More details have emerged about this coming Sunday's Xbox Showcase, including news on two major reported reveals.
Tom Warren's Notepad newsletter reported today that two big first-party tentpoles will be announced during the livestream: a new Doom installment, as well as Gears of War 6.
To be clear, it had already been reported that a new Doom game would be revealed at the showcase with the title Doom: The Dark Ages, a name that Warren's reporting also backs up. But the interesting bit of news here is that, according to the newsletter, Doom: The Dark Ages has "been earmarked as a Project Latitude game to launch simultaneously on PS5 in 2025."
The so-called "Project Latitude" is reportedly the internal name for Xbox's continuing...
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Yooka-Laylee, the Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor developed by former Rare developers, is getting a surprise remaster for PC and consoles.
Developer Playtonic Games said the 2017 3D platformer will re-release with a visual overhaul, new controls, and camera system, as well as new challenges and secrets. The game also has a new name: Yooka-Replaylee.
Yooka-Laylee released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 2017, with a Nintendo Switch version following in December 2017. IGN’s Yooka-Laylee review returned a 7/10. We said: “Yooka-Laylee is a good reminder that this genre, once thought to be dead, still has some life left in it.”
Yooka-Replaylee is the result of the growth of Playtonic over recent years, it said, and “the...
Cyberpunk 2077 never received a New Game Plus mode like CD Projekt's predecessor The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt because it would "break the way the game is constructed."
Speaking to DualShockers, Cyberpunk 2077 quest director and its sequel's associate game director Paweł Sasko gave a somewhat vague explanation for why the now beloved role-playing game didn't receive New Game Plus in its more than three years of updates.
"For us, it’s really important that when you have components in a game, they all work together and they all work well and they all make sense," Sasko said. "The thing is, Cyberpunk is very specific when it comes to its construction.
"It’s incredibly difficult to figure out a way where New Game Plus could be done in a way...
The multiplayer shooter Concord is set to release for PS5 and PC on August 20—but that’s for the pricier deluxe edition. The standard edition comes out August 23. Developed by Firewalk Studios, this five-on-five hero shooter gives off Overwatch vibes, but with its own distinct tone and characters. It’s available to preorder now in two editions. We have a full rundown about pricing and what comes in each edition below.
Concord (Standard Edition)
PS5
Get it at Amazon - $39.99
Get it at Best Buy - $39.99
Get it at GameStop - $39.99
Get it at PS Store (digital) - $39.99
The standard edition of Concord comes with beta access (see details below) and will be available to play on August 23.
Concord Digital Deluxe Edition
Get it for PS5...
Yesterday, we exclusively announced that developer 11 Bit Studios will soon be dropping a playable demo of The Alters, the team's alluring and unique new survival game. Today you can check out 14 minutes of gameplay from that demo in the video above, and then play the demo for yourself on Steam on June 10 until June 17.
So what is The Alters? Well, we encourage you to watch our recent hands-on preview below, but in short, you play as Jans. But not just one Jans. Lots of Jans. See, you're a miner on a hostile planet who must pull in versions of yourself from other realities in order to survive. But they're not mere clones. Rather, they're you but they've lived their own completely unique lives, and as such they'll bring different...
Concord’s $39.99 price point “provides the full experience,” Sony has said.
Following Concord's divisive reveal during Sony's State of Play showcase in May, some had wondered whether the live service hero shooter would release in free-to-play form.
Confirming Concord launches in both physical and digital standard editions for $39.99 / £34.99 / €39.99, Pam Piscitello, director of marketing and operations at developer Firewalk, said in a post on the PlayStation Blog that this full experience includes all 16 playable characters (called Freegunners in-game), 12 maps set on various worlds, and six team-based modes.
This will expand shortly after launch with regular, post-launch updates for all players at no additional cost, Piscitello...
Sony will announce LEGO Horizon Adventures for PlayStation 5 and PC this week during Summer Game Fest, according to a new report.
Dealabs’ reliable leaker Billbil-kun, who this week also reported that Sony has a PC version of The Last of Us 2 up its sleeve, said LEGO Horizon Adventures will see a simultaneous release on PS5 and PC. It’s described as an action adventure game with solo and cross-platform co-op gameplay.
An announcement is reportedly set for June 8 CET, which coincides with the June 7 PT kick-off of Summer Game Fest. A gameplay trailer is expected, but so far there is no word on a release date.
A simultaneous release on PS5 and PC for LEGO Horizon Adventures would follow the same strategy Sony employed for smash hit...
