Games
11 bit studios unveiled a new Frostpunk 2 trailer
11 bit studios, as part of PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, presented a new Frostpunk 2 trailer. Not much was shown in the trailer, but it suggests that the cities in the sequel will be much larger than in the first part. At the end of the trailer, the game’s ... Read more
New Path of Exile 2 gameplay trailer with The Mercenary class
Grinding Gear Games has demonstrated a new 12-minute gameplay trailer for the upcoming action/RPG Path of Exile 2. This time, the trailer is dedicated to The Mercenary class, a character armed with a crossbow. But, judging by the trailer, it’s not a crossbow, but some kind of wild mix of ... Read more
The first official GTA VI trailer will be released on December 5
The first official GTA VI trailer will be released on December 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM EST. This was announced by the official Rockstar Games account on X/Twitter. pic.twitter.com/BguwiJokQt — Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) December 1, 2023
Creative Assembly, the developers of Total War, return to strategy after failing with online shooter
Creative Assembly, the developers of the Total War series, tried to create an online shooter, but it was canceled in September. Now Sega has announced that the studio is returning to work on strategies, reports Eurogamer. The studio, known mostly for its strategies, tried to develop an online shooter known ... Read more
Ubisoft announces re-release of Beyond Good & Evil
A few days ago, Ubisoft accidentally published the Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition page on the XBOX Store. Later, the page disappeared from the store, but Ubisoft officially confirmed that the re-release will be released. According to IGN, the game’s page in the store was a “mistake”, but ... Read more
Indie Cup Ukraine’23 announces 26 best indie games that made it to the second round
The Indie Cup festival team has announced the finalists of the Indie Cup Ukraine’23 competition. Out of 72 games, the jury selected 26 best projects that will compete in 5 categories. Three projects received the most nominations: Hollow Home, Aris Arcanum, and Hoglands, which managed to collect three nominations each. ... Read more
Microsoft wants Game Pass to be available on “every screen you can play games on”
Microsoft wants Game Pass to be available on PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and all screens where games can be played. This was stated by Xbox CFO Tim Stewart at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit. According to GameSpot, Stewart said that Game Pass is a “high-margin” business for the company, along with ... Read more
Big addition to the Xbox/PC Game Pass catalog in the first half of December 2023.
Microsoft has announced a major update to the Xbox/PC Game Pass catalog of games scheduled for the first half of December 2023. Available now: Remnant: From the Ashes (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC) A hardcore action/RPG in a post-apocalyptic setting. Remnant II (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC) The sequel to ... Read more
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will have at least 40 hours of gameplay and 4 endings
Apart from a new trailer with the Rogue, we finally have a little more information about the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 campaign. The project manager Yevhen Hryhorovych and the game’s executive producer Maria Hryhorovych told the Chinese edition of Gamersky. It became known that the storyline campaign of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of ... Read more
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl got a new trailer and was named the most anticipated game at PC Gaming Show
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl was chosen as the most anticipated game at PC Gaming Show, which was competed with 130 other games. The voting was conducted by a jury consisting of game developers: Sid Meyer, Tim Schafer, Cheyenne Morrin, Brian Fargo, Marianne Hallikainen and Dean Hall, a group of ... Read more
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy will be added to the Netflix game library
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will be added to the Netflix game library on December 14. Pre-registration for service subscribers starts today. The company announced this in an official announcement. The trilogy includes GTA III, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas. The games will be ... Read more
What games will be given away in PS Plus in December
Traditionally, in the last days of the month, Sony announces the next month’s PS Plus game giveaways. Thus, in December, all subscribers of all tariffs, including the basic PS Plus Essential, will be able to add the following titles to their library: Lego 2K Drive (PS4, PS5) — is an ... Read more
Embracer Group continues to “optimize”. Free Radical Design will be closed, Fishlabs will lose half of its employees
Embracer Group continues to “optimize” its portfolio by closing and downsizing studios that the Swedish holding actively bought in 2018-2022. This time, Free Radical Design and Fishlabs were not so lucky. The British Free Radical Design, the authors of TimeSplitters 1/2 and Second Sight, which was closed in 2014 and ... Read more
Half of CD Projekt’s developers are already working on The Witcher 4
In addition to the sales results of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty in the financial report of CD Project also revealed other interesting information. For example, that about 50% of the company’s employees are already working on the next installment of The Witcher, tentatively The Witcher 4. The number of developers ... Read more
Dragon’s Dogma 2 has received a release date. The game will be released on March 22, 2024.
