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.
Read More »Corsair is getting into the Racing Sim market with acquisition of Fanatec
Corsair has made a few key acquisitions in recent years, picking up companies like Scuff Gaming and Elgato to expand into new product categories. Corsair's dominance in the gaming peripheral world appears set to continue, with the company now looking to acquire Fanatec, a leading brand in the Racing Sim …
Read More »Dragon Age: Dreadwolf on track for 2024 launch
EA must have a funny definition for the term ‘unannounced' because the last time that we checked, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf was definitely announced at The Game Awards several years ago. Still, fans will be pleased to know that EA has two ‘unannounced' games coming this year and yes, one of …
Read More »Nintendo president confirms ‘Switch Next’ as new console
This week, Nintendo finally confirmed its next-gen console plans. The company's president, Shuntaro Furukawa, confirmed that a new console will be announced during the current fiscal year. We were already expecting this new console to be a ‘Switch 2', but Furukawa's additional comments appear to confirm that. During an investor …
Read More »Arrowhead CEO hopes PlayStation will reverse decision to delist Helldivers 2 in 170 countries
The team at Arrowhead had quite the weekend, after scrambling to reverse a crucial decision from the game's publisher, Sony. In the immediate aftermath of PSN account linking being announced, it came to light that thousands of people had bought Helldivers 2 in countries where PSN is unavailable. To fix …
Read More »Dataminers uncover massive character roster for Marvel Rivals
Marvel has not had much success with its AAA games so far, with titles like The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy failing to meet sales expectations. However, the company has found great success in the free to play market with games like Marvel Snap and other mobile-focused titles. The …
Read More »You can play the previous Destiny expansions for free right now
If you are looking to catch up on Destiny over the next month or so leading up to The Final Shape, then you are in luck. Bungie has made three of the previous three expansions free to play right up to June 3rd, the day before the next expansion drops. …
Read More »The Witcher 3’s advanced modding tools arrive this month
While CD Projekt Red said it had ‘no plans' for advanced modding tools for The Witcher 3 back in 2015, the times have changed. The studio announced plans to launch a proper editor for the game, allowing much more comprehensive user-generated content. Now, the RED Kit is officially becoming available. The RED Kit …
Read More »Hades 2 has surpassed original game in 24 hours
After a longer wait than anticipated, Hades 2 officially launched into Steam Early Access this week. Supergiant's big sequel is getting off to a hot start too, garnering over 100,000 players at launch. Supergiant first launched Hades in 2020, with the game being an Epic Games Store exclusive for its …
Read More »Remedy scraps experimental multiplayer project ‘Kestrel’
In late 2023, Remedy gave us an update on Project Vanguard, announcing that the game was rebooted under the working title ‘Kestrel'. This was one of two experimental multiplayer games in the works at Remedy. Unfortunately, after evaluating the project once again, Remedy has now made the decision to cancel …
Read More »Redfall DLC officially cancelled as Arkane Austin closes down
Today Microsoft announced some major changes to its first-party studio line-up. Several of Bethesda's studios are being closed down, including Arkane Austin, the studio responsible for Prey (2017) and Redfall (2023). Due to the closure of Arkane Austin, Redfall's promised DLCs will no longer be coming out. While Redfall didn't …
Read More »Microsoft is closing down Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and other Bethesda studios
While Microsoft hasn't interfered with Bethesda's operations much since acquiring the company in 2020, that is slowly starting to change. A round of lay-offs earlier this year impacted several Bethesda teams. Now, a few studios are also being shut down, including Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks. An announcement penned by …
Read More »Helldivers 2 players rush to restore game’s positive rating on Steam
Helldivers 2 has made plenty of headlines since launch but it was finding itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons last week. On Friday, Arrowhead and Sony announced plans to require PSN accounts in the PC version of the game, despite the fact that the game was sold …
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