With the PlayStation State of Play done, Nintendo and Xbox still have yet to show their hand during this summer of gaming. Next up, Microsoft kicks off its Xbox Games Showcase on June 8, followed immediately after by a big reveal for the next Call of Duty. While we already know the next Call of Duty is set to be Black Ops 6, there’s plenty from the main show that remains a mystery and rife for speculation.
It feels like every year is a make-or-break year for Xbox and, well, this year is make-or-break for Xbox. With the dust from the Activision Blizzard acquisition settling down but closures of high-profile studios like Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin still fresh in everyone’s minds, it’s a summer for Xbox to find its center, take a...
A Counter-Strike 2 weapon skin, meaning a variant color and pattern for an in-game gun, has sold for more than $1 million of real world money.
CS:GO, now Counter-Strike 2, lets players earn Weapon Cases (loot boxes) through gameplay or by purchasing them in the store, but each also requires a corresponding key to open it. These can, again, be earned through gameplay or purchased in the store.
The competitive first-person shooter is free to play but has an extensive economy surrounding the contents of these loot boxes: weapon skins. Players can buy, trade, and sell them to each other, and the rarer pieces have sold in the past for hundreds, thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As reported by Kotaku, the StatTrak...
Microsoft has confirmed the first wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in June 2024. Highlights include today’s surprise shadow drop of Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler series, The Callisto Protocol, and Still Wakes the Deep.
First up are the aforementioned Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler 2. Octopath Traveler (Cloud, Console, and PC) returns to the Game Pass library today, June 6, whereas Octopath Traveler 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) launches on Xbox and Game Pass for the first time having released on other platforms last year, alongside a new update.
IGN's Octopath Traveler review returned a 9.3. We said: "Octopath Traveler's beautiful style and outstanding take on traditional turn-based combat make it a game that...
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has revealed the game’s next Premium Warbond, dubbed Viper Commandos and due out June 13.
In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Katherine Baskin, social media and community manager at Arrowhead, said the studio had responded to feedback on Helldivers 2’s Warbonds and had changed its approach as a result. For a start, Arrowhead has slowed down the pace at which it releases Warbonds “to give us a little bit more time to polish these designs before they’re released.” Baskin continued: “We don’t want to rush anything out of the oven before it’s fully baked.”
“It’s time to focus on quality over quantity.
Arrowhead has also changed the arrangement of items in each Warbond to make room for new item types as...
A report into the making of $200 million flop Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has shed new light on Rocksteady’s troubled release as well as what’s next for the studio.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was panned by critics upon launch and had extremely low player numbers on Steam. Some of the frustration stemmed from Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League not being another Batman game from Rocksteady, despite it being set within the same Arkhamverse.
The developer’s single player Batman Arkham series is much-loved by fans, with 2011’s Batman: Arkham City in particular held up as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, superhero video games of all time. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, on the other hand, is a...
EA Sports has added the Euro 2024 mode to FC 24, letting fans play through a virtual version of the tournament ahead of the real deal.
Title update 15, out now for FC 24 across PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, is called the Festival of Football update, and adds the aforementioned Euro 2024 mode as well as a new skill move and celebration. There are 27 new Star Heads, including Rodri, Sven Botman, Pedro Porro, and Eberechi Eze.
The Euro 2024 mode lets you play in the final, semi-final, and group stage matches in nine authentic stadiums. You can choose from any of the 24 qualified teams or rewrite history with any other European national team already in the game. The Match of the Day...
Square Enix has made the Octopath Traveler series available on all console platforms as well as Xbox Game Pass as part of a multi-pronged shadow-drop.
Octopath Traveler, first released on Nintendo Switch in 2018, is now available to buy on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 for the first time. Octopath Traveler 2, which launched on Switch, PS4, PS5, and PC in 2023, is now available for the first time on Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One, including launching straight into subscription service Xbox Game Pass. Both Octopath Traveler games are now in the Game Pass library across Xbox and PC.
Octopath Traveler is a well-received role-playing series with a unique HD-2D art style, with 2D characters in 3D worlds. Both games are a standalone...
If you're anything like me, The Acolyte has got you amped up to go shred people, places, and things with a lightsaber again. The good news: Jedi Survivor has had 60% cleaved off and it's wall-to-wall laser swords. Alternatively, I have also found the cheapest deals on Star Wars Outlaws which...er, doesn't seem to include one single lightsaber in it. Shades of Dark Forces that I'm keen to preview soon.
In retro news, I'm celebrating the 21st birthday of WarioWare Inc., the Game Boy Advance grandaddy of a beloved microgames empire. Along with absurd tasks like picking one's nose skillfully or shooting a bidet sprayer at a starfish-shaped something, I recall being delighted with the snippets from NES classics and this weirdly addictive...
