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The Last of Us season two promises viewers "a different evolution" of infection, plus spores make a return

By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Mar 18, 2025 - 11:00

Soon after The Last of Us' first season aired the showrunners said when the time came for series two, there would be "a lot more infected". And, well, they appear to be making good on their word. Re...

Metro 4 will "inevitably" be shaped by Russia's invasion of Ukraine

By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 18, 2025 - 10:32

Metro 2033 turned fifteen this month, prompting a blog from 4A Games celebrating the FPS horror series' past while looking forward to the next entry. The unnamed Metro 4 surfaced again last January a...

Ubisoft warn staff not to celebrate Assassin's Creed Shadows launch as part of “anti-harassment plan”

By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 18, 2025 - 10:30

To avoid harassment, staff at Assassin's Creed Shadows studio Ubisoft Quebec have been "advised" not to celebrate or otherwise post on social media about the game's launch this week, as reported by F...

A gorgeous ground-up remake of Counter-Strike 1.6 is on its way to Steam, and one of the game's original creators says 'it really gives me old vibes'

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 23:57

"Hopefully Valve allows this to get released without any issues…"

Help, I can't move forward in this chill crafting RPG because I'm too wrapped up in building bases and making sick tools

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 23:52

Atelier Yumia mixes the crafting and gathering of survival games with the framework of a classic RPG.

There's a new Portal game and it costs $12,500

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 23:47

Valve's famous puzzle games are now available in pinball form, and it's really not cheap.

Zenless Zone Zero's latest update adds cat testicle jiggle physics

By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 23:30

Well here's a story I wasn't expecting to write when I got up this morning: Zenless Zone Zero's notorious jiggle physics have struck again, only not like that. Eagle-eyed fans have discovered that,...

Fortnite's Next Icon Skin Is Based On Someone Who Got Famous At 14 Years Old

By Phil Owen - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 23:00

Fortnite's roster of streamers who have skins in the item shop just got a little bigger with the addition of Cody "Clix" Conrod, who, at 19 years old, will be one of the youngest people ever to have a...

Beast Games opens casting for season 2: MrBeast lost a ton of money on season 1 but apparently not enough that he won't do it again

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 22:15

MrBeast's Squid Game clone is back for a second season despite controversy and lawsuits.

Long-Lost Xenosaga Spin-Off Has Been Recovered And Shared Online 21 Years Later

By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 21:45

A Xenosaga spin-off that was surprisingly important to the series’ story but was thought lost to the old Japanese mobile phone network it was released on has been recovered and shared online. The RPG...

Jonathan Majors Admits To Strangling His Ex-Girlfriend In New Audio Recording

By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 21:30

Rolling Stone has obtained an audio recording of actor and former Marvel star Jonathan Majors admitting to strangling his ex-girlfriend, dancer Grace Jabbari, in September of 2022, months before Major...

Assassin's Creed Shadows Devs Reportedly Advised Not To Post About It Amid Harassment Campaign

By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:55

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out in just a few days and Ubisoft has a lot riding on the blockbuster’s launch as it reportedly explores breaking up the company following multiple years of delays, cancel...

The Internet Reacts To John Cena’s First Heel Promo As He Nearly Makes A Kid Cry

By Keith Nelson Jr - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:45

Santa Claus isn’t real, good guys don’t always finish last, and John Cena is not who you thought he was for over 20 years. On March 1 at WWE’s Elimination Chamber, Cena rocked the wrestling world, and...

Rise of the Ronin's PC troubles continue as players report disappearing saves on Steam

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:34

You might want to put a pause on Rise of the Ronin or your save data could get erased.

Call of Duty veteran's new PlayStation first-party studio is official, called Dark Outlaw Games

By Matt Wales - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:26

Call of Duty veteran Jason Blundell has confirmed previous reports he's heading up a new PlayStation first-party studio, revealing it to be named Dark Outlaw Games. Read more

Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:19

Jason Blundell's new operation is called Dark Outlaw Games.

