Iron Galaxy is returning to create a 10thanniversary update for Xbox’s Killer Instinct reboot later this year. The update, which was announced on stage at this weekend’s Evo event in Las Vegas, will include balance tweaks, improved matchmaking, and 4K support for Series X|S. The reboot ofRare’s classic fighting game franchise was first released forXbox Onein 2013, developed by Double Helix Games, and was supported with updates and new characters until 2016....

Electronic Arts has released a new trailer for Hazelight’s It Takes Two, the new co-op adventure from Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and A Way Out director Josef Fares. Set for release on Jun 18, 2025 forPS4,PS5,Xbox One,Xbox Series X/SandPC(Origin,Steam), the game tells the story of Cody and May, a husband and wife who are seemingly headed for divorce. When their daughter Rose creates dolls of her parents which magically come alive, Cody and May must work together to overcome a series of challenges in a fantastical world that only exists as a result of their fractured relationship....

July 2023’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue and Classics titles are now available to claim. UnlikeJuly’s PlayStation Plus Essential games,Game Catalogue’s downloadablePS4andPS5titles are only available for Extra and Premium tier members. This month’s new releases, which are listed below, includeThe Ascent,It Takes Two, Sniper Elite 5, Snowrunner, and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated. July’s additions to the Classics Catalogue are Gravity Crash Portable, Twisted Metal and Twisted Metal 2....

Konami’s free-to-play successor to Pro Evolution Soccer, eFootball, was released today and is already the worst-rated game in the history of Steam. According toSteam 250, which assignsSteamgames a score determined by whether players give them a positive or negative review, combined with how many players reviewed them,eFootballcurrently has a score of 8%. That makes it lower than the previous worst-rated game, 2011’s racing title Flatout 3, which has a score of 15%....

Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin has suggested that the popular HBO series could run for four seasons. In an interview withThe Hollywood Reporter, Mazin was asked if HBO had provided a good budget bump for season two given the show’s success and scope. “There’s always a budget bump, and then there’s a discussion about why it’s not enough of a budget bump,” he replied. “For as long as I’ve been doing this, I have never, ever, not once, been in a situation where I was like, ‘What I need is this,’ and they’re like, ‘OK!...

A new trailer for Mafia: The Old Country has been revealed, revealing some of the game’s plot and its new protagonist, Enzo. DeveloperHangar 13and publisher2Kcall The Old Country “the start of a new crime saga for the acclaimed Mafia franchise”, and have announced that the game will be released in Summer 2025. Set in 1900s Sicily, the game follows Enzo, who survives a childhood working in the island’s sulfur mines and finds himself with the opportunity to join Don Torrisi’s crime family....

Russia’s Gazprom Media is to make a feature film based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic novel Metro 2033. Filming is due to start next year ahead of the movie’s Russian premiere on July 14, 2025. Producer Valery Fedorovich toldVariety: “For us and Gazprom Media Holding, this is a dream project, the most ambitious and large-scale film that we have ever launched. We intend to invest an unprecedented sum… in the production and promotion of this movie both in Russia and abroad....

A Microsoft employee may have revealed some of the games set to be featured in Sunday’sXbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. As spotted byTom Warren,this weekend aMicrosoftAzure specialistpostedthe following message on LinkedIn. “Viewers can expect appearances from anticipatedXbox-exclusive flagships like #Starfield, #ForzaMotorsport, #Redfall, and #Avowed. Xbox has a growing number of in-house studios, and withBethesda‘s teams now onboard, more franchises than ever will take to the virtual stage. 🏆” While it wouldn’t be surprising for any of these games to appear at the event, it seemingly begins to fill out the line-up for the show’s 95-minute runtime, a significant portion of which may taken up bythe first Starfield gameplay....

An 20th anniversary controller being teased by Xbox has appeared on the Best Buy website. Microsofthas been posting tweets with the controller shrouded in darkness, but the Best Buy listing shows the controller fully lit. The officialXboxTwitter account posted a photo of the darkened controller on Wednesday, with the message “20 years of play in your hands”, but it was impossible to see any detail. UPDATE:Microsoft has officiallyannouncedthe 20th anniversary special edition Xbox controller alongside a special edition Xbox stereo headset, both of which will launch on November 15 and are available to pre-order now for $69....

Minecraft developer Mojang Studios is investing in a number of organisations that deal with social equality and the enivronment. In a presentation called Saving the World withMinecraftgiven forGamesIndustry.bizas part of its GI Live Online event, the Corporate Vice President of Minecraft atMojang, Helen Chiang, explained the studio’s commitment to use the platform “to inspire the world that we want to see”. “We believe that we have a responsibility to fight the racial and societal inequities that we see evidence of across the globe,” Chiang said, “and this is a crucial moment in the ongoing movement for social justice....

YouTube videos about Minecraft have now surpassed a combined total of 1 trillion views (1,000,000,000,000). That’s according to YouTube itself, which has put together adetailed websiteshowing the most popular creators and individual videos in each year of the game’s history. YouTube gathered all 12 years’ worth of daily upload and view data from the tens of thousands of creators and millions of viewers who interacted withMinecraftvideos to come to its findngs....

Warner Bros. Games has announced Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, a new mobile entry in the long-running fighting game series. Developed byNetherRealm Studiosand set for release in 2023, it’s billed as a collection RPG. Onslaught will feature “the first mobile-exclusive cinematic story experience for the franchise, where players must build a team of fighters from a vast roster of characters – and unleash them in massive real-time group battles to stop a dark and dangerous threat from wreaking havoc across the realms”....

MultiVersus has received its latest patch, in an attempt to remedy the game’s two most commonly reported issues. Version 1.02 attempts to “address more issues impacting performance onXbox Series X/S“, withXboxplayers reporting lengthy in-game pauses and severly reduced frame rate on their console. The new update also “fixes two issues causing matches to desync”, in an attempt to improve ongoing issues players are having with online multiplayer. The full patch notes, including character balancing tweaks, can be found on theMultiVersus website....