Player First Games has clued players into how upcoming patches will flesh out its Warner Bros.-themed platform fighter, MultiVersus, with more enhancements, options, and the return of the Iron Giant.
The developer detailed its plans on social media today, promising to deliver improvements based on player feedback in the near future. Included in the list of soon-to-be changes are performance improvements, End of Game stats, and the option to turn off team colors. Additionally, Player First clarifies that the option to purchase extra lives in-game is unintentional and has been addressed.
Meanwhile, the studio explains that its work on Iron Giant is still underway, but it plans to reintroduce the character “shortly.” The Iron Giant was...
Despite rumors stating Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero will release without local multiplayer — a staple in anime arena fighters — the game will seemingly have both an online and local multiplayer feature on release.
As spotted by X/Twitter user SLOplays and verified by IGN, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero’s updated listing on the PlayStation store states the game will have local multiplayer. Prior to the game’s store update, players were under the impression that Sparking! Zero wouldn’t launch with local multiplayer because its PlayStation and Steam pages listed it as a single-player game. It was also previously reported from a fan-translated interview with producer Jun Furutani that local split-screen modes wouldn’t be included in the game...
Searching for new Anime Champions Simulator codes? You're in the right place. We've compiled all of the Roblox game's active codes for June 2024 so you can quickly unlock a bunch of useful resources, boosts, summons, and more.
If you're looking to stay completely up to date with all the new codes that come to the game as they're added, your best bet is to head to the official Anime Champions Simulator Discord server. In the announcements channel, new codes are published frequently, so if you turn notifications on, you can expect to get codes the moment they drop. You can also check out developers Daireb and WisdomClock's X pages, where they'll occasionally drop extra codes for some additional rewards. Of course, you can also keep an...
Sony’s upcoming team-based shooter Concord appears to be following the example of Helldivers 2 in having a more affordable price tag to garner interest.
Although the United States PlayStation store doesn’t list Concord’s price, eagle-eyed users on ResetEra spotted the game’s listing on the Australian PlayStation store. With the help of some cursory currency conversions ($1 USD roughly equals $1.50 AUD), users believe they have a ballpark for how much Concord will cost gamers in the United States.
According to the Australian PlayStation Store listing, Concord — like with Helldivers 2 before it — will have a Standard and Digital Deluxe Edition that will run players roughly $59.95 and $94.95 Australian Dollars. In layman’s terms...
Monster Hunter Wilds debuted a new look at its scaly new critters last week, but fans are so memorized by an NPC named Gemma the Smithy that they’ve added a “Dating Sim” tag to its official Steam page.
Pointed out by @QuirklessStoner on X/Twitter, Capcom’s next Monster Hunter game’s Steam tags include “Action,” “Multiplayer,” and, now, “Dating Sim” (spotted by Games Radar). Tags are user-generated, but the ones that appear first are the most popular among fans. That means players gathered and tagged Monster Hunter Wilds as a dating sim enough to propel the term to be one of its most-used tags.
Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, at least as far as Capcom has revealed, Monster Hunter Wilds isn’t a dating sim, and the franchise...
Looking for new Da Hood codes in Roblox? You've come to the right place. We've found all the currently active codes you can use to score free cash and other loot in June 2024 and compiled them into one handy list.
If you're searching for new Da Hood codes, you can usually find them on the game's official Instagram account. The page is updated whenever major new codes go live. You should also check out the game's Discord server, where codes can be found on the Updates channel. Of course, you can keep an eye on this handy article to keep track of the active codes, too!
Active Da Hood Codes June 2024
CROW - $400,000
RUBY - $250,000
DAUP - $250,000
pumpkins2023 - $250,000
TRADEME! - $100,000
MELONBEAR - $500,000
How to Redeem Da Hood...
With a new month comes a fresh slate of codes for Shindo Life, and to help you make the most of the free bonuses they offer, we've collected every redeemable code and compiled them all in one place. Below, you'll find all of the codes currently active in Shindo Life for June 2024, which you can cash in for free RellCoins and wheel spins.
If you're looking to keep up to date with new Shindo Life codes, you'll find them across Rell Games' various social media platforms. One way to track down new codes is via their Discord server; however, the best spot to find them is on RellBadMan's X (formerly Twitter) account, where the developer often shares new codes as they become available. Of course, you can also keep an eye on this article for...
Developer 11 Bit Studios has announced an upcoming playable demo of The Alters, the team's alluring and unique new survival game. Check out the stellar new trailer above, and then play the demo for yourself on Steam on June 10 until June 17.
