Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What To Know Before the Claws of Awaji Expansion

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What To Know Before the Claws of Awaji Expansion

Category: Games September 10, 2025 Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What To Know Before the Claws of Awaji Expansion Lucy O’Brien, Director of Editorial Communications, Ubisoft Summary Assassin’s Creed Shadows expansion Claws of Awaji launches September 16. The expansion follows on from the story of Naoe and Yasuke, and introduces over 10 hours of brand-new content. Here’s…

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Legendary 1990s publisher Acclaim is back from the dead, and a pro wrestler famous for clobbering people with a guitar is on its advisory board

If you’re a gamer of a certain age, the name Acclaim will ring some pretty loud bells. It was a big-time videogame publisher through the late 1980s and ’90s, with a number of major sports and entertainment partnerships to its name. Flagging sales forced the company to declare bankruptcy in 2004 but now it’s back,…

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Valve CEO Gabe Newell says success isn’t about following your passion: ‘Sounds like a great idea, but lots of people follow their passions right into a crater, you know?’

Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). . It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“) and at one point Newell, by any metric one of the most phenomenally…

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Mindwave is the story-driven spiritual successor to WarioWare that is so good I don’t care that I keep messing up on the supposedly simple final boss

Thanks to a pretty stacked videogame release calendar, I haven’t had the opportunity to check out as many smaller games as I would’ve perhaps liked to. But despite my busy schedule, there’s one thing I always have time for: minigames. Best cozy games: Relaxed gamingBest anime games: Animation-inspiredBest JRPGs: Classics and beyondBest cyberpunk games: Techno…

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I’ve already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain

It’s tough out there for BioWare fans: Veilguard was better than it gets credit for, but the studio still looks like it’s on its last legs. Our only solace seems to be other developers picking up the torch of those big, cinematic, ensemble cast, wish fulfilling RPGs: Larian, CDProjekt, and now, maybe Owlcat with its…

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The demo of Sucker for Love: Crush Landing is the gentle reminder I needed that dating an eldritch god wouldn’t be straightforward, actually

I love an obscure dating simulator, so you can safely assume the ritual performing, eldritch abomination courting experience of Sucker for Love is dear to me. I spent hours on end flirting with L’neta in the first game, and more time than I like to admit running through the house in an attempt to satisfy…

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Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that’s helping him to ‘escape’

Inspirational or utterly unwatchable—certainly controversial—YouTuber PewDiePie‘s latest ruse is one you might actually be interested in. He’s deGoogling and using a Steam Deck of all things to help him along that path. Felix Kjellberg, to know him by his actual name, has a new video polemic taking you through the reasons why he’s decided to…

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How to play with friends in Mecha Break

Piloting massive tank-like mechs or nimble fighter jets is a blast by yourself in Mecha Break, but it’s always more fun sharing the chaos with others. Despite it being a fully multiplayer game, Mecha Break doesn’t actually make it easy to figure out how to play with friends. Adding and inviting friends to your lobby…

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