Team17 has announced today that it’s going to be publishing Ready or Not, the tactical shooter from Void Interactive. Though a release date wasn’t announced today, the game is coming to Steam Early Access. Ready or Not was initially revealed four years ago with a brief, tech-focused trailer. The game promised to deliver a modern take on the classic SWAT games, offering tactical combat and a wide range of lethal and nonlethal tools in dealing with terrorist and hostage situations....

The 17th entry in the long-running Japanese RPG series was first officially shown off during Microsoft’s E3 2019 Xbox Press Conference, but since then we’ve heard precious little about the project. The game was delayed indefinitely in June 2020, and since then Bandai Namco has been keeping its cards pretty close to its chest, much to the chagrin of series fans. “Spring is just around the corner, and we’ve been working hard to make it unforgettable!...

A reported by Reuters, the firm has expressed interest in increasing its stake in the game maker. Back in 2018, it acquired a 5% stake in Ubisoft, and as of press time, it’s unclear how much more of a stake Tencent plans to purchase, but it wants to become the single largest shareholder. Currently valued at $5.3 billion, the Guillemot family, who founded Ubisoft, owns 15.9% of company shares and 22....

Once you find an open-world title to fall in love with, you’ll no doubt find yourself continually going back for more, wanting to explore every nook and cranny that the world has to offer. They are games that have plenty of life in them, inviting you to play them over and over again, whisking you away to unimaginable worlds that you could only dream of. Without further ado, here are ten of the best open-world games, with plenty of honourable mentions to consider trying, too....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is releasing on March 20, and Nintendo has announced a new Switch model for the upcoming release. This normal Switch model features pastel blue and green Joy-Cons, a special design on the back of the Switch, and a special tropical dock featuring the Nook family. In other words, it’s absolutely adorable and you can dock it to your TV. This is no Switch Lite! Animal Crossing fans are dying to get this new Switch, and stores have started to put pre-orders for the system up....

You’ll find the best savings from Green Man Gaming, with 13% off Iceborne’s $39.99/£34.99 price. This also applies to the $49.99/£41.99 deluxe edition if you wanted some extra cosmetics and gestures thrown in. New fledgling hunters stand to benefit too. The Master Edition bundles the base game with the expansion, which has a 12% discount off its standard $59.99/£49.99 price. It’s certainly a good time to get into the hunt as the game has seen a huge return of players since Iceborne’s release....

Sucrose’s role is as a supporting DPS in most teams, but that’s not a limitation. She’s capable of ratcheting up the team’s physical and elemental damage while tearing through enemy resistances, all with just a simple Swirl. What is the best Sucrose team in Genshin Impact? Main DPS: Childe Sub DPS: Sucrose Sub DPS: Xiangling Support: Bennett Sucrose’s abilities are fairly standard for Anemo. Her Skill creates a small Anemo vortex that can trigger Swirl, and her Burst creates a bigger one that lasts longer....

Named The Binding of Isaac: Repentance, the new update is – to quote creator and mastermind behind the dead baby rogue-like, Edmund McMillen – “yet another FINAL FINAL FINAL mega expansion” to the game. “It’s basically a sequel at this point, and it’s fucking amazing!” says McMillen over on the game’s Steam page. The game is currently over 90% done, according to the developer, who has been working closely with the team to ensure that this is the “Sequel DLC” that many players have been hankering for since the release of The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth + some five years ago....

The Cycle: Frontier is an extraction royale PvPvE shooter, essentially a lighter, more accessible take on Escape from Tarkov in a sci-fi setting. While this may be a soft launch, characters will not be wiped when June 22 arrives. Outside of the Fortuna Pass battle pass, which launches on June 22, you pretty much have access to everything the game has to offer if you start playing now. If you want to support the team, Yager has four types of Welcome Packs available for purchase - all at 25% off their normal prices during this period....

