Since its arrival in 2023, Lords of the Fallen has received a ton of post-launch support from CI Games, releasing multiple ‘Final’ updates, all of which brought quite significant changes. In a move which shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point, Lords of the Fallen has gotten yet another major update, with Version 2.0 available now.

Making the announcement via a blogpost, CI Games officially detailed version 2.0 for Lords of the Fallen, claiming “This isn’t just a polish job. It’s a refined beast that proves the studio’s grit and player feedback can forge something truly special.”

With that, just some of the changes made include:

• Full shared co-op progression with cross-play
• Free friend’s pass for “the entire adventure”
• Further gameplay enhancements
  • Improved weapon responsiveness
  • Enhanced lock-on
  • Smoother evasions and movement animations
  • Better combat audio
• Lamp Guidance mechanic
• Character creator overhaul
• UI improvements
• Revamped tutorial
• A dedicated jump button

Given just how many updates Lords of the Fallen has received over the years, it’s surprising to see so much still being improved upon. Hopefully version 2.0 finally represents what the team at CI Games wanted Lords of the Fallen to be all along.

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One of the biggest surprise hits from the recent rise in adaptations of video games into film/TV was Peacock’s Twisted Metal. Released back in 2023, a second season was officially announced during last year’s Game Awards. Now, we’ve gotten our first look at the second series – alongside the announcement of its July release date.

Releasing the ‘Date Announcement’ teaser trailer to YouTube, Peacock confirmed that Season 2 of Twisted Metal is officially coming in time for the peak of Summer; set to premiere on the 31st of July.

For the uninitiated, the first season of Peacock’s Twisted metal was a surprise success, achieving an audience Rotten Tomatoes score of 93% following its release back in July of 2023 – setting records for the streaming service despite a less-than-promising marketing reveal.

Given the fact that the show has already proven itself, it will be interesting to see how much attention the second season gets. Its synopsis reads as follows:

“Following the revelations in the season one finale, John and Quiet find themselves entering the deadly TWISTED METAL tournament, a sinister demolition derby hosted by a mysterious man known as Calypso. As they try to survive an onslaught of dangerous new foes and familiar faces alike, including the murderous clown Sweet Tooth, things get complicated for John when he reunites with his long-lost sister, the vigilante Dollface.”

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Forza Horizon 5 marks one of the biggest first-party Xbox games to come to PS5, with the open-world racing title set to drop onto Sony’s system later this month. Ahead of this, the game has broken one final player count barrier – surpassing a total of 45 million players.

As shared by ‘VGT Gaming News’ via BlueSky, Forza Horizon 5 has officially reached a new player milestone with over 45 million players.

For context, since its launch back in 2021, Horizon 5 quickly sped past 15 million players in just two months. This then increased to 28 million total within 15 months – later being pushed to over 32 million by August of 2023.

Of course, as with all first-party Microsoft titles, total players does not equate to total copies sold, with Microsoft-published games being a day-one addition to Game Pass.

All that said, with a total user base now established, it will be interesting to see how quickly following the PS5 version’s launch that Forza Horizon 5 grows to 50 million players total.

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Since the explosive popularity of the Battle Royale genre, we’ve seen most major publishers have a go at developing and releasing their own BR entries. Some have succeeded while most failed. Years on from their first attempt with Hyperscape, Ubisoft is reportedly working on another Battle Royale shooter – this time inspired by Apex Legends.

As reported by the publication Insider-Gaming, Ubisoft is currently working on a new battle royale game. Codenamed ‘Scout’ this BR shooter is said to be “so heavily inspired by Respawn Entertainment’s highly successful Apex Legends that it was once used as the thumbnail for the project.”

Beyond this, it’s not known exactly how many elements of Apex Legends are being used for inspiration – though the characters and their unique abilities are reportedly one of their focuses.

While we are way past the heyday of the battle royale gold rush, Ubisoft seems keen to take on EA’s Apex Legends directly, with one source telling Insider-Gaming “I think the goal is to capitalize on the player count of Apex dropping and [Ubisoft higher-ups] thinking there’s room in the market for another hero Battle Royale.”

While the battle royale genre in specific is not necessarily as oversaturated as many would have you believe, the overarching live-service space is one which is heavily competed for.

