Into the Breach, SteamWorld Heist 2, and other great turn-based games are on sale at Steam

Marvel Rivals has just had a new character revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live. It’s Winter Soldier and Captain America, who will both be arriving on December 6 when the game finally launches with all of its characters free-to-play.This character reveal of course came alongside a new trailer, which gave us a good look at the two new characters, as well as a brief tease for Dr. Doom at the end, who just so happens to have just arrived in Fortnite. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Marvel Rivals is popping off in a serious way right now, especially at a time where the arcadey team-based hero shooters aren’t exactly in a golden era. Overwatch 2 isn’t exactly taking the world by storm, and many of the competitors that tried to knock Overwatch off it…

The sequel to Beetlejuice is almost here, and director Tim Burton has shared his feelings on the original, and what he did to prepare for the second one.Beetlejuice isn’t exactly a cult classic, as it did pretty well at the box office compared to its budget at the time of its release, but it’s definitely a film with a bit of a cult following. Clearly that following is big enough to get a sequel off the ground, but appearing at the Venice Film Festival (via Deadline), it appears that director Tim Burton doesn’t quite understand why it was so successful and developed such a following. “As much as I love it, I never understood why it was a success,” Burton said of the original film.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “I could never place the film as some…

Concord, a hero shooter and PlayStation’s latest big live-service title, appears to not be selling very well at all.If you were to only listen to big wig executives, you’d think that live-service games are where it’s at for all gamers everywhere. Yeah, sure, there are a select few that are immensely popular like Genshin Impact and Fortnite, but for the most part, it really just doesn’t work for a lot of games. Yet following on from PlayStation’s massive hit Helldivers 2, it recently released another shooter, this time of the hero variety, Concord. Except, very quickly, it became apparent that the game wasn’t going very well, with the game receiving a concurrent player count peak of 697, which it hasn’t managed to top since launch. And now, in a report from IGN, industry analysts are saying…

WAKE UP! Baldur’s Gate 3’s uber-beefy Patch 7 is finally here, bringing with it all of the stuff Larian had previously announced or teased – such as those extra evil endings and mod support – as part of its total of “over 1,000 fixes and improvements”.Thanks to previous community updates from the studio, we already knew that the patch was set to bring with it a bunch of new cutscenes to help give “even darker conclusions to your most sinister playthroughs” and the official modding tools folks have been waiting for. Well, having been teased to be coming this week during a PAX panel over the weekend, they’re now here.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings As outlined in the patch notes/community update post that’s longer than War and Peace, the big highlig…

Warning: Major Spoilers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt lie ahead.Which ending to the base version of The Witcher 3 you get depends on a lot of things. There are the big obvious choices, along with a heap of smaller ones, and it’s the former that really shapes the final proper cutscene you get before the game paints a picture of the rest in storybook style. As it turns out, there was a little more to one of these final cutscenes, and a modder’s now restored it.As with the majority of the more interesting works that’ve popped up as part of a Witcher 3 modding rennaisance over the last few months, this one wouldn’t have been possible without the REDkit modding tools. You know, the ones that’re providing a lot of cool stuff to help tide us all over while we wait for more news on The Witcher 4 an…

I don’t mean to alarm you, but some Final Fantasy 16 players on PS5 have recently found their nice little playthroughs invaded by large black blobs or boxes that threaten to ruin poor Clive’s day. No, this isn’t some DLC, it looks to be part of some graphical issues that’ve followed a recent update to the console’s firmware, which Sony and Square Enix have said they’re looking into.Taking a glance at Reddit or Twitter, you’ll find a number of posts with players showing off or talking about problems they’ve run into. My personal favorite is the clip I’ve embedded below of someone having to outrun a void that’s seemingly decided to chase them around a bit and momentarily swallow Mr Rosfield whole.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “The PS5 system updat…

Despite only being delayed just the other week, Tales of the Shire already has a release date, and it’s not much later than you might have expected.Earlier this month, Wētā Workshop Game Studio announced that its debut title, the cosy life-sim Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game, had been delayed. It wasn’t clear by how much, but yesterday, during a Hobbit Day Showcase, the developer alongside the game’s publisher Private Division announced that you can now expect to play Tales of the Shire on March 25, 2025. That’s pretty much exactly six months away, and just a few months into the new year, so considering it was meant to be out in 2024, you’ve really not got that much longer to wait.A Hobbit Day Showcase | Tales of the Shire Exclusive Inside Look Watch on You…

Empire of the Ants, which you may know as that Unreal Engine 5 game in which you – a real life human being – play as an ant, has been confirmed to be hitting 60 FPS when it arrives on PS5 Pro as a day one launch title for the console on November 7.Yes, a game where you play as an ant will be “one of the first to fully harness the power of the PlayStation 5 Pro”, and to be fair, it looks like a pretty good use of all that tech that’s gone into the expensive box that you could have bagged a retro-styled version of if you’d been desperately queuing to empty out your wallet this morning.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The reveal that this is a thing came alongside some fresh gameplay from Empire of the Ants, which shows an ant getting up to exactly th…

The Franchise has received a new official trailer, and it certainly looks like it’s going to capture how terrible making a superhero must be.I think we all know by now that making a movie is often a stressful experience, and that’s putting it lightly. You can only imagine how awful it must be to work on a Marvel film in particular, considering how terribly (allegedly) those that make all the CG are treated, not even mentioning how literally everything is greenscreened these days. But clearly Succession writer and producer Jon Brown felt that after almost 20 years of Marvel movies, and a bit less than that of DC ones, it was time for a satire that tackled actually making one of those blockbusters. Enter, The Franchise.The Franchise | Official Trailer | Max Watch on YouTubeYou can check out …

Legendary’s MonsterVerse is in a pretty good spot after its last two crossover movies and Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters surprisingly being one of the best super expensive tie-in shows based on big-screen properties. Now, it’s juicing up its cast ahead of Season 2, and Amber Midthunder is first in line.Variety broke the news on October 8, revealing the rising star is joining Season 2 of the show “in a heavily recurring role.”To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings While Midthunder had already made a splash in TV shows like FX’s Legion, it was the 2022 Predator prequel/spinoff Prey that made her one of Hollywood’s new favourites and young talent to watch out for. As it stands, Prey 2 is happening at 20th Century Studios, but the creatives behind i…