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Epic Games has been giving away free games every week for years now, which has apparently been going well – but the store’s exclusives haven’t done so well.Valve doesn’t exactly run a monopoly when it comes to buying digital games, but for the most part everyone knows that Steam is the defacto place to buy your PC games. Storefronts like GOG and Itch.io have their own niches, but Steam is still the place to be for most PC games, even if it is quite flawed. Then, in 2018, Epic Games decided it wanted a piece of the pie and opened up its own store, and it didn’t do so without controversy, as many PC gamers were not a fan of it right off the bat. Six years on, the store is still around, but even still many don’t like it.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie setting…

It’s been previously claimed that Crash Bandicoot 5 was in the works, and now a new report has shed some very purple light on the game.Back in July, a developer that previously worked at Crash Bandicoot 4: About Time developer Toys For Bob claimed that Crash 5 was in the works, though didn’t share all that much about it. They did note that some day people will hear about it and “it’s gonna break hearts,” and that certainly feels accurate, as in a new video from Liam Robertson at Did You Know Gaming, some details have been shared about the cancelled Crash 5 – the most notable aspect of the game being that it would have been a crossover with none other than the bandicoot’s PS1 co-star Spyro the Dragon.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Yeah, right off …

You’d be forgiven for entirely forgetting Payday 3 even came out, but it was, in fact, released last year. The game is coming up on its one year anniversary on September 21, and a lot has changed since that disastrous launch.From the moment of its release, Payday 3 has been available on Game Pass for PC, console and cloud. And it’s barely lasted a year, because come September 15, the game will be leaving the subscription service. Games enter and leave the Game Pass roster all the time, but things are a little different in this case.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings In Payday 3’s case, the tumultuous launch months have given way to a series of major updates that tackled matchmaking, core game mechanics, skill adjustments, unlocks an…

Avatar: The Last Airbender is a really beloved series, and with a new animated film on the way, the newest actor behind Katara is hoping she doesn’t mess up.A sequel film to the original Avatar series has been in the works for a little while now, and back in April the voice cast was revealed, which for the part has some lesser-known names, though it did also attach Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista in an unnamed villain role. That selection of new cast is taking over the roles of beloved characters like Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph, and in a recent interview with Collider, Jessica Matten, the new voice behind Katara, spoke of what it’s been like taking over the role, getting to know the rest of the cast, and the weight she feels over joining such a beloved series.To see this content…

Alan Wake 2 has one more piece of DLC due out this October, and working on the soundtrack has left the game’s composer a bit moist.When Remedy announced that it would be releasing a couple of pieces of DLC for Alan Wake 2, I was ecstatic considering just how good that game was. The first piece, which was a mini-anthology type thing about a couple of characters from the base game (and one not so much from the base game that I won’t spoil for those that haven’t got to it yet). The second and final piece of DLC, titled The Lake House, is due out next month sometime, and the game’s composer Petri Alanko has shared that working on it has left him “crying constantly”, though of course didn’t spill any beans on what the DLC will be like.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage c…

Following the runaway success of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Netflix and CD Projekt have now teased as part of Nextflix’s Geeked week that another Cyberpunk 2077 animated project is on the way.What it’ll be about is currently still very much up in the air, but we do know that it’s being marketed as a “return to Night City”, so at least you know whatever it has in store will be taking place somewhere familiar, and will probably feature at least one swanky neon sign.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The quick teaser that announced this is a thing was played as a Geeked brodcast being hacked – you know, because Cyberpunk – with a brief series flashing up slides with Netflix, CD Projekt and Cyberpunk logos, interspersed with the line about Night City I just …

Helldivers 2’s Galactic War has taken a fresh twist, with the second Major Order to deploy since the last patch helped bring some fresh faces back to the ranks of Super Earth being a pretty big one. There’s an “interplanetary battle station” to be built and it’s up to you to choose where.Yep, it looks like players securing the supplies to build a big base in one of July’s MOs is finally going to result in them actually getting one. You love to see it.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As Helldivers 2 community manager Twinbeard wrote in the announcement of this latest order, defeat in the last one “demonstrates [the] dire need for an interplanetary battle station”, continuing: “Today, after intense research, construction of the Democracy Space Statio…

In an interview with VG247 on the past and future of the Tekken series during its 30th anniversary, Tekken 8 executive producer Katsuhiro Harada, via translation from producer Michael Murray, has stated that the pair might have just one more Tekken in them before handing off the reins to someone else.This comes in response to a question asking Harada what his hopes are for Tekken’s future. You can read the full interview here for his thoughts on other topics including how it feels for Tekken to be the last remaining 3D fighter, and why Tekken has lasted so long while other IP have faltered.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “It’s really hard to tell. Myself and Murray, we might only have one more Tekken, thanks to age and how that plays out in Japan…

The ranch sign in the original Silent Hill 2 is iconic for its tonally off use of Comic Sans, but the remake changed it – apart from where it didn’t.Early on in Silent Hill 2, you come across Silent Hill Ranch, which in the HD Collection version uses the much memed upon font Comic Sans. Of course, way back then, Comic Sans being the meme font wasn’t as much of a thing, it was only in the years after where people made jokes with and about it, but it’s become a sticking point for Silent Hill 2 fans all the same. It’s no surprise that one of the first things fans might do, including deals wizard Wario64, is check to see what the fan looks like, only to find… that the sign just looks pretty regular. No Comic Sans, no funny other font, just a regular looking ranch sign that could believa…

If you’re hoping for an Until Dawn sequel, you might be in luck, as a couple of its cast members seemingly suggested a follow-up is on the way.The Until Dawn remake only released just the other week, but there’s already lingering questions over a potential sequel, questions only bolstered by the fact that cast members Hayden Panettiere and Peter Stormare may have hinted at a follow-up game (thanks, Eurogamer). In a recent bonus video, Panettiere, who plays Sam Giddings in the game, said “Until Dawn has been around for years and years now. I think people love it. And the fact that they are going further with it says that there’s a want for it.” This could potentially be in reference to the live-action film adaptation in the works, though the phrasing is obviously a bit particular there whic…