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Dead Space directors land on Battlefield: Motive Studios joins DICE, Criterion, and Ripple Effect for future games With Battlefield 2042 content sunsetting, DICE enlists Motive’s storytelling expertise for next title. Image credit:DICE/Electronic Arts All good things come to an end, so the saying goes, and such is the case with Battlefield 2042 . Today, Electronic Arts announced DICE will not release future content for the game beyond Season 7, released last month ....

Den of Wolves - a futurist heist game from the creators of Payday - announced at The Game Awards Take that to the bank. A new heist shooter is coming… eventually. Image credit:10 Chambers Good news heist fans, the former Payday devs who went off and founded 10 Chambers have just revealed their own upcoming heist game - Den of Wolves ! First shown The Game Awards , it looks very much heist game with the level of attitude we’d expect from these folks....

Despicable Me 4’s Minions taking the mickey out of AI might just warm me up to the gibberish-spouting oddballs “The future is in good hands.” The Super Bowl gave us a Minion-focused mini-trailer last night, and, of all the things it could have been about, it was about how obviously bad AI generated art is. I am not what one would call a “Minions superfan.” I don’t really know anyone who particularly likes them, as popular as they are, except for maybe my dad, but he mostly just finds it funny when they say “banana” in that goofy voice they have....

Despite releasing a popular demo this summer, Fallout 1 remake mod Fallout: Vault 13 has now had its development “suspended” “This was not an easy decision, but we believe it is the right step at this stage of our journey.” Image credit:The Fallout Vault 13 team The team behind Fallout: Vault 13, a modding project dedicated to remaking the very first Fallout game in Fallout 4 , has announced that it’s made the decision to “suspend” development....

Diablo 4 debate: Does it really need to be an open world MMO? Is there such a thing as too much Diablo, and is it a liberty to have a battle pass for a $70 game? Diablo 4 is here, courtesy of one of gaming’s worst employers for fridge security, among other things. Allegedly. Despite being the product of a toxic work culture, it’s pretty darn good, with a lot of quality that the Diablo fan will appreciate....

Diablo 4 Reject the Mother quest solution Just say no The Diablo 4 Reject the Mother quest is another in the vein of side quests that throws you a cryptic clue and assumes you’ll know what to do with it. This one’s a bit more on-the-nose since the solution is in the quest’s name. If you’re hoping for a quick way to get some XP and gold, though, it’ll take a while before you can finish Reject the Mother....

Diablo 4’s third and final collab is with… StarCraft, and it looks just about as soulless as the Berserk cross-over Somehow, Diablo 4’s next collaboration event seems to be bringing back what everyone hated about the last one, while getting rid of the one thing people liked. Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment. We’re officially in the march towards the end of 2025. In Diablo 4 terms, we’re in the early days of the launch of the game’s last season of the year....

Do you need to pre-order Monster Hunter Wilds to play that upcoming beta test? “The answer is no,” Capcom kindly reminds you Image credit:Capcom It seems there’s been some confusion on who can play the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds beta test, and Capcom is here to set the record straight. The issue with so many developers doing public beta tests for their games these days, is that they all do things differently - sometimes they’re open, sometimes they’re closed, sign-ups work differently from place to place, flowery complicated language makes it unclear who can even take part in them....

Do you understand what Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is saying here about Roll7 and Intercept? Someone make it make sense “We didn’t shutter those studios”, publisher says about studios we all thought it’d shuttered. Image credit:Roll7 Ok, so, you remember when it looked an awful lot like Take-Two was shutting down both Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and Roll7 - the studio behind Rollerdrome and OlliOlli World - earlier this month?...

Dune Awakening will let players dress like those nasty Sardaukar, but it’ll cost a pretty penny Prices for each of the game’s editions are out and for a bit of cash, a cool look can be yours. Image credit:Funcom More Dune Awakening news is here, following Joel Byros and Funcom’s short video breaking down the post-launch plan for the game . Price points for each version of the game have been revealed, and yes, the Sardaukar armour can be yours…for a price....

EA is killing its Origin PC app soon, so it’s a shame the EA app that replaced it isn’t that much better EA is officially shutting down the old and creaky Origin PC app because it runs on such old code Windows no longer supports it. Image credit:EA Origin, the original PC app for publisher EA, will be ceasing operations on April 17, 2025. Origin was EA’s first foray into creating its own PC store, back when it was common for major publishers to ditch Steam in order to avoid paying a 30% cut to Valve....

