Check out 10 terrifying minutes of A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

Stormind Games has shared a 10-minute teaser for its upcoming horror, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead.
Our friends at IGN captured 10 minutes of hitherto unseen gameplay in which, on Day 119, the player fights to escape through the air ducts of an old building. It is dark, atmospheric, and absolutely terrifying in equal measure.

Check it out below:

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead – 10 Minutes of Exclusive Gameplay

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Amazon's "still trying to find the hook" for its Lord of the Rings MMO

Amazon’s latest crack at a Lord of the Rings MMO still needs to find its “hook”.
That’s coming from Amazon Games boss Christoph Hartmann, who in conversation with IGN said the team doesn’t “just want to go and do the same thing over” with its Middle-earth game.
“While it’s tempting sometimes with an existing IP, that’s not the point of doing it. You’ve got to find a fresh twist, and we’re still, I think, in that period where we really want to find out what could be the hook, what could be the thing which is different to all the other games out there,” Hartmann said. “So it’s a little bit early.”

PlayStation live-service Concord won’t sell you a battle pass – would it be better if it did?

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Damning Roblox report claims company inflates player numbers to investors by as much as 42%

A new report has alleged that Roblox misleads investors by falsely reporting player numbers, and has highlighted yet more examples of inappropriate – and allegedly, illegal – content being shared via the platform.

The report, published by short-selling firm Hindenberg Research (via Wall St Journal), claims that daily player counts and engagement statistics have been inflated by Roblox since 2021, based on interviews with multiple former employees at the company.

A Roblox spokesperson has responded to the report to say it was “simply misleading”.

More damning still are a fresh set of examples that appear to show Roblox’s content moderation system failing to keep children safe – and to stop adult content circulating.

“We firmly believe that Roblox is a safe…

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Epic bringing free games to its mobile store in a bid to entice new users

Having successfully made its way onto iOS and Android devices through a combination of ceaseless legal activity and new EU regulations, the Epic Games Store is ready to start tempting users away from Apple and Google’s digital storefronts – and, in news that’s unlikely to surprise anyone, it plans to do so by giving away free games.

Weekly freebies – alongside subsidised sales vouchers and a rewards programme – have long been Epic’s preferred method of attracting customers to its glacially evolving store on PC, after its various exclusivity deals elicited more frustration that jubilation from players. So news that it plans to repeat the strategy on mobile isn’t much of a revelation.

But it’s now been officially confirmed by Epic Games Store general manager St…

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