Given this, it will be interesting to see how Ubisoft pitches this project ‘Scout’ and whether they’ll be second-time…third-time…fourth-time lucky.

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In the past couple years, we’ve seen the famous Kaiju Godzilla feature in multiple video game projects from Call of Duty to Dave the Diver. Despite this, there has not been a dedicated Godzilla game in years. That said, the IP owners (Toho) have now announced plans for a dedicated console title.

In a report by Bloomberg (and collated by the fansite Godzilla-Movies), IP owner Toho announced a number of new projects set in the Godzilla universe planned to release over the coming years.

Of course, there will be new films, anime, merch and more, but by far the most interesting revelation was in the announcement of their intentions to release a dedicated game for home consoles – something which we have not seen since 2014’s critically-panned Godzilla for PS3/4.

Despite his presence throughout the entire history of video games, Godzilla has yet to receive a proper dedicated video game which offers more than the surface-level destruction that projects of its ilk typically resort to.

Of course, with nothing else to go off of, it’s far too early to make any guesses about what exactly the game will entail – and just as importantly which studio will be developing it.

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Back in 2023 during the FTC lawsuit against Microsoft, the console maker was made to hand over a bunch of internal documents – some of which leaked online. Amongst the unannounced projects was an Oblivion and Fallout 3 Remaster. With the former now all-but-confirmed, one insider has offered an update on the status of the latter.

Following the unofficial confirmation of the much-rumoured Oblivion remaster, some fans have moved their attention towards one of Microsoft’s other leaked projects – the Fallout 3 remaster.

One fan took to Twitter to ask known industry insider NateTheHate: “have you heard anything new in regards to fallout 3 remastered?”

In response, Nate replied “It'll be a while before we see it”. While not much to go on, it is nice to know that we shouldn’t be waiting with bated breath for the announcement. If Microsoft chooses to take a similar route to that of Oblivion, we may not hear any official word until the game is near its release.

All that said, with the leaked details for Oblivion claiming major improvements across many aspects from combat to movement and more, hopefully the Fallout 3 Remaster receives a similar refresh – perhaps by adding actual first-person shooting this time. We will have to wait and see.

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Following tumultuous economic activity in the US as a result of increased tariffs put in place by Donald Trump, Nintendo announced that they would be delaying pre-orders for the Switch 2 across a range of regions. Though they have yet to offer any updates, one insider has claimed that Canadians should be able to pre-order Switch 2 in a week’s time.

In the immediacy following the Nintendo Switch 2 showcase, the console manufacturer announced that the previously-stated pre-order date of the 9th of April would not go live in the US, claiming their need to “assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.”

Since then, the console maker delayed pre-orders in a couple extra regions – specifically Canada and China. As reported by known industry insider Billbil-kun via BlueSky, this indefinite delay should cease soon, writing:

“UPCOMING RELEASE. From what I can see through some Canadian retailers, Nintendo Switch 2 console & bundle pre-orders should start from April 23rd, 2025 (valid in CA). Date subject to change. Can't confirm if it's the same for US.”

Of course, whether the pre-orders will ultimately go live at an increased price compared to the initial announcement, we will have to wait and see.

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Ever since the launch of The Final Shape, Destiny 2 has been in a bit of a limbo, with fans making do with smaller episodic updates. That said, the first major expansion since June of last year is finally gearing up to be revealed – with a livestream for Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate slated for next month.

Making the announcement on BlueSky, the official Bungie page shared the following: “Join us on May 6, 2025 as we reveal The Edge of Fate and the upcoming year of Destiny 2.”

As mentioned, The Final Shape marked the last expansion designed under D2’s old release schedule, with the past year seeing smaller episodic updates added instead.

That said, The Edge of Fate represents the first of two planned expansions previously announced to be released within a 1 year time span. Though they are said to be smaller than prior expansions, Bungie hopes to offer a greater deal of variety with increased experimentation.

The Edge of Fate will be the first new proper update in this refreshed era of post-The-Final-Shape Destiny 2, and so it will be interesting to see what Bungie has been cooking.

Hopefully their split focus on both D2 and Marathon does not impact its quality/quantity.

