So many cute and colorful things to suck up.

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Age of Empires 4 releases 28th October, 2021 - here's a shiny new gameplay trailer that came with the announcement during Xbox's E3 conference.

The trailer itself showed off some naval battles, all kinds of horse, camel and elephant cavalry, and some notable historical figures, like Joan of Arc.

There was also plenty of siege and town-based action, and lots of people in armour running at each other on nice grassy hills, which is exactly what we want.

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As part of the E3 2021 Microsoft Xbox and Bethesda showcase, The Outer Worlds 2 first teaser trailer appeared showed hints of things to come.

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Microsoft has offered a first look at Halo Infinite multiplayer.

The video, below, shows some gameplay from the player's perspective, with lots of non-gameplay angles, too.

Halo Infinite, due out "holiday 2021" on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via the Microsoft Store and Steam, as well as Xbox Game Pass day one, offers free-to-play multiplayer.

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UPDATE 13/06/2021: We now have a release date for the Among Us player limit increase, and it's set to arrive on 15th June.

Announced during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, 15-player lobbies will arrive on all platforms in an update next week. A tweet from the official Among Us account suggests that the new colours, kill screen menu and mobile controller support will also arrive with this update. Oh, and also "horn honking on the Airship". That's important.

ORIGINAL STORY 10/06/2021: It seems there's a whole lot of content on the horizon for social deduction game Among Us, as developer InnerSloth has detailed its upcoming plans for 2021 - and it's looking like a busy schedule.

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The Outer Worlds is getting a sequel for PC and Xbox Series X/S. It's called The Outer Worlds 2.

In a humorous CGI trailer, developer Obsidian cheekily acknowledged there was not much else to show of the game as yet, and no word on a release window. Still, it's nice to know its coming.

"New solar system, new crew, same Outer Worlds," the trailer's description reads. "The Outer Worlds 2 is coming... and when that day is closer we will show you more... but until then enjoy this."

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Today, during the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase livestream, Microsoft finally announced the release date of the Xbox Series X|S version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

The popular simulator will hit the recently-released consoles on July 27, 2021

Of course, we also get a beautiful trailer showing off the game’s gorgeous world and plenty of aircraft porn. You can watch it below.

At the end, we also get to see the announcement of a free expansion tied-in with Top Gun: Maverick coming at the same time as the movie, on November 19, 2021.

Speaking of Microsoft Flight Simulator’s PC version, do keep in mind that we have a spiffy giveaway going on that can let you win one of 10 add-ons from Orbx’s lineup. You can find all the details here, but leaving a pertinent comment at the bottom of this post will serve as a valid entry.

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A Plague Tale: Innocence was one of 2019’s standout games, acclaimed for its superb storytelling and impressive graphical fidelity despite the humble size of the development team at Asobo Studio, so news of a sequel during today’s Xbox & Bethesda E3 2021 showcase is sure to have fans in a jubilant mood. Particularly so because A Plague Tale: Requiem looks utterly epic, promising to deliver a grander and more ambitious adventure than its predecessor.

As you’ll see in the trailer below, A Plague Tale: Requiem seems as though we’ll see an older Beatrice and Hugo in the next chapter of their story to battle the evil forces attempting to unleash Hugo’s power to gain political control over the region. And yes, there are lots of rats.

A Plague Tale: Requiem will launch in 2022, according to today’s trailer, and it will be available via Xbox Game Pass. It is not a console exclusive, and so it should be available on PlayStation hardware as well as Xbox and PC.

A Plague Tale: Innocence’s gripping narrative made it one of the standout hidden gems of 2019, and it’s getting a sequel next year. Today’s Microsoft showcase revealed a cinematic trailer for A Plague Tale: Requiem that sets the table for another dark journey for the de Rune siblings. 