The sequel to Capcom’s action/RPG Dragon’s Dogma (2012) has finally received a release date. Dragon’s Dogma 2 will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Windows PC on Steam (unfortunately with Denuvo Anti-tamper protection) March 22, 2024. Hideaki Itsuno, the designer and creative director of the original Dragon’s ... Read more
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty sold 4.3 million copies. But this is not enough
CD Projekt has announced sales figures for the expansion pack Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Since the release, DLC has been purchased by 4.3 million users, but it seems that the amount of money raised for the game will not cover the development costs. pic.twitter.com/8PywPUgcdK — CD PROJEKT IR (@CDPROJEKTRED_IR) November ... Read more
Skull and Bones finally got a release date
Ubisoft’s long-suffering pirate adventure Skull and Bones has already gone through 6 postponements, but the game has finally received a release date – February 16, 2024. This was reported by a well-known insider Tom Henderson from Insider Gaming. There has been no official confirmation from the company yet, but February ... Read more
Electronic Arts has patented a new system that will allow players to voice their characters
Electronic Arts has patented a new system that will allow players to voice their game characters, reports Insider Gaming. “A computer-implemented method of generating speech audio in a video game is provided. The method includes inputting, into a synthesizer module, input data that represents speech content,” the patent’s abstract reads. ... Read more
Children in the US want games and related things for Christmas most of all
The Entertainment Software Association shared a new study that surveyed 500 children and teens aged 10 to 17 about what they would like to receive for Christmas. The most popular answer was games or things related to them. 59% of girls and 86% of boys surveyed said they would ask ... Read more
King Arthur: Legion IX – cinematic trailer
The Hungarian studio NeocoreGames has presented a major storyline expansion King Arthur: Legion IX to its turn-based tactical role-playing game King Arthur: Knight’s Tale, which was released in 2022. King Arthur: Legion IX will tell the story of Legio IX Hispana, one of the Roman lost legions, its tribune and ... Read more
Destiny 2: The Final Shape will be released on June 4, 2024
Destiny 2: The Final Shape, the “final” expansion pack for Destiny 2, which will bring back the player favorite Cayde-6 and summarize the first decade of the Destiny series, will be released only on June 4, 2024. Bungie says it wants to make an even bigger and better version of ... Read more
ByteDance to lay off hundreds of employees from the gaming department
ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns TikTok, is downsizing its Nuverse gaming division and laying off hundreds of employees, reports BBC. Founded in 2019, Nuverse has failed to release a commercially successful project, leading to staff cuts and new projects being canceled in December. “We regularly review our business and ... Read more
YouTube now has built-in games
YouTube has introduced a new entertainment: embedded games. The company has launched an experimental feature for Premium subscription holders. Users will be able to play more than 30 games directly from the app on their smartphones or through the web version of the service. In order to access the games, ... Read more
Kingpin: Reloaded – an updated version of the classic shooter on the Quake II engine
Kingpin: Reloaded, an updated version of the classic 1999 shooter. Kingpin: Life of Crime, developed on the Quake II engine, will be released on Steam on December 5, 2023. The original game was developed by Xatrix Entertainment (Redneck Rampage, Kingpin: Life of Crime, Return to Castle Wolfenstein) and published by ... Read more
New mod allows you to turn off the dialog camera in Starfield
One of the signature things in Bethesda games is the dialog camera, during which the entire screen is occupied by the face of the character with whom the player is having a dialog. Starfield has received a mod from Antonix35 that changes this. According to PC Gamer, Disable Dialogue Camera ... Read more