The main character kisses Karlach in Baldur's Gate 3
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Baldur's Gate 3 "Hefty" Patch 6 Coming Next Week Improving Kisses and Much More

Baldur's Gate 3 is getting ready for Valentine's Day with a big patch coming next week, likely with the most appropriate content possible on the menu. As shared on X (formerly Twitter) on the…

February 10, 2024 | 04:10 EST

The main character of Dead Cells wielding twin frying pans
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Dead Cells Developers Confirm End of Major Updates After Next Content Drop

Dead Cells updates will come to an end after the next major content drop, developers Evil Empire and Motion Twin have revealed. In a new post on the game's official Steam page, Motion Twin says that…

February 9, 2024 | 09:39 EST

The ships flyable during the Free Fly Event in Star Citizen
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Star Citizen Is Now Free to Play For a Week as New Video Features in-Game Branding

Star Citizen is now free to play for a week thanks to the latest Free Fly event celebrating Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year.  Players will be able to create an account on the official site …

February 9, 2024 | 05:30 EST

Sega Logo and Total War: Pharaoh
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Sega Gaming Profits Drop Sharply Due to "Weak" Sales of Some New Games

Today Sega published its financial results for the 9 months that ended on December 31, 2023, and at least part of them wasn't really great.  Sales for the overall company were 349,924 million yen (…

February 8, 2024 | 11:45 EST

Artwork of Ed from Street Fighter 6
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Next Street Fighter 6 DLC Character Ed Gets Release Date and Gameplay Reveal

Capcom has revealed the release date of Street Fighter 6's next DLC character, Ed, alongside a first look at his gameplay.  Ed will launch on February 27 and will be the 21st playable character of…

February 8, 2024 | 07:04 EST

Art of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption
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Grand Theft Auto V Has Sold Over 195 Million Units, Red Dead Redemption 2 at 61 Million Units

Take-Two Interactive Software announced its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year, related to the period between October 2023 and December 2023, on top of an update to sales…

February 8, 2024 | 04:24 EST

Lost Hellden Key Art featuring the cast
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Astria Ascending Developers and Veteran Japanese Creators Team Up for Lost Hellden

Today Artisan Studios announced a new upcoming action RPG titled Lost Hellden. The game will release for PS5, PS4, PC, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch in 2025, and it's created in collaboration…

February 8, 2024 | 03:23 EST

Ubisoft Logo and Grand Theft Auto 6
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Ubisoft CEO Expects GTA6 Release to Benefit His Own Games as Well, Comments on Microsoft Rumors

Today, during the quarterly financial conference call for investors and analysts, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot commented on Grand Theft Auto 6, the future of Xbox, and Skull and Bones. Guillemot was…

February 8, 2024 | 01:52 EST

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Ubisoft Confirms Assassin’s Creed Codename Red Release By March 2025, Announces Financial Results

Ubisoft just announced its financial results for the first nine months and Q3 of the fiscal year 2023-2024, related to the period between April and December. Net bookings for the quarter were €626.2…

February 8, 2024 | 12:55 EST

Microosft and FTC Bicker as Ace attorney Characters
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Microsoft Fires Back at FTC's Accusation on Layoffs in Activision Blizzard Legal Battle

Microsoft's legal counsel has responded to the accusations leveled yesterday by the FTC within the legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The regulator is appealing against a…

February 8, 2024 | 12:00 EST

Two animal-like characters in official artwork for Against the Storm
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Against the Storm Roadmap Revealed, Next Major Update Coming in March

Eremite Games and Hooded Horse have rolled out an official post-launch Against the Storm roadmap, showing what's coming to the city-builder in the next few months. Over on Steam, Eremite says it…

February 8, 2024 | 10:43 EST

Honkai: Star Rail Lunar New Year Animation Guinaifen and Sushang
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Honkai: Star Rail Celebrates Lunar New Year With Gorgeous Anime Short

Honkai: Star Rail developer HoYoverse is a Chinese company, so the Lunar New Year is extremely important in its calendar. It's not surprising that it pulled all the stops to celebrate with a gorgeous…

