Microsoft is making four Xbox-exclusive games well… not exclusive as part of its “Xbox Everywhere” marketing campaign. That includes Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Hi-Fi Rush, and Pentiment, all of which are set to launch on PlayStation 5 at some point in the future. The announcement was made during yesterday’s Xbox podcast, where Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox president Sarah [...]
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While some games seem to want to linger in early access for all eternity, My. Games’ multiplayer extraction shooter Hawked has made the leap just three months after its early access launch in November. The Indiana Jones-inspired treasure hunting game drops players on a lush tropical island called X-Isle alone or in groups of two or three players in search [...]
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Enad Global 7 published its Q4 2023 financial report yesterday which showed a 9% quarter-over-quarter increase in revenue but a 15% decline year-over-year. It also revealed that Daybreak Games had sold off a “noncore IP” for $5.9 million to give the company more wiggle room after a particularly weak third quarter. The report didn’t specify which IP it was, but [...]
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If you’ve always thought that your favorite MMO could benefit from more puzzle-type content, then why not try Islands of Insight, an MMO that’s nothing but puzzles. Well, there’s also some open-world exploration involved but that’s just to get to the next puzzle waiting to be solved, and the scenery isn’t half bad either. Islands of Insight is a new [...]
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Hearthstone is turning ten years old next month and Blizzard is marking the milestone with Year of the Pegasus, a year-long celebration that begins on March 11. Over the next 12 months, players can look forward to a plethora of freebies, in-game events, new game modes, and new cards courtesy of three upcoming expansions for the free-to-play card battler. “It [...]
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Overwatch 2 is cooking up another major anime collaboration featuring the classic 90s space western animated series Cowboy Bebop. Blizzard hasn’t officially announced the crossover event just yet, but we do know that it’s coming at some point during Season 9 thanks to a teaser at the end of the season trailer. The clip shows Overwatch 2’s resident cowboy, Cassidy, [...]
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Seekers of Skyveil started its development journey as a co-op fantasy ARPG codenamed Project Skies before Elodie Games decided to hop on the extraction game bandwagon and take the game along for the ride. Seekers of Skyveil is now a full-fledged PvPvE extraction fantasy RPG and has been in alpha testing since October 2023. Elodie Games has regularly been running [...]
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One of the benefits of living in Age of Water’s nautical world is that there’ll be no shortage of fish for you to eat. First, you’ll need to catch them though. To get fans up to speed on the mechanics of fishing, Three Whales Studios has dropped a new preview blog outlining all the ways you can obtain fish in [...]
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Now that the Skull and Bones open beta has ended, the only way you’ll be getting into the game is to pony up $59.99 for the base edition. We can’t blame you if you’re on the fence though, and you’re not the only one thinking that the box price seems a bit too steep for a live service game. Ubisoft [...]
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Palworld has seen a significant drop in its player count since it set an all-time high of 2.1 million players a little over two weeks ago. Peak daily concurrency is now down by roughly 70% to just 610,050 players as of this writing, making it the biggest two-week drop in Steam’s history. It’s quite the step-down, but the Pokémon-with-guns survival [...]
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