We went hands-on with The Blood of Dawnwalker to explore its open world, drink its NPCs' blood, and romance the local witch.

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Launch sales projections for Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake look like a huge improvement on Assassin's Creed Shadows, the franchise's most recent release.

Hitman and 007: First Light developer IO Interactive will close one of its studios and lay off an unknown number of staff, after Xbox pulled funding for an upcoming project.

"I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on."

This isn't the sort of thing that should be happening a month after the release of a major, successful game like 007 First Light, but such is the way of the games industry.

IGN has an exclusive first look at all the exclusives collectibles Jazwares will be bringing to Comic-Con, covering franchises like Spider-Man, KPop Demon Hunters, and Five Nights at Freddy's.

Microsoft has announced the July lineup of games for Game Pass in its first announcement following the layoffs that ripped through the Xbox business yesterday.

We also got a glimpse of Aion 2's four-player party-based content, which looks similarly fast-paced, and the team told us that there’s also more challenging eight-player raids, though we didn’t get to see them. This stuff was less traditional “navigate a bunch of scenarios and regular enemies and then do some boss fights along the way” and more “here’s a cool fight against a boss, go nuts,” but it did look cool.

Orbitals is developer Shapefarm’s first original IP game, with the goal of making a “retro anime experience for two,” as said by creative director Marcos Ramos, Orbitals’ pedigree is exceptionally promising. Jacob Lungden, Orbitals’ game director, worked as level designer and senior level designer on Hazelight’s A Way Out, It Takes Two, and Split Fiction–all well-liked two-player co-op games. 

Burnout creator Criterion has been re-branded as "A Battlefield Studio", but we should never forget its 30-year legacy of making phenomenal racing games.

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