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Fans of quality freebies (so basically everyone then, I assume) are in for a treat next week as Prey and Jotunn join the lengthening list of games to be given away on the Epic Store.

Following the news that Haden Blackman, studio head and founder of Mafia 3's developer Hangar 13, is stepping down from the role after seven years, a new report has claimed a fourth instalment in the Mafia series is currently in early development at the studio.

Fortnite has today joined Xbox Cloud Gaming, making it the first free-to-play game to do so.

All sorts of strange things come out of Reddit.

The Geoff Keighley-hosted Summer Game Fest will broadcast its live show on Thursday, 9th June at 7pm UK time (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern).

Pokémon Go maker Niantic has announced details of the game's big European summer meetup, which is set to take place this year in Berlin.

UPDATE 5/5/22: Dying Light players - today is your day! Not only are you getting a brand new DLC (see original story below), but we have just been given a press release about a free upgrade to the Enhanced Edition that comes with the game's newest patch (patch 1.49).

As many know already, the Monkey Island series took on a new look as well as a new creative team in its third outing, The Curse of Monkey Island. However, this new art style was not simply because of the change in management behind the game's development. Rather, it was because of the tools being used behind the scenes.

Hitman 3's forthcoming Freelancer roguelike mode has been pushed back.

Microsoft has finally caved into years of pressure and has resurrected Clippy from the grave... sort of.

With the launch of the first wave of maps in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass (quite a mouthful, I know), we saw the return of fan-favourite Wii map Coconut Mall.

It's cool to be kind in Citizen Sleeper. A low-intensity, minimalist kind of chillhop sci-fi game, set on a half-ruined space station floating between freedom and indenture, characters here are guarded at first, before, after an investment of little more than your time, dropping walls to reveal themselves as almost unanimously gentle, considerate, warm. What really grabs you, though, is how this is reflected in the nature of Citizen Sleeper itself.

Yuke's, the Japanese developer behind two decades of popular WWE games, has announced it is returning to the wrestling genre with new project AEW Fight Forever.

Mages rejoice! There's now a fan-made calculator for Elden Ring that could prove invaluable.

A Rockstar Games artist has taken some of the most iconic games of today and given them a retro comic book inspired makeover.

Gunzilla Games, the mysterious studio which opened at the end of 2020 with an impressive list of talent from a number of AAA games studios has finally shared more details about their first game.

Ubisoft looks to be readying itself to fight off a potential future takeover bid, according to a new report.

Haden Blackman, studio head and founder of Mafia 3's developer Hangar 13, is stepping down from the role after seven years.

You've heard of Wordle. You've probably heard of Heardle. But have you heard of Final Fantasy 14 Heardle?

An hour of new footage of Arkane Lyon's cancelled Half-Life 2 spinoff, Ravenholm, has been released courtesy of Noclip.

Streaming numbers are down across the board as the world opens up again post-lockdown.

"They're outsiders," says Jane Perry. "Maybe this is what draws the characters together, the sense of being not entirely comfortable in the skin that they're in or in the world that they find themselves in."

UPDATE 5/5/22: Furi developer The Game Bakers has issued a short statement to fans on the game's lack of DLC support for Xbox.

I once got bullied out of going to see the film A Knight's Tale by the cashier at the cinema. He took one look at me and my brother and thought he saw kindred spirits."Do you like cars?" he asked. "Um..." we stalled. "You should go and see Fast and Furious," he said. But we didn't want to: we wanted to see Heath Ledger. So naturally we agreed and went to watch the cars, and I've never seen A Knight's Tale since.

Today, 4th May, is Star Wars Day and Microsoft is celebrating the annual ode to George Lucas' iconic sci-fi odyssey by giving away 12 custom Xbox Series S consoles inspired by developer Traveller's Tales' recently released Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

A new lawsuit filed by New York City Employees' Retirement System has alleged Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick fast-tracked a takeover bid from Microsoft in order to escape liability for wrongdoing following a damning Wall Street Journal report claiming he'd known about sexual misconduct at the Call of Duty publisher "for years".

Following a bit of a bumpy start to 2022 for The Sims 4 - thanks to the frustratingly buggy launch of My Wedding Stories - EA has teased a look ahead at the next few months of expansion releases, including what appears to be the long-awaited return of playable werewolves.

A musical based on BioShock from California's John Burroughs High School Powerhouse choir has won the Hart Encore 2022 show choir competition.

New data shows that the free-to-play Breath of the Wild-like Genshin Impact has surpassed $3bn in player spending worldwide for its mobile versions. Not a bad sum for a game that only released in September 2020. This basically means that Genshin Impact makes roughly $1bn every six months.

Chernobylite is a game with a lot of things I love - an eerie atmosphere, incredible art direction and a whole suite of ray tracing effects. It's this last one I want to focus on today, to check out how RT is used on the PC release and the trade-offs made to bring RT to consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series X. There's the potential for Chernobylite to become another RT showcase, like Control or Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, but does it deliver?