United Arab Emirates-based publisher and developer Red Dunes Games has announced a multi-year collaboration with Acquire Corp., the veteran Japanese studio behind long-running series like Tenchu and Way of the Samurai.
It's time. Elden Ring Nightreign's gotten a randomiser mod, just in case the base game isn't quite maxing out your unexpected chaos-per-run meter at this point, despite its revamped bosses.
While FromSoft's roguelike-ish twist on the established souls formula already switches things up in a manner that's a bit like a randomiser mod makeover of one of the series' traditional entries, modder thefifthmatt has still found ways to tinker with it.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is out August 14th, with a 30% discount off the $30 label price for owners of the Anniversary Edition. That discount applies to both Steam and GOG, and will be available for the "foreseeable future" (Fateweaver noises). Other currencies aren't listed.
Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds' parent company, Krafton, has issued another statement, this time confirming that an internal milestone document leaked online is authentic.
Peggle is not particularly old. Intellectually, at least, I know that. But it comes from an era that, despite being relatively recent, still feels extremely distant. I could tell you that Peggle was released in 2007 - I just checked - but that's not the best way of explaining how much time has passed in this peculiar gap of 18 years.
Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the site-related news and best community creations from the previous week.
An important announcement about site programming is that for those of you that missed it, Grubb's "Grubb Bag" feature this week was one of a handful of selectable options for their streaming content on the site and people voted for it to be one of his contributions this week. Voting for future programming will possibly take place in the "Premium-General" section of the Giant Bomb Discord.
Giant Bomb will be participating in the Hard Drive Presents: A Woke And Gay Charity Stream but the game they play for this charity effort is currently up to a community vote. You can find the ballot on the Giant Bomb Discord in the "News" section. Currently, it sure seems like Mike will be playing The Lion King on the SNES.
In terms of updates about the site, we should address a topic that seems to keep coming up. Due to the program's staffing, Giant Bomb will no longer be hosting JeffJeff's Bizarre Adventure. The podcast has resumed, but it's offsite and you will likely need to subscribe to a new Spotify or Apple Podcast feed rather than the RSS Free or Premium Feed on Giant Bomb.
Resident Evil Survival Unit was only unveiled last week, but already franchise owner Capcom is pulling back the curtain to give us our first look at the mobile strategy game.
IO Interactive has confirmed it is "addressing" Hitman: World of Assassination issues on Nintendo Switch 2.
One of Nintendo Switch 2's big perks is its official GameCube classics support, available to those with a Nintendo Online Expansion sub. The selection is Switch 2 exclusive, and while the current range of GameCube titles is still in its infancy with just four on offer so far, they are at least all great picks. However in testing the likes of F-Zero GX, Soul Calibur 2, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, plus the latest addition, Mario Strikers, today there is one question: does Nintendo's GameCube emulator on Switch 2 add any input lag versus running the game on real GameCube hardware?
FromSoftware has already confirmed DLC is on the way for Elden Ring multiplayer spin-off Nightreign, though we're yet to see a release date beyond Q4 2025.
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing. This week, Tom O pretends he's playing a different game to Rematch; Bertie shares what sounds like an obsession with Blue Prince; and Bertie steals his partner's experience with a dating game and tries to pass it off as his own.
You wouldn't believe how close I was to forgetting to poll everyone today for Playing This Weekend. In fairness, no one reminded me or sent me their paragraphs. What, so it's my responsibility to remind everyone to remind me? F'gawdsake.
Anyway, right on time as usual, here are the games we're clicking on this weekend!
Platform:
PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC
Publisher:
2K Games
Developer:
Gearbox Software
Release:
(PlayStation 5,
Xbox Series X/S,
PC), 2025 (Switch 2)
After yet another week of just the most ridiculous temperatures and humidity levels (particularly here in New York City), we arrive at, well, probably another two days of ridiculous temperatures. But who knows? Right now there’s a nice breeze drifting in; it says 80 on my phone, a full 15 degrees cooler than some…
Since the first Jurassic Park movie, we’ve received many video games inspired by the original film and its sequels. Most were bad. Some were fine. And a few were really good. And the best of them all, the excellent dinosaur park builder Jurassic World Evolution 2, is only $3 on Steam right now.
Before Too Kyo Games released The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, the tactical RPG/visual novel hybrid that is, in my opinion, secretly one of the dark horses for 2025 Game of the Year, co-creative director Kazutaka Kodaka had been pretty candid in saying that the studio needed the game to be successful, lest it…
Mario Kart World may boast a bunch of character costumes to race around in or explore the free roam mode with, but it does forgo the vehicle customization from the previous game. Thankfully, some vehicles still have different color variations depending on who’s driving. Let’s break down every kart color available in Ma…
2020’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 didn’t include a photo mode. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 fixes this mistake and includes the popular option, and as you’d expect, it’s great for taking photos of your skater doing cool stuff. But it’s also a very powerful tool that you should use to find goals, collectibles, and new…
The abundance of characters and vehicles to race with is one of the great joys of Mario Kart World. Who wouldn’t want to drive around as Baby Mario or grind some rails as a Dolphin riding on the identical-looking Dolphin Dasher? Not every character or kart is built the same, however. Vehicles perform differently…
When I reminisce about the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series, my most cherished memories center around the first three entries. THPS 1-3 was my prime with the franchise, the games that introduced me to Mr. Hawk, his skateboarding friends/rivals, and skateboarding culture in general.