February 7, 2024 | 11:54 EST

Persona 3 Reload 1 Million Celebration Image
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Persona 3 Reload Has Sold Over 1 Million Copies, Fastest in Atlus' History

Today Atlus announced that its recently released JRPG Persona 3 Reload achieved a big sales milestone. The game has passed 1 million copies shipped to retail and sold digitally in the first week…

February 7, 2024 | 08:31 EST

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Disney to Invest $1.5 Billion in Epic Games to Create Persistent Universe Connected to Fortnite

Today The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games announced an agreement for the creation of a persistent universe connected to the developer's ultra-popular game Fortnite.  The experience, which is…

February 7, 2024 | 05:04 EST

Sarah Morgan in Starfield
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New Starfield Beta Update Available Now on Steam, Adding AMD FSR3, Intel XeSS, and More

Today Bethesda released the beta version of a new update for its sci-fi RPG Starfield on Steam in order to test it before it gets unleashed into the wild for all platforms. The update, which was…

February 7, 2024 | 04:25 EST

Microsoft and FTC arguie in Activision Blizzard case represented by Ace Attorney characters
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FTC and "Gamers' Lawsuit" Lawyers Denounce Microsoft's Layoffs in Activision Blizzard Legal Battle

Both the FTC and the lawyers behind the so-called "Gamers' lawsuit" against Microsoft over the acquisition  $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard have denounced the recent wave of layoffs…

February 7, 2024 | 12:25 EST

The photographer Jasmine against a verdant garden backdrop in the life sim Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
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Cozy Gardening Sim Garden Life Reveals Relaxing Story Mode in New Trailer

Nacon and developer stillalive have revealed a brand new trailer for upcoming gardening sim Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator, and it's spotlighting the game's story mode. Like many other life sims, …

February 7, 2024 | 10:31 EST

P in Lies of P wearing the new Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty crossover gear
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Lies of P Gets New Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Crossover Gear Next Week

Neowiz has confirmed that the Lies of P Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty crossover will continue with some new Wo Long-inspired gear for Lies of P next week. Starting from February 14th, as part of a free…

February 7, 2024 | 09:29 EST

 Jianxin in Wuthering Waves holding trays
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Genshin Impact Competitor Wuthering Waves Introduces Jianxin, Closed Beta Date Announced

Kuro Games released a new trailer of its upcoming action RPG Wuthering Waves, introducing a new character named Jianxin, and announced the start date of the next closed beta. The second phase of the…

February 7, 2024 | 04:53 EST

A screenshot of Palworld with a working Pengullet
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Palworld Update v0.1.4.1 Available Now, Fixes Crashing Save Data and More

Today Pocketpair released a brand new update of its popular open-world crafting survival game Palworld, fixing an issue that has plagued players for a long time.  The update has been released only…

February 7, 2024 | 12:15 EST

Key Art of Cities: Skylines 2
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Cities: Skylines 2 Sold Over 1 Million Copies Despite Issues as Paradox Has 9 Games in Development

Today Paradox Interactive shared its Q4 2023 financial results on top of the overall results for the full year 2023, including a sales milestone for Cities: Skylines 2. Sales for Q4 (between October…

February 6, 2024 | 05:40 EST

The map table in Crusader Kings 3
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Crusader Kings III Reveals New $44 Expansion Pass Including the Terrifying Black Death

Today Paradox Interactive revealed a new expansion pass coming to its popular grand strategy game Crusader Kings III.  The new expansion pass includes four pieces of content, the cosmetic pack …

February 6, 2024 | 01:07 EST

A mercenary in a cowboy hat standing in front of a burning vehicle in Jagged Alliance 3
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Jagged Alliance 3 Patch 1.5 Brings "Extensive" and "Powerful" Modding Tools

THQ Nordic and Haemimont Games have released Jagged Alliance Patch 1.5, and if you've been waiting for your chance to mod the strategy RPG, this is the update for you. The game, which launched for…

February 6, 2024 | 10:31 EST

A player standing outside their wooden homestead in Enshrouded
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First Big Enshrouded Patch Packs in a Ton of Bug Fixes and More

