God of War Ragnarok's Steam launch is surprisingly poor compared to other Sony first-party exclusives on PC

Firaxis has just made a cameo during Gamescom Opening Live 2024 to give us all a first look at the gameplay of Civilization 7 via a fresh trailer and offer a concrete release date of February 11, 2025.We knew this trailer would be coming, as the studio and publisher 2K said as much in advance after announcing the game at Summer Game Fest, just to make sure no one missed out on getting to gasp in awe at little folks from history moving about on a map, likely as a real life friendships implode based on who’s sacking whose city.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Ed Beach of Firaxis Games took to the stage to talk introduce our first look at Civilization 7, as well as sharing that this is the “biggest, most ambitious game Firaxis has ever made.”Enj…

Ever natter to yourself while you’re playing Skyrim? It’s ok, we all do it, even if it’s just yelling expletives whenever we’re playing on legendary difficulty and get ambushed by a dragon while overcumbered. Now, though, a Twitch streamer’s taken this kind of thing to the next level, by turning their broadcasts into a live vlog from Tamriel thanks to a mod that lets them voice the Dragonborn in real time.Add in the fact that their Twitch chat’s able to voice NPCs in the game, and you’ve got a recipie for a fun playthrough, if not a very lore-friendly one.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The streamer in question, Blurbs, had already drawn a lot of attention when they managed to perfect having random stream watchers insult them and generally talk bo…

Despite what you might have heard about a potential The Batman game, the man at the top of DC Studios has downplayed any such thing.After many years of Marvel putting out films that have relied so heavily on fixing it in post, making everything have a surprisingly fake quality to it, The Batman came out in 2022 showing that yes, you can actually make a good superhero film that actually looks like a movie. It certainly proved itself at the box office too, with both critics and fans alike being won over by it. So when Puck claimed that there was a game in development “rooted in the 2022 The Batman movie,” that obviously drew the excitement of a number of people. The only problem? According to James Gunn himself, there isn’t a game in development. Womp, womp!To see this content please enable …

The longer-than-usual wait for Arcane season 2 has been rough, and chances are you’ll need to rewatch the first set of episodes ahead of its November return to make sense of all the plot lines and characters involved, but its first full trailer is so good that it might send you straight into Netflix to do so.The first proper look at the long-anticipated second season runs for about two minutes and is jam-packed with even more drama, style, and action, which is everything we could’ve asked for after that wild season 1 finale. Just keep that s**t coming in.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings We already know this is the end of the line for Arcane, but the folks at Riot Games have fortunately stated in the past they’re interested in expanding the world of…

Jason Damron, the voice actor behind The Storyteller – the main character of a long-running and popular fan-made Fallout lore video series on YouTube – appears to have died.This is according to a tweet posted earlier today by Damron’s account, which uses his online handle Kankennon and is the same one credited in the descriptions of the most recent Storyteller videos starring him.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “Hello everyone, I am Emily Damron, Jason Damron’s (the Storyteller) daughter,” it reads, “I just wanted to share that on Saturday September 7, my father passed away after a horrible year of health. He was diagnosed with stage four adrenal cancer that spread to the liver.”For those unfamiliar, The Storyteller series is one that holds a simi…

EA has finally started talking about the next Battlefield in no uncertain terms. The project, which is aiming for release sometime in 2025, will bring the series back to its modern day roots. Apart from the setting, the next game will ditch the Specialists/hero characters, which debuted with Battlefield 2042.EA also released the first piece of concept art for the game, showing clear Battlefield 4 inspirations.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The art, which EA revealed to IGN, doesn’t tell us much. You can see attack helicopters in the distance, and a city – seemingly somewhere in Europe – being ravaged by wildfires on one side and combat on the other.Vince Zampella, who took over franchise leadership in 2021, following a restructuring that t…

Good news, people who own an Xbox, like a good JRPG, and have all the time in the world. Xbox has announced during its Tokyo Game Show broadcast that four classic Square Enix titles that’re technically actually nine classic Square Enix titles are dropping on the platform today and in the near future.This isn’t confusing at all, what are you talking about. Here, let me explain. I played a bit of trick on you. Since, you know, the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster is actually the first six games wearing one big trench coat so they can sneak into a grown-up movie at the cinema.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As announced during today’s Xbox thing at the Tokyo Game Show, Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster arrives on Xbox Series X/S and PC as of September 26, but…

Hold those tears back, everyone, as Tom Hardy appears to have confirmed that Venom: The Last Dance is in fact the last dance.Look, I understand that the Venom movies are trash. They’re a mess, they’re everything a good story shouldn’t be in some ways, but I love them all the same – yes, even Let There Be Carnage. So when I say that I’m sad to hear that Venom: The Last Dance is the final film in the series, I’m honestly a little bit sad. Over on Instagram, Eddie Brock and Venom himself Tom Hardy shared a post with a trailer for the third film, with an honestly quite sweet caption that does confirm this will be the last film we’ll be getting about the character.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “Thank you for a great time – and 7 years,” wrote Hardy. …

Finally, it’s here, the announcement all you Mario and Zelda fans have been waiting for… the Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo.Nintendo Switch 2? Never heard of it, but what I have heard of is the freshly announced Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, a literal alarm clock from the Mario makers themselves. No, you haven’t just skipped a few months to April 1, this is a very real product that Nintendo has announced, and it is literally just an alarm clock. Well, that’s maybe being a bit reductive, because it’s an alarm clock done in a Nintendo Way, of course. You see, the alarm clock watches you as you sleep, and by that I mean it has motion sensors. Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo – Announcement Trailer Watch on YouTubeWhen the alarm goes off at your chosen time, it’ll play a theme from one …

Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion has been pretty well-received by players and fans. Much of that love is owed to Blizzard’s design of the new Spiritborn class, but the new story chapter, major zone to explore, and the raid-like new endgame activity have all garnered praise from many in the game’s community.As with every new release/new season, however, the meta evolves to create powerful endgame builds for Diablo 4’s classes, and some – as expected – are going to be broken. This being the Spiritborn’s first foray into this world means the class is going to gets its first broken build adjusted soon.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The Spiritborn build in question isn’t broken because of the amount of damage i…