The cinematic trailer doesn’t give too much away, but we hear protagonist Amicia de Rune conversing with an unknown man about her brother, Hugo, and how to put an end the supernatural rat scourge that plagued our heroes in the first game. Fans will remember that Hugo is cursed with dark magic directly connected to the plague. Will Amicia have to stop her own brother, who she says she’d “protect with her life?" We’re excited (though perhaps a bit apprehensive) to find out. Also of note: Amicia has a crossbow now, suggesting combat might be more involved compared to the largely stealth-focused gameplay of the previous game. 

Almost a year after its initial release, Hades was included in this year’s Xbox E3 show with the announcement it is coming to Xbox consoles on August 13. The standout action rogue-lite from last year was also announced to be coming to Game Pass upon release.

Hades follows Zagreus, the son of the titular ruler who is trying to get out of his hellish home. He fights Greek-inspired gods and monsters wielding a variety of weapons along the way. If he fails, Zagreus finds himself back at home where he can build bonds with the characters he meets on his journey out of the underworld.

There wasn’t anything new content-wise in the trailer, which displayed a variety of awards it received since release. Hades was a game we also liked a lot! Check out why it ended up all the way at number two on Game Informer’s Game of the Year list for 2020, and here is our own Matt Miller’s review to get a critical breakdown of the game.

If you want more of E3’s big announcements and reveals, we have you covered. Take a look at our E3 hub full of stories from the show.

Today, Sad Cat Studios unveiled their newest game, a sleek 16-bit game known as Replaced. In the trailer below, you can see the game’s unique aesthetic and world, which combines sci-fi with action platforming to make for an interesting adventure.

In the trailer, we can see plenty of interesting mechanics that are shown off alongside the platforming, including plenty of different enemies to deal with, ranging from regular bums to security guards with shields.

The developers detailed the game with the following description:

REPLACED is a 2.5D sci-fi retro-futuristic action platformer where you play as R.E.A.C.H. – an artificial intelligence trapped in a human body against its own will. Explore the world, push your body’s limits in intense combat and learn what it’s like to be a living being.

REPLACED combines cinematic platforming, pixel art and free-flow action combat with a deep, engaging dystopian story set in an alternative 1980’s.

Today’s Xbox Showcase gave us a look at Replaced, from Sad Cat Studios. Replaced is billed as a “cinematic retro-futuristic action-thriller set in a dystopian version of the '80s USA.” Whew! That’s a mouthful, but it gives us at least some sense of what we can expect out of the project, which offered up some great animation and art in today’s trailer.

Players control an A.I. that has been placed inside of a human body, and follows along as that individual explores a bleak and almost post-apocalyptic world. The combat, in particular, looks to offer some really compelling twists, focusing on cool moves that you might see in a high-end action flick. We also saw the main character traversing ruined buildings in some tense platforming sequences.

Meanwhile, the art itself was especially striking, using pixel graphics to paint a potent and realistic world that seems to draw the player into the action. 

Replaced appears to be the debut project from Sad Cat Studios. The development house is based in Minsk, Belarus. The studio is getting publishing help from Coatsink.

Replaced is targeting release in 2022 on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Cloud Gaming, and will show up day one on Game Pass.

Reader dear, you have three months to put your life in order and prepare to revert to a larval state of Nightmare Baal runs. Blizzard today confirmed that Diablo II Resurrected, the remaster of their fantastic action-RPG from the year 2000, will launch on September 23rd. I'll see YOU on the Blood Moor.

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Slime Rancher 2 was announced during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. It’s a sequel to the 2017 first-person life simulation adventure game developed and published by indie studio Monomi Park.

In the original game, players took control of a young rancher named Beatrix LeBeau, who starts a life thousands of light years away from Earth in a place called Far, Far, Range where she decides to make a living wrangling slimes.

Now, in the upcoming Slime Rancher 2, Beatrix LeBeau is returning to the Far, Far Range. In the announcement trailer, we can see some familiar gameplay of rounding up the slimes and herding them into their appropriate gates.

Slime Rancher a simulation game that combines exploration and tactical decision-making. While it is challenging at times, it can also be relaxing once you get the hang of it, and the slimes are incredibly adorable.

