One of the coolest games of 2025 is a Marvel superheroes beat-’em-up—and you can play a demo for yourself right now

When I got to play a preview build of upcoming 2D beat-’em-up Marvel Cosmic Invasion earlier this year, I was really blown away. Far from just a mindless button-masher, it’s shaping up to be a colourful celebration of what makes Marvel’s superheroes cool and unique. Now you can try it for yourself—the game’s first public…

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‘We want to keep experimenting’: Silent Hill f won’t become the new norm as Konami wants each new Silent Hill game to stand out and have ‘its own distinct flavour’

Silent Hill f may seem like a huge outlier when compared to other games in Konami’s psychological horror game series: it’s not set in the town of Silent Hill, it takes place during the 1960s, and there’s a distinct lack of sexy nurses. But in reality, it has more in common with other Silent Hill…

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Fallout: London’s first big DLC is here with 80 NPCs, 30 new quests, a bunch of other stuff and, most important, ‘Thousands of bug fixes and improvements’

In a move which my immense sense of grievance and narcissism can only interpret as a slight against me personally, the first DLC for mega-mod Fallout: London released barely an hour after I wrote a news piece yesterday chatting about it. Called Rabbit and Pork, it’s the first of three planned DLCs for the mod…

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Ubisoft’s new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a ‘creative house’ that will take over development of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six

The new thing being launched by Ubisoft and Tencent to take control of Ubi’s biggest games now has a name: It’s called Vantage Studios, and it’s a “creative house” that will take responsibility for the future of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six properties. Vantage Studios is made up of “thousands of experienced…

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Apparently the most popular clip on OpenAI’s new AI video app Sora depicts Sam Altman stealing graphics cards

Turns out there are downsides to feeding your likeness into an AI-powered text-to-video generator. One totally predictable drawback is the userbase wrestling away control of your likeness to create deepfakes of your digital double doing crimes. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s likeness is all over the announcement video for Sora 2’s launch. The trailer in question…

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Simon The Sorcerer: Origins Isn’t The Only Fantasy Point-And-Click Adventure On The Horizon

Let us introduce ‘Broken Relic’, a new game from developer Sandpenguin. ININ Games and Smallthing Studios’ prequel to the point-and-click classic Simon the Sorcerer, Simon the Sorcerer: Origins, is set to arrive later this month for consoles and PC, but it isn’t the only fantasy point-and-click adventure that adventure fans should have on their radar….

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