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Despite all of the new info about Halo Infinite we got last week, some details were conspicuously absent. Namely, Microsoft and 343 Industries weren’t talking about multiplayer, which is traditionally a major draw for the series.  Today, the official Halo Twitter account confirmed rumors that the upcoming game’s multiplayer mode will be free-to-play, making it accessible

Razer’s super thin Blade laptops are often quite a bit more expensive than your typical portable gaming machines, mostly because they’re much slimmer than their chonky competition, but also because Razer stuff generally demands a bit of a premium anyway. Thankfully, Amazon have chopped a massive £550 off one of Razer’s Blade 15 laptops from

With Marvel’s Avengers just over a month from release, Crystal Dynamics is gearing up for a huge beta test to ensure the experience is ready for its big day on September 4. During today’s War Table presentation, the studio detailed the experience players can look forward to when the beta first rolls out on August

Remember the other day when I reported that some skelly-head flamethrowers were coming to Sea Of Thieves? Well, it turns out those heads belong to four particularly deadly Skeleton Captains, who’ve arrived in today’s Ashen Winds update. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy to nab their flaming skulls, either, as each of

Are you ready to experience the ultimate Star Wars fantasy in VR? Well you can later this year on Oculus Quest. That’s right, you play as a droid technician. Who wants to be a Jedi these days anyway? In Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, your path to engaging with legendary figures and heroic deeds begins

The line “respecting the legacy while adding fresh ideas” is one you hear almost verbatim about any series reboot, so it’s no surprise to hear something of a similar shade from Microsoft on the subject of Fable 4. The next game is being developed by Playground Games of Forza Horizon fame, as former Fable makers

Electronic Arts’ recent Skate announcement and Activision’s forthcoming Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater remaster have people hungry for halfpipes again. You don’t have to wait for either of those games to release to get your fix. Easy Day Studios’ Skater XL hits this Tuesday. Game Informer won’t have a review ready, but we will bring you

Forget your Gundams or your Battletechs – I like my mechs rusted, broken and held together by bolts and prayer. Fantastic news, then, that we’re about to get our hands on Iron Harvest‘s dieselpunk war machines. The alt-history RTS enters open beta next week, giving us free rein of its turn-of-the-century mechs ahead of its

If you’re wondering what games are coming up in 2021, we’ve put them all in one convenient location. This list will be continually updated to act as a living, breathing schedule as new dates are announced, titles are delayed, and big reveals happen. This should help you plan out your next several months in gaming

Two years after Dragon Quest XI: Echoes Of An Elusive Age hit PC, a new edition is coming round with additions including new quests and the option to play this 3D JRPG as a retro-styled 16-bit 2D game. Pleasingly daft, that. Bearing the triple-barrelled name Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes Of An Elusive Age –

Godfall was revealed late last year with a mysterious trailer, but we recently got a better look at how the loot-driven action/RPG plays. But the information about this unique PS5 and PC game doesn’t stop there. Today Arekkz Gaming published an interview with Richard Heyne, technical producer at Godfall developer Counterplay Games. The 25-minute video has lots

Thirsty for the void Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Dishonored is one of my most favourite game series, even with the spelling. In it, you creep and sneak and elegantly stab your way through a part-steampunk, part-magick city (both aspects derived

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin in the newest game from developer Edelweiss, the two-person team behind 2014’s Astebreed. In this action/simulation/RPG, players will tend to a farm, create a home in the wilderness, and battle demonic beasts (with farm tools, of course). Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin will be published by XSeed and is slated

There are lots of cheap gaming monitor deals going on right now, thanks mostly to a big sale on LG gaming monitors over at Amazon UK this week. Stock levels are still a bit low in the US right now, so there are slightly fewer gaming monitor deals available for you folks across the Atlantic,

Usually, when I’m working the news shift, I’ll pop on one of those lo-fi youtube mixes to keep my ears distracted. Today, however, I’m thinking about trying something a little more Nordic. This week, a snippet of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla‘s soundscape hit Spotify in the form of the Out Of The North EP, a seven-track