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Almost a decade on from the last mainline entry in the beloved Metal Gear Solid series, the franchise is finally set to return with the release of the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater remake. In alignment with the return of Snake, Konami has announced a surprise MGS orchestral concert coming to the UK later this year.

Developed in collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in London, the Metal Gear in Concert show is set to go live on the 1st of November 2025. Offering a limited number of showings, the show is said to be “conducted by Nicholas Buc,” with “special guest appearances from singer/voice actor Donna Burke and singer/actress Stefanie Joosten (Quiet in METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN).”

While the full setlist has yet to be announced, a number of fan-favourite tracks from the series history has been confirmed for the concert, including the likes of Encounter; Father and Son; The Best is Yet to Come; Snake Eater and Heavens Divide.

Priority booking for ‘friends and patrons’ will go live on the 16th of April at 10am UK time – with general tickets being made available a day later on the 17th of April at 10am.

As mentioned, after almost a decade on since Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, it feels good to once again finally have Konami treat the franchise with the case and prestige that it deserves.

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Back in 2018, Sea of Thieves launched on both Xbox and PC, going on to become one of Xbox’s biggest new IPs with over 40 million total players. Since then, the game has landed on PS5 to great success. Interestingly, despite arriving on Steam all the way back in 2018, Microsoft has announced that Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net next month.

Making the curious announcement on BlueSky, the official Sea of Thieves page wrote the following: “Prepare to welcome a new horde of would-be Legends: Sea of Thieves is coming to Battle.net on May 22nd! Including Cobalt Kestrel weapons for those who pre-purchase on the platform, a Premium Edition featuring Blizzard-honouring sails and more:”

Despite being well over half a decade old now, Microsoft is still releasing multiple different versions of the game, with the likes of the Premium Edition including almost a week of ‘early’ access alongside other bonuses.

Whether this game will tie into Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere plans is yet to be revealed. That said, even so, Microsoft’s increased focus on Battle.net is interesting to see.

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Skull & Bones was touted by Ubisoft as being a AAAA experience, marking the first game to have been released with such a moniker. Of course, we now know that this was far from the case, with sentiment surrounding the game being less-than-stellar following its launch last year. In a surprising move, Ubisoft looks set to support the game with quite a bit of new content, including the addition of land combat and much more.

Releasing a 12 minute long video labelled “Skull & Bones: Year 2 Showcase”, the team at Ubisoft offered a deep-dive into many of the changes and additions coming to the game over the course of the next year.

Said to be introducing new gameplay mechanics and content throughout 2025, Skull & Bones is getting a surprising amount of support.

Starting with the Ascent into Chaos update (available now), players can ‘ascend’ to improve their stats and modify gear through new World Tier challenges. Beyond this, S&B is getting a new Empire upgrade tree for added enhancements alongside a new PvP mode ‘Death Tides’ in Season 1 of Year 2.

Season 2 ‘Death of Wars’ is planned for Summer 2025 and will add a new megafort; deeper pirate roleplaying opportunities and large playable ships.

Season 3, Guts and Glory, meanwhile will bring new customisation to your crew alongside the aforementioned land-based combat.

Finally, the last Seasonal update for year 2 is called Eye of the Beast and will launch in Winter 2025 – bringing with it the Hunter’s Guild as well as a massive Kraken boss.

Considering the reception towards Skull & Bones back when it launched, it is pleasantly surprising to see Ubisoft actually try to improve the overall experience. It will be interesting to see what new/returning players think.

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While the film and TV industry seems to have finally figured out how to make good adaptations of popular video game franchises, some projects still wind up being less-than-stellar. Easily the biggest most-recent flop was the ill-fated Borderlands film. According to the director, COVID had a massive part to play in its eventual failure.

As part of the podcast series ‘The Town’ Borderlands Director Eli Roth spoke on the reasons as to why the film failed to capture the hearts of fans. According to Roth (as transcribed by PCGamer):

“I think none of us, none of us anticipated how complicated things were gonna be with COVID. Not just in terms of what we're shooting, but then you have to do pick-up shots or reshoots and you have six people that are all on different sets and every one of those sets is getting shut down because the cities have opened up, and now there's a COVID outbreak and it was just like…”

Roth continued, “We couldn't prep in a room together, I couldn't be with my stunt people, I couldn't do pre-vis, everyone's spread all over the place. You can't prep a movie on that scale over Zoom and I think we all thought we could pull it off and we got our asses handed to us a bit.”

