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Former Age of Empires 2 dev claims Microsoft demanded its first expansion should have a Korean faction, because 'StarCraft sold 3 million copies in Korea'

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 16:00

"Once someone simply repeats a previous argument, it's clear they are no longer functioning from logic or intelligence."

Assassin's Creed Shadows: inside the technologically revamped Anvil Engine

By Alex Battaglia - Eurogamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 15:48

Assassin's Creed Shadows marks a significant technological evolution for Ubisoft's flagship series, with a revitalised Anvil Engine that taps into some of the latest rendering technologies, alongside...

Chaotic courier sim Deliver At All Costs will crash through your letterbox this May, and its latest trailer is even weirder than I expected

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 15:00

Strap yourselves in for May 22.

A bizarre mod that adds human poop to Skyrim led me on an enlightening journey into Viking sanitation: 'Your world will certainly be more immersive, but it will also certainly smell worse'

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 14:00

Everyone Poops­—Mihail's Shards of Immersion adds droppings for humans, falmer, and giants.

Some Great Games Are Dirt-Cheap On PSN, An AC Shadows Streamer's Response To Racists Goes Viral, And More Top Stories

By Kotaku Staff - Kotaku | Mar 22, 2025 - 14:00

This week, we take a look at FBC: Firebreak, the new multiplayer shooter and Control spin-off from Alan Wake 2 developer Remedy Entertainment. We also recommend some outstanding games you can grab for...

I played the lost videogame sequel to 1984, and came away more nostalgic than ever for gaming's awkward adolescence in 1999

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 14:00

What a time to be alive.

God Of War And The Power Of Being Better

By Justin Clark - Gamespot | Mar 22, 2025 - 14:00

God of War is celebrating its 20-year anniversary today, March 22, 2025. Below, we examine how Kratos' character arc has shifted over time to become a timely reflection on masculinity and change.As mu...

How a Mega Man fan project got an official Capcom license

By Matt Leone - Polygon | Mar 22, 2025 - 14:00

Back in 2021, Philip Summers launched a Kickstarter campaign for Hand-Drawn Game Guides, a series of books that resembled traditional strategy guides, apart from the fact that they were all illustrate...

This upcoming Korean tactical shooter features 'situational awareness AI' that reminds me of the uber-smart clones from Monolith's FEAR

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 13:00

"In Project TH, the AI system is designed to actively utilize environmental structures to apply continuous pressure on the player."

All 14 Assassin’s Creed games, ranked

By Chris Plante - Polygon | Mar 22, 2025 - 13:00

Over the nearly two decades since the first entry, Assassin’s Creed has ballooned into a mixed-media franchise that includes at least seven spinoffs, nine novels, 11 comics, a Michael Fassbender film,...

Remembering Assassin's Creed Origins, the game which opened out the mysteries of the Great Pyramid

By Christian Donlan - Eurogamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 11:00

There are, on balance, a couple of things I am always ready to read about. One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that...

What we've been playing - vegetarian games, unignorable ghosting, and an impromptu sales pitch

By Robert Purchese - Eurogamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 09:00

Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie rekindles a career as a travelling salesperson; Tom Orry strugg...

What are we all playing this weekend?

By Ollie Toms - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 22, 2025 - 09:00

Here, take a look at this very pleasing fossilised instant coffee. Doesn't that just make you want to start your weekend off right? It was presented to me on Tuesday like a ceremonial offering, and s...

Today's Wordle answer for Saturday, March 22

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 05:00

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 02:15

Will GTA 6 actually release in 2025? It's what everyone in the business wants to know.

Somebody finally figured out casual Counter-Strike

By PC Gamer | Mar 22, 2025 - 00:47

Fragpunk is the chill tactical shooter I didn't know I wanted.

Fortnite OG Season 3 Release Date, Battle Pass, And Everything Else To Know

By Phil Owen - Gamespot | Mar 22, 2025 - 00:30

Fortnite OG mode is taking another step toward the present very soon--Season 3 starts on March 25, taking us back to the season that kicked off way back in February of 2018. While Fortnite OG has wane...