These are the titles that convinced me that I, too, could skateboard, to the point I went down a rather tall half-pipe before learning how to stay upright on a board. “I nail the 900 all the time in the games, so surely this isn’t so hard,” I confidently thought. This attempt went about as well as Peter Griffin walking down stairs. Misplaced confidence aside, this exemplifies my obsession with the first three games, as they inspired me to do something very, very dumb.
Those warm and mildly painful memories do not apply to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. Released in 2002, I didn’t have the means at the time to buy the game for my PlayStation 2. It was the first Tony Hawk game I didn’t own, instead borrowing a copy from a friend or playing it at their house. The game did not hit for me.
Last week, BioWare announced that Anthem, the studio’s ill-advised loot shooter from 2019, would finally be sunset on January 12, 2026. This wasn’t a surprise for anyone who had been paying attention, but for those who weren’t, it was a shock that the game hadn’t already been shut down years ago. Anthem was a tragedy…
Ghost Town - the spooky, 80s-set VR puzzle-adventure from the studio behind the acclaimed The Room series - is a genuine treat, and one that's poised to shake off its former Meta Quest exclusivity very soon. Developer Fireproof Games has announced Ghost Town's paranormal delights will be available on PC via Steam VR from next Tuesday, 15th July.
Bestest best roguelite city builder Against The Storm is getting invaded by bats. Not the kind that swoop and screech and dive around your car in New Games Journalism articles that lean a bit too obviously on Hunter S. Thompson - bless our hearts, we've all done it - but the kind who labour at the forge and rejoice when their colleagues crumble and may even drive other workers out in order to make themselves feel better.
On the whole, I think I prefer the Fear and Loathing variety. Anyway, here's the trailer for Against the Storm's second DLC expansion, Nightwatchers, which will release on PC via Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store and the Microsoft Store on July 31st.
Reviewed on:
PlayStation 5
Platform:
PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S
Publisher:
EA Sports
Developer:
EA Tiburon
Release:
Rating:
Everyone
Last year signaled the return of EA’s collegiate football franchise for the first time in over a decade. College Football 25 was not just a big success; it was one of the best sports games of 2024. Like a standout freshman bursting onto the scene, College Football 25 was a pleasant surprise, but College Football 26 aptly demonstrates it wasn’t just beginner’s luck, delivering an equally impressive sophomore effort.
The on-the-field action is as good as video game football gets. Choosing from the vastly expanded playbook, receiving the snap, scanning the field as the pocket slowly collapses, and getting off a pass just before the rushers overtake your line is ceaselessly thrilling. Similarly, improved route defense and unique AI for each QB drove me to love each white-knuckled defensive stand; exhaling as the ball falls harmlessly to the ground, signaling my opponent’s failed comeback attempt is an unrivaled sense of relief.
Big piratey thing Sea of Thieves will be getting custom servers as part of a paid subscription service in "early 2026", developers Rare have announced during a first-ever community direct for the game. That's far from all of the studio's plans, with wider shakeups also in the pipeline.
This outlining of plans to make sure the good ship SOT is not only seaworthy, but can successfully broadside the many other vessels competing for its players' attention comes with some depressing and un-piratey context. It follows Rare being one of the studios affected by Microsoft's mass layoffs earlier this month, with Everwild being among the number of in-development games cancelled as part of the cuts.
Having taken a Dilophosaurus to their Dennis Nedry-esque plans for AI-generated scientist portraits in Jurassic World Evolution 3, Frontier are back to talking about a more wholesome form of generation - dinosaur sex. The game's latest trailer is a brief glimpse at the new breeding features, which allow you "to synthesise male and female variants, each with visible dimorphism" and have them do the ole horizontal tango "to shape the traits and markings of future generations." Please close the curtains before clicking play.
Capcom are fine-tuning the live service of livestock-murdering game Monster Hunter Wilds by making the Arch-tempered monster hunts a permanent fixture, rather than time-limited seasonal content quests. It's a bid to address the FOMO element that has dragged the game down to an Overwhelmingly Negative Steam user review consensus, though there are other things to blame for that, such as dodgy performance.
The weather was glorious in Brighton this week. The beating sunshine helped to lift the whole mood of the Develop conference, and the pavement outside the Hilton Metropole was packed with busy networkers donning sunglasses and hailing old friends.
The latest round of layoffs at Xbox and its game studios didn't just slash jobs across the organisation; some entire projects that had been in development for years were also shut down as part of the cuts.
Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has commented on the possible turn-based future of the series, following the recent success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
As a faction, the strength of Total War: Warhammer 3's Bretonnia lies in their knightly calvary. The peasant infantry is basically just there to squishily hold the enemy in place for charges. However, I'm feeling revolutionary today, so we're staging a serf uprising. Let's see how long we last. Pretty simple rules here, then. No knights. No horses. Conquer the entirety of Bretonnia. Defeat every horse I see in one-on-one combat.
We were in a bad way. Rats to the south. Goblins to the east. A dwindling stockpile of gold reserves. Worst of all, the lady of the lake herself had shunned us, stripping us of her blessing for no other reason than the cheeky bit of cowardly retreating we'd done from Masif Orcal. No appreciation for self-preservation tactics, that one.
This Wednesday, GamesIndustry.biz held its annual Summer Party at Develop Brighton to enjoy great company and bask in the seaside sunshine.
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