For the uninitiated, the Borderlands film released last year to a ton of criticism, seeing a Rotten Tomato score of 10% and ultimately raking in just $33 million worldwide off of a $115 million production budget.

Of course, Borderlands ultimately released many years on from the peak of COVID, however, with the film being announced all the way back in 2015 – and filming not starting until 2021 – it seems as though there may have been at least a couple other factors which led to its eventual failed state. Hopefully Eli Roth’s next project proves to be more successful.

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15 years ago, the relatively unknown studio 4A Games released Metro 2033 – a first-person survival thriller shooter featuring a ton of cool and immersive mechanics alongside a tense and creepy atmosphere. In celebration of the series’ 15th anniversary, the first game in the trilogy is being given away for free.

From now until the 16th of April at 4PM UK time, all Steam users can add the excellent Metro 2033 to their library for free – keeping it forever as long as it was claimed in time.

For the uninitiated, Metro 2033 is a slow and deliberately-paced title which puts a great deal of emphasis on atmosphere, immersion and a general sense of unease.

Based on the best-selling novel series by Dmitry Glukhovsky, the Metro series has been lauded for its purposeful moment-to-moment decision making – something which also carried through into the story itself.

While the most recent mainline entry in the series – Metro Exodus – wound up being a massive success (selling over 10 million copies), both Metro 2033 and Last Light are equally as excellent, and so if you have yet to try out the first entry in the series, now is as good a time as any.

Regardless, a free game is a free game, and so is worth adding to your library just in case you ever get the hankering for a tense first-person shooter experience.

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Since the successful acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft seems to be doing a ton of behind-the-scenes work in order to get the publisher’s previous classics onto the Series X|S and Game Pass. Though yet to be officially confirmed, it appears as though a number of Call of Duty titles (and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater) could be next in line for Game Pass.

As reported by the publication XboxEra, in going to Microsoft’s Windows Store on PC, it can be seen that a number of yet-to-be-added titles have been listed as being available on Game Pass – those being:

• Call of Duty World at War
• Call of Duty Infinite Warfare
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2

As mentioned, these are far from the first titles to be discovered in a similar manner, with COD Modern Warfare 2 and 3; Black Ops 1 and more all seemingly set to come to the service at some point in the not-too-distant future.

That said, earlier this year Microsoft accidentally claimed that World of Warcraft was coming to Xbox Game Pass. Following its discovery, the company sent out a clarification, writing at the time “this was a mistake on our end sorry for the confusion! Blizzard's World of Warcraft was accidentally included in a game pass email even though it's not available with the service – a correction email will be sent to those who got the original email soon.”

Even so, it does seem as though Microsoft is gearing up for some sort of big Game Pass drop. It will be interesting to see how they choose to doll out these many classic COD titles without affecting the current popularity of Black Ops 6.

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows marks one of the most important games for Ubisoft right now, with the publisher relying on its success to ensure their continued existence. So far, things seem to be going well, with Shadows now managing to become the second-best-selling game of the year so far in the US – only behind Monster Hunter Wilds.

As reported by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella (via BlueSky), “Assassin's Creed: Shadows has been the best-selling video game in the US for each of its first 3 weeks in market, according to Circana's Retail Tracking Service (dollar sales, latest data through April 5th).”

On top of this, Shadows has also managed to become the second best-selling game of the year so far, only behind Capcom’s massively popular Monster Hunter Wilds.

For context, AC: Shadows reached 1 million total players within hours of the game’s launch. Following this, the title saw a further million players join over the next couple days – culminating in 3 million total players by the end of week one.

All that said, AC: Shadows is likely trailing quite far behind Monster Hunter, with Capcom’s title selling 10 million copies in its first month. Of course, Shadows has yet to be out for a month, and so such comparisons aren’t 1:1.

Still, it seems as though Assassin’s Creed Shadows might just be the shot in the arm that Ubisoft needed. It will be interesting to see how the game continues to perform in the long-run.

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