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Geoff Keighley has announced the list of 30 games that will be subject to a community vote to crown one winner at The Game Awards. While the rest of the awards are very heavily weighted towards what critics vote for, this is 100 per cent community-led. A series of rounds will knock games out...

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle kicks off its early access period this Friday, and ahead of that initial release, the team has dropped the game's official launch trailer - providing a good look at what to expect from MachineGames' new Xbox adventure. With that iconic soundtrack in tow, this...

Microsoft has just revealed the next eight games leaving Xbox Game Pass in the early part of December 2024, and this batch includes some huge titles - with the most notable being the departure of Forza Horizon 4 as it gets delisted. In the case of Forza Horizon 4, the game will no longer be...

Helldivers 2 was the big winner at the 2024 TIGA Awards, scooping Game of the Year, Best Visual Design, and Best Technical Innovation. The chaotic co-op shooter set the world on fire when it launched back in February (god, that feels like so long ago), but its popularity steadily declined as...

Back in September, Koei Tecmo announced another Atelier game for Switch. We still don't have a precise release date for the catchily-titled (deep breath) Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian, but we do know that it'll be launching at some point in 2025. Other details are...

Brace Yourself Games - known for titles like Crypt of the NecroDancer and Cadence of Hyrule - has announced its new rhythm title Rift of the NecroDancer will launch on 5th February 2025. This game was confirmed for the Switch in 2023 during an Indie Direct and since then it's received some...

Every new Wholesome Direct results in my game wishlist overflowing with cute and cozy games. Hovering around the top slots from the showcase's 2024 edition is Squeakross: Home Squeak Home. (It helps that I love pet rats, having had two pairs in the past: Cow, Pig, Leigh, and Zoe.) The...

David Jones has confirmed that he is working on a new entry in his beloved Magic Knight series, just in time for its 40th anniversary. "2025 will bring a new Magic Knight game," he says on BlueSky. "The series stopped in 1987, and now, for the 40th anniversary of the launch of the first game...

Welcome to this week's Xbox Game Pass update! Over the next couple of days, we have two fresh additions coming to the library, including the 2023 squad-based shooter Aliens: Dark Descent. But first, let's start with today's brand-new addition to Game Pass: Nine Sols (Console, PC, Cloud) -...

Earlier this year, Retro-Bit announced it was reissuing Jaleco's Rod Land on NES and Game Boy – and now, those same carts are arriving in the hands of customers who pre-ordered them months ago. We were lucky enough to be sent some copies to show off here, and we're pleased to report that...

While point-and-click adventures were pretty popular back in the 1990s, a few examples of the genre have been forgotten over time – none more so than Noah's Ark, a Japanese PC / Mac title from 1995 published by NEC InterChannel. Only released in Japan, the existence of the game was only...

The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has been transformed into a full 3D character for this year's Island of the Year in Fortnite. As with previous years, developer Epic Games has created a full interactive experience for you to test out the nominees and engage with minigames. But there's more...

In another sad piece of news for the industry, developer Humanoid Origin has announced its closure. The Canadian studio was formed in 2021 by former BioWare veteran Casey Hudson, and it was working on a "character-driven" AAA sci-fi title. Previously, Hudson had been the director of the...

Paradox Interactive's sprawling city builder Cities: Skylines 2 launched on PC Game Pass over a year ago now, and at the time, its console version was delayed due to optimization issues. Since then, the game has been delayed and delayed even further - and it sounds like we're no closer to that...

Earlier this month, the team at Rebellion invited us to try out Sniper Elite: Resistance - and after the success of 2022's Sniper Elite 5, we just couldn't say no to some more stealthy sniping action. Moving to a more familiar World War 2 location in Nazi-occupied France, this upcoming Sniper...

Now that we seemingly know what's to come on Xbox Game Pass for the rest of November, we're taking an early look ahead to the final month of the year - but sadly there's only one title confirmed for Game Pass in December 2024 so far. That title is obviously a huge one in the form of Indiana...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the first series entry to launch day one on Xbox Game Pass, and naturally, that led to questions about whether such a move would affect sales. While the title's Game Pass inclusion seems to have dented Xbox sales specifically, PC and PS5 have more than pulled their...

Microsoft, and the Xbox Game Pass team, has done its fair share of marketing when it comes to putting Stalker 2 in the public eye - but it doesn't seem to have had too much of an effect on traditional game sales, even this close to release. Just two days after it hit physical and digital store...

Love the series or leave it alone, The Last of Us Part II Remastered is a stunning game and a perfect way to showcase the power of the PS5 Pro. In a new trailer, developers from Naughty Dog explain why this is the ultimate, definitive, absolutely ideal way to play; we got distracted thinking...

Tomohiko Sho is humble about his personal accomplishments when we meet him in a swish Parisian hotel basement after several hours of hands-on time with Dynasty Warriors: Origins. "I practiced martial arts," he casually informs us, moments after admitting he's practically a scholar of 14th...