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Tactical extraction shooter, Arena Breakout: Infinite, entered Early Access last week. Though the recent beta tests were held on Steam, the launch is only available through the game’s official website.The plan has always been for Arena Breakout to launch on Steam, however, and today during Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live, the developer shared new details about the future of the game.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings We now know that Arena Breakout: Infinite’s full release is anticipated by the end of the year, and although many of us were hoping for an exact release date, that’s still specific enough to be rather hopeful. The game recently amassed over 1 million wishlists on Steam, already making it one of the platform’s most anticipate…

Risk of Rain 2 has just recently recieved its Seekers of the Storm DLC update, which you can buy right now. However, it may be in your best interest to hold off on doing so, as the major update has brought a plague of quite serious bugs and flaws to the game. A game that, until recently, was in tip-top shape.Bugs include but are not limited to random deaths, framerate issues, clipping textures, missing textures, missing teleporters, missing highlights on items, the speed of certain moves being tied to frame rate (a classic), sphere attacks from vagrants being invulnerable… It’s a whole thing!To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Why has this happened? Well, the buck appears to stop with Gearbox. This industry giant bought the rights of Risk of Rain fr…

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is out. That’s technically true, in that you can play the action game right now. The official release isn’t until September 9, but like many of today’s biggest games, paying more upfront unlocks the game a few days early for you.In this case, purchasing the gold or ultra editions of Space Marine 2 is what lets you play early, and thousands of players have done so.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The result of this excitement (and all the money spent on the expensive editions) is that it caused Space Marine 2 to shoot up Steam’s most played charts. The game recently jumped to the top of the sales charts on Valve’s platform (where it remains in the lead), so there was really little chance…

Earlier this year, we learned a new Jurassic World game was in active development at Frontier. While the press release didn’t 100% confirm the project is Evolution 3, it was the most likely possibility. Now, new details on the company’s portfolio strategy for the next year and beyond have illuminated the matter a bit more.Via user HeavyGold8 at r/jurassicworldevo, we’ve received further confirmation the previous two Jurassic World Evolution games were huge for both Frontier and Universal, the latter of which owns the IP and is preparing to release a new Jurassic World movie next year, despite the fact it’s still shooting. Moreover, it appears the company’s next game based on the IP will arrive between June 2025 and May 2026 (during FY 2026).To see this content please enable targeting cooki…

Sul Sul! It’s official, Sims fans: a movie based on the beloved life-sim is in the works, and Barbie’s Margot Robbi and Loki’s Kate Herron are at the helm.Way back in March of this year it was reported that warm off the heels of all that Barbie success, its producer and star Margot Robbie was looking to the world of video games for one of her next projects, specifically a live-action adaptation of The Sims. Well, today EA itself confirmed the news that a film is in the works, with Amazon MGM Studios helping to make the project. As previously reported, Kate Herron, best known for serving as the director of the first season of Loki, will be directing the Sims movie, and will be co-writing it with Briony Redman (the two previously wrote an episode of Doctor Who together). “It’s still to…

Persona 5 was a ridiculously long game, and it looks like the next title from the devs behind it, Metaphor: ReFantazio, will take up just as much of your time.There are a number of reasons I haven’t played Persona 5, but easily one of the biggest is just how long the damn thing is. I’ve heard people say “yeah it’s like 100 hours minimum” and I shrugged that off as people exaggerating how long it actually takes, only take a peek at How Long To Beat and see, oh my, this thing really is like 100 hours long. To be clear, that’s people just logging the main story, with completionist hours coming in at 173 hours (Atlus wept) – though Persona 5 Royal clocks in at around 142 hours for completionists, despite having more content, so your mileage may vary there. And now, the director of Persona 5 an…

Right, so, Deadlock. That Valve shooter which an entire village worth of people were already playing before it was officially announced as being a thing. It’s now letting players choose to turn those detected as having cheated into frogs before the ban hammer comes down.As with any big, competitive online game, it didn’t take long for Deadlock to develop some folks who were trying to gain an unfair advantage, even while it was still in in the penguins of Madagascar ‘you didn’t see anything (waves arms)’ phase of existence. Thankfully, Valve’s latest patch kicks off the process of tackling that issue.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As you can see from the videos of unarmed amphibians hopping around in Deadlock matches, the publisher’s taken a rathe…

Did you notice how we’ve yet to hear anything about Diablo 4’s next season? Keeping the upcoming season (and its theme) a mystery does make sense; it’s the one kicking off with Vesel of Hatred.Being the game’s first proper expansion, Vessel of Hatred has understandably stolen much of that spotlight. With its release being closer than ever, however, Blizzard is finally ready to spill the beans on Season 6.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The new season will undoubtedly be tied to the narrative of Vessel of Hatred, which is already up for pre-load for some people. This explains why the developer may have been hesitant to talk specifics until we’re much closer to launch. It’s very possible we still won’t know …

A group of former members of the original development team of RPG darling Disco Elysium have today revealed their first new title under a new UK studio: XXX Nightshift. No, you’re not getting deja vu – this really has happened twice in one day, with this reveal following hot on the heels of the announcement of Longdue, another indie studio from former Disco staffers.Dark Math Games’ first title will be a single-player science-fiction RPG that promises significant depth and unique mechanics.XXX Nightshift sees players dropped into the role of ‘Patrol Operative’ Dinorah Katz in the year 2086. Katz is stranded at a luxury ski resort in Antarctica – trapped alongside a multitude of characters. You’ll be solving cases and working with companions to role play and un…

To me, some of the best quests in The Witcher 3 – or a number of other RPGs for that matter – are the ones that decide to get a weird and embrace being a bizarre interlude in what can otherwise be a tale that takes itself pretty seriously. One of the latest quest mods to arrive for CD Projekt’s masterpiece looks like it’s decided to take that route.We’ve already reported on a couple of interesting submissions for CD Projekt’s most recent REDkit modding competition, which challenged folks to create their own two to three mission long questlines, with some modders having opted to put together hot air balloon adventures and trips to Cintra. Now, with the submission deadline of October 14 having passed, there are a bunch of last minute entries to check out.To see this content please enable tar…