The NPD Group has reported its video game sales figures for the month of June, and unsurprisingly, Naughty Dog’s highly anticipated sequel led the pack. The Last of Us Part II was named June’s best-selling game and is now the third best-selling game of the year. It achieved the highest launch month dollar sales of any

A giant, scathing piece on the U.S. Army using recruiting tactics on children as young as 13 ran in The Nation yesterday. The original piece is a lot to take in, but one aspect is the military allegedly using Twitch as a vessel to run bait-and-switch contests that send users to a link that purports to offer them a

We’re back! This week, we’ve reverted to a more traditional gaming podcast format by spending the first five to ten minutes talking about 90s kids’ TV shows we watched. Did you miss us?? Remarkably, we do also talk about some video games, to whit: Halo 3 and Death Stranding, which are two big beasty release

Marvel’s Avengers is coming to consoles and PC in just a few months, but you don’t necessarily have to wait until then to get your hands on Crystal Dynamics’ game. The studio has revealed some details about its upcoming beta, which will be made available over several different periods in August. As revealed by IGN,

Oh, to ditch Overwatch‘s crude gunfights for a night at the opera. To push culture, not payloads. Capture hearts and souls, not control points. Ah, well, the latest challenge event for Blizzard’s hero shooter might not be picking up a fiddle anything soon, but it will let you pretend you’re the sort of person who

VJGamer Now that its Super Mario line is completely revealed and ready to launch, Lego is teasing another Nintendo collaboration. Posted today on its Twitter page, the silhouette appears to be an NES console with a retro television ripped straight from the ’80s. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait to see what the final product

A fair few games in recent E3 showcases were conspicuously absent from today’s Ubisoft Forward stream: no Beyond Good & Evil 2, no Rainbow Six Quarantine, no Gods & Monsters, no Roller Champions, no Skull & Bones. And yet they found time to announce Far Cry 6. Given that they’ve all been delayed for extra

If you like the idea of playing as the shape-shifting creature from John Carpenter’s The Thing, you’ll want to keep your eyes on Carrion, a Metroidvania-like adventure from Phobia Game Studio. Today, during the Devolver Direct livestream, Carrion was shown and given a July 23 release date for Switch, Xbox One, and PC. In Carrion,

If you’ve been waiting for new roads to ride in American Truck Simulator you’ll be climbing back in your cab soon. The American steer ’em up is headed to Idaho for its newest expansion which will launch next week on Thursday, July 16th. Catch a look at some of the landmarks you’ll spot with the

During tomorrow’s recently announced Paper Mario: The Origami King-focused Nintendo Treehouse Live stream, WayForward is unveiling its new project, which is in a franchise that’s new to the developer. The careful wording in the announcement has fans on social media speculating WayForward could be creating the next entry in another developer’s existing franchise. The announcement

Light horror fans rejoice, for The Dark Pictures Anthology – Little Hope cometh. The second game in a planned series of eight, this witchy tale is probably best thought of as a very fancy form of interactive fiction. As expected, it’s a self-contained story presented by the vaguely menacing Curator, who challenges the player to

One of the most beloved platformers on the Super Nintendo is finally making its way to Switch’s ever-growing library of classic games. Donkey Kong Country headlines a mid-July update that adds three titles to the suite of games offered as a part of the Nintenod Switch Online subscription package. Joining Rare’s classic co-op platformer in

Our ultimate guide to The Sims 4 cheats contains everything you need to know about how to enable cheats, and how to use said cheats to fulfil your sims’ every need… or brutally murder them. We don’t judge. Words by Ollie Toms and Dave Irwin To enable The Sims 4 cheats on PC, simply open

Microsoft announced when we’ll be getting the next look at its upcoming slate of games. The Xbox Games Showcase will be streaming the morning of July 23, with a preshow hosted by The Game Awards creator and host, Geoff Keighley. The preshow starts at 8 a.m. Pacific, with the show officially kicking off an hour

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! We’re having a particularly lazy Sunday afternoon this week, but that shouldn’t mean forgoing a stroll through the delights on offer through the #ScreenshotSaturday hashtag for our usual weekend viewing. This week: pastel cartography, mycelium cottages, data-corrupted highways from hell and squirrels. We’re once again visited by Au Fil De L’eau developer