day. View the full article
New Year, New You: Programming Games is a fresh Humble Bundle with 7 rather great indie games worth picking up. All of the games included have Native Linux support too which is rare for Humble nowadays. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article
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Few League of Legends World champions compete for numerous year after their triumphs, like Faker. Others retire shortly after achieving success. This was the case with Doinb, but the mid laner is now back in professional play. On Jan. 9, Ninjas in Pyjamas, a League team currently competing in the ******** LPL, announced the acquisition of Doinb. The veteran player joins an unfinished lineup, since both ****’s top laner and jungler, shanji and Aki, haven’t extended their contracts, according to Leaguepedia. With Doinb back in the competition and **** having other renowned players like ppgod, it could be that the organization is trying to create a superstar roster to dominate the LPL. View the full article
Footage of the now-scrapped Transformers: Reactivate has appeared online. The gameplay, which can be seen below, appeared online following the news that Transformers: Reactivate had been canceled by developer Splash Damage this week. The London-based studio behind Gears Tactics, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Dirty Bomb announced the news on Wednesday in an X post. Read More... View the full article
Let me take you down memory lane, back to Overwatch Apex Season 2 in 2017. Specifically, to the match between AF Blue vs. Cloud9. It was first to three over five possible maps, and despite dominating most of their team fights, Cloud9 lost. Badly... Read more.View the full article
There is a lot of stuff in Baldur's Gate 3, from gold to gems to magic items, particularly in the game's busy third act. It takes place in the lower part of the titular city, Baldur's Gate, and gives players the option to explore many streets and shops as they finish their fight against the Absolute's forces. With so many interesting locations and trinkets on display, it can become tempting for even the most lawful of players to commit some light thievery. View the full article
If there's one game I constantly find myself coming back to, it's Final Fantasy 14. Every now and then I get the itch to pick up my Viera ninja and dive back into the fray, and with Dawntrail happily ticking along, I'm even more tempted. While I haven't played any of the latest expansion, I have it on good authority that it's pretty damn special, and with Square Enix now offering returning players free game time, I might just need to reinstall FF14. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best anime games on PC 2025 FF14 composer Soken debuts a surprising new song, and it features a series icon FF14 director Yoshida promises to "never turn back" as he prepares for patch 7.2 View the full article
Wuthering Waves 2.0 goes above and beyond to make the cutscenes and quests as memorable as possible. Perhaps none stand out as much as the beautiful mini-event in Thessaleo Fells. Let’s go over how to get the Lorelei secret event in Wuthering Waves. Table of contentsHow to start Lorelei hidden eventHow to complete Lorelei hidden eventLorelei Echo Challenge: Illusions rewards How to start Lorelei hidden event You can start the Lorelei hidden event by unlocking the Echo Challenge: Illusions in Thessaleo Fells after completing the main story quest where you meet Lorelei and go to the Averardo Vault. The flower required to trigger the event does not seem to spawn before you meet Lorelei and free her from the nightmares. Head to the following location in Thessaleo Fells on the Northern broken bridge to start the quest. View the full article
As we eagerly await Marvel Rivals' Fantastic Four-led Season 1 kickoff tomorrow, January 10, we're starting to hear more interesting bits about Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps from the cast and crew ahead of a first public trailer. Read more View the full article
It's been around 10 weeks since the launch of Pokemon TCG Pocket, and the game is estimated to have already shot past $400 million in gross revenue. This figure comes from [Hidden Content], who reported having found it on data analytics service AppMagic. Read more View the full article
Another big year lies ahead for the Pokémon TCG in 2025, which is now well into the Scarlet and Violet era. With all the new Pokémon from Gen 9 in the TCG, The Pokémon Company has the scope to be creative. Fan-favorite features are returning to the Pokémon TCG this year, as players eagerly anticipate news of what lies ahead with the likes of Pokémon Legends: Z-A and what’s on the cards for the Nintendo Switch 2—and things are starting to take shape for the year ahead. View the full article
For all of the great games released in 2024, it was a year that felt somewhat bereft of major blockbusters. Instead, last year was the perfect time to explore your niche—getting lost inside something new and hyperspecifc. To the point that, when the PC Gamer team came together to decide our Game of the Year awards, we all realised we'd spent the last 12 months obsessing over completely different games... Read more.View the full article
