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Crystal Dynamics’ beloved dark fantasy action-adventure series Legacy of Kain could be poised to receive the remaster treatment, if newly sighted branding at Comic-Con is to be believed.

As spotted by a user on Resetera, logos for an unannounced “Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered” were included on display plaques accompanying statues of game characters Kain and Raziel at this week’s Comic-Con San Diego show.

A Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver graphic novel prequel, The Dead Shall Rise, was recently announced by Dark Horse Comics, and GameSpot has now received confirmation from the publisher’s VP of product development and sales that this is due to release in August.

DF Retro: Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver – A Classic Revisited on PS1/PC/Dreamcast!
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Amid of swirl of rumours suggesting Microsoft was prepping more Call of Duty for an imminent Xbox Game Pass release, the company has confirmed last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will join on its subscription service this Wednesday, 24th July.

As per Microsoft’s announcement, Game Pass subscribers will have access to all Modern Warfare 3 modes, meaning its single-player campaign, multiplayer, and open-world Zombies.

Modern Warfare 3 is only the second Activision Blizzard title to hit Game Pass since Microsoft’s $69bn acquisition of the company last year, with Diablo 4 having launched for the subscription service back in March. It’s not the only announced Activision title for Game Pass, of course; this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available …

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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Trials of Mana is among five games leaving PlayStation Plus in August, ahead of the release of forthcoming series addition Visions of Mana.

Five games are now in the ‘Last chance to play’ collection on Sony’s PlayStation Plus catalogue: NBA 2K24 Kobe Bryant Edition, Need for Speed Unbound, SpellForce 3 Reforced, Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed, and Trials of Mana.

All five will leave the service on 20th August.

Visions of Mana | Launch Date Trailer

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Following a bit of a tease at least year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard has given Overwatch 2’s 41st hero the full reveal treatment. And that’s not all! Juno, as the shooter’s new Martian space ranger is known, is available to play today for a limited-time.

When Blizzard first teased Juno last year, she was known only by the codename Space Ranger. It was, however, confirmed, she’d be Overwatch’s first Martian character, as well as a “highly mobile support hero”. Eight months later and we now have a much clearer idea of who Juno is, as well as what she can do, thanks to a brand-new gameplay trailer showcasing her abilities.

Sporting a kind of retrofuturistic look, complete with jet-infused roller-boots and a slinky ray gun, Juno leans heavily on speedy traversal. Her pa…

Xbox has revealed a new “Cheeky Controller” in a Deadpool design to celebrate the new Deadpool & Wolverine Marvel film, with a rather prominent behind.

A peachy pair of these controllers will be part of the grand prize in a global sweepstakes, alongside other custom Xbox hardware – details of how to enter have been shared on social media site X.

It’s in Deadpool’s fetching red colour and seemingly offers a firm grip. Just mind where you put your fingers.

Newscast: Does the loss of day one launches make Xbox Game Pass pointless?

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As Fallout 4’s massive Fallout: London mod nears its release, distributor GOG has moved to clear up some compatibility questions. The company has confirmed Fallout: London will work with versions of Fallout 4 bought on GOG and Steam, but not those purchased on the Epic Games Store, as the latter doesn’t currently support a key feature needed to get it running.

If you’re not up to date on its progress, Fallout: London – which, as its name suggests, enables players to quest around a post-apocalyptic open-world version of the UK’s capital – has hit a few snags on the road to its release. Specifically, developer Team Folon has run into issues getting it to work with Fallout 4’s recently released next-gen update.

Team Folon made the decision to delay Fallout: Lond…

In a talk at Brighton’s Develop conference this week, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch declared the bear romance scene in Baldur’s Gate 3 “a watershed moment in game history”. They said it was an unprecedented example of a developer recognising and validating the fanfiction community surrounding a game by realising something they wanted in it.
Welch was responsible for overseeing the companion romances in the game, and wrote the Dark Urge storyline, but didn’t join the team until partway through development. The game had already come out in early access at that point, in autumn 2020, which meant considerable work had already been done – companion romances included. But there was still a lot of work to do, and some characters weren’t yet romanceable – Halsin …

Assassin’s Creed Shadows developer Ubisoft has owned up to including a historical re-enactment group’s logo in artwork for its upcoming feudal Japan stabathon, and apologised for its use without permission.

Fans spotted the flag of the Sekigahara Teppo-tai infantryman reenactment group in concept art on Ubisoft’s website, and flagged (sorry) the matter to the group itself (thanks, Siliconera).

Writing on social media, the re-enactment group’s cannon chief said they contacted Ubisoft last month about the issue. Ubisoft later responded, and told them that the online version of the artwork had been removed.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Official Gameplay – Combat and Stealth Evolved | Ubisoft Forward

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