I've played 1000s of hours of Overwatch but it wasn't until its new Anniversary game mode that I discovered I have no clue what the hell I'm doing

I’ve played 1000s of hours of Overwatch but it wasn’t until its new Anniversary game mode that I discovered I have no clue what the hell I’m doing

Week two of Overwatch’s 10-year anniversary celebrations kicked off with more challenges, loot boxes, and a gamemode for us to try out. Instead of the OG mode that players got to check out last week, this time we’ve got a play on Mystery Heroes, the mode where each player gets a random hero when they…

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If you were hoping to see Sly Cooper on PC for some reason, think again: Ghost of Yōtei dev says ‘it’s been a long time’ since the series’ heyday and nobody at Sucker Punch wants to make those games anymore

Sucker Punch is best known on PC for its open-world samurai game Ghost of Tsushima and its upcoming sequel Ghost of Yōtei—which will almost certainly come to PC given Sony’s track record in recent years. Yet before it became the architect of lavish Japanese islands, Sucker Punch developed the Infamous games for Sony, and before…

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The Outer Worlds 2: Big Sequel Energy

Category: Xbox Games Showcase June 8, 2025 The Outer Worlds 2: Big Sequel Energy Shyla Schofield, Senior Communications Manager, Obsidian Entertainment Summary The Outer Worlds 2 launches October 29, 2025: Featured in the Xbox Games Showcase and expanded on in today’s The Outer Worlds 2 Direct, welcome to Arcadia, a massive new colony torn apart…

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7 years on, CliffyB is ‘still bitter’ about people gravedancing when his studio Boss Key failed: ‘It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while’

Storied game designer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary. “11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while,”…

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Start Your Day with This Official Tomb Raider ‘Lo-Fi’ Playlist, Celebrating 30 Years of Lara Croft Adventures

Sound of the Underground. This week marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most notable and recognisable gaming franchises of all time, Tomb Raider. It’s been three whole decades since that box-shaped adventurer Lara Croft took her first steps into the depths of the Peruvian jungle, kicking off an action-adventure franchise that would sell…

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Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: ‘So tone deaf I hope it is satire’

The rollicking clown car that is Microsoft corporate leadership has outdone itself once again. Earlier this month Phil Spencer said Microsoft’s gaming business has “never looked stronger” as he announced mass layoffs, which was swiftly followed up by an Xbox exec suggesting that affected employees use AI to console themselves. And now? A round of…

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