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As Steam Next Fests go, I think the one this June has easily been one of the best Next Fests in a little while. Seeing all the great demos this week has made me far more excited about the future of video games than any of the notE3 streams did the other week, and I’m

Xbox corporate vice president Sarah Bond has claimed that Activision Blizzard demanded Microsoft provide a larger revenue share to put new Call of Duty games on the platform, according to a new report from IGN.  This news comes from yesterday’s court trial between Xbox (and Activision Blizzard) and the Federal Trade Commission over Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of

During today’s Sonic Central stream to celebrate the anniversary of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, Sonic Team announced that the second free content update on Sonic Frontiers’ 2023 roadmap, titled Sonic’s Birthday Bash, is available today. The update was announced in November 2022 as part of the game’s 2023 roadmap. The Sonic’s Birthday Bash update

Sonic Superstars received prime placement in both the Summer Game Fest 2023 stream and this week’s Nintendo Direct. As you might imagine, today’s Sonic Central also shined a spotlight on the highly anticipated 2D Sonic game. We received a new trailer that showed off some new DLC coming to Sonic Superstars that features a collaboration

If you’re wondering what games are coming up in 2024, we’ve put them all in one convenient location. This list will be continually updated to act as a living, breathing schedule as new dates are announced, titles are delayed, and big reveals happen. This should help you plan out your next year of gaming and beyond.

Evening Star, a new studio made up of the team that made Sonic Mania, have announced their first game, Penny’s Big Breakaway. While Sonic Mania was a 2D platformer, the studio’s first game under their new name brings them into the realm of 3D, taking an incredibly vibrant colour palette that would certainly work in

The world of Diablo 4 is full of misery and sadness. There are flayed corpses everywhere, fathers are haunted by the ghosts of their dead sons, blokes cram flaming eyeballs into their skulls and sometimes a guy turns up at random just to stomp you (and a lot of other people) into fleshy jam on

Today’s Nintendo Direct revealed that Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1, the enhanced bundle of classic Metal Gear games previously announced at the PlayStation Showcase, is also headed to Switch. We also have a better idea of what it entails including a release date.  Arriving on October 24, this package is headlined by its

If you subscribe to the digital edition of Game Informer, you can now learn all about Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. Following the cover reveal, our digital issue is now live to subscribers on web browsers, iPad/iPhone, and Android devices. Individual issues are also now available for purchase. You can download the apps to

Another day, another batch of Game Pass additions, with this selection being spread out across the end of June and beginning of July. The Xbox Wire blog shared this half of the month’s Game Pass additions earlier today, and there seems to be a little something for everyone. First up is Need for Speed Unbound

Next month’s open beta for Frontier Developments’ new Warhammer RTS Age Of Sigmar: Realms Of Ruin may be focused on testing its 1v1 multiplayer mode, but the Elite Dangerous studio have told me there’s still plenty to look forward to in its single-player story campaign. I got to chat with principal designer Sandro Sammarco last

Last December, Deadline reported that a Death Stranding movie was in the works. Kojima Productions, the studio that made the original game, was set to be one of two main producers, but there was no word on who would write, direct, or star in the film, or if any members of the original creative team would

On June 27th, Riot’s hero shooter Valorant will get a team deathmatch mode. Teams of five will be able to do battle without the need to buy weapons at the start of each round, Counter-Strike-style, as they do in the main game. There will also be three new maps to play on.

I spend quite a lot of my time thinking about dice games, so my attention was piqued by the new demo for Dicefolk – a sort of Pokémon battler but with dice (and also it’s a roguelike).

We’ve been given our first proper look at Star Trek: Infinite, the new grand strategy game from Stellaris makers Paradox, in action – and yep, it’s definitely a Star Trek game from the makers of Stellaris.

Curious players can get their hands on Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders for the first time via a closed alpha later this month.  On June 29, the PvPvE extraction shooter will get its first test out in the wild, so to speak. You’ll have to sign up on Steam to participate in the alpha, and a new

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser has announced Absurd Ventures, his new studio.  Houser was Rockstar’s vice president when he announced in 2020 that he was leaving the company behind franchises like Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto. At the time of the announcement, Houser revealed that he had taken an extended break starting in the

The next game coming to Nintendo Switch Online is Fire Emblem.  More specifically, Nintendo has announced that the Game Boy Advance version of Fire Emblem, otherwise known as Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, is coming to its subscription service for all Expansion Pack subscribers next week on June 23. This is the seventh game in