They called it Assassin’s Creed Shadows because it’s too dark to see anything

By Samit Sarkar - Polygon | Mar 22, 2025 - 00:00

Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in Japan circa 1579, near the end of what is known as the Sengoku period — 300 years before the advent of the incandescent light bulb. So it stands to reason that...

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide’s getting a new roguelite wave defense mode that sounds a whole lot like a souped-up take on Killing Floor

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 23:47

Mortis Trials will see players stack unique buffs over 12 waves of heretic-slaying carnage.

'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue'

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 23:34

"They're wondering, 'Okay, how far away is the next thing? I really gotta run all the way across the map?'" said Cameron Williams of Absurd Ventures.

Nearly 2 years after its last update, the excellent Battle Brothers gets 'a bucket load of fixes' and free new content

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 23:33

Eight years after launch, people are still playing Battle Brothers, and developers are still working on it.

Persona and Metaphor: ReFantazio's UI designer is open to accessibility options for players who find the stylish menus overstimulating: 'That is something we understand we'll need to work on and provide in the future'

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 23:13

Most players love Koji Ise's signature interface designs, but they're also a barrier for a few.

Outer space inspired DayZ's Dean Hall to become a modder and game developer, and now he's making a Kerbal successor called Kitten Space Agency

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 22:33

Not even in an alpha state, Kitten Space Agency is inspiring a community of developers to join its mission.

InZoi's Build Mode Is Like The Sims... Until It's Not

By Phil Owen - Gamespot | Mar 21, 2025 - 22:24

InZoi, the first real attempt ever to compete with The Sims in the life sim space, is here, releasing via Steam Early Access, and it's only natural that players will spend their first several hours in...

Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Awesome Games To Transport Us To A Better Place

By Claire Jackson, Zack Zwiezen, Carolyn Petit, Ethan Gach, and Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 21, 2025 - 22:00

Happy Ostara to those who celebrate! For everyone else, happy Spring Equinox! Winter is finally friggin’ over, and while the world might still look a little dark and bleak, thank goodness we’ve now go...

Split Fiction is reportedly at the center of a bidding war for its movie rights

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 21:37

Media company Story Kitchen is heading up the effort to bring Split Fiction to the big screen.

Seekers of Skyveil, the MOBA—extraction shooter mashup, is shutting down less than a month after release: ‘We have no choice but to bring this short journey to an end’

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 21:30

Developer Elodie will close its doors the same day it sunsets its ambitious debut game.

There's A Lot Of Cool Dinosaur Games To Be Excited About

By Zack Zwiezen - Kotaku | Mar 21, 2025 - 21:30

A decade ago, in a poorly written post on my terrible old blog that I won’t link to here, I pondered why we didn’t have more dinosaur games. At the time I blamed it on technical limitations and a focu...

Netflix's Spirit Crossing Is A Gorgeous Cozy MMO With A Lot To Prove

By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 21, 2025 - 21:00

Spirit Crossing is the next life sim from the Netflix-owned studio Spry Fox, makers of the beloved Animal Crossing-like Cozy Grove. Netflix announced the ambitious social MMO this week alongside some...

Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 20:59

Taking a break from buying megayachts.

Like a Dragon series director sums up why sidequests are essential to a great RPG with a single metaphor: 'a good main dish alone will not earn you a Michelin star'

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 20:48

The longtime Yakuza/Like a Dragon developer considers its side stories vital to the overall narrative.

Okay, But What If Severance Ended Here?

By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 21, 2025 - 20:35

The most surprising thing for me about the end of Severance’s second season was how few questions I still had when it was all over. Apple TV’s dystopian workplace thriller is a mystery box show, and y...

Netflix Boss Explains Why Company Killed The AAA Multiplayer Game From Halo Veteran

By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 21, 2025 - 20:17

Netflix was working on a AAA multiplayer shooter with a team that included Halo and Destiny veteran Joe Staten, but the game and the studio were scuttled in 2024. Why? One of Netflix's top gaming boss...

