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Mortal Kombat 1 players have spent the game’s early life experimenting with the new Kameo system, which lets you call in other characters to perform an action. Using Kameo characters, players are working out how to do elaborate combos that involve “juggling” their opponent with multiple hits. But this new…

Sega has cancelled Hyenas, the multiplayer extraction shooter in development at UK studio Creative Assembly. Issuing a warning to investors that it will record a loss for the financial year, Sega said “profitability has been lowered mainly in European bases”. As a result, it has implemented “structural reforms aimed at…

We open this week’s busy episode of Unlocked by discussing two big new games we just played a bunch of: Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty and Alan Wake 2. After that we discuss Phil Spencer’s wish to bring back MechAssault and have a fantasy draft for which Xbox developer should make…

Valve surprised everyone when it announced earlier this year that it was making a Counter-Strike 2 – and after months of limited testing, it’s now available for PC players via Steam. The company announced the news with a new trailer today, which you can watch below. pic.twitter.com/SM57ZVCTmI — CS2 (@CounterStrike)…

Xbox announced another September update for its consoles: the option for players to automatically have their screenshots and captured game footage uploaded to OneDrive. In a new Xbox Wire blog post, players will be able to set up OneDrive to automatically receive captures by clicking the Xbox home button and…

Netflix’s Castlevania showrunner Adi Shankar is officially developing a new anime series for Netflix based on Devil May Cry. Announced during Netflix’s DROP 01 virtual event, the Devil May Cry anime was also given a short teaser that shows a smiling Dante flipping while shooting his guns (which may be…

Blizzard has suffered a round of layoffs at its Hearthstone development team. In a statement issued to IGN, Activision Blizzard confirmed the layoffs, without specifying the number of staff affected. “Organizational changes were made to the Hearthstone team; as a result a small number of roles have become redundant. We…

Recently I was lucky enough to go hands-on with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Although my play time was largely dominated by combat encounters, this small slice left a lasting impression on me in regards to how events in the final game will play out. It, alongside the latest trailer, has…

Some within the Starfield community were surprised to learn that rain only ever falls on the player this week after a Reddit post revealing the normally unseen trick saw nearly 30,000 upvotes. “In Starfield, rain only exists in a small area around the player,” redditor thelastfastbender wrote alongside a screenshot…

The PC version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 launched as an Epic Games Store exclusive in September 2020. Now, three years later, it’s ready to hit Steam on October 3. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 is the remastered collection of Activision-published PS1 classics Tony Hawk’s…