A closed network test for Tekken 8 was held in July, with an initial run that was exclusively available to Playstation 5 owners followed by a broader test that included players on Steam. Letting PC gamers near Tekken 8 meant that someone fired up Cheat Engine because of course they did, at which point they managed to find a partial roster in the game’s files that includes six previously unannou…

It’s been a long haul for The Outlast Trials, the four-player horror game from Montreal studio Red Barrels. It was announced in 2019 as a co-op twist on the hit Outlast horror games, and while a planned 2022 release didn’t happen, we did learn that PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens has a friend he wants to “subject to ethically unsound scientific experiments for progress and profit”—his …

Make today’s Wordle game a guaranteed win with our selection of tips, tricks, and advice. Rush straight over to today’s answer if you need that win in a hurry, browse some general help designed to make not only the April 25 (675) Wordle but every puzzle after it a bit easier, or scroll down for a handy clue.

Three yellows… OK, that’s great… three greens next… that’s e…

 February really was the month of extreme Tekken 8 hype. First, we had the Tekken World Tour Finals giving us a better look at the Heat system and revealing that Nina Williams would be returning to the roster. Last week saw Kazuya Mishima receive a character trailer, showing off flashy particle effects and muscles galore. This week it’s the turn of his son, Jin Kazama, to receive a bombast…

In August 2022, Embracer Group added Middle-earth Enterprises to its ever-growing lineup of studios and properties. And it’s not wasting any time doing something with it: Embracer revealed in its Q3 2022 financial report that it now has no less than five LotR games in development.

“There are currently five games in production by external partners, to be released in financial year 2023/24,…

Yesterday saw Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard given regulatory approval by the EU Commission. That’s one major stumbling block out of the way, but Microsoft still faces an uphill battle in the UK and US (and other territories) to get the deal approved. In the UK’s case the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dropped the bombshell several w…

Dota 2 has gotten a particularly game-bending update this month. Despite its simple name, Gameplay Update 7.36 has changed how all 124 heroes in Dota 2 play by fundamentally tweaking the structure of a character: Every single hero now has an innate ability of some kind, up from a mere… 7 heroes before. To boot, every single hero now has two Facets, a  binary choice of gameplay styles or …

Remember how Warner Bros. was fixing to permanently send Adult Swim Games’ entire catalogue of indies to the Shadow Realm because it would have been too much of a pain to keep processing the devs’ royalty checks? Well it looks like that fate’s been averted, with the games remaining up on Steam and their creators saying that they’ve been handed back full control.

“Duck Game is safe,” Creat…

Black Friday is over! Or is it? Was Black Friday ever truly just a day? Was it a weekend? Or is it even perhaps a state of mind. No, it’s definitely that first one. The good news is that even though the darkest of retail days has come to pass, there are still plenty of deals available throughout the weekend and on into Cyber Monday. In fact, most of our favorite deals haven’t budged an inch.&nb…

We’ve all had that experience in XCOM where you’re so determined to get yourself out of an impossible situation that you just keep reloading your save and trying different approaches as your soldiers die over and over. Now imagine that instead of that just being an embarrassing memory, it’s the basis for a whole new approach to the genre. 

In Every Day We Fight, just shown off at the…