Just as promised, today Ubisoft officially revealed Assassin's Creed Shadows with a lengthy cinematic trailer. As expected, the game is indeed set in Feudal Japan, and players will have a choice between two protagonist characters, one of which is Yasuke, the legendary African samurai. At the very end of the …
Read More »Microsoft is working on bringing more Xbox titles to PlayStation
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced plans to bring four previously exclusive games to rival consoles for the first time. So far, this has led to Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves, Pentiment and Grounded all going to PlayStation or Switch (or both in some cases). Now, it appears Microsoft is planning …
Read More »Ghost of Tsushima will be playable on Steam Deck, but no multiplayer
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut officially lands on Steam tomorrow. We've already covered the worldwide launch unlock times, but now it is time to focus our attention on the game's Steam Deck capabilities. If you own the handheld, you will indeed be able to play Ghost of Tsushima on it, …
Read More »Ghost of Tsushima will have a worldwide launch on PC – here are the unlock times
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut will not be accessible for most of the day on release. The game launches tomorrow on Steam, bringing the game to PC for the first time, complete with the Iki Island expansion and the Legends multiplayer mode. As the game has been out for roughly …
Read More »UK government officially responds to ‘Stop Killing Games’ petition
The UK government has officially responded to a popular petition that has been doing the rounds recently. After Ubisoft shut down The Crew and actively removed the game from customer’s digital libraries, the Stop Killing Games campaign kicked off, asking the government to prevent games companies from making their games …
Read More »New mod turns Helldivers 2 into Star Wars: Battlefront
Helldivers 2 has already had a certain amount of Star Wars flavour embedded into it, but modders are looking to take that to a new level. A new mod revealed this week aims to turn Helldivers into Star Wars: Battlefront, with various assets replaced with new ones from the Star …
Read More »The Finals loses steam after successful launch
Embark Studio launched its very first game, The Finals, in late 2023 to great success. The game became an overnight hit in December, garnering hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam alone. Now almost six months later, it appears that the game is not doing as well as its …
Read More »Sony announces PlayStation restructure, with co-CEOs replacing Jim Ryan
Sony announced that PlayStation head, Jim Ryan, would be leaving the company quite some time ago. Now, the company has officially announced his replacement. Starting in June, PlayStation will be led by two CEOs, one focused on the hardware side of the business, and another overseeing studios. Hermen Hulst, who …
Read More »Amazon is making a Tomb Raider TV series for Prime Video
After acquiring Crystal Dynamics and the Tomb Raider IP, Embracer Group quickly entered a deal with Amazon to publish the next Tomb Raider game. We always assumed this was the first step towards Amazon gaining the TV rights for Prime Video but now, this has been confirmed. Today, Amazon officially …
Read More »Hellblade 2, Immortals of Aveum and more head to Game Pass this month
We've come up to the second half of the month, which means it is now time for a new wave of Xbox Game Pass titles to be announced. The big headliner here is Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, the highly anticipated sequel to Ninja Theory's beloved action-horror game. Senua's Saga: Hellblade …
Read More »PlayStation Emulator tops iPhone App Store charts
Gamma, a new PS1 emulator for iOS devices, has become one of the most downloaded apps in the App Store.
Read More »Helldivers 2 surpasses 12 million copies sold
The sci-fi shooter from Arrowhead is one of PlayStation's fastest selling games ever, but also faces controversy over PSN account linking and delisting.
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Shadows officially announced
Assassin's Creed Red has now been officially unveiled. The game's official title is Assassin's Creed Shadows and just as rumoured, it will be set in Feudal-era Japan. Assassin's Creed Shadows is getting its very first cinematic trailer tomorrow, the 15th of May. Then, during Ubisoft Forward in June, there should …
Read More »The Rogue Prince of Persia gets new release date
After being delayed last week, Evil Empire has now announced the new release date for The Rogue Prince of Persia. The new game, developed by a team of rogue-like specialists who also worked on the massive indie hit ‘Dead Cells', is now due to launch on the 27th of May. …
Read More »KitGuru 15-year anniversary giveaway winner announced!
Our 15-year anniversary giveaway has officially come to an end. To celebrate this milestone, our in-house modding expert, James Dawson, put together a new custom PC build, fully liquid cooled and powered by an Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor and an RTX 4080 graphics card. After going through all of the entries we have landed on a winner!
Read More »Marvel Rivals studio apologises for shady content creator program agreement
Marvel Rivals is going through a closed alpha playtest on PC right now, which has already led to a few leaks, including footage of all the characters currently in-game, all their unique abilities, and code pointing towards a huge list of post-launch characters being planned. While the game was garnering …
Read More »A new DOOM game appears to be around the corner
In recent years, a number of trademark filings have revealed new id Software releases ahead of announcement. Previously, we've seen the classic DOOM re-releases and Quake re-releases leaked this way. Now, a new trademark filing hints at something new in the works for DOOM fans. The pending trademark is titled …
Read More »Square Enix finally throws in the towel on ‘exclusive’ games
We've heard a lot about the surprisingly lacklustre sales tail for Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, both of which launched as PS5 exclusives, limiting each game's respective market reach. Now, Square Enix seems to be acknowledging that exclusivity deals aren't making much sense for the company, confirming …
Read More »Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare may finally come to PC in 2024
Last year, Rockstar re-released Red Dead Redemption and its companion game, Undead Nightmare, for modern consoles, including PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately for the PC crowd, we were once again left off the list of supported platforms. However, that may finally be set to change, with an update to Rockstar's …
Read More »Suicide Squad’s Season 1 ‘Episode 2’ update still has no release date
Rocksteady kicked off its first season of post-launch content for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League back in late March, adding a new ‘Elseworld' to the game, along with a new playable character, The Joker. This was referred to as ‘Episode 1' of the first season, with a second act …
Read More »Bungie is bringing the classic Marathon games to Steam ahead of reboot
We've known about Marathon for a while now, with Bungie rebooting its classic pre-Halo sci-fi shooter for the modern era, as a multiplayer extraction shooter. The original Marathon games aren't exactly widely available today, but Bungie is making it easier for fans to go back and see how Marathon started …
Read More »Microsoft is still planning to bring Call of Duty to Game Pass on day-one
Microsoft's announcement that four Bethesda studios will be shut down has caused another wave of speculation around Game Pass. Reports claim that Microsoft is debating whether or not to keep bringing major releases, like Call of Duty, to Game Pass due to the revenue drop in sales. Just one day …
Read More »The Rogue Prince of Persia delayed days ahead of Early Access launch
Ubisoft announced a surprising partnership earlier this year, teaming up with the indie studio behind Dead Cells to create a new rogue-like Prince of Persia game. While The Rogue Prince of Persia was initially set to launch next week, the developers have since decided to delay the game, in part …
Read More »EA wants to bring ‘dynamic ads’ to more games
EA has long made it known that it is constantly exploring ways to further monetise its games. The company is already planning to usher in AI tools to cut out a number of human workers and build products faster. Alongside this, EA is also further looking into bringing in-game advertising …
Read More »Fallout 76 players are sending nukes at Phil Spencer for recent studio closures
Xbox finds itself embroiled in yet another PR debacle this week, as Fallout 76 players enact an unconventional form of protest. Earlier this year, the gaming community was stirred by Microsoft's decision to release former exclusives on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms. Now, Microsoft's recent announcement of the closure of four …
Read More »Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has cost WB $200 million
Rocksteady launched its live-service focused game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, back in February to negative reviews. Since then, the number of active players has plummeted and the game's first ‘season' of post-launch content has done nothing to move the needle. Warner Bros executives had already stated it would …
Read More »God of War: Ragnarök is the next major PS5 game releasing on PC
The same leaker who revealed that Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut would be coming to PC has now revealed the next major PlayStation game set to make the jump. Given that Horizon: Forbidden West came to PC earlier this year, it should come as no surprise that Sony's other major 2022 exclusive, God of War: Ragnarök, is next on the list.
Read More »GeForce Now gets Honkai: Star Rail, Tomb Raider and more this week
Last week's GeForce Now update brought us news on 24 games hitting the service in the weeks ahead. Five more of those titles are now officially on GeForce Now as of today, including Mihoyo's Honkai: Star Rail, a Sci-Fi take on the Genshin Impact formula. If you are using a …
Read More »Marvel Rivals character roster and abilities leak
Earlier this week, those who got into the closed alpha playtest for Marvel Rivals quickly got to work datamining for leaks. As it turns out, the developers behind Rivals have ideas for as many as 39 characters. However, currently only 14 of them are in the game. One player who …
Read More »Nvidia rolls out Game Ready graphics driver for Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut
It is time to update those graphics drivers once again. Today, Nvidia is rolling out its latest GeForce Game Ready driver, including optimisations for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, which finally comes to PC next week.
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