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With less than three months until Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth hits shelves, it seems only natural that Square Enix brought a new look at the upcoming game to this year's The Game Awards. The studio showed off some of this new footage during the show with a dramatic musical segment revealing the game's new theme song. Square Enix then released a full-length trailer on YouTube. The trailer teases several key moments from the original game--including one beloved character's untimely fate (if...

Image: Larian Studios Baldur’s Gate 3, which just won Game of the Year at the 2023 Game Awards, is now available to purchase on Xbox Series X and S. You can buy it now for $69.99. The Xbox version of the game has been in the works for a little while. A few weeks after the hugely-successful PC launch of the game in August — and just before the release of the PS5 version — Larian Studios announced that it would be bringing Baldur’s Gate 3 to Microsoft’s consoles, though without split-screen...

Image: Square Enix Square Enix already let us know that it was working on DLC for Final Fantasy XVI. But during the Game Awards, we learned it was working on not one but two DLC chapters with one of them available... right now. Watch the trailer here. The first DLC, Echoes of the Fallen, is a new story chapter that takes place before the final battle. It features the whole gang working together (honesty, I choked up to see it) to investigate — what else — more messed up crystals. In the...

Image: Capcom Things are about to get a little bit wild in the world of Monster Hunter. At The Game Awards this evening, Capcom revealed the latest entry in the franchise: Monster Hunter Wilds. There aren’t a lot of details yet about what makes this one different from past MonHun titles, and the game isn’t expected to launch until 2025. It’s slated for the PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X / S. There’s at least a very beautiful trailer to watch full of lots of mounts to ride and monsters to hunt...

Image: Embark Studios The Finals is a unique new shooter where everything is destructible. It’s available now on PS5, Xbox Series S / X, and PC. Continue reading… Continue reading from Source - The Verge...

Almost the entire cast of Alan Wake 2 took to the stage during the 2023 Game Awards for a performance of the song "Herald of Darkness" from the game, in what was possibly the greatest thing that has ever happened at Geoff Keighley's award show. The performance by Finnish band Poets of the Fall, playing their in-game counterparts, the Old Gods of Asgard, recreated what is also the best moment in Alan Wake 2. The song is a retelling of Alan's life leading up to the events of the first game...

Sabre Interactive and Focus Interactive brought a new trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 to The Game Awards, giving us our latest look at one of the most-anticipated Warhammer games of all time. We also finally have a release date: September 9, 2024. "We are thrilled to finally reveal the release date for Space Marine 2," Saber Interactive COO Tim Willits said in a press release. "The entire team has poured their passion and creativity into this game, and we can't wait for players...

As part of The Game Awards, Swedish studio 10 Chambers announced a new game called Den of Wolves. The studio is headed up by Ulf Andersson, who co-created the heist-themed Payday series, and Den of Wolves seems to tread familiar ground. Den of Wolves is a sci-fi heist game where players from rival corporations are conducting "unauthorized errands" in a place called Midway City. 10 Chambers is promising "futuristic, mind-bending heists." "Dynamic and unpredictable moment-to-moment gameplay...

Zenless Zone Zero, the cyberpunk action game from Hoyoverse, is officially arriving in 2024. The new trailer debuted during The Game Awards and features a ton of characters and the announcement that the game is releasing "soon." In addition to the release date window, the new trailer gave a look at several factions of characters that will be in Zenless Zone Zero. While it's not clear if every character will be playable, most named characters are in Hoyoverse's games. The factions include a...

After being delayed (again) from its November 8 release date, Skull and Bones is back in the news with a brand-new release date. If the new The Game Awards 2023 trailer is to be believed, Skull and Bones is now coming out on February 16. The trailer doesn't show off any new gameplay for the upcoming naval combat game, but you do get a chance to see a very large crocodile-looking creature take a chomp out of a pirate ship, so that's pretty cool! Set in the Indian Ocean during the Golden Age...