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This isn’t the new Prince of Persia game you were hoping for, but at least Ubisoft is still dreaming up new adventures in this popular universe. Prince of Persia: The Dagger of Time is a virtual reality escape room designed for teams of up to four players. Developer Ubisoft Düsseldorf hopes to have this Sands

Hundreds of soundtracks are on sale on Steam right now to celebrate to celebrate the new and improved features for music and soundtracks. The sale started yesterday and ends on Friday the 14th, so you have a couple of days left to grab some bargain tunes to woo your love interests with. There’s a couple

I’ve never particularly been one for competitive multiplayer games. I’ve played the odd bit of Overwatch in recent years, but mostly as a way to hang out with pals, and I quite enjoy the complete anonymity of ranked hearthstone, even though I’m guff at it. But I’ve always been massively scared to play strategy games

2K has announced that internal developer 2K Silicon Valley will now be known as 31st Union, with progress already underway on an unannounced new IP. 2K Silicon Valley was inaugurated last year with Michael Condrey, co-founder of Sledgehammer Games (Call of Duty: WWII and more) as president. Alongside the new studio name, 31st Union is

Due to health concerns linked to the spreading coronavirus, PUBG Corporation today announced the postponement of this April’s PUBG Global Series event in Berlin. PUBG Corporation still plans on running all four of its Global Series events this year, but there may be some delays due to the virus, and perhaps even venue changes. A

Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today. My agenda: I really wanted to return to 2014’s hated Thief and prove that it never deserved the vitriol it received. My reality: before the game even started I was bombarded

This week in the world of PC gaming, GTA’s lead writer is leaving Rockstar, Blizzard are trying to recover from Warcraft 3: Reforged’s wonky launch, and oh heck yes Platinum’s The Wonderful 101 is now headed to PC. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and do also

If you don’t know it, Shelter 3 is the in development sequel to Might And Delight’s series of animal mom games. Shelter 1 started out with a mother badger protecting her babies. Shelter 2 featured a mother lynx and her cubs. Shelter 3 will have you play as a mother elephant shepherding whatever their babies

Virtuous, the team handling the Switch port of The Outer Worlds, has studios located in Chengdu and Xi’an, China, and those offices have been closed during the Coronavirus outbreak and a mandatory quarantine. Publisher Private Division took to Twitter to say that “the team at Virtuous is ok,” but they’ll need additional time to finish

Last year’s Below was a stunner. A beautiful subterranean puzzle-box. A real shame, then, that for so many explorers it was also brutally, unforgivingly difficult. But while developers Capy one stood firmly by the belief that a cursed hole in the ground should be a torturous experience, they’ve since changed their tune. Below will soon

After making its way through Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter in early 2017, Laughing Machines’ Undungeon is gearing up for a 2020 release. Laughing Machines and publisher tinyBuild today released a gameplay trailer that shows off combat and some of the RPG systems for this stunning hand-drawn pixel-art game. In Undungeon, players suit up as one

Developer Dead Mage and publisher 11 bit studios today released the first free update for Children of Morta for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. Dubbed the “Shrine of Challenge,” this update introduces a Hard mode with increased enemy damage and health. Players that take on these foes will gain larger experience point rewards.

The Sega Ages collection on Switch has delivered terrific and enhanced ports several Sega classics. From Virtua Racing to Space Harrier, Switch owners have enjoyed new features and modernizations both great and small. Now, Sega has announced Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Puyo Puyo 2 are joining the Sega Ages roster next week. Sonic the

After a bit of an information drought, we finally got to see some new footage of the alternate universe Soviet FPS Atomic Heart yesterday courtesy of a lengthy breakdown video. Today, there’s a shorter but more concise official gameplay teaser in case you didn’t feel like sifting through 45 minutes of talk to find the

February 27 is Pokémon Day, which just happens to be the date that Pokémon Red and Green lauched in Japan in 1996. You can start celebrating right now by casting your vote for your favorite Pokémon of all time. If you type “Pokemon vote” into Google, you’ll be taken to a poll where you can

