A new update for Stellar Blade is set to launch today. Update 1.003 adds a Boss Challenge mode where you can go back and beat up the bosses you have faced so far. You can only fight bosses you have beaten, and once you’ve finished the story, you can challenge these bosses again o … | Continue reading
Secret’s out. This year’s Call Of Duty title is Call Of Duty Black Ops 6. The Xbox social account has officially named Call Of Duty 2024, which is the subject of the previously redacted Direct to follow the Xbox Games Showcase. Previously, Xbox announced the Xbox Game Showcase 20 … | Continue reading
Akuma, the final of the four DLC characters for Year 1 of Street Fighter 6, has arrived. The menacing warrior is now playable in the fighting game across all three modes, World Tour (story mode), Battle Hub (online lobby) and Fighting Ground (traditional fighting game modes). The … | Continue reading
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, the fighting game based on Cygames’ popular mobile RPG, gets a new DLC character and a game update. The DLC character is Beatrix. She fights wielding the Embrasque Sword, but her moveset really has throwing a bunch of kicks including divekicks, sli … | Continue reading
Enotria: The Last Song, the soulslike action-RPG developed by Jyamma Games, has a demo for you to sample. But it’s less of a tasting menu and more of a full course dining experience, as the demo claims to offer 8 hours worth of playtime. The demo for this upcoming self-described … | Continue reading
Arrowhead Game Studio, the developer behind the hit co-op multiplayer shooter Helldivers 2, will now have a new CEO. Shams Jorjani will now take the helm as CEO at Arrowhead. Johan Pilestedt, the previous CEO that has also incidentally served as Helldivers 2’s spokesperson on the … | Continue reading
“Racing hard with your F2 rivals, the pit-board shows your gap from them to you, and it’s increasing, this might be the start of your career in Formula 1.” This year’s F1 game, F1 24, is putting an emphasis on the new and improved career mode that makes you feel like being part o … | Continue reading
A game update to Forza Horizon 5 has added some new content: more licensed music. The new Horizon Wave radio station adds 11 new songs from the synthwave genre. So expect brooding synths and the sounds of the future from the ’80s, today. If you’ve been scouring through YouTube fo … | Continue reading
Kingmakers went viral over its reveal trailer where knight in armour brings a gun to a swordfight. And then drives a pickup truck. And the battlefield looks to be massive. A new trailer for Kingmakers, debuted at TinyBuild Connect 2024, showed three things: you can ride on a dirt … | Continue reading
Voin is an upcoming first-person action-RPG set in a dark fantasy world. It’s also being developed by a solo developer, Nikita Sozidar. In Voin, you’re an elemental servant tasked to rid off a mysterious plague that has been consuming the realm. And how you do that is by traversi … | Continue reading
There’s a new PVPVE extraction shooter and it involves hulking mechs that looks like ships, but walking on land, set in a dieselpunk setting where the Austro-Hungarian Empire colonised space which caused the ocean to dry up so the world is full of sand. Sand, as the game is calle … | Continue reading
The Kingdom Hearts series has been ported to PC for years now, but this June, the series will be available on Steam. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and Kingdom Hearts III + Re:Mind DLC will be available for purchase as either three di … | Continue reading
The upcoming expansion DLC for Elden Ring, Shadow Of The Erdtree, has a new trailer revealed. The new story trailer doesn’t show any gameplay (it’s all CGI), rather, it’s a short primer on the new location for the expansion: The Land Of Shadow. We see glimpses of war and the tyra … | Continue reading
Hunt: Showdown, Crytek’s ongoing extraction shooter, is ending live service for the PS4 and Xbox One versions replacing them with a release on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Players have been previously informed that this is happening, where Crytek stated that live service on PS4 and X … | Continue reading
To the window, to the wall. Need For Speed Unbound’s latest season of content, Vol 7 Drift & Drag, is now live. The update makes it clear it’s inspired by Need For Speed Underground, the seminal NFS title that shifted the paradigm for the series from being about exotic cars in po … | Continue reading
Life By You, the life sim by Paradox Tectonic, is getting delayed, again. The game will not launch in Early Access in June 4. No new release date is given either. This was revealed rather unceremoniously done via a post on the Paradox Forum with a statement by Mattias Lilja, Depu … | Continue reading
