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Aion 2's much-awaited worldwide release is days away, following its release in Korea and Taiwan roughly a year ago. Despite this, the MMO has soared - high up Steam's most played game chart. Read more

James Bond game 007 First Light is getting free DLC today in an Extended Operations update. This adds much-asked-for features to the game - such as New Game Plus, a new harder difficulty mode, a photo mode - as well as more TacSim mission challenges and a couple of game adjustments Read more

The early access launch of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve kicked off on a down note due to some confusion regarding one of the game's pre-order bonuses. Pre-orders of the flight action game include a copy of 2006's Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War , but early adopters discovered it was not a standalone product, contrary to what they were lead to believe when they pre-ordered the game. Read more

"Look ma, no face," growls Marcus Fenix as I land a headshot on an Elite Sniper from across the map. The foley, wet with viscera and meat, drips and gloops in my ears. A nearby Locust roars its outrage, a chainsaw revs up to my left, and there's a big meaty slap of muscle on flesh as a Drone ambushes my right flank and tackles me to the floor. Gears of War is back, alright, and it's like it never…

Since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered's launch earlier this week, the debate around its lighting changes - whether it's overly brightened and washed out - has waged on. Now, CD Projekt Red has rolled out a patch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and the game's PC Xbox Play Anywhere version, which makes "various lighting adjustments" among other things. Read more

PUBG publisher Krafton announced today it is ending development of PUBG: Black Budget, the extraction shooter spin-off announced nearly a year ago. Read more

Uncharted series developer Naughty Dog is reportedly early in development on a new game in the action-adventure series. That's according to a report from MP1st , which said the game is bringing back series protagonist Nathan Drake in some form, suggesting he may not be the game's lead. Read more

Sony has revealed the games coming this month to PlayStation Plus, which are available to everyone from 6th October. Read more

Back in July, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a total of 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft's gaming arm , with roughly half of those cuts being made alongside that announcement. The impact was vast. Various developers at Xbox studios, including Activision, Bethesda, Id Software, Blizzard, Mojang, and King suffered layoffs. Double Fine and Compulsion were thrust into independence, while Dishonore…

Ubisoft has expanded the remit of Swedish studio Massive Entertainment - responsible for The Division series, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - to become a second major part of the company and include more of its studios and game brands. Ubisoft also revealed Massive's work on a brand new, original game called March of Giants. Read more

Halo's ex-franchise director, Frank O'Connor, has given Activision a few pointers now that it's in charge of making the next Halo game with a "purpose-built team." Top of the list, hire some devs who were laid off from Bungie and Halo Studios. Read more

Despite mass layoffs at multiple first-party studios and major internal shakeups, CEO Asha Sharma has shot down speculation about a potential Xbox buyout. Read more

If you thought Red Dead Redemption 2 's heavy winds and even heavier rain looked impressive, you might be happy to learn that Rockstar Games went back and "re-engineered our weather system" for GTA 6 . Hurricanes, rainbows and "vertiginous cumulonimbus clouds" are all part of the upcoming open worlder. Read more

Valve's new MOBA Deadlock - a sort of cross between Dota and Overwatch - might not be fully released yet, or even accessible by vast portions of the public,but that hasn't stopped its latest update propelling it to being one of the most played games on Steam. Read more

World of Warcraft: Forever players claim to have been sent a survey asking whether they'd be interested in a variety of new classes for the upcoming MMO - and some of them are very interesting. Read more