It's been confirmed that the highly-anticipated extraction shooter game ARC Raiders is launching on October 30 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X. The extraction shooter genre was popularized by Escape from Tarkov, with most games in the genre taking cues from that title. Few have managed to leave much of an impression, but ARC Raiders is looking like it could be the one that really breaks the genre into the mainstream in a big way. View the full article
The team behind Untitled Goose Game announced Big Walk in late 2023, and even though its description was pretty straightforward—"a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking" —there's still a lot of mystery around it. What kind of teamwork will it require? Are there any goals? What are those weird wobbly spheric creatures, and can they honk?.. Read more.View the full article
t today's Day of the Devs showcase, immersive sim luminary Warren Spector presented the latest on Thick as Thieves, the upcoming multiplayer Thief successor from Spector's studio, Otherside Entertainment. Spector calls Thick as Thieves a "player-powered" immersive sim, where the flow of a match is determined by how your rival thieves are manipulating the game's systems to their own ends... Read more.View the full article
Heart Machine’s side-scrolling metroidvania platformer Possessor(s) is Hollow Knight with a splash of Amanita Design’s Creaks. The bulk of your enemies are household objects - vending machines, plant pots, office printers and other fittings that have become vessels for demons. From this premise springs a note of tragedy powerful enough to conquer my outrage at a game title that has brackets in it. The demons are not, in themselves, violent - it’s inhabiting the inanimate that maddens them. “Possessing something cold and dead is agony… so they lash out,” explains Rhem, a mortally wounded ****** you meet in the prologue. Read more View the full article
The Lies of P Overture release date is here, and you can play it today. The puppet soulslike, which earned itself plenty of acclaim as one of the most worthy challengers to the Fromsoftware catalog of Elden Ring, Dark Souls, et al, is taking us back to the fall of Krat for a prequel expansion. We've been wondering exactly when it would arrive, and now developers Neowiz and Round8 Studio have given us quite the treat by launching it live on stage during the Summer Game Fest showcase. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Lies of P Overture is shaping up to be my game of the year in 2025 Lies of P is getting difficulty options and an ultra-hard boss rush mode Lies of P director more "open" to co-op games after Elden Ring Nightreign test View the full article
Code Vein came out back in 2019 and immediately stood apart from other soulslike games for its anime-inspired visual style and more straightforward storytelling. Though it has the demanding combat and interconnected world design of games like Elden Ring, Sekiro, Dark Souls, and Sekiro, creator Bandai Namco filtered these concepts through the bold cartoon style of a horror anime, attracting a sizable audience in the process. Seven years on, the studio's just announced that it's at work on a follow-up to the first project, with Code Vein 2 set to expand on its predecessor's concepts. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
A new horror game that looks like a combination of anime, Silent Hill, and first-person perspective, called Fractured Blooms, has been revealed at the Summer Game Fest.Fractured Blooms' developer is none other than Serenity Forge, which may sound familiar to horror game enthusiasts. View the full article
Nothing makes me feel like a sneakers-for-sneaking wearing master thief in video games more than discovering a window on a roof that the developers left in a very obvious spot precisely so I'd feel clever for using it, and in this at least, Otherside's PvP stealth game Thick As Thieves looks to have me covered. Deus Ex creator Warren Spector introduced some pre-alpha footage this evening, and while I won't pretend I'm actually likely to play anything PvP anytime soon that isn't Mechabellum, I enjoyed seeing how they've adapted some of that classic immersive sim DNA Spector is known for into a competitive format. Read more View the full article
Please, Watch The Artwork is the follow-up to difference 'em up puzzler Please, Touch The Artwork 2. As hinted by creator Thomas Waterzooi, it's likely coming this October. He performed the announcement in ASMR, which almost relaxed me enough to not be annoyed by the press release's use of the word 'liminal', which in game terms usually just means 'bit spooky, innit'. Still, it is quite spooky. The idea here is that you're a museum worker reporting anomalies in paintings. There's also a sad clown spreading melancholy throughout the art. Waterzooi is keen to point out there's no jumpscares, but you might feel "paranoid, melancholic, isolated and nostalgic". I know how much you all love making "and in the game" comments, so I won't take that away from you. Read more View the full article
What's this? A game with big robots smashing each other to tiny little pieces above a large sci-fi cityscape, and we have not yet covered it. For shame. Mecha Break is a free-to-play multiplayer robo-battler in which you fly around and wreck online foes at speeds no mere human should ever be exposed to, and it now has a release date, as announced in a flashy trailer at the Summer Game Fest. I have no idea if playing this will be as intense as the visual heart attack it looks to be. But maybe when it comes out next month I'll try it out. Read more View the full article
The huge success of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 was another reminder of just how appealing living out a medieval fantasy existence can be. But what if, instead of embodying Henry's story, you told a tale all your own? That's the premise of Chronicles Medieval, revealed during the Summer Games Fest with a trailer featuring the ever-iconic Tom Hardy. With the grandiose battles of Total War and the storytelling potential of Crusader Kings 3, Chronicles Medieval drops you into a 14th-century land with complete freedom. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
There are so many games created with direct influence from FromSoftware's action RPGs that a new genre has been created from projects similar to Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Sekiro, ******'s Souls, and Bloodborne. What sets the most worthwhile of these soulslike games apart, though, isn't their ability to replicate the unforgiving combat design of From's catalog, but their approach to making absorbing, often foreboding settings. It's in this kind of world design that 2020's Mortal Shell excelled. Now that we've just seen a first glimpse of its sequel, Mortal Shell 2, it looks like creator Cold Symmetry is offering an increasingly detailed nightmare world to explore that continues this effort. Read the rest of the story... View the full article
Capcom has officially announced that Resident Evil Requiem, aka Resident Evil 9, will launch on February 27, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X. Resident Evil Requiem has been rumored for quite some time, and with the Resident Evil franchise proving to be a reliable money-maker for Capcom, it's always been an inevitability. View the full article
Zenless Zone Zero 2.0 update adds a new environment for its main story, alongside further refinements that could help revive interest for checked-out players. View the full article
Jurassic World Evolution has always been an 'almost' series for me. On paper, it's such a slam dunk of a concept it feels to hard to imagine it being anything other than brilliant. In practise, the games have always felt a bit thin and tedious, even while boasting some undeniably impressive dinos. Could the third time be the charm? We'll find out later this year, anyway. Jurassic World Evolution 3 releases 21st October. Here's a trailer. Read more View the full article
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