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Annapurna Interactive, the publisher behind games like Stray and Neon White, held a showcase today to reveal new games, and updates for previously announced ones, shine the spotlight on new developers, and more. It even unveiled its first-ever first-party game. We have all that and more in our breakdown below.  Here’s everything announced during the 2023

Annapurna Interactive has revealed Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, a new game set in the same world as the Blade Runner film series, and it’s the first game developed in-house.  Annapurna has published plenty of great games, but it announced last year that it had created a new internal studio to actually develop one. And now we know

Thirsty Suitors will be released on PlayStation, Xbox (including Xbox Game Pass), Switch, and PC on November 2, it’s been revealed.  This news comes by way of today’s Annapurna Interactive Showcase, where developer Outerloop Games released a new trailer showing off more of what to expect in this RPG that’s one part a skateboarding game,

Stray was first revealed by publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Blue Twelve years ago, at the same event where the PlayStation 5 was revealed. It finally hit PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 last year alongside a PC release, and in two months, it’s finally coming to Xbox.  Stray will launch on Xbox Series X/S and

Annapurna Interactive have announced their first internally developed game at their publishing showcase this evening, and it’s an all-new Blade Runner game. Exciting! It’s called Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, and it’s set “squarely between” the original Blade Runner film and its more recent sequel, Blade Runner 2049, say Annapurna. The reveal trailer doesn’t give too

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced a massive restructuring, where it will be closing its Los Angeles office, terminating over 200 employees, and scaling back development on a few titles as it narrows its focus towards supporting current titles while increasing its commitment to mixed and augmented reality development. In an email sent to staff by

Player-versus-player-versus-nightmare monstrosity shooter Hunt: Showdown has patched in its latest boss, a flippin’ great big gator called Rotjaw who looks as nasty as she sounds.

Disney Illusion Island is an upcoming “Mickeyvania” exclusive to Switch and after being revealed over a year ago, it’s finally out next month. Dlala Studios and Disney have released a new story trailer to prepare potential players for what’s in store on the island.  Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy mysteriously arrive on

Monitor arms are brilliant. I’ve got three in my office, somehow, where they elevate my screens above my desk so that I can use all of the space below for my keyboard, mouse and other knicknacks without needing to awkwardly position things around the base of a monitor stand. They’re a total game-changer that I

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the ambitious follow-up to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, finally hit Switch last month. We’ve now learned, thanks to video game analyst group Circana, that it was, unsurprisingly, the best selling game of the month. However, it’s also already the second best selling game of 2023, behind

Like Phasmophobia, Among Us and BattleBit Remastered before it, it’s time for a new indie game to blow up on Twitch and keep thousands enthralled for at least a day or two before something else comes along. This time around, it’s the turn of Only Up, a bizarre game about climbing your way into the

Publisher Humble Games and developer Crema have revealed Temtem Showdown, a new standalone battle-focused game, and it’s out right now.  This surprise reveal comes less than a year after the full 1.0 release of Temtem, the game that Showdown is based on. Similar to Pokemon Showdown, Temtem Showdown is all about battling. It’s also free

My purchase last year of a Steam Deck rekindled my long-dormant love for arcade racers. High quality and modern entries in the genre are few and far between, though. Enter New Star GP, which looks like it might fill the whole in my heart that’s been there since I played F1 Pole Position on the

Best Way have announced the release date for their WW2 RTS Men Of War 2, and it’s coming in one of the busiest months of the year so far for big PC releases. Arriving on September 20th on Steam and the Epic Games Store, Men Of War 2 joins the likes of Lies Of P,

As Steam Next Fests go, I think the one this June has easily been one of the best Next Fests in a little while. Seeing all the great demos this week has made me far more excited about the future of video games than any of the notE3 streams did the other week, and I’m

Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond has claimed that Activision Blizzard demanded Microsoft provide a larger revenue share to put new Call of Duty games on the platform, according to a new report from IGN.  This news comes from yesterday’s court trial between Xbox (and Activision Blizzard) and the Federal Trade Commission over Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of

During today’s Sonic Central stream to celebrate the anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, Sonic Team announced that the second free content update on Sonic Frontiers’ 2023 roadmap, titled Sonic’s Birthday Bash, is available today. The update was announced in November 2022 as part of the game’s 2023 roadmap. The Sonic’s Birthday Bash update

Sonic Superstars received prime placement in both the Summer Game Fest 2023 stream and this week’s Nintendo Direct. As you might imagine, today’s Sonic Central also shined a spotlight on the highly anticipated 2D Sonic game. We received a new trailer that showed off some new DLC coming to Sonic Superstars that features a collaboration