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November 2023’s PlayStation Plus Essential games have seemingly been revealed ahead of an official announcement. Dealabs userbillbil-kun, who has been accurately leaking thePlayStationPlus line-ups almost every month since September 2021, has published what they claim to be the two headline additions to the subscription service next month. Update: Games confirmed1st Nov 2023 / 3:35 pm Sonyhas now officially confirmed the three PlayStation Plus Essential games for November 2023. Mafia II Definitive Edition,Dragon Ball: The BreakersandAliens Fireteam Elitewill be available from Tuesday, November 7 until Monday, December 4....

Tarsier, the studio behind the first two Little Nightmares titles, has revealed its new game, Reanimal. A short trailer for the game, which is viewable below, was shown as part ofGamescomOpening Night Live. “The creators of Little Nightmares return to take you on a darker, more terrifying journey than ever before,” according to an official description for the game. “In this horror adventure, a brother & sister go through hell to rescue their missing friends & escape the island that they used to call home”....

Palworld developer Pocketpair has confirmed significant game changes it claims were forced by the ongoing lawsuit from Nintendo. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit against Pocketpairin Japan last year, alleging thatPalworldinfringes on three patents that are related to monster catching gameplay, all of which were initially filed byNintendoandThe Pokémon Companybetween February and July last year. Palworld was released on June 28, 2025. On Thursday, Pocketpair confirmed it had previously patched out the ability to summon Pals via ‘Pal Spheres’ due to the legal action, and confirmed that further changes were coming in order to avoid disrupting future development and releases....

The producer of the Paper Mario series has explained the series’ recent focus on existing Super Mario characters. Speaking to VGCin an interview covering the making of Paper Mario: The Origami King,Nintendo’sKensuke Tanabeclaimed that Since 2012’s Sticker Star it was “no longer possible” to modify Mario characters, or to create original characters that touch on the Mario universe. “That means that if we aren’t using Mario characters for bosses, we need to create original characters with designs that don’t involve the Mario universe at all, like we’ve done with Olly and the stationery bosses,” he explained....

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer says the platform holder is “absolutely” planning for more console hardware in the future, regardless of growth in cloud gaming. Microsoft’s cloud gaming service,xCloud, launched earlier this month as part of its14.99/£10.99 Game Pass Ultimate subscription. A week laterAmazon announcedthat it intends to enter the game streaming space and compete with both Microsoft andGoogle’sStadia. Yahoo FinanceaskedXbox’sPhil Spencerwhether this heavyweight investment in cloud gaming could see the forthcoming console generation become the last, and the exec replied that Xbox is “absolutely” planning for more console hardware....

Modern Warfare 2’s remastered campaign has released early for some German players – and it retains the controversial ‘No Russian’ sequence. The mission in question has players undercover with a group of terrorists, who then gun down innocent civilians in an airport. In most versions of the game players have the choice of whether they join in or not, however in the German release shooting civilians results in failure. UPDATE:Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered is out now for PS4....

The former chief legal officer for The Pokémon Company International has said that the breakout hit Palworld looks like “ripoff nonsense”. Don McGowan, who led thePokémonCompany’s legal team for almost 12 years, was commenting on the game amid claims that its developer Pocketpair plagiarised designs fromNintendo’s game series. “This looks like the usual ripoff nonsense that I would see a thousand times a year when I was Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon,” he toldGame File....

Some PlayStation 5 Pro owners have been reporting that certain games actually look worse on the console. Reports are suggesting thatSilent Hill 2andStar Wars Jedi: Survivor– two games that are marked as ‘PS5ProEnhanced’ on thePlayStationStore – actually perform worse in their enhanced versions than they did on the base PS5 console. Players on theSilent Hill 2 Reddit pagehave been complaining for more than a week that even though the game is apparently PS5 Pro Enhanced, it still has options for Quality and Performance graphics options....

Remedy Entertainment has provided updates on the various game projects it currently has in development. The Finnish studio’s latest financial results included comments from CEO Tero Virtala discussing the progress ofAlan Wake 2,Vanguard, Condor and other projects. “Our partner Smilegate, together withMicrosoft, launched CrossfireX onXbox Oneand Series X | S in February,” Virtala said. “A dedicated team atRemedyhas continued to support both Crossfire HD and CrossfireX. “Alan Wake 2 is in the full production stage....

The first-week physical sales of Resident Evil Village were the series’ worst in Japan in nearly two decades. The latestFamitsuboxed game sales data shows that thePS4andPS5versions of the game combined sold 149,884 copies in the first week in Japan, which is significantly less than the 231,188Resident Evil7: Biohazard managed in 2017. As shown by historical sales data held onGame Data Library, the only times a main entry in the Resident Evil series had a worse opening weekend were the original Resident Evil onPlayStation(which sold 148,904 copies) andResident Evil 4(which sold 145,533 copies when it was aGameCubeexclusive)....

As of this summer, Nintendo Swich has officially hadthe longest lifespan of any Nintendo home console, but, as apopular social media gaggoes, the company’s biggest gap between hardware was actually the 94 years between 1889 and 1983. And whether or not you get the joke will determine how much you’ll enjoy Japan’s Nintendo Museum. Opened this month in the company’s Uji Ogura Plant in Kyoto, Japan, which was previously used as a factory and console repair centre, theNintendoMuseum is a showcase of the Super Mario firm’s 135-year history, from playing cards, to taxis and love testers, to the modern handheld and home game hardware its best known for....

Rollerdrome is coming to Xbox in November, and will be available on Xbox Game Pass. The single-player roller-skating action game, which was developed by OlliOlli studio Roll7, is coming toXbox Series X/Sand WindowsPC(via theMicrosoftStore) on November 28. According to a tweet from the official Rollerdrome Twitter account, the game will also be availble onXboxGame Pass that same day, on console, PC and cloud. Rollerdrome was originally released onPS5,PS4andSteamin August 2022....

Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman has acquired 96% of acclaimed Japanese developer SNK. Through his Electronic Gaming Development Company the Prince now owns almost all of the developer behind Fatal Fury, Metal Slug and The King of Fighters. The Electronic Gaming Development Company is a subsidiary of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation. In 2021, a US intelligence report found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved a plan to either “capture or kill” journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018....