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Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics took to their live event today to announce updates to Marvel’s Avengers, including the next-gen version of the game and a new expansion.  As of today, anyone who has purchased the game on the PS4 or Xbox One can upgrade to the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions for no extra

As part of their live event this afternoon, Square Enix and Deck Nine Games unveiled the newest title in the Life is Strange series, titled Life is Strange: True Colors. Set in the town of Haven Springs, True Colors follows Alex Chen, a young woman who possess supernatural Empathy powers. These powers, which let Alex experience, absorb and manipulate the

Credit where credit’s due: Sony has taken PlayStation Plus to new heights this year. The perks – particularly if you’re a PS5 owner – are the strongest they’ve been since the PS3 days, and it’s clearly a concerted effort from the platform holder to retain its highly lucrative userbase. Of course, while it wants to

Lash out and strike down your foes as a master of beasts. Here’s our guide to help you with the Whip of Agony quest battle and unique item for Rakarth in Total War: Warhammer II. Note: Please be reminded that this guide is based on a Vortex campaign run on very hard (VH/VH) difficulty. You

When Nier: Automata launched on PC, there were a lot of problems with the port. From performance headaches to problems with resolution, the port was simply quite rough. That’s not a wholly uncommon occurrence when it comes to ports of Japanese games, but it’s not a big deal, right? They always get fixed. Except this one

Screenshot: Townscaper Townscaper, where you do nothing but paint yourself an idyllic little village, was one of my absolute favourite games of 2020. And that was when it was on the PC. Now that it’s coming to phones, meaning I can play it anywhere, I am in serious trouble. Advertisement If you’ve never played it,

Monsters and creatures abound when you play as Naggaroth’s most accomplished Beastlord. Here’s our guide to help you with Rakarth’s Monster Pen unit unlocks in Total War: Warhammer II. Note: Please be reminded that this guide is based on a Vortex campaign run on very hard (VH/VH) difficulty. You can also check out our main

It’s never easy waiting for news on when exactly players will get to use cel-shaded anime women to violently beat enemies to death, but we’ve finally been graced with an answer. Scarlet Nexus, Bandai Namco’s upcoming action RPG will be released on June 25. That means we only have three months (and a week) to go

Screenshot: Forza Horizon 4 I was playing Forza Horizon 4 on my PC earlier this week and at one point after a race I put the controller down and just…smiled. Everything about what I was doing in that moment was lovely. Partly because of the game, which is great, but also just because of the

Photo: INA FASSBENDER (Getty Images) Like every other major event, GamesCom took 2020 off, swapping its enormous in-person show for a series of online presentations. Unlike other major events which are taking 2021 off as well, though, GamesCom organisers think they’ll be able to get people in the door sometime in “late summer”. Advertisement That

Featured Deal: Hitman 3 (Digital) | $29 | Eneba | Use code HITMANBABYONEMORETIME The best Xbox One game and accessory deals for March 2021 are here. Whether you’re rocking an Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, or Xbox One, you might be looking for a fresh game to help pass the pandemic quarantine doldrums. Luckily,

The Evolution Championship Series, more commonly known as Evo, was the biggest fighting game tournament in the world. However, a combination of coronavirus complications and allegations of sexual misconduct put a stop to Evo 2020 and subsequent online event, Evo 2020 Online. Following an overhaul in management, it was unclear whether Evo would make a

What’s Quantic Dream up to these days? The French studio’s last output was Detroit: Become Human in 2018, and we’ve not really heard much from the developer since. We’re sure it’s cooking something up that will make PlayStation 5 really sing, but until then, it seems to be focusing on its indie publishing side. Yes,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft has announced it will bring the Xbox’s Auto HDR feature over to Windows 10. Over 1,000 titles will have HDR support retroactively added, vastly expanding the reach of the feature inside the PC ecosystem. This is a great announcement

Anyone hoping for the announcement of a new Tomb Raider game won’t have been best pleased with today’s Square Enix Presents livestream as the publisher decided to reveal a cookbook instead. Confirmed as part of the franchise’s 25th-anniversary celebrations, it is being pitched as your chance to “bring recipe’s from Lara’s global adventures back home”.