Elden Ring director Miyazaki is interested in making a traditional JRPG, but sorry nerds, that doesn’t mean you’re getting an Enchanted Arms sequel I’m sure you’re devastated that an ok game from 2006 isn’t gonna suddenly be resurrected. Image credit:FromSoftware A whole bunch of folks are currently busy digging into Elden Ring ’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion now that it’s out, but if you love a good JRPG, it might be worth pausing your trip to the Land of Shadow to absorb what director Hidetaka Miyazaki recently said about digging the idea of him spearheading development on one....

Elden Ring has shipped 20 million units worldwide Godrick has killed many a Tarnished it seems. Bandai Namco Entertainment and FromSoftware have announced that the co-developed action RPG, Elden Ring , has shipped more than 20 million units worldwide. Released on February 25, 2022, Elden Ring is a critically and publicly acclaimed title, and won various awards throughout the year, and is one of the best-selling games of the year in both the US and overseas....

Elden Ring itself and Shadow of the Erdtree have now been beaten in one go solely via killer hedgehog cosplay, and it took less than 13 hours Ok, it’s technically more a porcupine strat, but how quickly it happened definitely has echoes of Sonic. Image credit:VG247/FromSoftware Ok, you remember that Aspects of the Crucible: Thorns incantation FromSoft showed off as part of the official images for Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree we got long before it came out....

Elden Ring Smithing Stone guide: Locations and Bell Bearings Forget power-levelling, upgrading your weapon is really the best way to beat Elden Ring’s toughest challenges. Update: We’ve added interactive maps to show the location of every Smithing Stone across Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree. So you’ve been playing FromSoftware’s gargantuan RPG - Elden Ring - for a few hours and, unless you’re some sort of Soulsborne master, doing this without upgrading your weapons using Elden Ring’s Smithing Stones and Somber Smithing Stones , has probably been teaching you some harsh lessons....

Enter the chicken jockey: A Minecraft movie scores the biggest US domestic debut in game adaptation history, as some people seemingly pay just to go nuts at the meme lines Do you have to lob popcorn everywhere or take your shirt off just cos Jack Black said a thing? Image credit:Mojang/Warner Bros. Well, A Minecraft Movie is now out, and its opening weekend at the US box office has gone pretty well - like the biggest amount of dollar signs a video game adaptation has ever chucked at people who already have a lot of money sort of well....

ER Shadow of the Erdtree Scadutree Fragment locations Need an extra boost in Shadow of the Erdtree? That’s where Scadutree Fragments come in. Image credit:FromSoftware UPDATE: We’ve added an interactive map showing the location of every Scadutree fragment to the second section of this page. Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion comes with some new difficulty modifiers - Scadutree Fragments - that it definitely encourages you to use. This is a great help to those who’s builds aren’t quite where you want them to be, and saves you from spending your time Rune farming for levels when really, you probably want to be following Miquella’s trail....

Eternal Strands is a great reminder that creative tools and reactiveness in big open-world sandboxes trump content bloat The sort of intrepid game design you don’t see much of anymore. Image credit:Yellow Brick Games Eternal Strands has quietly become one of early 2025’s biggest surprises. While it’s not topping the sales charts nor dominating the online conversation, the sentiment which surrounds it is generally positive , and in the age of bloated open-world experiences (which are otherwise good), many players are finding great comfort in its smarter approach to world size and tightening the gameplay loop....

Even The Last of Us developer, Naughty Dog, can’t avoid cutting back development in 2023 The affected contractors are expected to continue working until the end of October. In the latest round of upsetting news for the games industry, Naughty Dog is the next studio to make cuts, this time for at least 25 contractors. This comes from Kotaku , who spoke with two sources reporting that the cuts were communicated internally at the studio last week....

Everything we know about 2XKO (Project L) the Riot Games fighting game, and all character reveals Here’s everything we currently know about the upcoming fighting game from Riot Games. Image credit:VG247 / Riot Games It’s 2025 and that means one thing: we’ve finally made it to the 2XKO launch year. As such, it’s only a matter of months until we’ll finally be able to get our hands on the full game....