Open-world survival-crafter Enshrouded has received its first major patch, and it comes with an absolute ton of bug fixes and tweaks. Major bugs that have been squashed include "several rare crashes…

February 6, 2024 | 08:58 EST

Star Citizen F8C Lightning on Daymar with Crusader in the Distance
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Star Citizen Will Be Free to Play for a Limited Time Starting Later This Week

People and media say many things about Star Citizen, but as usual, the best way to judge a game is to try it for yourself. Later this week you'll be able to for free for a limited time.  Cloud…

February 6, 2024 | 04:07 EST

Artwork portraying Black Swan from Honkai: Star Rail
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Honkai: Star Rail Introduces The New Five-Star Character Black Swan [UPDATED]

Honkai: Star Rail will be updated to version 2.0 soon, and today HoYoverse introduced one of the patch's main selling points, the new character Black Swan.  Black Swan is a five-star Wind character…

February 5, 2024 | 11:04 EST

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Microsoft Will Share Its "Vision for the Future of Xbox" at an Event Next Week

Today Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer announced that the company is going to share its vision for the future of Xbox at an event next week.  Shared on his X (formerly Twitter) account, the…

February 5, 2024 | 03:44 EST

Honkai: Star Rail Version 2.0 Key Artwork
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Honkai: Star Rail Achieves 100 Million Downloads Marking Another Massive Success for HoYoverse

We already knew that Honkai: Star Rail is a very successful game but today we get a better idea of just how popular it is, as HoYoverse announced that it has passed 100 million downloads. According…

February 5, 2024 | 01:41 EST

Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night dressed up as Shantae in the game's new crossover DLC
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Free Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Shantae DLC Will Let You Dress as the Half-Genie Hero

505 Games and ArtPlay have announced new Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night crossover DLC that will allow you to dress as everyone's favorite half-genie hero. Per an official announcement on the game…

February 5, 2024 | 11:26 EST

Yugi Muto and Seto Kaiba in artwork for Yu-Gi-Oh! which is intended to represent the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection Revealed for Switch and PC, Western Release Confirmed

Konami has announced Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection, which will collect some of the earliest Yu-Gi-Oh! video games. It's coming West, although we don't yet know when. The collection was originally…

February 5, 2024 | 09:50 EST

The Boss of Babyloni-ya in close-up in Fate/Samurai Remnant
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First Fate/Samurai Remnant DLC Officially Launches Later This Week

Koei Tecmo has revealed that the first piece of Fate/Samurai Remnant DLC, Record's Fragment: Keian Command Championship, is officially launching later this week. The DLC will be released on Friday,…

February 5, 2024 | 08:43 EST

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Final Fantasy XIV Passes 30 Million Players as Xbox Open Beta Gets Release Date [UPDATED]

Today, during the celebrations for the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Tokyo, which TechRaptor attended, Square Enix had a few interesting announcements to share related to the popular MMORPG.…

February 5, 2024 | 04:26 EST

A F8C Lightning in Star Citizen
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Star Citizen Devs Reveal Alpha 3.23 Could Be Massive With Many New Features and Improvements

The developers of Star Citizen revealed a large spread of new features and improvements targeting the upcoming Alpha 3.23 update, and there's a lot on the menu.  The reveal was made during the…

February 3, 2024 | 11:44 EST

The party in Granblue Fantasy: Relink
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Granblue Fantasy: Relink Gets New Update and Passes 100,000 Concurrent Users on Steam

Today Cygames released a new update for its JRPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink, while the game appears to be very popular among the Steam crowd.  The update, numbered Ver 1.0.4 includes quite a lot of…

February 3, 2024 | 02:08 EST

The Protagonist of The Witch of Fern Island, Abrill
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Open-World Life Sim The Witch of Fern Island Reveals Full Release Date

Today Polish developer Enjoy Studio announced that its upcoming cozy open-world life sim The Witch of Fern Island has an official release date. The game, published by Freedom Games, will leave early…

February 2, 2024 | 10:48 EST

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Early Access Release of The Sims-Like Game Life by You Delayed Again by Paradox

Today Paradox Tectonic announced a second delay for the early access release of its upcoming life simulator Life by You. The game was originally supposed to start its early access phase on Steam on …