This “wiggly, new adventure” will begin in 2022 when Slime Rancher 2 releases on Xbox and PC. It will be available to play on day one via Xbox Game Pass.

You can watch the announcement trailer below, and you can also head to the developer’s official website right here to learn more about the game.

Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, Grounded is a base-building and crafting survival game where your playable characters have gotten shrunk down and suddenly, every little thing we never gave much thought to in the real world is a terrifying monstrosity that could kill you at any time.

Announced during the Xbox showcase today, Grounded will be getting a new Shroom and Doom update that adds a ton of new features and content to the game. You can check out the trailer down below:

Some notable features include the ability to actually sit down in-game, and getting pet companions to hang out with. The new Broodmother enemy was also revealed, and it’s a terrifying spider with multiple eyes. Thankfully, those afraid of spiders can make use of the arachnophobia slider to make them a little less frightening.

Grounded is now available on Xbox Game Pass.

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The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase stream just gave us a real good look at the many weapons that’ll be available to use in Far Cry 6. The game is being developed by Avalanche Studios, and it’s a co-op open-world experience set in a fictional world.

This gameplay trailer shows off everything from flamethrowers to rocket-shooting backpacks, to flying buggies. There’s also co-op matchmaking for those of you who want to take on everything Yara has to offer with a friend. You won’t have to fight back against Yara’s ruling dictator, Anton Castillo, all on your own.

You can check out this new Far Cry 66 trailer for yourself to see all of the weapons in some pretty chaotic in-game action.

If this trailer grabbed your interest, you can pre-order the game now on its official site.

Will we ever get a Fallout: New Vegas 2? Who knows, and maybe it’s time to stop asking, because at E3 2021, Obsidian Entertainment has made it clear that The Outer Worlds is now a franchise of its own. The Outer Worlds 2, the follow-up to the acclaimed sci-fi RPG, will let us continue its absurd capitalist…

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Fans of rat-themed stealth-action rejoice! Developer Adobo's enormously enjoyable A Plague Tale is getting a sequel and it's coming to Xbox and PC some time next year.

Picking up after the events of the first game, A Plague Tale: Requiem, as the sequel is known, will follow Amicia and her brother Hugo on a perilous new quest, "doing whatever it takes to survive a brutal, uncaring world."

That's pretty much all we're getting at the moment, but expect plenty more details as A Plague Tale: Requiem readies to launch on Xbox and PC - as well as Game Pass - some time next year.

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We’ve got some good news for Xbox Game Pass owners who have been on the fence about dishing out cash for Yakuza: Like a Dragon, or are interested in checking out some of Bethesda’s older titles.

During the Microsoft and Bethesda E3 2021 press conference livestream held on June 13, it was revealed that Yakuza: Like a Dragon and 10 of Bethesda’s past titles are now available on Xbox Game Pass. Those who are subscribed to the service can download and play the games free of charge, and can continue to do so for as long as their membership is maintained.

We’ve compiled a list of all the titles that have been added down below.

• Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon
• Arx Fatalis
• Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
• Fallout
• Fallout 2
• Fallout 3
• Fallout Tactics
• Rage
• The Evil Within 2
• Doom
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

The announcement also came with a highlight reel trailer for Yakuza: Like a Dragon. In it, various cinematic cutscenes and gameplay bits are shown in all their glory. This includes bits related to the game’s combat, job system, summoning friends, and much more.

It’s nothing fans of the series haven’t seen before, but it’ll give newcomers with Xbox Game Pass a decent idea of the kind of insanity Like a Dragon has to offer. The full trailer can be viewed down below.

Developer Monomi Park has announced Slime Rancher 2, the follow-up to its 2017 hit. One of the several surprise reveals of E3 2021's Xbox Showcase, Slime Rancher is set to come to Xbox consoles and PC in 2022.