The bike aspect of the racing games genre has been on a pretty good run, wouldn’t ya know? The folks at Milestone have been tinkering hard on their motorbike series and MotoGP has seen many changes in the two years since we last reviewed them. So bar the highly requested Rider Tr … | Continue reading
The latest update for Bethesda Game Studio’s Starfield, previously only available on the Steam Beta branch, is out now on Xbox and PC. The update, or the May 2024 Update, was revealed 20 days ago with its biggest feature being new detailed surface maps. Not only the surface map a … | Continue reading
Baladins, the new game developed by Seed By Seed and being published by Armor Games is out now. And if you’re an enjoyer of games where its main gameplay loop is hinged on time loops, you should really, really check this little indie gem out. In Baladins, you play as the namesake … | Continue reading
With the closure of Arkane Austin, it was looking like the offline patch that was in the works for Redfall was never to materialise. The Redfall Twitter account recently tweeted some good news, it’s still happening. The offline patch will be part of Game Update 4 which will also … | Continue reading
If you’re playing a game on PC using an Xbox controller connected wirelessly using the Xbox Wireless Adapter dongle, and then plugging a headphone from the audio jack, have you found the audio skips and cuts out? If you’re having this issue there’s possibly one solution to the pr … | Continue reading
Epic Games Store’s Epic Mega Sale is back for 2024, from now until June 13. And as usual, the Steam competitor is courting PC gamers with not only great deals and discounts but also freebie games. To kick things off, Epic is offering Dragon Age Inquisition, Bioware’s last good ga … | Continue reading
Sega and Amplitude Studios are offering Endless Legend, the brilliant 4X game that’s part of the wider Endless universe, for free. Again. This is the second time this year Endless Legend is being offered for the low, low price of free. But this time, it’s less of a hassle. All yo … | Continue reading
Acquire Corp., developer of the Octopath Traveler games amongst others, has a new self-published indie title coming out next week. And it’s called C.A.R.D.S. RPG: The Misty Battlefield. This game with its rather long title follows Vel, the commander of the Clausewitz Battalion in … | Continue reading
Industrialist and fans of factory builders and/or automation games, here’s a new flavour for your favourite treat. Indie developer Tbjbu2 revealed their next game, Chocolate Factory, and it’s exactly what the name says. But what you might not expect is that is a first-person fact … | Continue reading
The Early Access release of city builder Manor Lords continue to be selling like hot cakes. Publisher Hooded Horse announced it has sold over 2 million copies of developer Slavic Magic’s debut title. And this is all reached within three weeks of launch. “It’s been wonderful to se … | Continue reading
So this is how it ends. Award-winning rhythm action game Hi-Fi Rush, played by more than 3 million players worldwide, gets one final update as developer Tango Gameworks shuts down. The update, Update 9, are minor bug fixes, mostly fixing text bugs and issues related to the first … | Continue reading
Kaiju brawler game GigaBash is getting bigger with the release of its third paid DLC pack, Godzilla: Nemesis. Godzilla: Nemesis adds two more playable characters, both being adversaries to Godzilla, King Ghidorah and Hedorah. Both characters have unique playstyles based on Godzil … | Continue reading
The Division Heartland, the free-to-play The Division game has been cancelled, according to Ubisoft’s financial year 2024 earnings report. “In line with the increased selectivity of investments, Ubisoft has decided to stop development of The Division Heartland and has redeployed … | Continue reading
The Sims 4 is getting ready for summer a little bit early as it adds new swimsuits, as well as new colours for existing ones, to the base game as a free update. The update is delivered via the Sims Delivery Express, so when you boot up the game, expect to reboot it again before [ … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has unveiled the game previously referred to as Assassin’s Creed Red or Assassin’s Creed Codename Red. The game, now called Assassin’s Creed Shadows, now has a new name and a reveal trailer. Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the long-anticipated AC game set in medieval Japan. T … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter Stories, the Monster Hunter spin-off RPG where you capture and battle monsters, is getting a PC and console release. Originally released on the Nintendo 3DS, and later ported to mobile, Monster Hunter Stories can now be experienced on more gaming platforms. Monster … | Continue reading
