Sony Santa Monica staffing up Despite already being hard at workon the sequel to 2018 smash hitGod of War, Sony Santa Monica appears to be gathering staff to work with the company on a mystery second project. A vacancy listed on both thestudio’s official websiteandTwitterreveals an opening at the studio for a full-time art director, which the vacancy specifically notes is for an “unannounced new title.” Other vacancies aligned with this title include open roles for lead writers, gameplay designers, and coders....

Day of Delays And in thecontinued streamofupcoming titlesbeing held back,Skullgirlsdeveloper Lab Zero have announced that their upcoming mystical RPG,Indivisible,will not make its scheduled 2018 release. “While we did everything we could to prevent this from happening, the simple reality is thatIndivisibleended up being a much larger project than we could have anticipated,” reads thegame’s latest blog post. “This was not a decision we made lightly, nor did we make it alone....

Adam Sandler ruins everything yet again Pixelswas a bit of a train wreck, wasn’t it? It currently sits ata meager 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the general consensus on the film is people would rather pour salt into a papercut in their eyeball than have to watch it again. Pixelsis so bad it’s managed to become a black hole of wank, with other creative works being sucked in and never seeing the light of day ever again....

Help, the HMS E3 is sinking, there’s too many leaks! Yeah, it’s another leak.According to NerdLeaks, a site known for its insider information,Forza Horizon 3is due to be announced at the Microsoft E3 press conference. Horizon 3is apparently going to be set in Australia in what is said to be developer Playground Games’ biggest open-world ever. It’ll also feature the biggest roster of cars to choose from in the series’ history, including the Lamborghini Centenario....

I was in the passenger seat of my cousin’s Mazda 3 as we sat in the drive-thru line at Whataburger. To pass the time, I thought to do what anyone else would do in my position — explain the ever-complicated lore ofKingdom Hearts. It should be stated that my cousin is in his early 20s’ and hasn’t seen or heard anything aboutthis franchisesince he watched me playKingdom Hearts IIback in 2006....

A new PlayStation 5 Pro leak has surfaced online and according to the report, the design will be similar to how the Slim model looks. According tobillbil-kun, the official name of the console will indeed be “PS5 Pro,” something that most fans have expected over all these years. Though the leaker wasn’t able to share pictures, they did draw an illustration, approximating what they could show. Billbil-kun’s sketch below reveals the design of the upcoming console, and the side panels will have three black stripes in the middle....

Boom boom acka lacka lacka boom I tried to playTurokonce, and only once, back when I was still in grade school. My friend and I rented the game for N64 because 1) the box art was cool and 2) he was into violent games. But shortly after getting back to my house, I got seriously ill. I’ve still only ever played the opening bit! Night Dive Studios is bringingTurokback with a re-release on PC....

Also,Star Trek: Prodigy – Supernova While there are a number of games dropping on the Nintendo eShop this week, one of the bigger releases is easilyXenoblade Chronicles 3Expansion Pass DLC Vol. 2.Teased recently via a Nintendo Direct, the DLC includes the fully playable Ino hero, as well as a challenge mode that lets you “collect crystals and exchange them for valuable accessories and new outfits.” As for what’s next for theXenoblade Chronicles 3expansion pass, we have a longer wait until July 11, 2025, when wave 3 arrives....

Bluff Witch Project As the Kickstarter campaign forPerceptioncelebrates hitting $100K, the development team behind the upcoming horror game has released a new “found footage” trailer video. The video — which will feel familiar in aBlair Witch Project-esque kind of way — is a faux documentary accounting the urban legend of Echo Bluff in Gloucester, MA. The five-minute video interviews locals around the town, and then accounts for the last known whereabouts of journalist student Leigh Jennings before she mysteriously disappeared....

Groovy. Released in May of last year,Evil Dead: The Gameis an atmospheric asymmetrical multiplayer title, meticulously crafted by Saber Interactive. A tribute to the legacy of the notorious horror series,Evil Dead: The Gamebrings together heroes and villains gathered from Sam Raimi’s iconic movie trilogy, the goofy TV seriesAsh vs. The Evil Dead, and Fede Álvarez’s excellent 2013 remake for a bloodsoaked battle between Man and Deadite. With the new “Splatter Royale” mode launching today, now is as good a time as any to dive into the mayhem of this fun, no-holds-barred scrapper....

“Only time can heal your affliction.” Cyanide Studio’s upcomingCall of Cthulhuhas all the trappings of a game steeped in the unknowable horrors of H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Fiction. That’s a good thing, of course, considering that its name is lifted directly from the author’s work. There’s a certain pedigree associated with the Cthulhu branding, and judging by its latest trailer, the Focus Home Interactive-published title looks more than capable of carrying on the legacy of Outer Gods and rapid descents towards insanity....

Ends on June 12 at 11:59pm PT Overwatch‘s anniversary event is coming to a close soon, but before that happens you can snag double the amount of experience for playing. The switch for XP was flipped last night, and will run until Monday June 12 at 11:59 PT. While people are happy enough about the new arenas and costumes, it’s come up that the amount of credits required to get everything in the Anniversary event is astronomically high (roughly 20,000 more credits than the last few)....

The World Record for the most videogame character costumes in one place is only 425 costumes? That can’t be right. It is right — technically.This reportsays that the judges from the Guinness Book of World Records did the official count of the participants at an October 5 event in Milwaukee. It was hosted by a costume company alledBuyseasons. This new record topped the old record of 276 people, set back in May of 2009 in London....