Only accessible after you’ve completed the main story of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Claws of Awaji is a post-game expansion that’ll take you somewhere between five and ten hours to complete, depending on how thoroughly you explore the island setting. In terms of narrative, the DLC wraps up several loose ends that were left dangling by
Read MoreBloody good show by Robert Ramsey Yesterday, 5:30pm Following a widespread backlash against Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 and its paywalled clans, publisher Paradox Interactive and developer The Chinese Room have officially ditched their DLC plans. Two clans — which basically act as your character’s class — were set to be locked behind a
Read MoreStill no date though by Stephen Tailby Yesterday, 5pm We love a good retro-style beat-’em-up, and Marvel Cosmic Invasion is looking like another cracker. Developer Tribute Games, which previously brought us TMNT Shredder’s Revenge, has unveiled two more playable characters in the latest trailer: Yes, Black Panther and Cosmic Ghost Rider are now part of
Read MoreWorse performance the more you play by Liam Croft Yesterday, 4:30pm The technical issues that have plagued Oblivion Remastered since its launch appear to be flaring up in recent release Borderlands 4, also, as PS5 players report of worse performance the longer they play. With suggestions the new looter shooter is also suffering from memory
Read MoreAdHoc Studio is a development team led by some ex-Telltale Games talent, and it really shows in its debut game, Dispatch. It’s a workplace comedy starring superheroes, and by and large, it looks as though it plays out in much the same way as titles such as Tales from the Borderlands. Dispatch is a mostly
Read MoreThree waves starting next week Image: Nintendo Super Mario’s 40th anniversary is now underway and Nintendo’s been promoting it with all sorts of announcements and reveals. As part of the ongoing celebrations, next month Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 is returning for Switch. Ahead of this, Nintendo has also announced a new
Read MoreUpdate: English version now available Update : Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Nintendo has now launched its earlier Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer in English, so you can get the translated rundown of both games. You’ll find it in full above. Original Story: The Super
Read MoreTwo Namco games join ‘Nintendo Classics’ Nintendo has today announced it will be expanding its Switch Online + Expansion Pack service with two more games for the Game Boy Advance library. They include the Namco titles Mr. Driller 2 and Klonoa: Empire of Dreams, and they’ll be arriving next week on 25th September 2025. The
Read MoreComing to Switch platforms later this year The arcade-style beat ’em up MARVEL Cosmic Invasion is on its way to the Switch and Switch 2 later this year. Ahead of release, Dotemu and Tribute Games have slowly been revealing new playable characters. This week, a new trailer has dropped for Black Panther and Cosmic Ghost
Read MoreLocal release date TBA by Liam Doolan 12:30am Update : We’ve finally got an update about the development status of R-Type Tactics I • II Cosmos, with Granzella this week announcing it will now be arriving next year in Japan on 12th March 2026 for 6,380 yen (thanks again, Gematsu). The
Read MoreParadox Interactive, White Wolf, and The Chinese Room have announced that the Lasombra and Toreador Clans have been added to the Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 base game. This follows significant fan pushback against the original plan to charge players to access these clans as part of launch premium downloadable content…Read More
Read MoreCasting details for Amazon’s forthcoming Mass Effect TV series have leaked, with fans speculating on which characters from the games will be included. Read more…Read More
Read MoreEpisodic games, much like baggy jeans and curtain haircuts, may be about to make a comeback, and once again it’s Telltale staff – former Telltale staff – who are leading the charge. Read more…Read More
Read MoreTelltale’s second series-slash-sequel, The Wolf Among Us 2, has become notoriously hard to pin down. Originally announced in 2017, the game disappeared when Telltale closed in 2018, then it was resurrected in 2019 only to disappear again in 2023, amid what sounded like burnout from crunch…Read More
Read MoreA brand-new Dragon Quest game has been revealed – and no, I don’t mean Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined. Read more…Read More
Read More(Image credit: IO Interactive) 007 First Light is pretty new territory for Hitman developer IO Interactive (IOI), as long-range combat is no longer a “last resort” for players; seeing as they’re assuming the role of James flippin’ Bond, shooting guns is a core component of the game. Talking to our pals over at PC Gamer
Read More(Image credit: Dark Horse Comics) Between the original books, the beloved RPG series, and the hit Netflix show, Geralt of Rivia is by now a multimedia superstar, and his journeys in the world of comics aren’t stopping anytime soon, either. A new, four-issue miniseries called The Witcher: Blood Stone is set to kick off in
Read More(Image credit: Nitroplus) If you expect me to apologize for having inappropriate thoughts about Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre and his dirty bat claws, or for quoting the part in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession where Isabelle Adjani says about the quivering mass of pus and tentacles in her bed, “He made love to me all night,”
Read More(Image credit: Pocket Pair) Nintendo’s lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair is still ongoing and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, but a new look at the case files suggests a pretty striking stance from the Nintendo legal team: in essence, they’re arguing that mods don’t count as real games. In 2021, shortly before the release
Read More(Image credit: Lizard Smoothie / Neowiz) I was quite taken with MOBA-style action roguelike Shape of Dreams when it dropped a demo during the first Steam Next Fest of the year, and it seems a lot of other people are also loving it now that it’s out. Within 24 hours of its Steam launch on
Read MoreGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. No list rounding up the best movies of the 20th century would be complete without One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is releasing on
Read MoreGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Back in the ’90s, Aeon Flux helped MTV establish itself as more than just a hub for music videos. The animated series became a cult-classic thanks to its groundbreaking animation and surreal sci-fi story. The show then
Read MoreGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Borderlands 4 arrived last week, and planet Kairos is ripe for the looting. Gearbox Studios has released a handful of stats from Borderlands 4 that reveal just how far some players are willing to go to find
Read MoreGameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The popular Five Nights at Freddy’s 4K Steelbook Edition is coming back to major retailers on November 11. That’s good news for anyone who didn’t snag a copy of the original before resellers started selling it for
Read MoreAmidst reports of differing approaches to adopting generative AI at Compulsion Games and King, another Xbox-owned studio shares its stance regarding the Microsoft AI mandate…Read More
Read MorePC players separated by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 7:30pm Cross-play has become a more controversial topic in recent years, with plenty of console players often left frustrated by being matched up in unfair scenarios with PC players. One way to combat that is to switch cross-play off of course, but Battlefield 6 is doing things a
Read MoreComing to Game Pass soon by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 6pm Team Cherry has detailed Patch 2 for its Xbox Game Pass hit Hollow Knight: Silksong, which arrives shortly after Patch 1 delivered some difficulty tweaks recently across all platforms. While Patch 2 doesn’t make any more balance adjustments, it does add a new visual setting,
Read MoreReady for a fun new arcade racing game on Xbox Series X|S?! Three Fields Entertainment, which you may know as the developer behind the likes of Dangerous Golf and Dangerous Driving, is releasing a brand-new game on October 28th called Wreckreation, and it features a “400 square kilometer driving game universe” which you can race
Read MoreNow on Xbox Design Lab by Ben Kerry Yesterday, 5pm You may remember that earlier this year, Microsoft released standard and elite versions of its limited-edition The Witcher 3 controller – and to use the term limited would be an understatement. The pair of gamepads sold out instantly, but they’re now back thanks to the
Read MoreOur first proper Core update since March by Fraser Gilbert Yesterday, 4:15pm Microsoft has today announced a new batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass Core in October, which marks the first time the “Core” service has added some new console games since March! These are three excellent games as well, with the always-popular
Read More