SteelSeries has launched the Arctis Nova 5 gaming headset, now available in Malaysia. This new entry to the Nova line of headsets is design for use on gaming consoles, though it’s also compatible with PC, mobile and VR devices. It’s a wireless headset (2.4GHz wireless connection) … | Continue reading
Jake Solomon, previously of Firaxis and the game director behind the rebooted XCOM series as well as underrated strategy-RPG Marvel’s Midnight Suns, has announced his new development studio, Midsummer Studios. And their first game will be a The Sims-esque life simulator. Solomon … | Continue reading
Digital Happiness is teaming up with publisher Soft Source Publishing to release DreadOut Remastered Collection for consoles. This collection includes the survival horror title DreadOut and DreadOut: Keepers Of The Dark. This is announced just as the original DreadOut game hits i … | Continue reading
The Warhammer Skulls event returns. The annual festival of Warhammer video games, now entering its eighth entry, will go live starting on May 23. This will be kickstarted with a showcase hosted by Rahul Kohli. Expect to see more of the upcoming shooter Warhammer 40,000: Space Mar … | Continue reading
Helldivers 2 has sold over 12 million copies within 12 weeks of release. It is now the fastest selling PlayStation game, surpassing previous record holder God Of War Ragnarok. Helldivers 2 is also PlayStation’s biggest PC game to date. This was revealed in the financial year 2023 … | Continue reading
City builders have gotten a bit too mechanically and thematically intense with the rise of survival city builders. But what if you want a city builder that’s cosy and more wholesome, but still resemble the mechanical foundations of a survival city builder? And this is where Fable … | Continue reading
Sega and Atlus revealed some more info for its upcoming RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, the new game from Studio Zero comprised of veterans of the Persona series. Metaphor: ReFantazio is taking a page from Persona in that there’s a calendar and time system. The protagonist enlist thems … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco has revealed the release date for the upcoming “hack-and-slash looter” game Gundam Breaker 4. Developed by Crafts & Meister Co., Gundam Breaker 4 lets you customise your own Gundam based on actual model kits by combining various parts together. It’s a Gunpla kitbashe … | Continue reading
Acer Malaysia has launched the new Predator Helios Neo 14 gaming laptop in the country, available now. New to the Predator line, the Helios Neo 14 brings a tight and compact package with its 14-inch screen, Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU. Like most laptops these d … | Continue reading
Arkane Austin is no more after Xbox announced its closing three studios and merging one at Bethesda. The studio that created the original Dishonored game (with Arkane Lyon as Arkane Studios) and the 2017 game Prey will unfairly be remembered by their last game, the multiplayer co … | Continue reading
What seemed to be good news, is now bad news. PlayStation’s efforts to expand on PC continues to cause issues as Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut on Steam is now delisted in 177 countries. The game is set to release this week. Pre-orders for Ghost Of Tsushima in countries with no … | Continue reading
The games industry is still reeling from the aftershock of Microsoft/Xbox announcing the closure of three, effectively four, game development studio under Bethesda (the one is absorbed into another studio). A day after the announcement, a town hall meeting was held for all ZeniMa … | Continue reading
Xbox rocked the games industry world in the wrong way by closing down several Bethesda studios, including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. And according to Bloomberg, the game publisher and console maker is still not done with its job cutting. Xbox is offering voluntary severan … | Continue reading
Sega and Atlus have revealed the latest details on Metaphor: ReFantazio, the upcoming RPG from Studio Zero comprised of talents behind the recent Persona games. After the big reveal that was the Atlus Special Showcase, we now have specific breakdowns on the main mechanics of Meta … | Continue reading
Bungie is making almost all of the currently available expansions for Destiny 2, plus all the seasons from the current Year 6, available to all players for free for a limited time. This includes the Shadowkeep, Beyond Light and The Witch Queen expansions (the latest expansion, Li … | Continue reading
Remedy announced it has cancelled the development of Codename Kestrel, the co-op multiplayer game. Codename Kestrel was a reboot of project Vanguard, which restarted development in November 2023. Tencent was co-financing and co-publishing the project. The cancellation will see th … | Continue reading