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Activision cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 to make room for more online live service games, claims report Binned-off sequel might have featured a Spyro team-up Image credit:Microsoft I find it bizarre that people still really like Crash Bandicoot games in this, the year 2024, two decades after the decline of the platform mascot warz. I have ample nostalgia for the old marsupial myself, with his second Naughty Dog-developed outing being a particular obsession, but come now, we’re all about deckbuilders, soulsliking and battle royale nowadays, right?...

Alan Wake 2’s next expansion is about a Control agent investigating a spooky painting - and it’s out next month Someone’s been huffing turps again Image credit:Remedy Entertainment Last year we reported horror game Alan Wake 2 would be getting a couple of expansions. We’ve already had one of these in the form of Night Springs . And Edwin noted that the other would probably be a crossover with Remedy’s other big game, Control , featuring secret government agency, the Federal Bureau of Control....

All currencies in Wuthering Waves explained What they’re used for and how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Kuro Games Confused about currency in Wuthering Waves? There’s a lot to do in the massive gacha RPG Wuthering Waves , and as is the case with most similarly-sized games, that means there are also a lot of different currencies. Between currencies for rolling on banners, buying upgrade materials, unlocking certain content, and shopping in Jianzhou’s shops, it can be pretty intimidating to figure out exactly what each one does....

All Path of Exile 2 Act One bosses and where to find them This list will help you find every Path of Exile 2 boss located in Act 1 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Grinding Gear Games Looking for all Act One bosses in Path of Exile 2? There’s certainly no shortage of Path of Exile 2 bosses in the first part of the campaign, but some of them are easy to miss....

All Rise channels Ace Attorney, Disco Elysium and Slay the Spire in a courtroom card battle to save the planet Started life as an effort to fund real-life legal battles against corporate polluters Image credit:Anticiplay An upcoming game about taking planet-wrecking corporations to court hopes to go beyond its onscreen battles by raising money for real-life environmental aid. Behind All Rise is a team including both climate experts and top-notch games talent with credits spanning Horizon Forbidden West , Thirsty Suitors , League of Legends and Paradise Killer ....

All tonight’s Triple-I Initiative game announcements in one place The stream itself and our highlights Image credit:The Triple-I Initiative Today’s the birthday of the Triple-I Initiative, a 45-minute showcase of game announcements and trailers from the likes of Slay The Spire devs MegaCrit, Darkest Dungeon devs Red Hook and Dead Cells custodians Evil Empire. What makes a “triple-I” game a “triple-I” game, as opposed to (hawk, spit) a regular indie? I’ve given it some thought, and I think the answer is: “has more money and status than most indies, but not, like, Call of Duty levels, and also one of our partners is Gearbox Publishing, so this is perhaps ‘indie’ in the Geoff Keighley sense ....

Arc Raiders has aggression-based matchmaking to push pugnacious PvPers together, but it’s “not a full science” A little nudge into the sights of someone equally scrap-happy Image credit:Embark If you can’t resist taking cheeky potshots at your fellow players in Arc Raiders , the shooter’s matchmaking can now neatly shuffle you into a session where you’re more likely to get a taste of your own medicine. Developers Embark have confirmed that some “aggression-based matchmaking” has been sprinkled into the game’s systems as of late, making PvP-prone players a bit more likely to be funnelled towards each other....

Arma and DayZ makers’ free-to-play looter-shooter Vigor is coming to PC, half a decade after consoles Hits early access on Steam next month, with a 1.0 around three months after that Image credit:Bohemia Interactive Despite military sim series Arma and its zombie survival spin-off DayZ having their de facto home on PC, developers Bohemia Interactive opted to snub us keyboard-and-mousers for their post-DayZ game Vigor . The free-to-play survival shooter hit early access on Xbox way back in June 2018 - almost six years ago - and subsequently made its way to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch....

Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ latest update brings in a nightmare difficulty mode and another weird collab This one’s pretty critical, though Image credit:Ubisoft Another month, another Assassin’s Creed Shadows update, again one that comes with a list of quality of life changes, but also one that comes with another surprising collaboration. Let’s start with that one, which is, weirdly, a new story pack made in collaboration with Critical Role, the wildly popular actual play series....

Assassin’s Creed: Mirage’s new free permadeath mode deletes your save when you break the law Not everything is permitted Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft The latest Assassin’s Creed Mirage update is giving me flashbacks to that inglorious period in game design when every other action game had an insta-fail stealth segment to wind people up between cover-based shoot-outs and, I don’t know, three-part glyph puzzles or what-have-you. Out today for PC at 12pm UTC, 1pm GMT, 7am ET and 4am PT, the 1....

