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Free-to-download action role-playing game Torchlight: Infinite comes out 9th May across PC and mobile, Shanghai-based publisher XD Games has announced.

Content creator Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach is bringing indie horror Iron Lung to life in a life-action movie.

Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone recently shared a selection of very early sketches and ideas that eventually led to the creation of fan-favourite farming sim, Stardew Valley.

V Rising's next expansion, Secrets of Gloomrot, is set to drop on 17th May.

In four years, we've gone from PC owners able to play a path-traced version of Quake 2 through to the same techniques applied to Cyberpunk 2077 - one of the most demanding triple-A games around. Even today, Quake 2 RTX continues to be a challenging piece of software to run - but anything from an RTX 4070 to the top-end RTX 4090 can deliver those cutting-edge visuals at 60 frames per second or higher. The question is, how?

Apex Legends' latest limited-time mode will be "a true test of skill".

Wild Hearts' latest free, post-launch content update is now live.

Four more Ubisoft games are slated to join Steam later this year.

The Mortuary Assistant is now available on Nintendo Switch.

Punchdrunk is an award-winning immersive theatre company that transforms warehouses into enormous and elaborate sets, which audiences can freely walk around. And as they do, a play unfolds around them and with them. Here, the audience is not separate from the action but a part of it. And because of that, the similarities between Punchdrunk's shows and video games are many.

Sons of the Forest roared out the gates when it launched into Steam early access back in February, and 2m+ copies sold later, developer Endnight Games is continuing to improve the experience, this time adding ducks, a lake to put them in, a double log buff for fan-favourite companion Kelvin, and a sad end for a levitating life jacket.

Developers Massive Monster's entertaining dungeon-crawling management sim Cult of the Lamb is getting a massive free update next Monday, 24th April, introducing a new post-game storylie, "deeper" combat, new building options, and more.

Paradox Interactive has announced Victoria 3's first paid expansion, a new "immersion pack" titled Voice of the People, which launches on 22nd May.

Dead Island 2 has had a torturous road to release, arriving on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, last-gen consoles and PC some nine years after the game was first revealed - but there's a surprising level of technical polish evident across every console version. Dead Island 2 also does more than you'd expect from a typical Unreal Engine 4 release, with some novel technical features added on by developers Dambusters that are definitely worth covering.

Xbox's Aaron Greenberg has insisted Tango Gameworks' Hi-Fi Rush was a "break out hit" amid claims the critically acclaimed music adventure "just didn't make the money it needed to make".

Darker and Darker's lawyer has accused Korean gaming company Nexon of "anti-competitive bully tactics", in a letter to Steam owner Valve.

Regardless of your personal opinion on The Super Mario Bros. Movie, it's safe to say it's been a massive success. Last week, it was named the highest grossing film of 2023 so far and the biggest video game adaptation of all time, which isn't bad going!

Activision has acknowledged server issues plaguing Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 since the release of Season 3.

Coffee is one of the world's great rituals, I guess. I'm sort of surprised when Voyager went off on its grand tour it didn't have a burr grinder or at least a packet of instant decaf packed away on it somewhere, or a few bags of tea if that's your thing.

Few players relish the thought of escort missions nowadays, but there was a time when developers built best-selling games around the act of saving NPCs, from Lemmings to Abe's Odyssey. Moons of Darsalon, out now on Steam after a whopping eight years in development, is an immediately delightful homage to that kinder era. In this level-based 2D platformer from Spanish developer Dr Kucho, you play a spaceperson sent to rescue a bunch of other spacepeople from a collection of small but very intense alien planets, shepherding them to a base using simple "follow me" or "go here" commands.

Garry's Mod has a Nazi problem, and its developer wants to do something about it.

Microsoft has disabled its function that allowed users to share their game uploads directly to Twitter from the Xbox console and Windows Game Bar.

Blizzard has responded to claims from one of its producers that the company is creating "crisis maps" of what products can be shipped due to the number of employees leaving.

UPDATE 21/4/23: Four more PlayStation 4 games are set to leave PlayStation Plus next month.

UPDATE 21/4/23: Unrecord's co-creator has released some in-engine development footage, to further prove the game is not fake.

Valve has released a significant update to its MOBA Dota 2, called New Frontiers.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: cards, horror, and draggable wreckage.

Atari has whipped out its wallet and snapped up the intellectual property rights to over 100 retro games from the 80s and 90s, including Bubsy, Demolition Racer, and more.

Capcom has announced the first four DLC characters coming to Street Fighter 6, and dropped a new demo on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.

THQ Nordic is holding another digital showcase this August, featuring new reveals and updates on previously announced games, including its intriguing Alone in the Dark reboot.