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The first Nintendo Switch basically had the road to itself, and Nintendo instantly proved just how awesome a hybrid console and handheld could be, leading to massive success. The next Switch is imminent, but it will launch into a world that’s packed with very capable handheld gaming PCs that could present an interesting challenge to Nintendo, especially following news from CES 2025. Valve’s Steam Deck kicked off the handheld gaming PC push in large part because its Linux-based SteamOS makes playing your games just about as easy as it is on consoles. That’s why one of the biggest CES announcements is that Valve is going to let people install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as April, potentially making the entire handheld PC gaming market a lot more appealing. The first official non-Valve device with SteamOS is set to be Lenovo’s $499 Legion Go S, which launches in May. But it’s not hard to imagine a near-term future where many other hardware makers announce their own SteamOS handhelds, meaning the magic of SteamOS might be available in all kinds of interesting devices very soon. (And hopefully, the increased competition means Valve will make the eventual next Steam Deck really good.) Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The Lenovo Legion Go S next to a Steam Deck OLED. CES 2025 featured a bunch of other handheld gaming hardware, too, like the chonk that is Acer’s Nitro Blaze 11. It has a gigantic 10.95-inch screen, detachable controllers, and a kickstand. It’s huge! Intel and Tencent also made a handheld with an 11-inch screen, and theirs has stereo 3D. My colleague Sean Hollister finally got to see the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus. Razer made a docking station that works with handheld gaming PCs. And in a CES panel, Microsoft promised news about changes to the handheld Windows experience for later this year, which could improve things for people who already own Windows-based hardware. [/url] That’s a lot of cool stuff! But Nintendo is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, and as interesting as all of the PC gaming hardware is, the Switch’s imminent successor will almost certainly be a very compelling upgrade. The original Switch was released nearly eight years ago, so the successor will likely be much more powerful and will probably have splashy new games in marquee franchises like Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. (I’d bet already-announced Switch games like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokémon Legends: Z-A will get some kind of boost on the next Switch, too.) Right out of the gate, Nintendo’s new console will also have an enormous library. The company already announced its next console will be compatible with original Switch games — a catalog that includes many of the indie hits that are also some of the best games on handheld PCs. Back in 2017, when the original Switch launched, there wasn’t anything like it. The Switch’s successor will compete in a much more crowded field — and one that’s getting even more crowded after CES 2025. Hopefully, the competition means everyone makes better hardware and better games. It’s a great time for handhelds. View the full article
Microsoft has announced its next Xbox Developer Direct, which will take place on January 23. The upcoming broadcast will mark the first Xbox game showcase event of 2025. View the full article
Fortnite players aren't happy with the recent selection of skins in the game's item shop, calling out developer Epic Games online. Specifically, players are taking issue with variants of skins that historically have been included for free or in various PS Plus Packs, leading some to accuse Epic of being "greedy." These criticisms come as Fortnite continues to delve into the world of digital customization items, something that will likely continue throughout 2025. View the full article
Xbox confirmed that the first gaming livestream of 2025 is just a couple of weeks away, kicking off another year of announcements and reveals for gamers. This morning, Xbox announced that the first Developer Direct of 2025 will take place on Jan. 23, featuring at least four upcoming titles scheduled to launch in 2025, headlined by DOOM: The Dark Ages. View the full article
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Ubisoft has decided to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows a further month, in order to incorporate more player feedback into the launch game, it’s announced. Shadows, which was previously delayed from last November to February 2025, will now release on Match 20. In a statement, Ubisoft said the additional development time would allow it to “better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to engage closely with the increasingly positive Assassin’s Creed community”. Read More... View the full article