Assetto Corsa EVO motors into multiplayer racing for the first time in its latest early access update Plus nine new cars and two new tracks to fling ’em around Image credit:Kunos Simulazioni Vroom. Vroom vroom. Vroom vroom vroom. Ahem, sorry, dunno what happened to me there. Assetto Corsa EVO, the three-letter-yelling follow up to one on Steam’s long-reigning top racing sims , has just gotten its third early access update. It adds in online multiplayer, plus a bunch of fresh cars and tracks to hop into moments before you’re unceremoniously punted off by a random....

Battlefield 6 backend tweaks tune down some sniper rifles and shotguns, as EA keep fiddling with little knobs Whacking the moles that gargantuan launch day patch didn’t bop on the head Image credit:EA Since Battlefield 6 rolled onto the, er, battlefield late last week, a huge patch having been smashed against its hull to see it off, EA and their Battlefield Studios have understandably only put out a few more tweaks....

Beautiful Light’s mix of STALKER and Hunt Showdown is masterfully eerie, but I do wish it wasn’t an extraction shooter Why did it have to be tacti-cool? Image credit:Deep Worlds SA The obvious way of bundling up Beautiful Light is probably " Hunt Showdown meets S.T.A.L.K.E.R. “, and whoops, I’ve already committed to that in the headline. But the first game that came to mind when I chanced on some playtest footage last night was The Town Of Light , LKA’s deeply disquieting game about exploring a carefully recreated abandoned asylum....

Best Boons in Hades 2 Here is a full list of God Boons in Hades 2 and our top picks for the best ones Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Looking for the best Boons in Hades 2? Like its predecessor, Boons play a major role in Hades 2 . They’re essentially blessings from Gods that give you added perks in and out of combat and can mean life or death on a run in Erebus and beyond....

Black Friday can help you save a bundle on Alienware desktops with RTX 5080 GPUs Beat the RAM rush. Image credit:Dell With manufacturers looking to raise prices to fuel the AI age we’re sleepwalking blindly towards, Black Friday weekend might offer the last chance to save on PC hardware for a while. We’ve already seen a solid iBuyPower PC build reduced at Walmart , but if you’re looking for extra grunt, then the Alienware Aurora deals might well be worth a look ....

Borderlands 3 Amara build guide: Best Siren builds The best builds for Phasegrasp, Phasecast, and Phaseslam Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / 2K Amara the Siren is the only playable Siren in Borderlands 3 , and with her trio of explosive and spectacular powers, she certainly lives up to the Sirens’ fearsome reputation. In this Borderlands 3 Amara build guide , we’ve laid out the top-tier builds that you can use in the base game to get the most out of this no-nonsense powerhouse: one for Phasecast , one for Phaseslam , and one for Phasegrasp ....

Chivalry 2’s new update adds unofficial server support and skill-based team balancing Plus new maps Image credit:Torn Banner Chivalry 2 ’s latest update is called “Duel of the Fêtes”, which makes me wish I could drop the chef’s kiss emoji into RPS posts. It gets even better, though. Aside from adding new maps, “skill based team balancing”, and quality-of-life improvements, the update also adds unofficial server support, for players who want to tweak game rules and party like it’s 1999....

Cities: Skylines 2 now has mod support, so you can soon annoy drivers with Spaghetti Junction 2.0 You’ll need to use a separate platform to run them though Image credit:RPS/Paradox Interactive Troubled city building game Cities: Skylines 2 is getting a little less troubled, as new patch 1.1.0f1 adds various performance and bug fixes alongside the main event: much requested mod support and tools in the form a nifty editor. We got a first look at the new editor tools last October, which looks to simplify the process by combining what was previously several different separate editors into a single application....

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s free Thank You expansion is out now with “surprising new locations” Also, lollipop-based murder Image credit:Kepler Interactive If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup . Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ’s promised free expansion is available to download right now, developers Sandfall Interactive have announced at this evening’s Trial by Keighley, aka the Game Awards....

Cleavage but no underbust, please: Twitch bans “implied nudity” among streamers Platform responds to latest thirsty gamer “meta” I realise we’re all struggling through the dank depths of January but it’s never too early in the year to talk about sex, baby. Twitch have updated their attire policies to stop an outbreak of “implied nudity” among thirstier streamers, who have taken to filming themselves nude with black censor bars, or positioning the camera to suggest that they’re fully or partially naked outside the frame....