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From The Last of Us to Baldur's Gate 3: The success of the Game Music Festival.

Understanding teen gaming: The positive, negative, and complex realities. Thanks Neutronbeam.

Epic's weekly giveaway promotion has cycled again, so now everyone has the opportunity to collect a free copy of Circus Electrique and claim a Firestone Free Offer. Each is for keeps if you pounce...

Bohemia Interactive announces Frostline, a new expansion for DayZ coming to the survival shooter this fall. As the title suggests, you should pack your long underwear, as this is set on the "chilling...

NVIDIA announces the release of a new version 552.44 WHQL-certified Windows driver for GeForce graphics cards. These have the latest and greatest improvements, including support for next week's...

PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs is now available for Windows on Steam and for consoles, offering a 64-player battle royale based on the arcade classic Pac-Man. A Launch Trailer is here to...

When you're Nikola Tesla, they name a car after you. When you're Elon Musk, apparently it's a platformer, as Aleth Labs announces ELON, coming soon to Windows. This promises "a comedic puzzle...

GTA 6 fans scouring Rockstar's website for clues to imminent update.

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio. Thanks Max.

Warner Bros. Says the Failure of Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League Contributed to a $200 Million Hit to Revenue. Roblox Reports First Quarter 2024 Financial Results. Ziff Davis Reports First...

The Winds of Change expansion is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux on the Epic Games Store, GOG.com,* and Steam for Europa Universalis IV, the historical grand strategy game. These winds...

Paradox Arc announces a playable demo for Escape The Mad Empire is now available for Windows on Steam. If this news seems really familiar, you aren't going mad, it's because this is a second demo...

PLAION and Evil Raptor announce Akimbot, a robot-infested action/platformer coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 later this year. A Steam Listing is live as a home to the project, and a...

Xbox Studio Closures: Microsoft Plans More Cost-Cutting Measures After Layoffs (may require registration or subscription).

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Official patches. Mark Hamill will voice The Joker in Multiversus. Compact Mode continues evolving in the Xbox App on PC.

Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 balancing patches have 'gone too far' recently- 'It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed.'

There's now a petition on Change.org imploring Arrowhead Games to reinstate Spitz as one of the community managers for HELLDIVERS 2 (thanks Rock Paper Shotgun). As mentioned during the height of the...

V Rising has risen out of Early Access, and version 1.0 of Sunlock Studios' action/adventure is now available for Windows on Steam. It seems nothing sucks in this game except the vampires, as it...

June 18th is the release date for Soulmask, the Jim Carrey-free open-world survival game where you are empowered by a mysterious and magical mask. CampFire Studio and Qooland Games tout the game's...

Bandai Namco announces August 29th is the release date for GUNDAM BREAKER 4, the new installment in the Gunpla series for PC and consoles. Preordering is generally not advisable, but we're not the...

Steam now features playtesting of Technotopia, a card-based city-building roguelike in the works at Yustas and Alawar. This post has instructions on how to join along with a Teaser Trailer with a...

Traega Entertainment defiantly announces Dawn of Defiance, an open-world crafting-survival game coming to PC Early Access later this year via the Epic Games Store and Steam. This is based on ancient...

"My throat is still raw": Redfall's Harvey Smith reflects on the end of Arkane Austin. Tango Gameworks Founder Shinji Mikami Shares Brief Reaction to Studio Closure.

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The machine age has begun in Stellaris with the launch of The Machine Age, the latest expansion for Paradox Interactive's space strategy game. This news is not yet on the official website, but there's...

Electronic Arts Reports Q4 and FY24 Results outlining its latest preliminary financials. Net revenue for the fiscal year is $7.5 billion, up 2% year-over-year, apparently missing targets, and the...

Bungie announces an Open Access Month is now underway for Destiny 2, giving players free access to three expansions for the free-to-play first-person shooter. This runs right up to the launch of the...

Ubisoft announces Rocksmith+ is coming to Steam and PlayStation on June 6, offering new ways to access the subscription rhythm game. The Rocksmith+ Page now lists these versions, and the game's Steam...

Arkane Austin Was Working on a Big Redfall Update for May Before Microsoft Ditched the Game and Closed the Studio.

Ex-Blizzard boss says Phil Spencer will be hurting as much as anyone else' over Xbox studio closures. Hurts the guy who still has a job as much as those who lost theirs? EA says largest Battlefield...

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Nintendo's Switch-era profit hasn't just surpassed the Wii and DS generation, it's beaten the entirety of the publisher's previous 35 years in video games. Turtle Beach Announces First Quarter 2024...

Microsoft is closing multiple Bethesda Softworks studios, reports IGN, saying the "devastating" cuts include Arkane Austin (Redfall), Tango Gameworks (The Evil Within), mobile developer Alpha Dog...

An X/tweet from Redfall has the fallout from the studio closure news above, saying further development of Redfall is cancelled. As noted last week, players who were sold the pig-in-a-poke $100 Bite...

Barely a week after announcing the game known as Codename Kestrel was continuing "in the concept stage," Remedy Entertainment announces it is cancelled. Word is this will free resources to focus on...

GOG.com announces the REDkit official mod tools for The Witcher 3 are coming soon to help you unleash your creativity on the RPG sequel: "The Witcher 3 REDkit is coming soon to GOG! It's a modding...

Owlcat Games announces A Dance of Masks, the sixth (and final) DLC for Season 2 of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous arrives on June 13th for this Windows and macOS fantasy action/RPG. Season 2 is...

Heading Out is now available for Windows on Steam, offering a predominantly monochromatic road trip across the USA from Serious Sim (we see what you did there) and Saber Interactive. The Launch...

Digital Tribe and Scherzo Games announce Cyberpulse will launch on Steam on May 21st, offering what Scherzo Games and Digital Tribe call a twin-stick thrower for Windows. It does appear the genre...

Hooded Horse and Slug Disco announce Empires of the Undergrowth will crawl out into full release on Steam on June 7th, following over five years of Early Access. This is a real-time strategy game...

Early Access to Hades II is now underway for Windows on the Epic Games Store and Steam, offering a sequel to Supergiant's hellacious action/RPG. According to the FAQ this will also eventually come to...

The Hades II launch mentioned comes along with reviews, even though the action/RPG sequel is in Early Access. Here's a roundup: Hades 2 Is the Best Underworld Homecoming I Could've Asked For - The...

The QuakeCon Website announces details about QuakeCon 2024, saying this year's edition of the long-running exhibition/LAN party will run August 8-11 in Grapevine, TX. Tickets will go on sale on May...

Devolver Digital and Galvanic Games announce a free update called Better Together is coming on May 13th for Wizard with a Gun, the sandbox action/adventure. This will expand the game's co-op support...

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An Arrowhead community manager was 'almost, but not quite' fired for encouraging Helldivers 2 review bombing and refunds.

Warcraft Short Story: "A Whisper of Warning." Nothing makes sense anymore: They're making Funko Pops out of the cult classic 2004 Obsidian RPG, Star Wars- Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith...