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Although far from an exact science, whenever a major studio announces a new job opening at their company, it's often for something specific. There are traditionally quite a lot of open, or potentially existing jobs at large publishers and developers, but when something different shows up, it gives us a …

One of Microsoft's most praised exclusive titles so far has been Ori and the Blind Forest, a platformer with a beautiful art style and a story that will tug at your heart strings. The game took small developer, Moon Studios, almost five years to make and all of that work …

As promised last week, Blizzard held an event at Gamescom today to announce the new World of Warcraft expansion. The new expansion, which is known as ‘Legion' will see the return of The Burning Legion and bring in plenty of new gameplay elements. As with every expansion, the level cap …

Pillars of Eternity launched earlier this year to great praise from critics and fans alike. Obsidian hasn't been sitting around since launch though, it has been hard at work on the first expansion for the game, titled ‘The White March', which will release later this month. The White March is …

Don't Starve is all set to get a new single-player expansion in August, titled ‘Shipwrecked', bringing along some new game features and content. This is the first single player expansion for the game since Reign of Giants, which added in new characters, items and environments. Last year the developer behind …

Guild Wars 2 is still knocking around and its first major expansion, Heart of Thorns, is coming along nicely. The expansion was first announced towards the start of this year and now players have  a chance to try it out for themselves ahead of release. ArenaNet has revealed that those …

Techland has announced that it will be releasing a huge expansion for its open-world Zombie game, Dying Light, known as ‘The Following', which will bring new vehicles, a new location, new gameplay features and new story. The new expansion will be free for those who bought the season pass as …

Gamescom is coming up, with the first announcements set to come our way on Sunday the 5th of August. Then on Monday, Blizzard will be making an appearance to show off their next expansion for MMO, World of Warcraft. The reveal will be livestreamed on Monday the 6th of August, …

Although it doesn't seem that long ago since Blizzard released the last expansion for its collectible card game, Hearthstone, clearly it's been long enough, as the next one is on the way soon. It's called The Grand Tournament and will add a number of new cards to the game, as …

Fans of the original Witcher game will be happy to hear this as a rather important old character appears to be set to make a return in one of The Witcher: Wild Hunt's upcoming expansions. Back in the first game, players were introduced to the character Shani, a friend to …

A few months back, the Elder Scrolls Online went through some massive changes, launching on consoles and switching from the subscription model to the ‘buy to play' model. Now, the game has its first expansion coming in the form of ‘The Imperial City', which will add in new content for …

CD Projekt Red is already keeping fans playing The Witcher 3 with its gradual roll out of 16 free DLCs for the game. However, we do have more to look forward to in the form of two expansion packs, one to launch towards the end of this year and another …

Baldur's Gate is often looked at as one of the best classic isometric RPGs of all time and now, 17 years after the original game, we are getting a new expansion titled ‘Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear', set between the events of the first and second game. The new entry …

Lets kick off the morning with some good, albeit very speculative news, it looks like some story DLC could be in the works for Grand Theft Auto V, thanks to a new tease from Shawn Fonteno, the voice and motion capture actor behind the character Franklin Clinton. Now, this isn't …

Last week, it was revealed that Guild Wars 2's first expansion, Heart of Thorns, would come packed in with the core game already, giving new players a brilliant deal but apparently leaving some veteran players feeling a bit ripped off by having to pay the same amount as new players …

Guild Wars 2 is one of the more popular MMOs knocking around these days and many players have been looking forward to the game's first expansion, Heart of Thorns. Unfortunately, players aren't as happy about the game's pricing model. The expansion is set to launch soon at a £35 price …

Destiny is due to get a huge third expansion this year, which is likely going to take up some time on stage at E3 this year. However, it seems that Bungie has been unable to keep details under wraps, first up, Red Bull accidentally leaked the name of the expansion …

CD Projekt Red has been working on its Witcher finale for around three years and now all of the hard work is paying off as four million copies of The Witcher: Wild Hunt have been sold in the last two weeks alone, making this the developer's most successful launch ever. …

Bungie has been working on expansions for Destiny ever since the base game released. So far, we've seen two, The Dark Below and House of Wolves, however, the third expansion is due to be the largest and judging by a previously leaked roadmap, the most exciting. Now it looks like …

The Witcher 3 has been talked about a lot over the past week and with good reason, the game turned out to be very good. However, CD Projekt Red doesn't want you to just forget about the game once you have beat it so in order to keep players coming …

Destiny's second expansion pack is on the way next month, it may be the first to not feature a raid but it is packing content in other areas. Today, Bungie held a Twitch stream, showing off new content, including the new social hub and new upgrade methods for weapons and …

Destiny's long-awaited second expansion, House of Wolves, finally has a release date along with an official prologue cinematic trailer. Bungie has also confirmed the list of content set to appear in the game's second expansion, which follows on from The Dark Below, that launched all of the way back in …

It looks like Microsoft is renewing its interest in the Age of Empires series as it has announced that it will be working on a new expansion for Age of Empires II: HD Edition. Microsoft has brought in some outside help too. The team behind the fan-made Age of Empires …

Destiny has been out for quite some time and while two expansions for the game were announced last year as part of a ‘expansion pass', so far, we've only seen the launch of The Dark Below. Over the last few months, we have seen tons of leaks and rumors pertaining …

Evolve was a game that I was pretty pumped about before release and despite some niggling bugs left over from the alpha and beta period, when launched it was a lot of fun – for a time. Looking at the Steam statistics for the game suggests that I'm not the …

The long-awaited StarCraft 2 expansion, Legacy of the Void, is going to enter an invite-only beta phase at the end of March, Blizzard has announced. The studio also released a new video, showing off what has changed since the expansion's initial reveal at Blizzcon last year. Some parts of the …

Earlier this week we saw evidence pointing towards the next Hearthstone Adventure mode expansion. Now, the rumors have been confirmed as Blizzard has announced the Blackrock Mountain adventure mode, which will launch next month in April. Blizzard hasn't revealed many specifics but one of the new bosses for this mode …

Bethesda has just announced a standalone prequel for last year's Wolfenstein: The New Order, it is called Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and will feature an expansion sized story that sees Blazkowicz return to battle. The prequel will be set in the year 1946, with the Nazis on the brink of …

Hearthstone could soon have a new adventure mode taking place at Blackrock Mountain, according to some data mined from the most recent game patch. This would be Hearthstone's third expansion overall and second adventure mode, following on from The Curse of Naxx last year. Being an adventure mode, it will …

It looks like Destiny is going to get a new social area in the upcoming House of Wolves expansion DLC, if these newly leaked screenshots are anything to go by. We know that the Reef was once a playable area at one point in development and previous rumors have hinted …