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The Sega-owned British game developer Creative Assembly to develop Hyenas, a multiplayer sci-fi shooter title. Taking place in a future where billionaires have colonized Mars, the game challenges its players, vigilante pirates, to steal from their spaceships and compete for the biggest takeaway. Matches take place with 15 players, split into five teams of three. To get the loot, the pirates must outsmart “murphs,” the billionaires’ AI-controlled guards. The game takes place on ships traveling between Mars and Earth, and its maps are pretty extensive, with multiple rooms available for exploration. Certain spots will also allow for players to move around via zero-gravity. Launched in 1987, Creative Assembly is responsible for games such as Alien: Isolation, a number of EA Sports ti...

After a lengthy delay, the long-awaited remastered version of Westwood Studios’ 1997 cult classic Blade Runner is finally here. The game was originally slated for a 2020 release, but Nightdive Studios delayed the game indefinitely at the time, explaining that without Blade Runner‘s original code, the remastering process proved more difficult than the team first imagined. Fortunately for fans of the cyberpunk franchise, the game has now been released, offering an increase in FPS from 15 to 60 for modern systems along with reworked character models, animation and in-game tools to help make your detective work more convenient. As for those unfamiliar with the original game, the late ’90s title was created by Westwood Studios and remains one of the best video game adaptations of the&...

Taiko no Tatsujin, the classic Japanese drumming game found in arcades, has officially been announced for the Nintendo Switch. In the new Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival game, players can choose from four difficulty levels and drum to  76 songs in the collection including the main theme from The Legend of Zelda. Beyond the classic drumming mode, the game has also evolved to include multiplayer and in-person online battles, a four-person party mode, and a TAIKO MUSIC PASS subscription which expands the playlist by more than 500 additional songs. Through playing the various game modes, players can collect “Don Coins” which can be used to customize their costumes and nameplates. “Welcome to Omiko City! Get ready to drum to the beat of your heart with DON-Chan! Join an amazing musical ...

Since its launch to massive popularity back in February this year, FromSoftware‘s Elden Ring has received a whole host of fan-made mods, including making Thomas the Tank Engine as a boss fight and turning your character into Darth Vader, but now the game has finally offered its biggest twist yet: a classic Gameboy demake. Created by Redditor Shintendo, the new demake converts the massive open-world RPG into a top-down adventure game in the Gameboy’s iconic 8-bit graphics, with an accompanying soundtrack that will surely immerse you into the Lands Between. Of course, it’d be impossible to bring over the vast scale of Elden Ring into the demake, so Shintendo streamlined most of the story’s main elements into a more playable experience on the platform. If you’re an Elden Ring f...

Shortly after coming to a $13 million USD settlement with a group of websites responsible for creating and hosting Destiny 2 cheats, video game developer Bungie is now engaged in another legal battle revolving around the game, this time filing a lawsuit against a YouTuber who streams gameplay of the title.  According to new reports, Bungie’s contractor CSC Global sent YouTuber Nick Minor a legitimate copyright strike back in December last year requesting the removal of The Taken King‘s soundtrack from his video. But instead of complying, Minor allegedly created a fake Gmail account impersonating a CSC employee and subsequently sent out fake copies of takedown notices to numerous other YouTubers, at one point even targetting an official Bungie account, requesting all of them ...

Shortly after dropping a gameplay trailer earlier this month for the long-awaited Final Fantasy XVI, Square Enix‘s development team has now confirmed that the game will not adopt an open-world style like the franchise’s previous installment. Speaking to IGN, the game’s producer Naoki Yoshida explained that while the title draws heavily from other AAA open-world games that have been released in recent years, the game itself would not feature an open-world mechanic, instead opting for what he called “area-based design.” “We’ve found in our extensive user research that many of the younger generation of gamers have never played a Final Fantasy or don’t have any interest in the series,” Yoshida began. “To create a game that might excite and resonate not only with our core fans, but al...

Marvelous Entertainment has shared a new trailer for No More Heroes III, which will be making its way to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Created by Japanese game developer Grasshopper Manufacture, the title is slated to launch in Japan on October 6, followed by a release in the West via XSEED Games sometime in fall 2022. Following 2019’s spin-off Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, No More Heroes III is technically the fourth installment in the franchise. The game follows top assassin Travis Touchdown, who is forced out of retirement to defend Santa Destroy, California from the threatening Prince FU and his nine alien henchmen. The new video gives players a feel for the open-world format and offers snapshots of some of the alien adversaries Travis will hav...

Science fiction exploration game No Man’s Sky will be released for the Nintendo Switch. Hailing from British developer Hello Games, the game was initially released globally for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in 2016. The game challenges players to four different objectives: survival, exploration, trading and combat. Through an open-world format, players can explore different planets, each with their own resources and plants. Since its debut, No Man’s Sky has received several content updates, including an improved multiplayer mode and virtual reality support. The forthcoming Nintendo Switch edition will contain six years of content across 20 updates. While the game will launch with only a single-player mode, the studio says that it will benefit from ongoing development post-launch....

With Monster Hunter Rise‘s first major expansion Sunbreak arriving next week, Capcom has now launched a free demo for those who might want to give the game a try, and there’s now a video introduction coming with the experience as well. As you’ll see in the clip featured above, the demo gives players a taste of what Sunbreak has to offer, including a series of bespoke quests that feature ascending difficulty levels ranging from slaying a Great Izuchi or Tetranadon to an Astalos or even Malzeno, the latest Elder Dragon to join the Monster Hunter franchise. You’ll also get to try out the two new key gameplay mechanics coming to Sunbreak, with tutorials for both switch skill swap and switch evade. Don’t worry if you’re completely new to the game either, as the demo will also fea...

Following the release of a gameplay trailer earlier this month, STRAY now receives a new demo walkthrough video courtesy of IGN. The upcoming Playstation game follows a stray cat who must untangle an ancient mystery in order to find its way home. Roaming around an abandoned cyberpunk city in third person, the cat is aided by a drone companion that translates dialogue with robot residents, stores memories and items, and more. The new demo video reveals gameplay interactions including a dedicated meow button, puzzle-solving quests tied to expected cat behaviors, catnaps in designated spots and the ability to scratch at surfaces like rugs and couches. The game won’t be free-to-roam, but players will often be able to choose multiple paths and move via prompts. “I’m most intrigued by the impres...

Fall Guys went free-to-play and made its debut on Xbox and Switch platforms earlier this week and Mediatonic‘s servers immediately succumbed to an overflow of traffic. According to new reports, the game received a massive surge in players after it went completely free on Tuesday, causing servers to crash almost instantly, with some players struggling to join for as long as 24 hours. In a statement explaining the situation to Kotaku, the team revealed that its server capacity was flooded by the highest number of concurrent players ever recorded for Fall Guys since its explosive launch back in 2020 and that the unforeseen amount of traffic had caused connectivity and matchmaking issues. “The Free For All launch yesterday set multiple records for Fall Guys, including the highest num...