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Great news, Dune fans. Dune Awakening had a reveal at Gamescom Opening Night Live, which featured release window for early 2025 on PC, with PlayStation and Xbox release dates still TBA. This means you – yes, you at home – can finally get access to one of the most anticipated MMOs without having to rely on closed beta invites. Well, so long as you have a PC that can run it, anyway.This announcement came alongside an extended trailer, which showed off the game’s character creator, alongside what you’ll be doing during your early hours in Arrakis (desperately trying not to die despite the searing heat and lack of water). There’s also an overview of the ways you’ll be able to form co-operative working relationships (or not) with other players for base-building, combat, and other survival conce…

PowerWash Simulator, that game about cleaning stuff, is getting an official Shrek DLC pack later this year. Yes, you read that right.As revealed during the indie world section of today’s Nintendo Direct, the paid pack will feature five maps from the Shrek universe for you to clean up, including the swamp everyone’s favorite ogre calls home, because of course they’d let you clean that.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Also featuring are Duloc, Hansel’s Honeymoon Hideaway, the Fairy Godmother’s Potion Factory, and the Dragon’s Lair, which I assume is where she and donkey got it on, so Lord knows that’ll probably need some cleaning. There’s also a new knight model for your character – complete with a power washer that looks like a sword – s…

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom just got a fresh trailer, and it’s offered us our first look at Zelda in her swordfighter form, which sees her turn blue, da ba dee da ba di, and start stabbing away at the baddies, as part of her war on the colour purple.There’s not long to go until the game comes out – literally next month in fact on September 26 – so it’s nice to see Nintendo offering the folks who’ve been desperate to see Zelda star in her own game for ages a bit more to go along with the previous trailers the game’s gotten.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings You can watch the new trailer below. Here’s a short summary from me – king gets eaten by purple rift thing, Zelda not happy, Zelda does some platforming, Zelda turns blue and kills things…

Yep, this is an actual thing. Following the news that Concord isn’t long for this world, there’s now a Change.org petition for the game to be re-released, reasoning that people were just too busy to play in the time around its launch last month.In case you’ve been living under a rock, Sony and Firewalk Studios announced on September 4 that, following a rocky launch that saw it struggle to attract the kind of playerbase the former’s bigwigs were clearly hoping for, Concord will be shutting down on September 6. Players who bought it on PS5 and PC prior to sales ceasing will be offered full refunds, with the first of those moves having made the game a bit of a phenomenon among would-be collectable sellers.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings Now, it’s als…

Neil Gaiman was accused of sexual assault earlier this year, and it’s now being reported that as a result production on Good Omens season 3 is being paused.Back in July, a report was released alleging that Nail Gaiman had committed sexual assault against multiple women, one of which allegedly had signed a non-disclosure agreement following her experience with the author, others having previously served as nannies for his child. Currently, Gaiman has denied the allegations against him, but earlier this week Deadline reported that production has been paused on the Amazon Prime and BBC adaptation of Good Omens, a popular show based on books he co-wrote with Terry Pratchett.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings While a spokesperson provided no comment to De…

Donald Glover, the actor behind young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story, is hoping he can put some “fun” back into the sci-fi series.With the way that people talk about Star Wars, it’s easy to forget that the original is just kind of this silly trio of films with big explosions, nonsensical plot twists, and tiny green puppet men giving surprisingly sage advice. There’s plenty of room in its universe for some serious moments too, but it seems like a baseline feeling of fun is more reserved for the games these days, with shows like The Mandalorian and The Acolyte leaning more towards the dramatic most of the time. And it seems like actor Donal Glover, also known for his music under his Childish Gambino pseudonym, is hoping his upcoming Lando film will be able to make Star Wars feel…

While, Helldivers 2’s most recent patch tweaked a whole bunch of weapons, there were naturally some guns that didn’t make the cut. Thankfully for those who might be a bit concerned their favourite bug blaster is missing out, Johan Pilestedt’s now confirmed that at least one will be buffed in the game’s next patch.Yep, after casually revealing that the jump pack will be getting tweaked in this next update as he acknowledged a shield generator bug which was making folks impervious to melee damage prior to being fixed, Pilestedt’s been at it again. Hey, anything to keep the dude occupied so he doesn’t have to tell the team to get rid of the latest glitch folks actually want to stick around.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings “Can we get a MASSIVE buff to…

Great news, StarCraft fans. StarCraft Remastered and the campaign for StarCraft II are coming to PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for Ultimate tier subscribers. Players using those services can download both on November 5 later this year.These classic Blizzard Games appear to be the latest Activision Blizzard-based benefit to Xbox following that aquisition you probably didn’t hear much about late last year. While their multiplayer modes are free-to-play, this means the single-player elements of StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection will be “available to anyone with a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate subscription” from the date specified above.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings This announcement came during Xbox’s 2024 Tokyo Gam…

Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has seemingly ceased development and been pulled offline, following an alleged reach out to its creator from Nintendo itself.This news would follow the high-profile shutdown of another Switch emulator – Yuzu on that occasion – earlier this year, with that instance seeing Nintendo go the full lawsuit route and come to a settlement that saw Yuzu’s creator agree to a settlement which predicated on the project ceasing to be a thing.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings After users noticed that Ryujinx’s Github and download pages were beginning to return error messages or in the case of the latter, a literal blank space, a message on the emulator’s Discord server from a developer with the handle riperiperi that seemingly expl…

I’m not exactly sure what Sega’s gameplan here is, but the developer has another live-action adaptation in the works, this time about Shinobi.These days, it’s all about IP. Exploiting it, flogging it like a dead horse, whatever, if it’s a pre-existing IP, someone will find some way to make it even bigger and adapt it to whatever medium it already isn’t. Sega is clearly all in on that right now, finding a lot of success with its live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movies, a third one due out this year, and it’s also trying out a Yakuza TV series later this month on Prime Video. But it also has bigger ambitions than just the series that everyone still talks about now, as according to Deadline, a live-action film adaptation of its classic hack-and-slash series Shinobi is in the works at Universal.…