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Some mild spoilers for Alan Wake 2 ahead. Alan Wake 2 is a game full of confident moments that reject pre-conceived notions of how certain genres should play out, something which is increasingly rarer in the AAA games space. After all, one of the game’s best moments (which almost got cut) is something many would

The Modern Warfare 3 (2023) campaign is out in the wild, finally giving Call of Duty fans their first taste of the upcoming blockbuster first-person shooter (FPS). Released as part of a week-long early access period, this single-player portion of the game could offer a small insight into what the multiplayer mode might hold when

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, originally meant to release in 2003 but never saw the light of day, is now playable for the first time. There are plenty of games that get announced, have all the right ingredients, but still get cancelled for one reason or another. You would think that a character like Daredevil,

Sonic and Mario’s rivalry is possibly destined to never end, as one Sega executive has said he wants the blue blur to “surpass Mario.” The battle between Mario and Sonic is a tale as old as time, going back all the way to the days when Sega still made consoles. Of course, as beloved as

Hearthstone Battlegrounds, the auto-battler spin-off to Blizzard‘s card game Hearthstone is getting its own spin-off, with a new team-based mode that will allow you to group up with your friends and throw down with opponents.  The new mode was announced on stage at Blizzcon 2024 by the lead director, Cora Georgiou, and the new mode

BlizzCon 2023 is here, folks, and we have a date with another one of the Diablo 4 Campfire Chat livestreams. On this special episode of the developer-led, but less formal than standard dev streams, Blizzard will touch on what more we can expect in Season of Blood, and even beyond that. Are we going to

Project L will finally be playable once again 92 days after we first got our hands on it at Evo 2023. The news was sneakily revealed on the Project L website this weekend with little fanfare. However, if you want to play Riot Games’ upcoming fighting game, you’ll need to be on Seoul, Korea. This

World of Warcraft‘s newest expansion, The War Within, has been announced during Blizzcon 2023’s opening ceremony. The War Within kicks off the multi-part Worldsong Saga, a trilogy of expansions that Blizzard claims will celebrate World of Warcraft‘s 20th anniversary, which is in 2024. The War Within will be launching next year during those anniversary celebrations

From Alan Wake (he’s A. Wake, get it? Get it?) to Miles Prower, there are loads of video game protagonists whose names are rubbish puns. Well, actually there aren’t, but it’s happened just often enough that there’s sufficient material for this edition of VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast. Halloween fell between the gaps of our

Overkill and Starbreeze have released the first patch for Payday 3 and it features some balancing and fixes technical issues. With balancing, the team wanted to mainly focus on minor fixes this time out and said it is well aware that Last Man Standing and Armor Up are performing too well. The plan is to

Fallout 5 is technically being worked on in some capacity. This is generally all we know about the next mainline Fallout game however, with Microsoft and Bethesda keeping quiet for now. This is likely because the team will be releasing two major titles before Fallout 5. Starfield is the first Bethesda game that is set

According to the bigwigs at Electronic Arts, EAFC 24’s launch managed to turn the popular FIFA series into a “powerful, interactive platform for the future of football fandom.” Yes, that’s the same game which, quite recently, briefly suffered from an issue involving sticky balls which proved such a big problem that some players were afraid

Here’s the deal in a nutshell – Robocop: Rogue City is, much like the film that inspires it, a work made by a brilliant creative team whose ambition frequently collides with the resources available to them. The result is an overall experience that’s infinitely better than it has any right to be: janky, and a

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 has had something of a rocky development. The game was initially supposed to be released all the way back in March 2020, but after several delays, the project appears to have been refocused entirely.  The Chinese Room is now the main studio heading up the development of Vampire The Masquerade

Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus games for November. The November titles are Mafia 2: Definitive Edition, Dragon Ball: The Breakers, and Aliens Fireteam Elite. Mafia 2: Definitive Edition (PS4) is the remastered version of the game. If you’ve never played the game before. It takes place during the golden era of organized crime and

CD Projekt is aiming to try and mirror the incredible transformation seen across its Witcher games with its follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077. This is according to CD Projekt Red narrative director Igor Sarzyński, who told PC Gamer that, when it comes to working on Cyberpunk’s sequel, the studio’s collective aim is to emulate the kind

Haunted Chocolatier is the newest RPG simulation game from the award-winning developer behind Stardew Valley. From what we’ve seen so far, this RPG seeks to tell its own tale and step out of the shadow the Stardew casts.  In Haunter Chocolatier, players will be faced with the goal of making the most delicious dessert possible.

As product names go, Star Ocean: The Second Story R buries the lede. That ‘R’ stands for ‘Remake’ – and if I were behind the marketing of this title, I’d really want to emphasize that this is a full-blown, ground-up do-over. Like, R could stand for ‘remaster’ – this ain’t that. This is a full-fat