So what is The Alters? Well, we encourage you to watch our recent hands-on preview below, but in short, you play as Jans. But not just one Jans. Lots of Jans. See, you're a miner on a hostile planet who must pull in versions of yourself from other realities in order to survive. But they're not mere clones. Rather, they're you but they've lived their own completely unique lives, and as such they'll bring different looks, skills, and personalities to your tall task at hand.
Our exclusive...
The developer of Hypercharge: Unboxed has announced the indie toy soldiers shooter has sold 50,000 copies on Xbox in five days.
Digital Cybercherries, a small UK studio made up of just six people, said it had achieved the sales milestone “without publisher support or Game Pass deal.”
“I’m really overwhelmed by the success of our game on Xbox and can’t thank everyone enough for buying the game,” said creative gameplay and marketing director at Digital Cybercherries Joe Henson.
“50,000 sales might not mean much in the realm of AAA, but for our small team of six, in a tough time for the industry, with no support from a big-publisher, selling 50,000 on Xbox in only a few days is really a big deal! Thank you again to everyone who has...
Shenmue fans are so desperate for another game in the long-running action adventure series they bought an advertisement in New York's famous Times Square to campaign for Shenmue 4.
Fan website Shenmue Dojo launched a campaign on June 4, 2024 to "support the continuation of the series and attempt to spread global awareness to find [developer] Ys Net a potential partner for Shenmue 4." Part of this campaign involved renting a 15-second advertisement on Times Square, which can be seen below, that displayed a handful of characters from the series alongside "#LetsGetShenmue4."
"Shenmue fans do some insane things to try and get recognised," an X/Twitter post from Shenmue Dragons said. "Are you watching Sega?" While a 15-second...
It's been a while since I've felt so captivated by such a minimalist game as Arco. A simple but effective revenge tale set against the backdrop of early colonial Mesoamerica, it presents its snappy combat and distinctive worldbuilding with an art style that almost looks like something out of the 8-bit era. Yet the sweeping landscapes are never lacking for detail. And the tale woven across them had me hooked from the start.
Nearly all media about the American frontier focuses on the settler experience, so it's refreshing to see that Arco presents a rich, thriving, and diverse Native world as the player's point-of-view, with European "Newcomers" representing a looming, somewhat enigmatic threat. Everything is slightly fantastical, with...
GTA Online is getting its own take on Dog the Bounty Hunter with the game’s next major update.
Developer Rockstar Games announced this summer’s update to the hugely popular GTA Online lets players set up their own bail enforcement and bounty hunting business. There’s very little to go on at this point, not even a release date, but already fans are getting excited by the prospect of living out their Dog the Bounty Hunter fantasy within the virtual world of GTA Online.
Elsewhere, players will get to “conduct a range of off-the-books enforcement activities” across Los Santon for Vincent. There are new tools and props to create custom Drift and Drag Races in the Creator, and “much more” later this month.
Here’s the official blurb, per...
While the sting of E3’s death can still be felt, June remains a massive month for video game reveals, announcements, and world premieres. Things have already begun but the next big swing of the season comes from Summer Game Fest. Unlike the long-running, exclusive-focused streams from platform holders, Summer Game Fest features announcements from a wide range of developers and publishers of varying sizes. The list of attending companies has already been revealed and so we’ve used it as the basis for some predictions. What can you expect to see at Summer Game Fest 2024? Read on for our best educated guesses.
The Big Three
Sony may have only recently held its own summer State of Play broadcast, and the Xbox Game Showcase arrives in just...
Supergiant Games has released Patch 2 for the Early Access version of Hades 2, which adds more night time encounters, refreshes the UI, and more.
Outlined in a Steam post, Supergiant first thanked fans for playing this early version of Hades 2 and for providing feedback which influences patches. This second update arrives less than three weeks after Patch 1 but features dozens of changes, improvements, and bug fixes.
Balance changes take up a large part of the spoiler heavy patch notes, available below, but Supergiant has also made larger gameplay changes including the ability to encounter up to one additional Olympain each night, increased the invulnerability duration after Death Defiance, and the option to press and hold to...
IGN is partnering with Humble once again, this time to celebrate Pride month with their latest bundle, Stories of Pride! Eight games are in this bundle, with players able to choose various pricing tiers to receive a minimum of three games, up to all eight of them for $18.
The full line up for Humble Bundle's Stories of Pride includes:
Wylde Flowers
Lakeburg Legacies
Monster Camp: Camp Forever Bundle
Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly
Arcadian Fallen
Heaven Will Be Mind
No Longer Home
The World Next Door
As Humble shared, the Stories of Pride bundle is "all about matters of the heart and the joy of human connection," with the games in the bundle comprised of story-heavy games to celebrate Pride month. From the urban...