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Here are our PS Plus Premium and Extra games for April

Sony has lifted the lid on its PS Plus Premium and Extra game offerings for April. Read more

First-person survival horror Total Chaos is getting a Switch 2 port later this month

After making a decent splash last year, Total Chaos has found a new platform to terrorize in Nintendo Switch 2, and the best news is we won't have to wait long to return to Fort Oasis. Read more

Old School RuneScape's latest League is out now, pushing thousands of players to cry at kids and get haircuts for the devil

Old School RuneScape has just launched its sixth ever limited-time league event, allowing MMO lovers to dive into a selection of new servers to experience the world under the thumb of the hellish Yama. Called Demonic Pacts, over 150,000 people are playing the game as of writing, mere hours since its release. Read more

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Hades 2's second post-launch update secretly adds a new game mode

Hades 2 is pretty great, but as we all know, developer Supergiant Games rarely steps away from its hits right after dropping a killer 1.0 launch. Now, alongside yesterday's PS5 and Xbox release, the second post-launch patch has arrived. Read more

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Samson's second update continues to swat serious bugs, and its street races have been tweaked into ideal day-ending money-makers

Liquid Swords continue to chip away at the biggest issues Samson, their bitesize tale of a small-time crim pulling jobs to gradually remove the debt albatross from his neck, has faced since it launched the other week in a state the ranged from harmlessly quirky to frustratingly broken. The second of these patches picks up the first's problem-eliminating baton, but also sees the devs start to make some more in-depth tweaks to mechanics that work fine, but leave a bit to be desired. Read more

Revisiting Atomfall’s pasty-pocalyse survival jaunt a year on, I’ve finally been seduced by its hallucinated monks and jarred brains

When I finished my first playthrough of Atomfall for review last year, I felt like Rebellion’s pasty-littered survival game was just starting to properly get its hooks into me. I’ve dug plenty of short games over the years - Return of the Obra Dinn and The Red Strings Club are a couple of examples - but with that brevity comes the challenge of delivering on the promise of your premise in a briefer window than longer games are afforded. The base version of Atomfall instead reached its

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Filming resumes on Amazon's Tomb Raider adaptation, after Sophie Turner's back injury halted production last month

Filming for Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider adaptation has reportedly resumed, after Sophie Turner suffered an injury last month. Read more

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Leaked GTA Online revenue data boosts publisher Take-Two's stock

Even though the hacker group ShinyHunters successfully broke through (part of) Rockstar Games' security and extracted internal data, the developer and its huge publisher, Take-Two, haven't minded the unfortunate event much. In fact, it seems they're coming out on top. Read more

Horror RPG Look Outside's chunky new 2.3 update gives you even more reason to share soup with the cursed folk living in your basement

Funky horror RPG Look Outside has just gotten a big update, with some fresh additions, enough balancing tweaks to kill any window-looking monsters, and some extra "nasty surprises" for its cursed mode. Seriously, these are some looooooooooooooooooong patch notes for the Devolver-published flick of spooky pixel artist Francis Coulombe. Read more

If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release

Yesterday, hacker group ShinyHunters made good on their threat to release data stolen from Grand Theft Auto VI developers Rockstar Games by way of a third-party service. Rockstar don't seem bothered by the leak, with one representative calling it "a limited amount of non-material company information", and the alleged secret titbits now in circulation certainly aren't on the same scale as the infamous 2022 leak of WIP footage from GTA 6. Still, there are some interesting gobbets in there. One is

"I will fight tooth and nail to make this thing the best it possibly can be" - Bloodborne's newly-announced animated feature sure sounds like it is in safe hands

Yesterday, we got the news that Bloodborne was being turned into an animated feature film, with popular YouTuber JackSepticEye taking on the role of a producer. Now, the Irish personality has uploaded a video about his involvement on the project, and I have to say, his enthusiasm is pretty infectious. Read more

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Starfield's PS5 port manages roughly 140K sales in a week, estimates analyst firm

Starfield's Free Lanes update and the Terran Armada DLC are pretty fun... as long as you want more Starfield. The game's long-awaited PS5 port has run into a number of big issues since it launched on 7th April though, and fixes are coming soon. How does that translate into sales numbers? The first estimates are in... Read more

Multiple PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium titles for April have leaked

It looks like those on PlayStation Plus' Extra and Premium tiers can expect more blockbuster games to join the service next week. Read more

Beautiful, flawed MMO Book of Travels is now a $5 singleplayer RPG, in a break from the industry trend of killing off struggling online games

I've long been an embarrassed fan of Book of Travels, the "tiny MMO" with heady artistic influences from Swedish indies Might & Delight. It's a world of enchanted string, vast cutaway forests, tinkling tea sets, and sleepy quasi-Orientalist cities. Our former news writer Lauren Morton called it "the cure for my break-up with MMOs" back in 2021. But it's never quite accomplished its ambitions, with the developers laying off around 25 staff following a difficult early access launch, and postponing

Star Trek: Resurgence isn't going to live long and prosper - it's being delisted from Steam around three years on from release

Update: It's now been pulled from sale on Steam. Original story follows: Star Trek: Resurgence, the Telltale-style Trek game which came out back in 2023, is set to be delisted from Steam soon. Unlike the mysterious spate of Disney delistings the other day, Resurgence developers Dramatic Labs have been upfront about the reason it's being pulled. Read more

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Next God of War game will explore multiple mythologies, report suggests

A new report has shared more alleged details about the next God of War game, including which mythologies it could explore. Read more

"You cannot create art like this": The Blood of Dawnwalker director on making AAA games that aren't just interested in money

If the *waves hands frantically* general state of the games industry hasn't made it clear already, it cannot be understated how much of a priority making money is for the suits that own all these game studios. Who cares if the thing is good! Will it make lots of money? And judging by a recent interview, The Witcher 3 director and director of the upcoming The Blood of Dawnwalker Konrad Tomaszkiewicz takes issue with this frustrating fact. Read more