The Dark Pictures: Little Hope is the second entry in the anthology developed by Until Dawn studio Supermassive Games. It follows the first entry Man of Medan which was released in August 2019. Here’s the short blurb: “What happens in the past, never stays buried. Your tour of Little Hope begins this summer.” You can expect a new story, legends, and new victims as each entry tells an entirely new tale....

What makes The Elder Scrolls so captivating? Is it the wacky-but-epic fantasy setting? Is it the buggy nature of of all the games set in that world? Or does it just come down to the unique mix of flexible RPG systems and immersive sim DNA? Most veterans will argue it’s the latter. But we can’t reduce the series’ success to a perfectly calculated fusion of genres, because the games themselves are anything but rigid....

The games are The Elder Scrolls Online, Control, and Hunting Simulator 2. If you have either service, you will be able to play each game from today through Sunday, April 17 at 11:59pm PT. That’s Monday, April 18 at 2:59am ET and 7:59am UK. In addition, The Elder Scrolls Online is available for an extended time from now until Tuesday, April 26 at 7am PT, 10am ET, and 3pm UK....

Check out these retailers to claim your own copy if you haven’t already: Breath of the Wild revolutionized the open-world genre with its cinematic sceneries and freedom to complete quests in any order. Some other beloved features included teleportation, gliders, and environmental interactions that later open-world games still draw inspiration from today. Bonus points if the game has lush grasses and majestic mountains–almost a guaranteed comparison. Other games like Genshin Impact and the upcoming Pokemon Legends: Arceus also received comparisons to this open-world masterpiece....

Nintendo confirmed the news via a tweet yesterday. The action-adventure game is the sixth game in the Zelda franchise and was released in 2000 as the second game in the series to use 3D graphics. It takes place two months after the events of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and finds Link in Termina, a world parallel to Hyrule. Here, he learns the world is in danger due to the fact the moon will fall in three days, thanks to the Skull Kid being under the influence of Majora’s Mask....

As part of Take-Two’s earnings reveal for the Q1 of FY22, the publisher shared some interesting statics about games from its various labels, including Private Division, the publisher behind Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds. The game now has over 4 million units in lifetime sales. According to industry analyst Dom on Twitter, that’s up 1 million from the last quarter. The Outer Worlds is easily Private Division’s most successful game. The label is working with indie studios on a number of projects, including Kerbal Space Program 2, Roll7’s OlliOlli World, and the new project from Ori series developer Moon Studios....

The curious story follows a man called Solo – so named because he’s pretty alone in this disturbing world – trying to get home to see his family after his last day at work. As his journey from office to home goes on, though, things start to get weird: it seems he can’t recall what his family actually looks like, and the world around him starts to warp and disfigure....

By comparison, last year’s Detective Pikachu reached $54.3 million during its opening weekend. Sonic’s whopping $57 million pull is based on a three day total, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film industry publication is currently projecting $68 million. Similarly, its opening day estimate of $21 million last Friday overtakes Detective Pikachu’s first day figure of $20.5 million in May 2019. This is Paramount’s best opening weekend since the release of Mission: Impossible - Fallout in summer 2018....

The indie game arrives this Thursday, August 18, but is it worth playing? Well, that’s what we hope this story will answer. As we like to do, we’ve rounded up all of the review scores from games media to help you make a decision. Thymesia is a challenging game of deflects, dodges and a Plague mechanic that wants you to keep up the pressure. Attacking enemies in Thymesia only wounds them, befitting the plague doctor theme....

Twelve Minutes is not a game that requires a particularly complex explanation of its design. It’s a narrative adventure game told from a top-down perspective. You play as a husband returning home only to find two shocking things: first, a man claiming to be a cop banging on the door saying your wife is wanted for murder, and second, the fact that you’re in a time loop. Time resets to the moment you entered the apartment every 12 minutes....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has been getting a lot of praise since its review embargo lifted, with many excited about what the Viking focused entry brings to the franchise. However, it’s also come under important criticism too. Courtney Craven, founder of Can I Play That?, pointed out that a character description in the game contained harmful language. In a tweet, they shared an image of text describing a character as having severe burns on her face that she tries to hide....