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I’ve long appreciated State of Decay as the exciting middle ground between an approachable zombie game like Days Gone or Dead Rising, and unforgiving survival sims like DayZ and Project Zomboid. No series or game that I know of has found that same middle ground–harsh, but digestible. But maybe that’s no longer true. While I impatiently await more news for …

George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones and acclaimed writer of books you’d shrivel up and die halfway through if you attempted to get through one during a single bath, says there’s been some chatter about possibly doing an Elden Ring movie. How much involvement the writer’d have if that were to happen remains to be seen, though. Martin, …

Screenshot: Obsidian Entertainment Part of the appeal of a large-scale role-playing game is customizing your character in ways that compliment your preferred playstyle. But as you play through a sprawling game like Avowed, you may find that the way you like to approach combat or dialogue evolves. As such, you may want to reset your attributes or abilities so that …

Overwatch 2 Season 15 appears to be going down well, improving sentiment around what was once the worst ever user-reviewed game on Steam. We’re now nearly nine years out from the debut of Overwatch in 2016, and two-and-a-half from the launch of Overwatch 2. In August 2023, Overwatch 2 became the worst user-reviewed game on Steam ever, with most of …

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered The cult-classic action-adventure series Legacy of Kain finally returned last year with a remastered collection of two of the best games in the series, Soul Reaver and Soul Reaver 2. The collection originally launched as a digital-only title, but physical PS5 and Switch versions are launching on June 13, and are available to …

The developers behind Skyblivion, the massive modding project that’s remaking The Elder Scrolls IV in Skyrim’s engine, have now revealed that they’ve finished landscaping every region of their map of Cyrodiil. There’s still stuff to do before the mod can hit its current 2025 release window, but it sounds like this is a pretty big milestone in getting there. To …

Screenshot: Beijing Enlight Media Ne Zha 2, a new Chinese animated movie, has brought in $1.7 billion at the box office and dethroned Pixar’s Inside Out 2 to become the highest-grossing animated flick in history. 10 Creatures We Wanna Ride In Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Released in January, Ne Zha 2 has been on a record-breaking run in China. Earlier …

Activision may finally be ready to start talking about its next Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game, and it seems to be using a sneaky Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Easter Egg to get the conversation started. Call of Duty outlet CharlieIntel spotted and shared references to the publisher’s legendary skateboarding video game franchise in a peculiar place after the …

Rockstar Games made a big GTA announcement today, and while it’s not anything to do with GTA 6, it’s still a pretty significant piece of news. GTA 5 for PC is getting a major upgrade, with Rockstar Games bringing over the changes, improvements, and additions from the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 versions. On March 4, everyone who owns GTA …

If CD Projekt achieves what it aims to with Cyberpunk 2077‘s currently in-the-works sequel, the game’ll feature “the most realistic and reactive crowd system in any game to date”. This goal is laid out in one of the job descriptions the publisher’s just put out as it seeks to recruit folks to beef up the team working on the Cyberpunk …