As that cartoon lion once famously sang before killing his uncle and shagging his cousin, I just can't wait to be king! It's not a sentiment I was expecting to be writing when I first fired up The Sims 4's latest major expansion, Royalty & Legacy - I'm hardly what you'd call an enthusiastic monarchist - but here I now am, several hours in; scheming and extorting my way to the top, drunk on unearned power.
Fallout 76 has been in a pretty good place since 2020's Wastelanders update, which added NPCs and entirely new questlines to the once-barren online survival game. Since then, it's become more of a full-blown multiplayer RPG with a strong diehard community even if not every Fallout fan vibes with the basic pitch. Why don't we have crossplay though?
Tundra Interactive, the indie developer behind the indie strategy RPG Void War, has at last spoken out about why the game was temporarily removed from Steam earlier this year. The reason? Well, according to Tundra , it all has to do with a particular set of bulky, familiar-looking shoulder pads.
Pokémon has never not been trendy, but we're expecting even more from the massive IP this year, as the "pocket monsters" are turning 30 later this month. That means there are game announcements on the horizon, celebrations happening all over, and even a huge Super Bowl spot starring Lady Gaga and other celebrities.
It's been a while since the last State of Play, which gave us our first proper look at Insomniac's brutal Wolverine game and started to nail down the final details on Saros, the new sci-fi roguelite from Housemarque. Now, we finally know when the next big stream from Sony is happening.
Oh my goodness, there are so many things I want to tell you about Replaced. I want to tell you about its side-scrolling action, I want to tell you about its cyberpunk landscapes, I want to tell you about its flying cars and the corrupt corporation leading this dystopian world. But, you all know - at least on a surface level - about that already. It's in the trailers, and I can say from playing the first few hours, it's all in the game as well. And, it's great, as I have hoped it would be ever since Replaced was first announced all those years ago.
A new report suggests Blizzard has partnered with Korean gaming giant Nexon - owner of Arc Raiders and The Finals studio Embark - to create a shooter of some kind based on the StarCraft brand.
Hey, remember Netflix's BioShock movie that is going nowhere for the time being? No? We don't blame you, as we're having a hard time trying not to forget about it ourselves. Funnily enough, we continue to get more updates on Gore Verbinski's take on the material, which has been dead for nearly 13 years now.
Helldivers 2 is off to a tremendous start this year, with a new batch of heavy weaponry and the Automatons stealing a not-Death-Star setting the stage for Super Earth's attack on the Cyborgs of Cyberstan. What can players expect from this next major step in the Galactic War and the game's future?
No, Blizzard is not preparing a Hearthstone 2 announcement for BlizzCon 2026, I've been told, but there is something significant being announced later this year.
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Today, in news no one could've predicted: Toyota has been quietly working on a game engine of its own, but the end goal isn't what you'd expect.
A demo of Sad Cat Studios' cyberpunk platformer Replaced has been announced.
The upcoming God of War series has finally got its Atreus, as Callum Vinson has been cast as none other than the son of Kratos.
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