Players once again assume the role of Beatrix LeBeau in order to catch slimes on the Far, Far Range. Slime Rancher 2's announcement trailer gives it a much more tropical feeling, as it starts off with the player arriving on a small set of islands, journeying through colorful foliage, and, of course, capturing that precious, precious slime. 

Check out Slime Rancher 2's announcement trailer from today's Xbox Showcase to see slimes of all shapes and sizes get sucked up into Beatrix's gun.

Slime Rancher, which launched in 2017, charmed us with its cute visuals, fun gameplay loop, and satisfying mechanics. In his review, former Game Informer editor Joe Juba scored the original game an 8.5 out of 10, saying, "Slime Rancher has the ability to keep you hooked for hours; I often looked out over my ranch, felt pride at my accomplishments, and eagerly ventured back into the wilderness to see what other strange things I could find."

Hades is headed to the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Game Pass subscription based service this August.

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The top-down Time-loop thriller coming to Xbox and PC.

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Today, during the Xbox-Bethseda joint 2021 E3 showcase, Blizzard revealed that Diablo 2: Resurrected will release on Sept. 23, presumably for all last-gen and current-gen consoles, and PC.

The new trailer revealed alongside the release date announcement shows off updated cinematics along with a look at some Xbox Series X | S gameplay as well which will be optimized for 4K/60FPS and will feature cross-progression and cross-play with other platforms.

Diablo 2: Resurrected continues to look great since we were able to preview it a few months ago. As long as you’re a fan of classic loot-driven ARPG combat, Diablo 2 : Resurrected should be up your alley. We’ll know for sure how it turned out, though, once it releases in about three months.

If you know you want it and want to get some early access, you can pre-order it to get early access to its eventual beta along with a Diablo 3 cosmetic.

Today during Microsoft's E3 showcase, we got a look at a brand-new game called Atomic Heart, a first-person shooter set in an alternate 1950s Soviet Russia. Albeit brief, we saw several of the game's characters, weapons, and gravity-breaking powers. All set to a fun Russian pop song highlighting the destruction, off-beat visuals, and gameplay on display in the trailer.

While details about Atomic Heart are scant, as the brief trailer didn't answer too many questions, the game is being developed by the company Mundfish, founded in 2017. Atomic Heart is the company's first game. 

Check out the game's new trailer from Xbox's showcase below:

While we still don't have a release date for Atomic Heart, we do know it's coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game will also be available on Game Pass.

For more news from today's Xbox showcase, make sure to check out E3 hub.

Avalanche Studios, the makers of Just Cause, have announced their next game is about smuggling in the 1970s. Contraband is an open world co-op game that invites players to a "smuggler's paradise". I hope there are heists. Catch the trailer below, it features a delightful bit of music by Steely Dan, as a camera sweeps across what appears to be a smuggler's hideout.

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Grounded, the game about being very small and trapped in your own back yard, is getting a new update. The Shroom & Doom update was announced at this year's Microsoft and Bethesda E3 showcase, and looks really pretty wonderful.

WARNING: BIG SPIDER IN THE TRAILER BELOW.

The update allows for sitting (apparently this was heavily requested), pets and a new giant spider called the Brood Mother. Not fun.

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Microsoft have confirmed the release date for Double Fine's upcoming brain-hopping adventure, Psychonauts 2 - and it's coming much sooner than I was expecting. August 25th, in fact. That's like, two months away! And to celebrate, why not have a gander at its rad new gameplay trailer?

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Diablo 2 Resurrected will appear in September on consoles and PCs. Check out the latest E3 2021 trailer.

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The critically-acclaimed Hades will finally launch for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 13th August, Microsoft announced in tonight's E3 2021 showcase.

It'll also arrive on that date via Xbox Game Pass, meaning subscribers will get it at no additional cost.

UPDATE: Hades will also launch for PlayStation 4 and 5 on the same date, 13th August, according to the PlayStation blog.

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Halo Infinite has received a pair of new trailers, and they offer a glimpse at what players can look forward to from the upcoming title.