The last two big additions on the calendar for Destiny 2‘s Season Of Dawn arrived today: a new final boss in The Sundial and, more practically, an easy way to farm squillions of the seasonal weapons and get your dream rolls. Saint-14 and Osiris today launched the Empyrean Restoration effort, asking Guardians to donate leftover

Nvidia may be looking to compete with Google Stadia and Microsoft’s Project xCloud. The company just announced that its video game streaming service, GeForce Now, is exiting beta and is free for all users – with a few caveats. If you’re not familiar with GeForce Now, this streaming service allows users to stream PC games to

The tiny superhero game developed by Platinum Games for the Wii U back in 2013 is getting a remaster. It will be coming to the Nintendo Switch, of course, but Platinum aren’t working with Nintendo as a publisher this time around so they’ve taken to crowdfunding to get The Wonderful 101: Remastered made and have

If you use a power wheelchair in your day-to-day life, you likely use something that looks an awful lot like a gaming joystick to get around. It seems AbleGamers COO, Rocket League fan and wheelchair user Steven Spohn thought so too, and set about trying to bridge that gap. A little bit of hardware tinkering

This week, several esports events in China have been cancelled due to the new coronavirus going round, Steam done an oopsie. Read on for more of the week’s PC gaming goings-on in our News Digest, and do also check out the Weekly Updates Update for the week’s big patches. Blizzard have cancelled Overwatch League matches

Don’t panic. Or don’t get too excited, depending on your opinions on the long-dead The Sims Online from 2002. During a recent earnings call, EA’s CEO Andrew Wilson alludes to experimenting with social and competitive elements in a future Sims game but the word “MMO” was definitely not mentioned. Instead he says that “this notion

If you “accidentally” drop your Switch, or “accidentally” throw it in a wood chipper between now and March, you have every right to pick up the new Animal Crossing themed version. Hitting store shelves on March 13 – a week before the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – this special edition Switch comes with

I’ve not kept up with the plot of For Honor, a game where buff lads and lasses chop each other’s limbs off with elaborate pointy sticks. But as Ubisoft’s brawny fighter enters its fourth year, they’re putting down the swords – if only for a little while. While Year 4 might be the “Year of

Dating back to Overwatch’s launch in 2016, players have been able to suit up as any hero for quick play and competitive play. As the roster of heroes continued to expand, the game’s balance and meta became more unwieldy, and players wanted to see more frequent updates from Blizzard to even out the play. In a developer update video released

Switch owners will soon travel to Halcyon to experience one of 2019’s most rewarding adventures. Developer Obsidian Entertainment and publisher Private Division announced that The Outer Worlds is coming to Switch on March 6. If you are planning to buy a physical copy, you’ll get a box, but this is yet another Switch game that

343 Industries have released their January development update for the Halo: Master Chief Collection and it’s a chunky one. The update goes over progress made on all of the Halo games that 343 are bringing to PC as part of the collection, from test flight plans to matchmaking playlists, and Halo Forge. I’ll stick to

After being delayed last year, Blizzard’s remastering of the 2002 RTS Warcraft III: Reforged will finally see its release today at 11pm GMT (which is also 6pm EST and 3pm PST, as well as a bunch of other timezones if none of these are relevant for you). Announced back in 2018, Warcraft III: Reforged is

Nintendo has announced details for Pokémon Home, including pricing and features for its two plans: Basic and Premium. Pokémon Home (via Switch and mobile versions) lets you store your Pokémon in the cloud so you can transfer them between compatible games*, trade them, and more. Pokémon Home is coming some time in February. The free Basic version of Pokémon Home

CD Projekt Red’s excellent spin-off role-playing game can now be played on the go. Originally released on October 23, 2018 for PC (and then later that year on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One), Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales tells the tale of Queen Meve, the queen of the Norther Realms of Lyria and Rivia, in a

The Russian post-apocalypse game Metro Exodus has announced a date for its second DLC coming in February. Like the first DLC, Sam’s Story ditches the main game’s protagonist in favor of a new set of eyes. It will follow the story of a US Marine trying to make his way back to the states from the