February 2, 2024 | 02:09 EST

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Next Starfield Patch Will Bring AMD FSR3 and Should Help With a Persistent Issue

Today Bethesda announced that a new patch for its RPG Starfield will enter its beta phase on Steam next week. According to the announcement made on X (formerly Twitter), the update will include…

February 2, 2024 | 01:11 EST

A character wearing a mask in Smalland: Survive the Wilds
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Smalland: Survive the Wilds Update 4 to Bring New Story, Factions, and More

Merge Games has released new information about the upcoming Smalland: Survive the Wilds Update 4, and it's bringing a ton of new stuff with it. This update will arrive alongside the full launch of…

February 2, 2024 | 11:16 EST

A moody-looking anime-style character with long silver hair in the new Phantom Blade Zero trailer
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PS5 Console Exclusive Phantom Blade Zero Gets Stylish New Trailer, Demo Coming "Soon"

Developer S-GAME has released a brand new Phantom Blade Zero trailer, and it comes with an assurance that a demo will be along "soon" as well. The martial arts-inspired Soulslike was originally…

February 2, 2024 | 08:39 EST

Armed Pals in Palworld
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Palworld Developer Reveals Skyrocketing Server Costs, New Xbox Patch Released

Palworld is an extremely successful game, but success can have a rather steep cost, as revealed today by Pocketpair. That being said, let's start with something many players have been waiting for.…

February 2, 2024 | 04:28 EST

A celebration in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Has Sold 1 Million Copies, Fastest-Selling Game in the Series

Today Sega announced via press release that its JRPG Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has reached a flattering sales milestone.  The game's cumulative physical shipments and digital sales have passed…

February 1, 2024 | 08:52 EST

Zero gravity traversal in Star Citizen
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New Star Citizen Video Shows Alpha 3.23 Features, New Free to Play Event Coming This Month

Today Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games resumed its video releases following the usual post-holiday pause, and it's all about the upcoming Alpha 3.23. Specifically, the video focuses on…

February 1, 2024 | 08:09 EST

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Starcraft Spiritual Successor Stormgate Wins Almost $2.4 Million with Successful Kickstarter

The Kickstarter campaign for Stormgate, a spiritual successor of Starcraft by Frost Giant Studios, has just concluded successfully.  28,143 backers pledged $2,380,701 for the game on Kickstarter,…

February 1, 2024 | 02:14 EST

Palworld and Baldur's Gate III
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Baldur's Gate 3 and Palworld Are the Most Played Games on Steam Deck in January 2024

Today Valve shared the most played games on its portable PC Steam Deck for the month of January 2024, and the results may or may not surprise you.  The ranking, shared on the Steam Deck's official X…

February 1, 2024 | 01:42 EST

Synduality: Echo of Ada Magus Customization
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Synduality: Echo of Ada Reveals Extensive Character and Mecha Customizaton [UPDATED]

Bandai Namco has been fairly quiet about its upcoming mecha game Synduality: Echo of Ada since its delay announced last year, but today we get to see more.  This time around the developer provided…

February 1, 2024 | 12:40 EST

Red and Antea in key art for the Don't Nod game Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
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Don't Nod's Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Shows Off Combat, Exploration, and More

Don't Nod has released a gameplay breakdown trailer for Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, showing off how you'll explore the titular New Eden and fight the enemies that populate it. After last week's…

February 1, 2024 | 09:59 EST

One of the mechs in Lightyear Frontier standing in a calm meadow surrounded by butterflies
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Lightyear Frontier Release Date Revealed for March, Demo Available Now

Calming mecha farming sim Lightyear Frontier finally has an Early Access release date, and it's pretty much just around the corner. After the release date was delayed indefinitely last year, Frame…

February 1, 2024 | 09:28 EST

Black Swan in Honkai: Star Rail
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New Honkai: Star Rail Trailer Shows Black Swan and New Planet Penacony Coming in Version 2.0

Today HoYoverse revealed a new trailer of its super-popular RPG Honkai: Star Rail, focusing on the content and story that will come with version 2.0. Specifically, we get to see the new planet…

February 1, 2024 | 04:24 EST