Well crack my knuckles and call me Roger, Tekken 8 has only gone and announced another character to be released as DLC in early April. What's that? You already suspected Anna Williams would be added to the 3D fighting game soon? Well, if you're so smart, why did Final Fantasy XVI swordsman Clive beat her to the punch, huh? Sit down, be quiet, and eat your trailer. I write the news articles here.
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Elden Ring Nightreign might be a major revamp of FromSofware’s soulslike multiplayer experience, but it’s actually a careful evolution of a system the studio has been refining for years. From Demon’s Souls to Bloodborne, the developer has always pushed the envelope with co-op experiences; the iconic summoning and messaging systems still feel like a novel concept all these years later. That said, constantly having to rejoin friends after defeating bosses or dying quickly becomes frustrating. One ...
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The Witch Beam team (Unpacking, Assault Android Cactus) are back with a whimsical, charming adventure in Tempopo. It's just been announced that it will release on April 17th. There's a new trailer and demo up.
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Team Fortress 2 Classic, a mod that aims to re-imagine the early post-launch era of Team Fortress 2, will be released on Steam.
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Assassin's Creed Shadows publisher Ubisoft has responded to the leak of story details and gameplay footage from its upcoming samurai stabathon, a month ahead of the game's release date.
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DC boss James Gunn has confirmed he's in talks with both Rocksteady and NetherRealm to develop new games in the DC Universe.
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At first glance, The Horror at Highrook seems like a game of supernatural Cluedo. As a team of investigators arrive at a spooky manor, you're presented with a top-down floor plan of the mansion, and some player cards representing your intrepid explorers. But you're not trying to work out if Colonel Mustard murdered Professor Plum in the dining room with a lead pipe here. Rather, your job is to figure out why Lord Ackeron and his family have mysteriously vanished from their ancestral home. It's r...
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Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter where the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. A really clever idea, and a game I had a lot of fun with previously and now it has improved Steam Deck support too.
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Apple and Indonesia have agreed on terms to lift the country's five-month ban on iPhone 16 sales, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloomberg. The deal concludes a battle that began in October, when Indonesia refused to issue permits for Apple's flagship iPhone lineup over Apple's failure to comply with domestic manufacturing requirements. Under the agreement, Apple will invest $1 billion in Indonesia, a significant increase from its previous commitments of $10 million an...
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One of the best puzzle games ever returns! Croteam and Devolver Digital have announced The Talos Principle: Reawakened is set for launch on April 10, and there's a demo you can try out right now too as part of Steam Next Fest.
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Looks like more of a sidegrade.
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"Disappointingly, I just grinded for an AI-generated calling card."
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It wants "more fans" to experience Pokémon TCG. Pokémon Trading Card sets like Prismatic Evolutions are in high demand at the moment and it doesn't look like things will be slowing down any time soon. In response to the TCG's latest spike in popularity, GameStop has announced it has discontinued pre-orders. This includes implementing purchase limits in-store on select SKUs. Here's the official notice, along with the reasoning behind this decision:
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NetEase is on it.
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Ending this May. Ahead of the arrival of Monster Hunter Wilds later this week, the Monster Hunter-style game Dauntless has announced it will be shutting down. This game, developed by Phoenix Labs, was originally released on the Switch eShop in December 2019. Here's the team's official update (via Steam), confirming the game will no longer be available as of 29th May 2025.
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Pump the volume. Nintendo has continued the trend of releasing one soundtrack a release for its music app, and the latest addition is album for the 1988 NES release Super Mario Bros. 2. Although the game itself might not be quite as popular as certain other Mario side-scrollers, the soundtrack is an absolute banger. This album contains a total of 14 tracks with a runtime of eight minutes. Here's the full tracklist:
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"Loading.. new parks". Activision has been teasing the return of the legendary Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series over the past week and now in an update today, the official social media game account has shared another update.
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Just weeks after laying off the "majority" of its staff, developer Phoenix Labs has announced it's shutting down its free-to-play Monster Hunter-style action game, Dauntless.
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All the reveals, all the announcements. Earlier on, Xbox held a special indie showcase featuring all sorts of games on the way to the green machine and certain other platforms. Many of these games happen to be coming to the Switch, so we've put together a round up of everything featured during the show that is en route to Nintendo's hybrid system. Along with this, we've also got the release date and release windows. Here you go:
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The new season of Andor comes to Disney+ April 22, packing 12 episodes into just four weeks.
