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Epic Games’ New Voice Chat Lets You Keep Talking To Friends While Playing Different Games

Epic Games has announced that it's going to make it easier than ever to hang out and talk with friends across different platforms by launching Epic Parties. This voice chat service will work across Fortnite (on all supported platforms), the Epic Games Store launcher (PC, iOS, and Android), and the Epic Games app (iOS and Android). For example, you can start a voice party from your phone or PC launcher, ring up a friend who is busy playing Fortnite on their PlayStation, and even transfer that cal

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GTA 6 Limited-Edition DualSense Controllers Are On The Way, And They Look Fantastic

During today's State of Play broadcast, Sony announced that two limited-edition Grand Theft Auto 6-themed DualSense controllers will be released. They'll come in black or white and feature distinctive Leonida-themed graphics and coloring. Both have pastel pink icons on the buttons, with a blue-purple shift that sparkles along the bottom of the controller. You can get the controller in black or white. On the rear of the controllers, the Grand Theft Auto logo is embossed, while the grips maintain

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GTA 6 Fishing And Hunting Doesn’t Work Like You Think It Does

Rockstar Games has confirmed new details about how fishing and hunting work in GTA 6, and it's probably not what you would expect. Speaking to YouTuber TGG, Rockstar North's Rob Nelson confirmed that fishing in GTA 6 is limited to catch and release--players cannot keep any fish. Why? "It didn't fit this game," Nelson said, adding that fishing in GTA 6 is mainly for fun. Players can also complete fishing-related challenges and amass collectibles. Jason fishing in GTA 6. In Rockstar's last game, 2

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Final Fantasy VII Revelation And Its PS1-Style World Map Arrive In April

Final Fantasy VII Revelation finally has a release date: April 8, 2027. Square Enix confirmed the news today during the PlayStation State of Play livestream, along with nearly 10 minutes of new footage. The release date was confirmed via a trailer highlights all eight playable characters in the main party: Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Red XIII, Yuffie, Cait Sith, Vincent, and Cid. We also see gameplay of the team in action, including team-up abilities like Vincent's Galian Beast form rushing a group of

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More PlayStation Plus Games Revealed, Including A Day-One Release

As part of the September 3 State of Play event, Sony announced more games for the PlayStation Plus catalog. Devolver's customizable looter-shooter Mycopunk is launching directly into the PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra tiers in October 2026, the company said. https://twitter.com/devolverdigital/status/2095505751632453905 Additionally, more PlayStation "classics" are coming over the next few months for Premium subscribers, including Mega Man X Command Mission, Dino Crisis 2, and the 2002 origi

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Ghost of Yōtei: Complete Edition's Most Wanted roguelike mode brings back Tsushima's Jin Sakai

During today's State of Play showcase, Ghost of Yōtei developer Sucker Punch brought a first-look trailer at Most Wanted. This is the roguelike mode the studio announced alongside the Complete Edition earlier in August. Read more

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Monster Hunter Ascendance gets a new gameplay trailer, showing new elder dragons, a floating island region, and a major glow up for a certain character

A new gameplay trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance was just shown at the Sony State of Play, showing off a variety of new features coming with the expansion next year. Read more

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"I'm a massive fan of Aliens, but it is a very different beast": Why Creative Assembly are still ignoring every movie but the original in Alien Isolation 2, despite heading planetside

Creative Assembly have themselves a particular constraint when making Alien: Isolation 2. The sequel to their 2014 horror title would only reference their first game and the original 1979 Ridley Scott Alien film. It ignores all the other films that came after. That includes James Cameron's Aliens, the immediate sequel to Scott's film, which, like Alien: Isolation 2, moves the action from a space station to an isolated planetside colony. Read more

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Jin Sakai Returns In Upcoming Ghost Of Yotei Roguelike DLC

Today, during the PlayStation State of Play livestream, Sucker Punch offered a look at Ghost of Yotei's upcoming roguelike mode, Most Wanted. The mode will feature four playable characters, and Yotei's Atsu, Oyuki, and Nagato will be joined by a familar face from the past: The Ghost of Tsushima, Jin Sakai, will officially return. Most Wanted, which the trailer calls a "combat survival mode," lets players choose one of the four samurai, each with their own weapons and abilities, to take them on a

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PUBG's new spin-off game is 'faster, meaner, and more aggressive' with sword hands and 'a little bit of light cannibalism'

"PUBG is deliberate and thoughtful and tactical. This is not that."

