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It’s a big year for Returnal now that it has won in four categories at the 2022 BAFTA Awards. Housemarque’s roguelike space shooter has taken home the award for Best Game, beating out such games as Deathloop, Forza Horizon 5, Inscryption, It Takes Two, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. See the announcement from Push here.  ...

It’s all about the nostalgia this year as Remedy Games announced last Wednesday that they will be working on remasters of both their legendary games, Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. The games will come out for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. Rockstar Games, the current holder of franchise rights, will be providing the funding for both games, “the size of which will be in line with a typical Remedy AAA-game...

Amazon Games has given us a heads up on what the future of Lost Ark will be like for April and May. We're getting two new classes, a new continent, and even more content.      Glaives and Hammers The Glaivier is the first of the new classes and is coming this April. A female advanced...

Guybrush Threepwood lives! It’s been almost 32 years since the very first Curse of Monkey Island hit the shelves and signaled the peak of LucasArts’ point-and-click adventure games. It’s also been 13 years since the last entry to the series, Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island. But finally, we have a proper sequel with Return to Monkey Island, launching later this year and picking up from where Monkey Island 2 left off. Here’s the announcement trailer.  ...

Remakes and ports to new platforms can give good games new life. Coincidentally, this month of April is packed with several games that have been either remade, ported, or both. Here they are in order of release: Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition  April 7, 2022     Chrono Trigger’s critically acclaimed sequel now comes to the PC,...

Indie games are great because of their continuous updates and openness to crossovers, like with Dead Cells crossing over with the likes of Hollow Knight, Blasphemous, Hyper Light Drifter, Guacamelee, Skul: The Hero Slayer, and Curse of the Dead Gods. Now, Aurora from Child of Light is getting the same treatment, becoming the final playable character in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.  ...

Developer Heart Machine announced that they are making Hyper Light Breaker, a sequel to their action RPG hit Hyper Light Drifter. Only this time, they are trading the original’s top-down view and 2D pixels for stylized 3D graphics and wide open-world biomes that players can explore. Check out the announcement trailer now:  ...

After several delays, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe finally has a release date, and it’s absolutely perfect. The launch is on April 27th—4/27, which are the digits on Stanley’s office door. Here’s the latest trailer for The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, a loving recreation of the original trailer with a few significant changes.      The Stanley...

The launch of New World’s biggest update thus far has been slightly delayed to March 30 to give time for developers to fix a bug. Amazon Games made the announcement on their Twitter page along with an apology. After testing we have decided to hold on releasing the Heart of Madness update until Wednesday morning (3/30). This delay is caused by a bug found late and needs to be fixed before...

Enter the spooky side of real estate with this new horror-comedy game: Haunted House Renovator, a cross between House Flipper and Phasmophobia. Developed by Image Power S.A.,  Haunted House Renovator puts you in the shoes of a one-person renovator crew seeking to remodel abandoned houses into profitable homes for buyers. Before you can do that, however, you need to get rid of the ghosts living in the domicile. Check out the hilarious trailer here:  ...

The Ghostbusters franchise got a shot at a second life, first cinematically with Ghostbusters: Afterlife and now as a new video game—Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. Unlike the previous Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Spirits Unleashed is a 4v1 multiplayer game where you can play either as a Ghostbuster or as a ghost. The game is slated for release towards the end of 2022. Have a look at the trailer here:  ...

Sons of the Forest has been delayed to October this year. Developer Endnight Games had originally announced the game was in development in 2019, then two years later revealed a release date of May 2022. However, now it seems to be a bridge too far at this time and we’ll have to wait till October. At least it will be in time for Halloween and not pushed back until next year, like...

In a rare turn of events, CD Projekt Red has actually confirmed a rumor instead of leaving fans to wonder. The image they teased for their new The Witcher game shows a medallion from the School of the Lynx, a Witcher school that didn't exist before now.     According to global communication director Robert Malinowski: "Some mysteries should not be so mysterious", "I can confirm that the medallion is, in fact, shaped after a...

Would you care to take a trip to Yara for the weekend? Ubisoft’s open-world FPS Far Cry 6 is free to play for the weekend of March 24 to March 27. That’s three full days of guns, goons, and gold. To not waste time, you may preload the game from the Epic Store and Ubisoft Connect starting today. If you like the game, you can purchase it at a discounted price, and your saves...

It’s been a long time coming, but yesterday we finally have confirmation of a new The Witcher game officially under development, “kicking off a new saga for the franchise.” That said, it may not feature the main character of The Witcher at all.  A brand new saga Geralt has been equated with the series ever since the first The Witcher hit gaming shelves. It's fairly difficult to imagine the games without him.   ...

Gearbox’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is launching this March 25. An irreverent take on tabletop RPGs and Borderlands lore itself, Wonderlands was inspired by the Borderlands DLC Assault on Dragon Keep, which was itself inspired by the RPG Dungeons & Dragons. Have a look at the Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands launch trailer to see exactly how deep this rabbit hole goes:  ...

Vampire: The Masquerade is getting quite a bit of buzz this past year, with the free-to-play Bloodhunt, Coteries of New York, Shadows of New York, and the upcoming Bloodlines 2. Now we have yet another game coming this May 19: Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong. You can check out the gameplay trailer now:  ...

Supermassive Games is continuing its horror streak with The Quarry. We got a good look at the game's spiritual successor to their hit slasher game Until Dawn, through the trailer released today.     This time, nine teenage counselors of Hackett's Quarry are spending the last night of summer camp by throwing an enormous party. As...

A new Bethesda developer diary episode surfaced featuring new elements of the upcoming RPG space saga Starfield. Have a look at the video here:     According to lead quest designer, Will Shen, the game will have several main factions that the player can join—or work against. The first is the United...

No, we didn't get a new Dino Crisis announcement from the PlayStation State of Play event, but we got perhaps the next best thing—a new IP from Capcom called Exoprimal. Check out the trailer now.     Mesozoic Mayhem The year is 2043, and for some reason, portals through time keep opening and hordes of dinosaurs come pouring...