Another Marathon playtest is coming in December, but this one is restricted to North America and it’s still ‘strictly under an NDA’

Sony said earlier this month that Marathon, Bungie’s super-sexy but deeply troubled extraction shooter, is coming out one way or the other in March 2026, and it’ll clean up the mess—that is, “make corrections”—as needed once it’s out the door. But it’s still making corrections before that, too, and interested run-and-gunners will have a chance…

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Sandfall Interactive expresses shock as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 matches Baldur’s Gate 3’s record-setting run at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards: ‘What the f**k is happening’

Back in April, former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider described Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as “kind of to JRPGs what Baldur’s Gate 3 was to CRPGs.” He was more than just a little correct, as it turns out: Two years after Baldur’s Gate 3 won a record seven Golden Joystick awards, including Studio of…

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I am going to kill Slim Shady with mom’s spaghetti

At today’s Xbox Partner Showcase, IO Interactive revealed its next celebrity-themed elusive target for Hitman: World of Assassination. Arriving on December 1, the free, limited-time Eminem vs Slim Shady mission sees the Detroit-based rapper recruiting Agent 47 to assassinate his young alter-ego, which has manifested on the material plane as a separate, homicidal entity. “In…

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Vampire Survivors is getting a deckbuilding dungeon crawler spin-off that looks purpose built to annihilate your free time

In a reveal at Xbox’s Partner Preview showcase on Thursday, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle teased what’s next for the series with a flashy trailer promising “next-gen graphics, an endless open world, compelling storytelling…” before saying, nah, scratch all that. How about more 2D pixel art, but this time in first person? “Turbo wildcard” Vampire Crawlers,…

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Inzoi’s getting multiplayer after South Korea’s president told the director to hop to it: ‘It almost felt like I was getting talked to by the company’s CEO’

Krafton’s life sim Inzoi released in early access this March, since when it’s had a slightly troubled time of things: initial sales were impressive, and the game receives regular updates and hotfixes, but something about it hasn’t quite landed with the vast audience that still prefers the slightly cosier and odder vibes of The Sims….

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“Out of all the 40k options, they picked this?”: Fans are furious about the reveal of Darktide’s new class—and they might have a point this time

In the run up to the reveal of Darktide’s latest new class, speculation has run rampant in the community. A week’s delay on the announcement only created more space for fans to stretch their imaginations, placing their bets on everything from a Sister of Battle to a kroot warrior to an Adeptus Mechanicus tech priest….

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NCSoft launches MMO with terrible monetisation—puts out emergency broadcast 15 hours later, promising to fix it while its wax wings melt: ‘We were complacent and unthoughtful’

I’ve seen some monetisation-related disasters in my time, but I think this one might be up there with the worst—NCSoft’s Aion 2, which launched in Korea and Taiwan November 18, has caused no end of problems for the company immediately after launch. Including, potentially, causing its stock price to tank a whopping 15%. As for…

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