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Nintendo has warned players that its servers may be under stress over the Christmas weekend and has advised creating a Nintendo Switch Online account in advance.  In a tweet from the Japanese Nintendo Twitter account (opens in new tab), Nintendo gave a heads up to all of those expecting to …

Hades has become the only video game to ever win a Hugo Award in recognition of “excellence” in the sci-fi and/or fantasy genre. As described by the awards’ own website, The Hugo Awards were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded by the World Science Fiction Convention every year …

The developer of indie horror games Detention and Devotion, Red Candle Games, has officially announced its next game. The game, for which the working title is Nine Sols, was announced via the developer’s Twitter. It’s described as “a lore-rich hand-drawn 2D action platformer with Sekiro-inspired deflection-focussed combat.” The team says …

New World is celebrating the holidays with a brand new Winter Convergence event. The new event just went live earlier today on December 16, and will be sticking around for all New World players right through until January 11, 2022. The Holiday season have officially arrived throughout the world of …

Grand Theft Auto 3 was originally rejected by Microsoft as game for the Xbox, a new documentary has revealed. Over the past weekend, Microsoft debuted Power On: The Story of Xbox, a six-part mini documentary series available on YouTube, Roku, and other platforms. In the third episode (opens in new …

A new Call of Duty: Vanguard free weekend kicks off tomorrow with three playlists as well as max XP bonuses. There are also tier skips, an XP boost, and Warzone-ready weapons available if you decide to upgrade to the full game. Activision shared a new blog post (opens in new …

Silent Hill director Keiichiro Toyama has commented on a potential remake of the original game. Speaking to VGC (opens in new tab) in a new interview, the former Konami director said a Silent Hill remake would be “harder to remake than BioHazard (A.K.A. Resident Evil),” chiefly because the “gameplay concept …

The Valheim holiday update is here, with gifts of a new armor stand and seasonal decorations for all the good little Vikings out there. The developers at Iron Gate Studio rolled out a new update (opens in new tab) to their early access Viking survival game which includes the aforementioned …

A world-exclusive interview with Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki is set to headline the next issue of Edge magazine. Pre-orders for the issue are officially live now on Magazine’s Direct (opens in new tab), so you can secure your copy of the highly anticipated interview with …

Ex-BioWare boss Aaryn Flynn has shared some new details on how Nightingale will let players choose just what manner of alternate history adventurer they want to be. Flynn discussed his new game, the first project from his new studio Inflexion since he founded it after departing BioWare in 2018, with …