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Assassin's Creed Mirage will take the series back to its stealth roots on October 12. The release date was announced during the latest PlayStation Showcase. In Assassin's Creed Mirage, you’ll get to explore the streets of Baghdad as Basim Ibn, a member of an organization that serves as the backbone for the Assassin’s Brotherhood, and unlike recent entries, there’s no branching skill tree or various dialogue options in sight. The condensed experience is bound to pique the interest of longtime...

Bungie, the studio behind Destiny 2 and the original Halo games, has announced it will be reviving one of its oldest series, Marathon. Revealed during PlayStation's May Showcase, Marathon marks Bungie's first big venture since the company released Destiny back in 2014. Created in 1994, Marathon (and its subsequent titles, Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinite) was a Macintosh exclusive series that saw players take on the role of a nameless security officer aboard a colony ship called the...

Hadoque revealed its upcoming game Ultros during the PlayStation Showcase. The game is a side-scroller with elements of hand-to-hand combat. The trailer opens up with a shot of a stairway leading down, surrounded by art with various colors. As the trailer goes on, the protagonist can be seen exploring areas such as caves, tunnels, and more. All while solving puzzles and fighting various creatures. According to a PlayStation Blog post, you'll play as a character named Ouiji who has just...

Bungie briefly teased the next Destiny 2 expansion at the latest PlayStation showcase. Entitled The Final Shape, the teaser shows Ikora Ray and a ghostly Cayde-6 catching up in a mysterious realm. The trailer begins with Ikora and her ghost sitting on a log next to a blazing campfire. She begins to explain some of the events of past Destiny 2 expansions, over the images of various Guardians combating various foes. She says, "I wish you could have been there," as the camera cuts over to...

It wouldn't be a PlayStation Showcase without some Final Fantasy, right? With just weeks to go before Final Fantasy 16 launches, Square Enix has used the big Sony show to set up the drama behind its next major sequel. This new story either has more interesting story details to pick apart, or, for some players, maybe it says too much. If you're comfy seeing more of the story, check it out below. You could always play it on mute, too, if you'd rather check out the new gameplay snippets...

The Five Nights At Freddy's series is getting a new addition in the form of a sequel to the franchise's thrilling VR game, Five Nights At Freddy's: Help Wanted. Five Nights At Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was announced at the 2023 PlayStation Showcase with a short teaser trailer. The trailer takes place in a structurally questionable elevator which seems to be descending at an alarming speed. "We know how challenging it can be to find a place where you feel that you truly belong, and to find a...

A new trailer for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 introduced a new threat for the highly-anticipated sequel: Kraven the Hunter, one of Spidey's oldest foes. The trailer showed Kraven bored with his jungle quarry and seeking a new hunt, only to be told by an underling that maybe he should head to Manhattan. Then an extended gameplay sequence showed what Kraven was hunting: not Spider-Man, but Dr. Kurt Conners, aka the Lizard, apparently. Spider-Man popped out of a suburban home talking about...

A new trailer for Assassin's Creed Mirage has provided our first official look at the gameplay for the upcoming game. Most of the details seen in the trailer were already known--as detailed in GameSpot's Assassin's Creed Mirage preview--but this is the first time we've been able to see the game in action. The parkour elements of Mirage look a lot like Assassin's Creed Unity, the standout for the best freerunning mechanics and movement in the series. The trailer also teases the return of...

During the PlayStation Showcase, Capcom showed off the VR mode for Resident Evil 4 with a harrowing, creepy trailer. The brief look at the upcoming mode showed segments near the beginning of the game, as Leon searches for a missing person and then comes face to face with a hamlet full of monster-infested villagers. The VR trailer suggested the first-person perspective may make Leon a little more nimble than using a traditional controller, with a quick knife-motion followed by fluid gunplay...

Capcom released a new trailer for Dragon's Dogma 2 during the PlayStation Showcase event. The new trailer invites players into the RPG sequel's world and teases some of the characters and monsters players will meet and fight. Unfortunately, we still don't have a release date for Dragon's Dogma 2. Here's the trailer: "A truly immersive fantasy world elevated by the latest in graphics, artificial intelligence (AI) and physics technology," Capcom said in a blog post. "Wield swords, bows, and...