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The fabled third Helldivers 2 faction, the mind-controlling Illuminates, are coming for Super Earth in a huge surprise update that’s dropping tonight. Along with the psychic new enemies, the update adds the four-person recon vehicle we’ve been expecting, plus new urban environments and more. Here’s the gist: The Illuminate faction: Inspired by classic sci-fi stories…
Sega has a “new full entry” in the Virtua Fighter series on the way, Geoff Keighley said during tonight’s Game Awards broadcast. More details will be revealed on a stream tonight, but until then, check out the reveal trailer above. The last numbered Virtua Fighter game is Virtua Fighter 5, which first released in 2006….
If you just watched the trailer for FromSoftware’s new game and reacted the same way I did, the three words running through your mind at this very moment are: “What the heck?” It’s immediately apparent that Elden Ring: Nightreign is not a singleplayer RPG in the vein of Dark Souls, nor is it Elden Ring…
For the first time, Geoff Keighley used his platform at The Game Awards to address head-on the plague of layoffs that have decimated the videogame industry over the past two years. “The sad reality is that over the past few years the gaming industry has suffered significant and unprecedented industry-wide layoffs,” Keighley said. “Those affect…
There are reasons to be cautious about Borderlands 4. Even if we forget about the execrable Borderlands movie for a second, since it’s not like Eli Roth’s going to be involved with the next game, Borderlands 3 was underwhelming and New Tales from the Borderlands didn’t win folks back. But between Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and…
Like Dark Souls 2, 3, and Elden Ring before it, FromSoftware’s next game will get a playable beta test sometime before release. Elden Ring: Nightreign, a co-op roguelike spin-off of the hit RPG, is due sometime in 2025. During a preview event last week, I went hands-on with a build that will likely be similar…
Quite possibly the biggest surprise announcement of The Game Awards, Elden Ring: Nightreign is a multiplayer-focused spin-off of FromSoftware’s giant open world RPG. Its debut trailer includes glimpses of a number of mechanics that look like they’re plucked from popular free-to-play live service games, including a battle royale-style circle enclosing the map and “hero” characters…
Blackfrost: The Long Dark 2 is in development and will hit early access in 2026. The announcement came during the 2024 The Game Awards, with a gorgeous trailer showing a considerably more varied color palette than what we saw in the brilliant original. Better still, this instalment will add co-op. While that early access launch…
The first game revealed at The Game Awards tonight is Ninja Gaiden: Deathbound, which marks the series’ return to its 2D platformer roots and the first entry in the series since 2014’s poorly received spin-off Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. Ragebound has an impressive pedigree: Blasphemous creators The Game Kitchen is developing in conjunction with Teenage…
It’s the end of the year, so of course thoughts are going to start moving on towards the future, to what’s coming down the pipe for the next go around the local shining celestial body. But we are also at the end of one whole generation of graphics cards and have just seen the very…