Bethesda marks Oblivion's 19th with a sweetroll, a candle, and absolutely no happy birthday gift for fans eager for the still-unannounced remaster

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 20:14

At least they remembered, I suppose.

Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 20:05

"I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift."

Helldivers 2 composer recalls stomping around his apartment and channeling 'Super Patriotism' to capture Arrowhead's satirical vision in music: 'The satire works because the music believes it's a pure patriotic love without irony or criticism'

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 19:53

The music will make you a believer, too.

REPO dev says it wasn’t actually inspired by Lethal Company, and started as a singleplayer cleaning game: ‘It was nice, but far from what REPO is now’

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 19:50

A new developer vlog spills the beans on the game’s solo origins, as well ideas for future updates.

'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 19:44

A small team tasked with making the game better did a lot of good, but also made one major error.

The voice actor behind Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Naoe also loves the tea ceremony scene

By Zoë Hannah - Polygon | Mar 21, 2025 - 19:10

Assassin’s Creed Shadows quickly clarifies that it’s not a history game. Like other Assassin’s Creed entries, a title card that appears right after booting up warns players that, while the events and...

I asked Brennan Lee Mulligan and Matt Mercer to invent some new fantasy deities

By Patrick Gill - Polygon | Mar 21, 2025 - 19:01

In 1768, Voltaire wrote “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him,” and boy, was he right (in the specific case of role-playing fantasy worlds). When Tolkien laid down the Ur-texts of...

Monster Hunter Wilds sets date for first content update showcase

By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:56

If the thrill of bopping Monster Hunter Wilds' base game menagerie is starting to fade, you'll no doubt be wanting to know what's next for Capcom's latest mega-hit. And following a couple of previo...

The Dramatic Half-Life Deal That Altered The Fate Of Valve Forever

By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:53

One of Valve's most popular games, 1998's Half-Life, could have been the one and only game the company ever released, until a deal was struck that changed the company's fate forever. Monica Harrington...

Out of the blue, Dragon Age: The Veilguard just got a new weapon set on PC

By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:45

Surprise! Dragon Age: The Veilguard has just gained a few more weapons on PC, thanks to the arrival of the Rook's Weapons Appearance Bundle. Read more

Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase Next Week To Reveal More On The First Big Update

By George Yang - Gamespot | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:39

Capcom has announced that it will be airing a Monster Hunter Wilds showcase on March 25 at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It'll be hosted by producer Ryozo Tsujimoto.The showcase will provide details about game's...

Logitech G PowerPlay 2 mouse pad review

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:37

A downgrade over the first version in almost every way.

Inzoi's 'Smart Zoi' AI system sounds great on paper but seeing it in a live demo didn't exactly wow me

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:36

AI is supposed to give the life sim's characters better reasoning, but I'll believe it when I actually see it.

Getting to level 50 in Fallout 76 to become a ghoul actually isn't as daunting as it seems, which is why I created a new character

By PC Gamer | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:35

What's stopping you from losing your nose?

Assassin's Creed Shadows' Snow Actually Melts When The Sun Comes Out

By Claire Lewis - Gamespot | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:28

Assassin's Creed Shadows is finally here, and players are just beginning to explore the game's wide and wonderful open world. Though that world includes many delightful little details that add a touch...

Xenoblade Chronicles X might run at 60 fps on Switch 2

By Ian Walker - Polygon | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:17

A programmer poking around the newly released Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Switch has discovered references to an unused 60 fps mode in the game’s code, fueling speculation of a poten...

Future Games Show trailer reopens the story of banger horror comic I Hate This Place

By Susana Polo - Polygon | Mar 21, 2025 - 18:13

I Hate This Place, the 2022 horror series from writer Kyle Starks and artist Artyom Toplin, was one of my favorite comics that year. And now, as revealed in the Future Games Show, it’s a neon-colored...