[embedded content] Today Square Enix revealed the teaser and real name of what we’ve all been calling Project Athia since it was first revealed in June of last year. The “narrative-driven adventure” from Luminous Productions is now called Forspoken, and it’s coming to PC and PS5 in 2022. In Forspoken (which is a real word

Looking for the AC Valhalla Easter eggs? Your home settlement in Eivor’s 9th century England outing has already celebrated Christmas—and sent us on the hunt for some suspect secret brew—but now it’s time for spring, and Easter. If Ravensthorpe didn’t already feel like home after hours of post-adventure recuperation, it will do after you eat

Every time we worry that singleplayer games are dying, it turns out that what seemed like death throes were actually just hiccups, or the onset of a sneeze. Singleplayer games are thriving: 43 percent of Steam’s 2020 best sellers are games that I consider primarily singleplayer, and that’s being picky. I didn’t even count Dying

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nvidia has been trying to make cloud gaming workable longer than any of the other major players. Its current GeForce Now platform has gone through a few incarnations, and the current one is changing in a way subscribers won’t like

Today’s Square Enix Presents stream mostly featured what the publisher had previously announced – including the new Life is Strange game, True Colors – but Square had one more surprise at the end. That’s a new teaser for the mysterious Project Athia, which has now been given the final title of Forspoken. Forspoken is a

Wyrd Games has previewed a whole bunch of upcoming releases, primarily for their miniature skirmish game Malifaux Third Edition. Some of the highlights include a new faction starter set, and the return of the Iconic Fate Deck, a very fancy deck of cards that looks like an aged poker deck.  New Stuff For Malifaux Third Edition The

The Marvel’s Avengers Roadmap 2021 has been revealed, and that’s not all — Patch 1.5.0 has debuted the next-gen upgrade and Black Panther is coming later this year in the War for Wakanda expansion. Marvel’s Avengers admittedly had a bit of a rough start — it contributed to a $63 million loss at Square Enix and it was made available

[embedded content] Black Panther had always been part of the plan for Marvel’s Avengers, but then last year tragedy struck: actor Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed the character in the MCU’s lauded Black Panther film, died in August 2020 at the age of 43. As a mark of respect, Crystal Dynamics delayed the arrival of their

One of our greatest privileges and joys at Roblox is participating in our beloved Hack Week tradition—a dynamic exploration of new ideas that expand the breadth of possibilities for our platform. Every year, for one full week, Roblox employees get an opportunity to take a break from their day-to-day work and pursue out-of-the-box ideas they’re

Life is Strange 3 has just been unveiled at this year’s Square Enix Presents showcase. The upcoming PC game – which is developed by Life is Strange: Before the Storm studio Deck Nine – takes us to an all-new location, with new characters, plotlines, and a new special power. Officially titled Life is Strange: True

This past week Paradox confirmed it will be releasing the upcoming Nemesis expansion for grand strategy 4X game Stellaris next month. What hadn’t been clarified until today was exactly which features will be part of the premium DLC pack, and which features will be part of the accompanying update. That update has been revealed as patch 3.0 ‘Dick’

Another Thursday means yet more free PC games from the Epic Games Store to talk about, and the company is continuing its current train of quirky, narrative-driven indie games. Today, you can pick up The Fall, and next week, you’ll be able to grab the pinball-inspired hack-and-slash, Creature in the Well. Creature in the Well

In a world where some women in games are treated as counterparts for their male brethren, it’s hard to find great examples that set a trend for the ladies who accomplish great things. But after scouring the annals of gaming history we’ve come up with some of the best female role models of the medium.

If you’ve ever had fantasies of being an industrious, murderous Viking running about an open world, Valheim is likely what you want. As a unique survival game that makes you live your consequences, Valheim is an unusual mix of genres. But given that the game is still in early access, you need the best laptop

The PSVR was one of the more welcomed and well-received new gadgets that entered the PS4’s product life cycle. Where the PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect failed, the PSVR succeeded. Sony was able to offer a modest and somewhat strong first-party library of PSVR titles and with the PS5 we might get a new form