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11 Bit Studios has revealed that their critically acclaimed bleak city builder Frostpunk has sold 250,000 copies since it launched on Tuesday. The reason that sales figure is significant is because selling 250,000 copies means the studio has recovered all of their development and marketing costs.

After announcing that Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is coming west to PlayStation 4 and Steam on September 4th with some updated features, Square Enix has decided to making Dragon Quest the latest collaboration event in their hit mobile RPG Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.

Square Enix released a whole bunch of new screenshots for Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.3 "Under the Moonlight" which show moments from the new main scenario quests, some dungeon and raid stills, as well as new emotes and changes to the glamour dresser.

We've all known this for quite some time now, but research firm Superdata has confirmed the obvious: Fortnite is now the largest free-to-play console game of all time, both in terms of player count as well as earnings, raking in a combined $223 million USD last month alone.

At the reveal event of Square Enix, Eidos Montreal, and Crystal Dynamics' Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got a chance to play through the first major tomb in the game. The demo took place about fifteen minutes into the game and ran for about an hour.

Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics, and Eidos Montreal have finally revealed more details on their upcoming game Shadow of the Tomb Raider. As you can see above, this installment in the new Tomb Raider series is much darker, with a much more dangerous Lara than we've seen previously.

In a new post on the Dauntless blog, Phoenix Labs have detailed the final massive update that is going to be making its way to the game before it heads into its Open Beta phase. This patch includes a new progression system, a new world map, new quests, a reputation system, and even more gameplay options.

It's the time of year where we hype up E3 for months ahead of time again, which means Nintedo has announced their plans for the expo. Nintendo will, as they have in recent years, focused their E3 activities on games releasing soon with three days of Nintendo Treehouse programming.

South Korea's game industry of both developers and players is pretty famously intense, with quite a few big name games and developers who work on games specifically for the Korean market.

Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is live in the Public Test Server, and after getting a taste of it at PAX East, I was excited to jump in blade first and actually get a crack at those brand-new soul powers that are the key gameplay change coming with the new expansion.

Today, Xbox fans can see if the fastest man alive is capable of gaming as fast as he runs. Yes, Usain Bolt is Microsoft's guinea pig for the brand new Xbox Game Pass Challenge.

After a successful tech demo run in itch.io, the PC Building Simulator hit Steam Early Access last month and has sold over 100,000 copies so far according to publisher The Irregular Corporation.

Free League Publishing has opened pre-orders for the latest expansion to their hit tabletop RPG Mutant: Year Zero. The Mechatron expansion is as robot-filled as it sounds.

Citadel Games has announced that they'll be launching the Open Beta for open-world sandbox MMO Legends of Aria in June, with an Early Access launch in July.

Sea of Thieves was set up to be Microsoft's big break as an Xbox exclusive property, however the game suffered with early impressions indicating a No Man's Sky-esque problem with the game being far too directionless. However, it did come with some quirky bugs, like ships flying out of the sea and into the air.

While Fortnite as an esport is still in the early days, and therefore rather unstructured, DOTA 2's Team Secret has decided to put together a team for the

Epic Games has been having a lot of fun with player’s theories on the comet and meteor shower that have taken up thr sky on the Fortnite Battle Royale map.

Bungie just revealed what we can expect out of Destiny 2's second expansion yesterday, and with it, a new set of screenshots for DLC has been put up on the game's official site.

If you recall, all the way back in 2009, Blizzard announced that they'd be adding a custom map marketplace for StarCraft II, but then never actually got around to releasing such a thing. Now, 9 years later, StarCraft II will finally get something similar.

During today's livestream, Bungie detailed many of the changes that will be coming to Destiny 2: Warmind, which brings a new campaign, a wave-based combat mode, and changes to the game's PvP offerings.

With Battlefield 1's sequel set to be announced during EA's E3 press conference this year, the game's monthly updates are going to be coming to an end this summer according to EA DICE's content lead, Jonas Elfving.

While Epic Games has not announced the start date for Fortnite Battle Royale's fourth season, players are already placing bets that the new content season will launch next week.

When planning my review for this game, I intended to examine God of War for how it plays, yes, but a large part of me also was constantly weighing the story against the previous games in the series. Which meant it disappointed me for repeating the same old mistakes.

MediaMation and Hollywood Esports are going to be opening a second hybrid esports theater at Cinemas Entertainment Lawndale 10 in Chicago, which will compliment their flagship MX4D Esports Theater at the TCL Chinese Theaters in Hollywood.

Alright, so the easy punchline is that esports is the worst thing to happen to esports, but let's not be that flippant, yeah? One of the big conversations heading into this weekend’s Call of Duty World League competition in Seattle was the role social media, particularly Twitter, plays in esports.

Pandora and Microsoft have announced a partnership to bring Pandora Premium to the Xbox One family of consoles. Starting today, you can stream your favorite songs as background music while you game, allowing you to really set the mood with a self-curated theme track.

Nintendo’s Detective Pikachu is pretty strange right from the start. Mostly because you’ve got a Pikachu with amnesia, who acts a whole lot like a middle-aged hardboiled detective.

Trion Worlds has released a new six-minute video interview with ArcheAge creator Jake Song to discuss his recent and future involvement with the free-to-play MMO as Executive Producer. He also spends some time discussing his favorite career moments, as well as his thoughts on the current state of ArcheAge.

Milestone, one of the oldest game devs in the world of racing games, has released a “making of” video for their upcoming game MotoGP 18 that showcases the Drone Scanning System they used to accurately recreate the real-world MotoGP tracks on a 1:1 scale.

Revival Productions has announced that their six-degree-of-freedom tunnel shooter Overload will launch on PC for Windows, Mac, and Linux on May 31st.