Author: Kavish

We finally have a release date for Machine Game’s upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. As announced during the Gamescom 2024 Opening Night Live event, the first-person action-adventure game will launch on Xbox Series X|S and PC on December 9. Additionally, it was confirmed that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be coming to PS5 in 2025. While PS5 players will have to wait a bit longer to play the game, Xbox Series X|S and PC players can preorder Indiana Jones and the Great Circle now. There are multiple versions of the game available, including Premium and Collector’s…

Fortnite’s new Marvel-dominated season kicked off with a bang on Friday, flooding the island with all sorts of Marvel goodies like various weapons inspired by War Machine’s abilities, Captain America’s vibranium shield, and Doctor Doom’s gauntlets. Two of the items–Cap’s Shield and War Machine’s Arsenal, particularly when used in conjunction with the new hover jets–were overly difficult to fight against, which immediately led to a new meta in which you either had those items, or you were killed by someone who did.Now, just five days into the new season, Epic Games has introduced several nerfs to Captain America’s Shield and…

History is built in layers. This was the key concept Firaxis kept in mind as it planned Civilization VII, the next entry in its long-running 4X strategy series. Civilizations are not static; they rise and fall, and new cultures take over and build on top of them. With Civ VII, Firaxis is aiming to make its playable journey through history more dynamic than ever, capturing how civilizations themselves change and adapt over time.One of the keys to this new approach is a trisected campaign, splitting the historical drama into three distinct “Ages:” Antiquity, Exploration, and Modernity. Each of these roughly…

When Life Is Strange came out in 2015, it was following in the footsteps of many games before it, but the most apparent was those from Telltale, which at that time was on a hot streak of making adventure games with branching narratives and lots of dialogue choices. Don’t Nod made this format its own with Life Is Strange, spawning several sequels and spin-offs over the years to come, always focusing on young people caught up in tumultuous situations but gifted with mysterious supernatural abilities.Nearly a decade after that debut, and after having developed and published many other types of…

As part of Gamescom Opening Night Live, Embark Studios–which was co-founded by Battlefield veteran Patrick Soderlund–revealed a new trailer for the PvPvE third-person shooter Arc Raiders and also confirmed a key detail about its pricing plan.Arc Raiders was announced as a free-to-play game, but it is now shifting to a premium model and will cost $40 at launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. A public technical test will be available October 24-27 on Steam. Regarding the price change, Arc Raiders executive producer Aleksander Grøndal said, “It became increasingly clear to us during development that a premium model is…

Marvel Rivals leaped into action during Gamescom Opening Night Live and announced its upcoming December 6 release date. The new trailer focused heavily on Captain America’s rivalry against Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, and ended with an intriguing look at Dr. Doom playing the pieces like a chess board.Since the game was first revealed in March, NetEase has steadily revealed more details about its upcoming 6v6 PvP shooter. So far, Marvel Rivals has a diverse roster of heroes and villains, with classic comic-book characters like Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Storm joining the roster alongside more sinister characters like Loki,…

Techland revealed Dying Light: The Beast, the latest addition to the open-world zombie series, with a new trailer that teases the return of the original game’s protagonist, Kyle Crane, as its playable character. The announcement came with a trailer during Gamescom Opening Night Live.The trailer is light on details, but switches perspectives between a group of soldiers and an unseen creature that rips them apart–which, given what Crane says when he finally appears on screen, seems likely to be the player-character. Check out the trailer below. “Every man has an animal within. If you push too much, you might unleash…

Rebellion Developments has announced Sniper Elite: Resistance during Gamescom Opening Night Live’s pre-show. According to the debut trailer, it will focus (at least partly) around the warfront in France. It also stars Harry Hawker, a soldier previously used in co-op sessions as the second player’s character to assist long-time series protagonist Karl Fairburne. This time, however, Hawker is the star in a storyline set alongside the events of Sniper Elite 5.We expect plenty of x-ray views of skulls exploding, and there is a very high chance of getting to shoot Hitler in his one testicle, if this game is faithful…

Game director Hiroshi Takai said that future Final Fantasies may launch on both PC and console day one.In an interview with GamesRadar, Takai was asked whether future Final Fantasy games will get a day-one PC release. He responded, “I think it’s possible–probably even likely,” but then clarified, “That said, the team in charge of each project gets to decide its own policy, so this is just my personal opinion.”This PC port of Final Fantasy XVI comes over a year after the original game released. When asked whether the wait was worth it, Takai said, “Looking at the results, I think…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed–yet again–to the first half of 2025, as developer The Chinese Room is aiming to spend the extra time polishing up the game and expanding on its story.”Though the game is in a good enough place that we could have maintained our planned release window, Paradox and The Chinese Room collaboratively decided to prioritize polish,” The Chinese Room said in a statement on its website. “It will be used to create a quality assurance buffer, giving more time between testing and launch, ensuring we release the game when it’s ready. The extra…