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Homeworld 3 developers Blackbird Interactive proved both their design chops and their love of the Homeworld franchise by creating Deserts of Kharak in 2016, a game that started out as a cheeky unauthorised take on the Homeworld space strategy formula on dry land and ended up a critically-acclaimed official part of the series with the blessing of new brand IP owner Gearbox. Eight years later, with the even more successful Hardspace: Shipbreaker in the books and a successful crowd-funding campaign, the third mainline Homeworld 3 game is finally here.

Netflix has just dropped a new teaser for Arcane: League of Legends' second – and final – season.

Stormind Games has shared a 10-minute teaser for its upcoming horror, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead.

A "leaked" trailer of Guilty Gear Strive's fourth season has popped up online.

Sega has unveiled an additional pre-order sweetener for Sonic fans who pre-order the physical edition of Sonic X Shadow Generations.

According to Video Games Chronicle, the Nintendo Switch is the most long-lived of any of the firm's home consoles - judged by the time taken before a replacement hit the shelves. The Nintendo Entertainment System aka Famicom previously held the record at 2,686 days and with Switch 2 still to arrive, the current-gen hybrid continues to power on. Nevertheless, we believe that a reveal for the new machine is mere weeks or at most, a couple of months away and we're starting to look back at the legacy of Nintendo's mighty handheld. In the first of a series of pieces, we're taking stock with our picks for the most technologically impressive Switch titles, beginning with our choices from the first party catalogue.

Silent Hill: The Short Message developer Hexadrive is developing a new horror game, Niraya of ■■.

Warframe's been fully embracing its weird side over the course of its last couple of expansions, but if you thought its mood-world westerns and long-lost dimension-shifting labs were as far as the free-to-play shooter was willing to go, then you might want to brace yourself: developer Digital Extremes has revealed first gameplay of its upcoming 1999 story expansion and, well, let's just say you get to go into space to kill a 90s boyband.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes has given us another peek at its upcoming free-to-play fantasy action-MMORPG, Soulframe.

It's time to drink and tea merry, Final Fantasy fans – Final Fantasy 14 and Gong Cha have come together for a brand new collaboration.

A game called "Hunt: Showdown 1896" has popped up on the ESRB website.

241 workers at Bethesda Game Studios are unionising.

There was some level of disappointment when the long-awaited Forza Motorsport finally arrived for review, as visual quality didn't quite meet expectations - especially as promised features like ray traced global illumination didn't arrive in the final game, while PC technical performance was troublesome. However, a short while ago, we learned from user LJT that the PC game can be modded to add extra detail, improved RT reflections and RTGI, while reports of improved performance since launch warranted some investigation. So, how does the mod improve visual fidelity and what are the performance implications? Have CPU and GPU optimisations delivered performance boosts over the launch game? We decided to find out.

Update, 20th July, 2024: Xbox has hit back at the FTC, saying it is "wrong" and "misleading" to call its revised Xbox Game Pass tiers "degraded", and stating the Commission "barely mentioned [concerns about] subscription[s] at trial".

If ever a game muddled with time, it's Tetris. I'm not just talking about the idle hours that somehow disappear as you play, but the way that the whole game sits within the flow of time itself. Tetris' 40th anniversary is upon us this summer (the exact date is a little woolly, with the Tetris Company putting it in June, but still announcing official celebrations this weekend), and that feels weird from both temporal directions. In one way, the game feels so fresh, so cleanly designed, it can surely only be a few weeks old at most? In the other way, hasn't a design this beautiful been with us since the first galaxies were forming? Wasn't it there in the code of the universe waiting to be unearthed? It's all very weird.

Pleasingly bizarre four-wheeled survival game Pacific Drive has officially sold 600K copies, and its developer Ironwood Studios has announced it's celebrating that milestone with a series of content updates throughout the rest of this year. And the first of those updates is now live, offering a bunch of free additions, as well as a bit of daft cosmetic DLC.

Things are about to get lively on the Sea of Thieves! After spending far too long as giant, trash-talking disembodied head, the nefarious Captain Flameheart finally makes a proper return to Rare's multiplayer pirate adventure next Thursday, 25th July - and he'll be terrorising players with his formidable fire-belching warship as Season 13 gets underway.

Following a bit of a tease at least year's BlizzCon, Blizzard has given Overwatch 2's 41st hero the full reveal treatment. And that's not all! Juno, as the shooter's new Martian space ranger is known, is available to play today for a limited-time.

Arcade-style aerial combat games have been thin on the ground in recent years, with the notable exception of Bandai Namco's Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. This 2019 high-altitude genre revival gave us a high-quality jet combat game, built for modern visual expectations with the help of Unreal Engine 4.

Atlus has released an official Persona 5 coffee line, so you can set up your own iconic Café Leblanc.

The Mortuary Assistant is finally coming to all consoles on 2nd August, 2024 – two years to the day the influential indie horror hit PC.

Nintendo has announced a new Pikmin game, but no - it's not Pikmin 5.

PowerWash Simulator's all-new free update, Muckingham Files 3, is now available.

Is productivity secretly the great issue of our times? That feels quite hard to argue at the moment, what with everything else, and yet it does keep coming up. The UK in particular seems to be struggling. "Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse", worried The Economist, in 2022. In 2023, The Financial Times went in search of answers, claiming productivity was "so weak at UK companies" because of "longstanding problems of low investment and skills gaps exacerbated by overconfidence and lack of management time." The New Statesman meanwhile turned in desperation to the general public, opening a competition at the start of the year with a £5,000 prize for the best answers to the question: "Britain is stuck. How can we get the country moving again?"

Devolver has announced Forestrike, a "tactical kung-fu fighter" from the developer of Olija.

Nintendo has announced plans for a big September in-game event for Splatoon 3, accompanied by the launch of new amiibo figurines.

Fresh from its nominations for 16 Emmy Awards, the second season of Amazon's Fallout TV show is "ahead of schedule".

Images showing Jack Black as Minecraft character Steve have leaked online, giving the internet an early look at how the upcoming Warner Bros-backed Minecraft movie plans to stylise Mojang's blocky world.

Ubisoft's massive open-world adventure, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, is free to play until 28th July.

Sega has unveiled a first look at two new Shadow x Sonic Generations levels, delving into the Sonic nemesis' past.