Saints Row Studio Was Too Expensive For What They Were, Exec Says

By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:18

Saints Row studio Volition shut down in 2023 after 30 years, leading many to wonder about the future of the open-world crime franchise. The fate of the franchise is unknown, but Saber Interactive foun...

Famitsu readers still yearn for Pragmata despite its indefinite delay

By Ian Walker - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:17

In the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu, a poll lists Pragmata as the magazine readership’s third most wanted game despite its indefinite delay almost two years ago. Pragmata received 466 votes, pushing...

There's A Free Game To Grab On Steam Today

By Evan Campbell - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:14

As a special 24-hour promotion, developer Lucid 11 is offering Party Club for free on Steam, with the price rising to $16 afterward. There is also a special in-game outfit that players can unlock by c...

Missile Command returns as a 3D turn-based mystery game

By Matt Leone - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 20:09

Announced at The Mix + Kinda FunnySpring Game Showcase Monday, Atari is bringing back ’80s arcade defense game Missile Command. Titled Missile Command Delta, the new game comes from from 13AM Games an...

Discord Is Trying To Burrow Deeper Into The Fabric Of Gaming

By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 19:45

Games have never been more social but the tools for connecting with friends and fellow fans across the gaming realm are still surprisingly fractured. Discord hopes to fix that with a new Social SDK i...

How To Change Your Overwatch 2 Username On Battle.net

By Parker Johnson - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 19:35

There are plenty of reasons why you may want to change your Overwatch 2 gamertag on Battle.net. Maybe you’re starting a stream channel and you want your new user name to match your channel name. Maybe...

AMD Radeon RX 9070 or 9070 XT: I'm buying one of these prebuilt gaming PCs instead of getting scalped

By Christian Wait - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 19:30

So you're after an AMD Radeon RX 9070 / XT? While the price is great, trying to seemingly find one at retail price is about as easy as finding a PS5 in 2020. Instead of paying inflated prices, I'd in...

Looking back at how Nintendo pitched the original Switch

By Michael McWhertor - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 19:26

It’s been more than eight years since we were first introduced to the Nintendo Switch. What was once seen as a bold new concept and a reinvention of Nintendo’s console business — a move that initially...

'I want to raise this glass to our fans, to our community': 4A Games celebrates Metro 2033's 15th anniversary and hints at next Metro game

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 19:11

"Metro has always had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often emotional story—and you can be sure these themes will continue."

Loot goblins and Remnant players should check out new fantasy RPG Empyreal, which launches in May

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 19:02

Silent Games and Secret Mode have announced that their acrobatic, pensive action-RPG Empyreal will launch on 8th May, with a demo still available on Steam. I hadn't come across Empyreal before, but...

Fan Speculate Switch 2 Might Be Getting GameCube Controller Support After New Filing

By Steven T. Wright - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:51

Despite being more than 20 years old, the GameCube controller remains stubbornly popular with Nintendo fans, especially when it comes to certain games. A new FCC filing by Nintendo has some fans specu...

DF Weekly: if the Xbox handheld is years away, what's the point of Project Kennan?

By Richard Leadbetter - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:48

According to Microsoft's Phil Spencer, the highly anticipated Xbox handheld is "several years out" and only exists in prototype form, so what should we make of last week's news that actually, we may...

BioShock 4 – Everything We Know

By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:41

2K's BioShock series has seen three installments so far, and a fourth game is now in the works–with some key changes compared to the original three. For starters, series creator Ken Levine is not acti...

Horizon Actor Ashly Burch "Worried" In Wake Of AI Aloy Video

By Cameron Koch - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:38

Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West actor Ashly Burch, who plays main character Aloy across Guerrilla Games' sci-fi franchise, is speaking up in the wake of a leaked video showing an AI-power...

Empyreal Will Rip Open The Fabric Of Reality This May, Has Unique Charity System

By Darryn Bonthuys - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:30

Developer Silent Games and publisher Secret Mode have announced that its upcoming single-player action-RPG Empyreal will be released on May 8 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. On a distant world where...