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OpenAI today updated the ChatGPT app to add a new Safari Extension that allows ChatGPT to be used as the default search engine for searches made through the Safari search bar. After updating to the latest version of the ChatGPT app, the ChatGPT Search Extension can be enabled in the Safari section of the Settings app. Turning it on directs all queries typed in to the Safari search bar to ChatGPT Search instead of Google or whatever your default search engine is set to. Turning on this extension ...
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A League of Legends card game to rival Magic The Gathering? Oooh yes, that sounds like a winner. While they can be expensive hobbies, a great TCG can lure in huge crowds. Sure, Riot Games already has its digital LoL card game, Legends of Runeterra, but there’s something about gathering around a table in-person, watching decks compete in front of your own eyes, and holding a physical card between your fingers that a videogame can’t replicate. So when I saw Riot reveal its new TCG, known at the mi...
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Apple is beta testing iOS 18.4 at the current time, and while the update doesn't have the Apple Intelligence Siri features we were hoping for, there are a number of new additions that are worth knowing about. Priority Notifications - Apple Intelligence There is a new Priority Notifications feature that can show you your most important notifications first. Priority Notifications is disabled by default, but it can be turned on by going to Settings > Notifications > Prioritize Notifications and tap...
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Straight out of 1993, new narrative-driven management game Rockbeasts lets you manage an up-and-coming rock band. Their fortune and health is riding on you and your choices, from the mundane to the interpersonal. Rockbeasts draws most readily on the grimy aesthetic of adult animation on MTV and in shows like BoJack Horseman. The cast is a set of misfit animals (literally), whose demons and angels you must cultivate or squash on the rocky road to success. This dark comedy title, freshly revealed ...
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Despelote is heading to Switch, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC on May 1. Despelote is a super stylish soccer game that's secretly about life in the Ecuadorian city of Quito in 2001, and it comes from local developers Julián Cordero and Sebastián Valbuena, and published by Panic. You play as 8-year-old Julián, and spend your time kicking the ball, meeting people and exploring life during Ecuador's economic recovery just ahead of the unifying 2002 World Cup. The in-game city comprises...
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It looks good as hell, and the update also improves performance while adding two bonus levels.
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The beta plays like a mix of Overwatch and Armored Core 6.
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There's no PvP and it's not open world, but it still has a lot in common with Rare's pirate sandbox.
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It's been a bit of a showcase-y start to the week - first with Annapurna Interactive doing its thing and now with another instalment of Microsoft's occassional indie-focused ID@Xbox showcase. This time around, we got a couple of new announcements, a whole bunch of release dates, a tanuki postie, a fresh helping of Tron, another look at that Lies of P DLC, and more. And if you missed any of the announcements, you can read on to learn more.
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After somehow both teasing it a month ago and shadow-dropping it Monday alongside Annapurna Interactive’s 2025 showcase, Sayonara Wild Hearts is now available on PlayStation 5. Granted, you’ve been able to play the PlayStation 4 version on PS5 forever, but now you can play in 4k with 120 fps visuals and haptic feedback in the...
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In the wake of recent reports of Chinese publisher NetEase pulling funding and cancelling games, some studios funded by the maker of Marvel Rivals and Eggy Party have spoken up to calm fears that they too might be affected. Over the weekend, veteran game designer Greg Street of Fantastic Pixel Castle, which is making an...
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Select SKUs will also be getting purchase limits.
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Amazon-owned Twitch Interactive is suing former League of Legends professional Kirill Konstantinovich Malofeyev, better known online as Likkrit, after he sued the company — and won — in a Russian court over the suspension of his Twitch account. Twitch filed the 25-page lawsuit, which has been reviewed by Polygon, in a San Francisco court on...
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Logitech is giving its Powerplay lineup of wireless charging accessories some much-needed juice with a follow-up to the Powerplay mouse pad. The Logitech Powerplay 2 mouse pad is a less expensive, and slimmer version of its original Powerplay mouse pad from 2017, and will be backwards compatible with Logitech’s existing family of Powerplay accessories. Compared...
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