Streamed during Microsoft and Bethesda’s E3 2021 press conference live stream, the trailers offer a look at two different sides of Halo Infinite’s experience. One is a cinematic which covers the game’s single player story and campaign, while the other offers a look at the game’s multiplayer.

The first carries a solemn tone, with Master Chief digging through floating corpses to reach a derelict ship. Once inside, he finds an AI similar to, yet different from, Cortana. She reveals that the Chief was tasked with finding and eliminating Cortana. However, something has happened to the Chief’s memory, and the new AI has remained functional despite a planned wipe after Cortana’s disposal.

All the same, Master Chief sees it as a boon and decides to take the AI with him to discover what happened.

The Halo Infinite multiplayer trailer, meanwhile, offers a glimpse at all of the modes, weapons, and more players can look forward to using when the game drops. Speaking of which: It was confirmed that the game is now slated for release this holiday season, though an exact date hasn’t been given at this time.

It’s a worthwhile look at everything that the game will offer, and fans of the series will definitely want to check them out for themselves down below.

Doom Eternal's free next-gen update comes out 29th June for Xbox Series X and S and PlayStation 5, Bethesda has announced.

This update offers improved visuals, increased performance and support for ray-tracing, or 4K resolution at 60fps, or an optional 120fps mode.

The next-gen update is also coming to PC, which adds ray-tracing support on compatible machines.

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Psychonauts 2 is arriving on 25th August, as announced during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase this evening.

The third-person platformer has seen a series of delays, with developer Double Fine previously explaining that it needed more time to bring it up to standard, and that the studio needed time to adjust to its acquisition by Microsoft. It looks like we'll finally see the results of all this hard work soon, however, and Double Fine provided a fresh peek at Psychonauts 2 with a gameplay trailer shown during the showcase livestream:

"Psychonauts 2 is an exciting journey through the mind filled with the signature Double Fine humor and heart, and a touch of next-level platforming," says the official blog post. "You play as Razputin Aquato, a trained acrobat and powerful young psychic, who has realized his lifelong dream of joining the international psychic espionage organization known as the Psychonauts. But these psychic super spies are in trouble. Raz must use his powers to bring the murderous psychic villain, Maligula, back from the dead! Check out the video above and get psyched!"

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343 Industries and Xbox just dropped a new story trailer for Halo Infinite, and while we are still crying over the deleted Cortana experience, the studio still had more to share. Now that we have confirmation that the campaign and multiplayer are shipping together at the same time, let's dive into what the online component will have to offer.

In the video below, we see several new components to the Halo Infinite multiplayer experience, including more fluid combat, weapon loadouts, and more. But don't just take our word for it, check it out for yourself in the video below: 

Arena Multiplayer also returns and we got a new look at that as well. Arena has changed through the years, especially as Halo continues to garner respect in the esports realm. 343 is ensuring that the Arena experience is what players want with Halo Infinite. More will be shown off in the coming months, including a special showcase set for July. 

Multiplayer and the main story campaign are both set to release at the same time, despite rumors, which is something many Halo fans were concerned about. With the story trailer wrapping up some loose ends and multiplayer confirmed at launch, I think it's safe to say that the latest reveal is much more positive than the previous gameplay that caused the delay to happen in the first place. 

Today, indie developers Jumpship revealed a brand new trailer for their debut title Somerville, showcasing the sci-fi adventure that is headed to Xbox and Xbox Game Pass in 2022. In the trailer below, you can see a family trying to navigate an alien invasion, doing their best to stick together and survive this terrifying situation.

An official description of the game via the developers can be found below.

In the wake of catastrophe you must find the means to make your family whole again. Somerville is a Sci-Fi adventure grounded in the intimate repercussions of large scale conflict.

Immerse yourself in a hand-crafted narrative experience set across a vivid rural landscape. Navigate your way through the perilous terrain ahead of you to unravel the mysteries of Earth’s visitors.

Somerville will be available exclusively on Xbox and PC when it releases at some point next year. For more information, head on over to the game’s official website.