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Resident Evil Trailer Shows The Sequence Where Its Star Almost Died For Real

During the September 3 State of Play, Sony debuted a new clip from the upcoming Resident Evil movie, and it was both dark and hilarious. That should be no surprise, as comedy and horror are naturally intertwined, and the movie is written and directed by sketch comedy veteran Zach Cregger. In the clip, we see Austin Abrams' character, the medical courier Bryan, running down a street in Raccoon City as zombies throw themselves off rooftops trying to catch him. They explode on impact, with blood fl

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Everything announced at Sony's State of Play September 2026

It's showcase time! After a packed Gamescom, Sony's doing its own thing once more, this time giving a taste of everything coming to PlayStation 5 in the coming months and beyond. That includes a final look at Marvel's Wolverine before its impending release, another glimpse of Zach Cregger's promising Resident Evil movie (although that's obviously one coming to the big screen), as well as plenty more. We'll be updating as the show goes on… Read more

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Guild Wars 3's devs think they've found an answer to one of MMOs' biggest problems, but can ArenaNet pull it off?

Close your eyes and imagine a standard MMORPG. The way it moves, the way it plays. Save for a few finer intricacies, they've largely played the same for over two decades. A big action bar, the same sorts of quests, the same sort of progression. Guild Wars 3 is aiming to fix that. Read more

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Guild Wars 3's approach to combat and movement is like nothing I've ever seen in an MMO before: 'One of our big goals when we make a new game in the Guild Wars franchise is to set out and try new things'

Wall running, mantling, aerial attacks, multiplayer combos—it's a lot of new stuff.

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MMOs Have “Stagnated,” Guild Wars 3 Studio Head Says

Guild Wars 3 developer ArenaNet wants to try "wild, crazy ideas" in a genre that, according to its studio head, has "stagnated" in recent years. During a hands-off demo where early Guild Wars 3 gameplay was shown to members of the press, I asked ArenaNet studio head Colin Johanson about the state of the MMO genre in 2026 and what problems Guild Wars 3 is looking to solve. He had plenty to say on the subject. Many MMO players are still playing the same games they were 10-20 years ago, Johanson sa

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Alien: Isolation 2's Gamescom demo kept its cards close to its chest, but I'm definitely ready to be terrified again

Just, you know, give me a minute to collect myself.

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PlayStation State of Play live report - all of today's news from Sony's September 2026 showcases

Here we go again: Sony is showing off two State of Play showcases today, the first focusing on games coming to the PlayStation 5 over the coming weeks and months, and the second focusing on Japanese games specifically. This is a first for Sony, usually the company might show slightly different showcases in different regions, but this is a unique setup - with Japan getting its own dedicated showing after the broader State of Play. Read more

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Planet Coaster and Jurassic World devs Frontier have teamed up with Disney to make what is probably a Disneyland tycoon game

Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evolution creators Frontier Developments have signed a deal with Disney to make a game based on one of Disney's many entertainment worlds. Some immediate possibilities occur. You know what Frontier have a lot of? Theme park and resort management games. You know what Disney also have a lot of? Theme parks and resorts. If the fruit of their union isn't Disneyland Park Creator or some variation thereof, I'll eat Mickey Mouse's big yellow buttons. Read more

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PlayStation State Of Play September 2026: All The Biggest Announcements, Games, And Trailers

Sony's September State of Play broadcasts have wrapped up, and these were a pretty chunky look at a wide variety of games. Some of the highlights included an April 2027 release date for Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, a sneak peek at the Resident Evil movie, and a stacked selection of games being developed by Asian studios. While we didn't get to see any new trailers for upcoming PS5 games like God of War Laufey and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, the show still had plenty of new games to show o

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Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen devs say Western and Japanese players want different things from the game

It seems catering to Dragon's Dogma 2 players is a tougher balancing act than we may realise. Capcom developers currently working on the game's upcoming Dark Arisen expansion have revealed rare insight into the varying preferences of the game's players, and it surprisingly has to do with where they're based. Read more

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