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Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus Essential monthly games for April.This time there will be just three games to claim, all of which will be available from April 7 until May 4 for members of all three PlayStation Plus tiers – Essential, Extra and Premium.As previously leaked, April’s PlayStation Plus Essential games include Lords of the Fallen, the 2023 successor to the 2014 game of the same name.Released in October 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store, Lords of the Fallen was a reboot of the dark fantasy action-RPG of the same name…

Arc Raiders has never been more dangerous. Embark Studios dropped its big Flashpoint update right at the end of March, and it has hit players like four surprise plates added to their squat barbell. Arc Raiders is hard now – or hard again, really, with Flashpoint escalating a game that had teeth in the early days but has long felt solved. In its difficulty and quality-of-life changes, Flashpoint is a major step forward, and it’s right in line with Embark’s goal of keeping players on their toes.After his GDC talk about Arc Raiders’ messy production pivots, production director Caio Braga…

I’ll be honest right off the bat. As a single player Elder Scroller, the Elder Scrolls Online’s never managed to hook me for more than a few hours. I’ve given it a couple of goes, usually during periods when it’s gone free to play, but have always bounced off its vast MMOiness. Might the slew of fresh additions coming across the next couple of years be able to change that and finally convince me to spend significant time with ESO in the same way I have Fallout 76 in the past few years? The answer could be yes, if the…

When you think of genre defining games, for me, DayZ immediately comes to mind. As survival games have continued to arrive thick and fast in recent years, the impact Bohemia’s zombie-stomper has had, alongside the likes of Rust, cannot be overstated. Years after we first heard Bohemia Interactive was potentially working on a sequel, a DayZ 2 trademark has today officially been filed. As per the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EU IPO) listing, all we have so far is a simple word mark. Now, considering the application owner has yet to be revealed due to an outstanding fee needing…

The United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) has revoked a patent it granted Nintendo last year, based on a gameplay mechanic used in other games.Last September, Nintendo was granted a US patent which covered the action of summoning another character and making them battle on the player’s behalf.Two months later USPTO director John A Squires personally ordered a re-examination of the patent – the first time since 2012 that a USPTO director had personally done so without another company officially getting involved – citing previous patents which might have made it invalid.Now, as reported by Games Fray, the USPTO…

Using a VPN while gaming can give you a fair number of benefits, like avoiding ISP throttling, reaching other digital storefronts, and potentially improving lag in some cases. While you might be thinking of a gaming VPN as more of a ‘PC thing’, you’ll be pleased to know it’s viable on console, too.Whether you’re looking for any of the benefits mentioned above, or just want to load into a different server in a game to be able to play with friends located elsewhere, it’s possible to play your PS5, Xbox Series S or X, and Nintendo Switch or Switch 2…

Stormgate is set to go offline-only at the end of April, with developers Frost Giant Studios having announced that the server provider for the strategy game’s multiplayer modes have decided they no longer want to be a server provider for online games. That’s a byproduct of said provider, Hathora, having been taken over by an AI company who plan on using their latest purchase “to work on compute orchestration for AI inference at scale”.

When is the Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred release date? It’s been over a year since we took to the jungles of Nahantu, a realm built on the foundations of ancient mysticism and traditional folklore. It brought Kurast to vibrant life, and finally let Prime Evil, the malevolent Mephisto, take center stage. Coming into Lord of Hatred, the game feels like it’s in a better state than ever before. As we gear up to end the Prime Evil once and for all, we’ll need to forge a perilous alliance with the Daughter of Hatred herself, Lilith, as we cap off…

After conducting a nationwide search for its first ever claw machine, Taito has instead found its second.Last October the video and amusement company launched a search across Japan for the Crown 602, its first ever crane game and – according to its findings – the first ever domestically produced crane game in Japan.The Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble company was offering an award of ¥100,000 ($630) to whoever could provide the most useful tip that would lead to the location of a Crown 602, which was first released in 1965.Now, in an update on the search, Taito says it has…

It’s almost time – after over 10 years, exciting new strategy gem Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is finally set to release into early access later this month.Publisher Hooded Horse has just unveiled the Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era release date for PC, and it’s right around the corner: April 30. Not only will it launch at the tail end of this month, but it’ll be available to play via Game Pass day one, too – and no, none of this is an April Fool’s joke. With 40 years under its belt in total, and 30…