Rejuvenate Your Allies With One Of Marvel Rivals' Best Support Characters: Rocket Raccoon

By Brian Barnett - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:30

Specializing in supporting his team from a distance, Rocket Raccoon is a Strategist with a solid suite of abilities. He can deploy a mobile respawn center for defeated allies, fill the area with heali...

Lenovo Legion Go S (Windows) review

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:29

Gorgeous and comfortable, this handheld has unfortunately had its internals stripped back.

Ubisoft reportedly has an anti-harassment plan in place for Assassin's Creed Shadows developers

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:25

The leadup to the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows has been very ugly, and Ubisoft is bracing for launch day.

Call Of Duty Veteran Creates New PlayStation Studio, Dark Outlaw Games

By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:21

Call of Duty veteran Jason Blundell's first major post-Activision project was the PlayStation-partnered Deviation Games, but it opened and closed without even announcing or releasing a game. Now Blund...

Gibson Les Paul Guitar Controllers Release In June, Preorders Live At Amazon

By Steven Petite - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:14

Officially licensed wireless controllers inspired by Gibson's legendary Les Paul guitars are up for preorder at Amazon. Designed by the team behind Guitar Hero controllers and manufactured by CRKD, th...

Brandon Sanderson shared a list of his 10 favorite games, and they make perfect sense

By Austen Goslin - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:14

Brandon Sanderson is one of the most prolific and popular fantasy authors working today. But between his several ongoing series, his Kickstarter book projects, adaptations of his work, and everything...

This MSI Afterburner file unlocks 36 Gbps RTX 50-series memory overclocks for, y'know, the few people that actually own a card

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:07

All of the speed, all at once.

Avowed's new patch just gave you 6 more talent points to muck around with, along with a heap of fixes and improvements

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 18:01

Hybrids, rejoice.

Silent Hill 2 remake and Indiana Jones are at historically low prices this Steam Spring Sale—so long as you don't buy them directly from Steam

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:51

There is, in fact, any deal.

In Zenless Zone Zero, everything has jiggle physics. Now cat balls do, too

By Ian Walker - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:46

I don’t know — and frankly, don’t want to know — why the first thing someone did after a recent Zenless Zone Zero update was inspect feline genitals, but thanks to this intrepid detective work, we all...

Switch 2 GameCube controller in development, fans believe

By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:46

A fresh version of Nintendo's iconic GameCube controller looks to be in development for Switch 2, fans think. Read more

Pokémon TCG Pocket Is About To Have Some Competition

By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:45

Some rivalries you just can’t let go, even if one side has clearly outpaced the other. There’s Nintendo vs. Sega, Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake, and of course, Pokémon vs. Digimon. Bandai Namco’s monster t...

Star Wars Strategy Game From Bit Reactor And Respawn Will Be Revealed In April

By Evan Campbell - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:37

Star Wars Celebration in Japan will be where the fun begins for an untitled strategy game from developer Bit Reactor and producer Respawn Entertainment. The turn-based tactics game set within the Star...

Marvel Rivals Season 2 will add more Team-Up skills, plus the usual new heroes

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:28

What's going on in the world of Marvel Rivals, the NetEase hero shooter that is forecast to get two new heroes every three month season, and thus stands to double its starting roster of 33 heroes pro...

Mortal Kombat 2 movie reveals best look yet at Karl Urban's Johnny Cage

By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:16

Mortal Kombat 2 will be coming to theaters 24th October, and now we have a fresh look at the upcoming sequel. Read more

Cherry Xtrfy K4V2 TKL review

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:06

Like a skeleton playing their own ribs xylophone-style, while also falling down the stairs.

A new and improved desktop experience just landed on Steam Deck and SteamOS is readying 'support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 17:02

That'll be the Legion Go S then, presumably.

How To Improve Your Ground Combat Game In Civilization VII

By Brandon Morgan - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:55

Like its predecessors, Civilization VII features numerous win conditions ranging from a cultural victory to a military victory. You could play nice with the other leaders, build alliances, share techn...

Monster Hunter Wilds players wonder if frenzied monsters are a little undercooked, as one slaps a sickly bird into a fine paste in just 25 seconds

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:47

Hunter, the guild authorises you to obliterate that angry bird.